Britten: War Requiem & Bliss: Morning Heroes
Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor) & Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), John Westbrook (orator)
Boys of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, CBSO Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon...
Contents
Bliss: Morning Heroes
Work length48:06
- Edmund Walters (master chorus), Edmund Walters (director), John Westbrook (spoken voice)
- Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sir Charles Groves
- Recorded: 1974-07-24
- Recording Venue: 23 & 24 July 1974, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
I. Hector's Farewell to Andromache (The Iliad)
Track length14:04
II. The City's Arming (Walt Whitman)
Track length11:46
III. Vigil (Li-Tai-Po)
Track length8:18
The Bivouac's Flame (Whitman)
Track length4:43
IV. Achilles Goes Forth to Battle (The Illiad)
Track length7:25
The Heroes
Track length1:50
Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Work length1:35:13
- Edmund Walters (master chorus), Edmund Walters (director), Robert Tear (tenor), Thomas Allen (baritone), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), John Westbrook (spoken voice)
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Charles Groves
- Recorded: 1983-03-04
- Recording Venue: 27 Feb and 1 & 4 March 1983, Great Hall, University of Birmingham
Spring Offensive (Wilfred Owen)
Track length5:59
Dawn on the Somme (Robert Nichols)
Track length5:35
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine
Track length6:10
