Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

Decca: 4757511

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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

Awards:

Building a Library

First Choice - November 2009

Label:

Decca

Catalogue No:

4757511

Series:

Originals

Discs:

2

Release date:

15th May 2006

Barcode:

0028947575115

Medium:

CD
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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

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playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Requiem Aeternam

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

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Dies Irae

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Bugles Sang

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Liber Scriptus Proferetur

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Out There

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Recordare Jesu Pie

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

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Dies Irae

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Lacrimosa Dies Illa

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

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Domine Jesu Christe

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - So Abram Rose

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Sanctus

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

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Agnus Dei

playBritten: War Requiem, Op. 66 - Libera Me, Domine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BBC Music Magazine

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.”

Gramophone Magazine

“among the most magnetic performances of British music ever put on record”

MusicWeb International

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.”

Penguin Guide

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.”

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