REVIEWS for 2008 when Liverpool was the European Capital of Culture:

Verdi's Requiem at the Metropolitan Cathedral

Maxwell Davies Reviews
Daily Post by Glyn Mon Hughes   
Liverpool Echo: by Joe Riley

Verdi Requiem 
"...the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Cantata Choir – no mean force - ..."
Review by Glyn Mon Hughes in Liverpool Daily Post

"There was a standing ovation at the end, and even we notoriously difficult to please press hauled ourselves to our feet - mind you...." 
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Catherine Jones Liverpool Echo  

"Massed choirs make for a terrific Verdi performance"
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
 
"Rating: 9/10 Music to die for"
Review By Joe Riley in Liverpool Echo September 29

Hope Street Festival
Vasily Petrenko conducts Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Cantata Choir at Philharmonic Hall

Britten War Requiem
Review of the Britten War Requiem in the Observer 

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