Brittle Heart

Brittle Heart is a season of work to commemorate both the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One as well as women’s right to vote, and will look at the world a century ago and aim to draw comparisons with 2018 and the future. The armistice commemoration will be led by a unique collaboration between the orchestras of two UNESCO Cities of Music in a performance of Britten’s War Requiem.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Hannover NDR Philharmonic, under the baton of Andrew Manze, are joining together to mark this significant historical anniversary with their choirs and an international soloist line-up. They will perform Britten’s great work, which uses texts from World War One poet Wilfred Owen. It will take place in the awe-inspiring setting of Liverpool Cathedral on 10 November (the day before Remembrance Sunday), preceded the week before, with a performance in Hannover’s Grosses Sendesaal concert hall.

In addition to this, the city will be shining a light to remember the fallen, as the names of nearly 14,000 Liverpool men who lost their lives during World War One will be beamed on to the ground of Exchange Flags from Tuesday 6 November.

Other commemorations include The Hall of Remembrance in Liverpool Town Hall (as well as a special showreel featuring real footage of Liverpool during World War One), St Johns Beacon being lit up with specially designed Poppy lighting, a portrait of World War One soldier and poet Wilfred Owen in the form of a building projection, and a traditional Service of Remembrance at St George’s Hall. For more information on these events, please view our official press release here.

As part of Brittle Heart, we have included a range of INSPIRE education resources – from Liverpool Parish Church, Our Lady & St Nicholas – for Early Years, KS1 and KS2, which can be viewed here>

Please see below all #BrittleHeart events taking place across Liverpool City Region.