This work was first performed in October 1995, in Poole, Dorset, by Wilhelmenia Fernandez; the Choristers of St. George's Chapel, Windsor; and the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, conducted by Neville Creed. This concert, filmed byBBC Television, celebrated the launch of the premiere recording of African Sanctus with “Dona Nobis Pacem”. The composer, David Fanshawe, notes: “My setting of 'Dona nobis pacem' completes the text of the'Agnus Dei' heard in African Sanctus....