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Offer,Britten: War Requiem

2023 remastering

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Melos Ensemble, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2023
Catalogue No: 4853765
Label: Decca
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66

Work length2:10:57

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Peter Pears (tenor), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), John Culshaw (narrator), Simon Preston (organ), Melos Ensemble (chamber ensemble)
Melos Ensemble, Highgate School Choir, Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, The Melos Ensemble Of London
Benjamin Britten
Recorded: 1963-01-10
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

I. Requiem aeternam: a. Requiem aeternam

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I. Requiem aeternam: b. What Passing Bells for These who die as Cattle?

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II. Dies irae: a. Dies irae

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II. Dies irae: b. Bugles Sang, Saddening the Evening Air

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II. Dies irae: c. Liber Scriptus

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II. Dies irae: d. Out there, We've Walked quite Friendly up to Death

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II. Dies irae: e. Recordare Jesu pie

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II. Dies irae: f. Be Slowly Lifted Up

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II. Dies irae: g. Dies irae

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II. Dies irae: h. Lacrimosa dies illa

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II. Dies irae: i. Move Him into the Sun

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III. Offertorium: a. Domine Jesu Christe

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III. Offertorium: b. So Abram Rose, and Clave the Wood

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IV. Sanctus: a. Sanctus

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IV. Sanctus: b. After the Blast of Lightning from the East

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V. Agnus Dei: One ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part

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VI. Libera me: a. Libera me, Domine

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VI. Libera me: b. It Seemed that out of Battle I Escaped

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VI. Libera me: c. Let Us Sleep Now...In Paradisum

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Requiem aeternam

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Dies irae

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Dies irae

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Dies irae

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Offertorium

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Sanctus

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Sanctus

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Agnus Dei

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Libera me

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Libera me

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Libera me

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Closing Speech

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Benjamin Britten
Recorded: 1963-01-10
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

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On 10th January 1963 sessions were completed at London’s Kingsway Hall for this world premiere recording of Britten’s War Requiem. Sixty years later, Decca have made new high definition 24-bit/192 kHz transfers of the original quarter-inch stereo mastertapes at British Grove Studios. Conducted by the composer and featuring the three soloists for whom it was written, this still remains, for many, the definitive recording. The vinyl is cut to lacquer at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios, and this is the first LP release of the secret recording of Britten’s rehearsals for the War Requiem since the sole pressing gifted by Decca to Britten on his 50th birthday in November 1963. The truly expansive booklet includes excerpts from John Culshaw’s autobiography Putting the Record Straight; reminiscences from three of the original 1963 Decca recording crew; technical notes; detailed essays on the War Requiem and the recording sessions; and rare and new photographs.

New high definition 24-bit 192 kHz transfers of the original quarter-inch stereo mastertapes at British Grove Studios

Presented in deluxe SACD format

Lavishly illustrated and documented soft cover book, housed in a deluxe rigid slipcase, with sticker and onsert, presenting:

An introduction and technical note on the new transfers and HD remastering by Decca Classics Label Director & Reissue Producer Dominic Fyfe, including reminiscences from three of the 1963 Decca recording crew

Excerpts from John Culshaw’s 1981 autobiography Putting the Record Straight about the making of the recording

A facsimile of the original 1963 booklet with texts, translation, and John Culshaw’s commentary

Original session photographs and recently discovered curios including a facsimile of John Culshaw’s producer score

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