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Standing ovation for âmajor contribution to Australian choral musicâ Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Peter McCallum Save Normal text size â â â â â â â ½ In his new Requiem, Paul Stanhope has interspersed and, in some cases, replaced the words of the traditional Latin Requiem with poems by five women. As Stanhope notes, the choice of female poets was not pre-planned but the end result of an instinctive set of decisions. The result is a work of nuanced expressive variety alternating between ritualised sorrow and reflection reminiscent of Brittenâs War Requiem. With soprano and tenor soloists (a pristine clear-voiced soprano Chloe Lankshear, and gently grained tenor, Richard Butler) and small instrumental ensemble of oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, harp and percussion, the new ....