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'And all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side' is a sentence from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim's Progress, giving Ronald Corp his title for a work which ties itself to Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, directed towards Peace, as well as Benjamin Britten’s great War Requiem.

While both the latter provide some degree of dramatic inspiration, the present music is wholly individual, being directed towards war, the dead, and the trumpets associated with the Last Judgement. Corp has found the realism of man’s unremitting need for conflict which is both the essence of the 'Dies Irae' and the poignant truth of the Great War poets.

And All the Trumpets Sounded is a major work which should find a place in our great choral repertory.
   
The Hampstead and Highgate Express

Even after a single hearing there is no doubt that And All the Trumpets Sounded deserves to find a place in the programme of our choral societies, and I recommend it to The Three Choirs Festival.

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