Sam Piper’s Requiem was composed in 1994. The setting of the Kyrie is simple in construction, employing minimal fragments of rhythm and melody woven together to create pulsing, vibrant textures that seek to evoke a deep sense of ritual.

Sam Piper wrote his “Requiem” at the age of seventeen. The “Kyrie”, which is performed on cd Winds that Whisper (Label: Morrison Music Trust MMT2016), uses simple means to create sonorous and mesmeric waves of sound. Piper’s less concerned with harmony and rhythm as explorations than as evocations, using repetition to evoke a simple, ritualistic plea for divine mercy. His “Kyrie” works well, especially the telling downward modulation into “Christe eleison”, and the bell-like pealings which follow.