Britten: War Requiem

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Release Date: 22nd Apr 2016
Catalogue No: 95354
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

Work length1:29:50

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Kari Lövaas, Anthony Roden, Theo Adam
MDR Rundfunkchor, Dresdner Kapellknaben, Dresdner Philharmoniker
Herbert Kegel

Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam

Track length7:46

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Requiem aeternam: What passing-bells

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Requiem aeternam: Kyrie eleison

Track length1:46

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Dies irae: Dies irae, dies illa

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Dies irae: Bugles sang

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Dies irae: Liber scriptus proferetur

Track length3:06

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Dies irae: Out there

Track length1:59

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Dies irae: Recordare Jesu pie

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Dies irae: Be slowly lifted up

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Dies irae: Dies irae, dies illa

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Dies irae: Lacrimosa dies illa

Track length6:51

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Dies irae: Pie Jesu Domine

Track length1:56

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Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe

Track length1:44

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Offertorium: Sed signifer santus Michael

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Offertorium: So Abraham rose

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Offertorium: Quam olim Abrahae promisisti

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Sanctus: Sanctus

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Sanctus: Hosanna in excelsis

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Sanctus: After the blast

Track length3:27

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Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei - One ever hangs

Track length4:35

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Libera me: Libera me

Track length7:26

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Libera me: It seemed

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Libera me: Let us sleep now

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Penderecki: Tren (Threnody), "To the Victims of Hiroshima"

Work length8:39

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MDR Sinfonieorchester
Herbert Kegel

Berg: Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (1935)

Work length25:06

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Manfred Scherzer
Dresdner Philharmoniker
Herbert Kegel

I. Andante - Allegretto

Track length11:00

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II. Allegro, ma sempre rubato, frei wie eine Kadenz - Adagio

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The Dresden‐born conductor Herbert Kegel felt a deep connection to the work of Benjamin Britten: in 1967 he made just the second recording of the War Requiem, a version that has not received wider circulation because it was sung in a German‐language version, which had been produced by Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau to communicate Wilfred Owen’s poetry, and Britten’s incandescent settings, to a local audience.

When Kegel returned to the work in 1989 he recorded it in the original English (and Latin); the set became a memorial to him, after his suicide in Dresden the following year. It is a measured and deeply considered performance, in which the consolation offered by the composer’s own recording on Decca is – or so it seems with hindsight – rejected for a bleaker vision of man’s inhumanity to man: an impression only intensified by Kegel’s chosen coupling of that other, outraged, 60s lament for pacifism, Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. ‘An alert, clear‐sighted and well‐balanced interpretation,’ noted Rob Cowan in Gramophone in April 2002, and so it is. The experience of its context, however, lends it a frisson not available to any other recording: made on the other side of the Iron Curtain that had been built by decades of conflict between Germany and the rest of Europe, in the dying days of the Cold War.

The Berg Concerto here is likewise Kegel’s second recording of a personal elegy (the first, with the Hungarian violinist György Garay, has never appeared on CD). The soloist here is Manfred Scherzer, another musical son of Dresden (1933‐2013).

Britten: War Requiem

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