Edward-Rhys Harry
Kyrie Eleison
(2017)
for male choir
Duration: 4'
Choir: male choir
Kyrie Eleison
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This was the opening choral movement of my larger work ‘Mass of the Martyrs’, which interweaves an operatic storyline between the movements of the mass. A dramatic story of a refugee who breaks into a Church to find solace and refuge…only to be discovered by a husband and wife who have come to clean the building ready for a service the following day! The Kyrie was originally performed as a solo item for the refugee as s/he thinks of their family left behind in their own country.