York Musical Society performed Verdi's Requiem at York Minster on 21 June 2025, under the direction of David Pipe. One of the most dramatic and operatic works in the choral repertoire, Verdi's Requiem demands enormous power and intensity from choir, orchestra, and soloists alike — sweeping from thunderous crowd scenes to moments of hushed, intimate beauty. The performance featured a choir of 140 voices alongside soloists soprano Elinor Rolfe Johnson, mezzo-soprano Alison Kettlewell, tenor Peter Davoren, and bass Trevor Eliot Bowes.

Reviewer Martin Dreyer wrote that David Pipe "has grown as a conductor with each performance" and that he "aligned all these talents superbly." The choir's pianissimo opening set the tone — "the whispered opening here was just what was needed for atmosphere" — before building to a Libera Me in which Rolfe Johnson came into her own with, in Dreyer's words, "marvellous control and yet enough power to gleam at the top." The review concluded that this was "York Musical Society — both choir and orchestra — at the peak of its powers."