Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

Decca: 4757511

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Building a Library

First Choice - November 2009

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Decca

Catalogue No:

4757511

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Originals

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Release date:

15th May 2006

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0028947575115

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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ)

London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten

CD - 2 discs

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play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Requiem Aeternam

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - What Passing-Bells For These Who Die As Cattle?

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Dies Irae

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Bugles Sang

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Liber Scriptus Proferetur

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Out There

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Recordare Jesu Pie

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Be Slowly Lifted Up

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Dies Irae

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Lacrimosa Dies Illa

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Move Him Into The Sun

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Domine Jesu Christe

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - So Abram Rose

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Sanctus

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - After The Blast Of Lightning

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Agnus Dei

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Libera Me, Domine

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - It Seemed That Out Of Battle I Escaped

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Let Us Sleep Now ... In Paradisum

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Requiem Aeternam (Rehearsal)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Dies Irae (Rehearsal)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Dies Irae (Discussion)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Dies Irae (Rehearsal)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Offertorium (Rehearsal)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Sanctus (Rehearsal)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Sanctus (Discussion)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Agnus Dei (Discussion)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Libera Me (Discussion)

play Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Libera Me (Rehearsal)

January 2012	“Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you can hear in the revealing out-takes from the rehearsals on this recording, Britten wanted real terror, real hysteria from the singers, and he got it.”
	“among the most magnetic performances of British music ever put on record”
September 2006	“Britten conducts with unique authority and all the performers respond with evident and complete commitment. The playing of the LSO is magnificently incisive...even if you already have this recording of War Requiem in its original format I’d urge you to acquire this release also simply for the sake of these rehearsal sequences...this Britten recording has an irreplaceable page in the annals of this wonderful and profoundly moving work.”
2010	“The merits of this ground-breaking performance is that it so arrestingly conveys Britten's intentions. We're lucky to have not only Britten's irreplaceable reading refurbished, but also his commentary suggested by the rehearsal sequences.”