Benjamin Britten, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra — Britten: War Requiem

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The premiere recording of Britten’s <i>War Requiem</i>, made under the composer’s direction in 1963 just seven months after its first performance, set the benchmark against which all later versions must be measured. The work, a blend of Wilfred Owen’s war poetry and the Latin Mass for the Dead, sounded a timely warning in the wake of two world wars. The Bach Choir and three distinctive soloists, representing the recently warring nations of Britain, Germany and Russia, pour their collective souls into Britten’s music. Galina Vishnevskaya apparently relives the horrors of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in the “Libera me”, while Peter Pears and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau prove heart-rending advocates for peace and reconciliation.

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Benjamin Britten, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra

Треки

  1. War Requiem, Op. 66, Requiem aeternam: "Requiem Aeternam" 5:54
  2. War Requiem, Op. 66, Requiem aeternam: "What Passing Bells For These Who Die As Cattle?" 3:39
  3. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Dies irae" 3:38
  4. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Bugles Sang, Saddening the Evening Air" 2:34
  5. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Liber Scriptus Proferetur" 2:56
  6. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Out There, We've Walked Quite Friendly Up To Death" 1:56
  7. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Recordare Jesu Pie" 4:49
  8. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Be Slowly Lifted Up" 1:51
  9. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Dies Irae" 1:13
  10. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Lacrimosa Dies Illa" 1:54
  11. War Requiem, Op. 66, Dies Irae: "Move Him Into the Sun" 4:50
  12. War Requiem, Op. 66, Offertorium: "Domine Jesu Christe" 3:32
  13. War Requiem, Op. 66, Offertorium: "So Abram Rose, and Clave the Wood" 6:10
  14. War Requiem, Op. 66, Sanctus: "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus" 6:01
  15. War Requiem, Op. 66, Sanctus: "After the Blast Of Lightning From the East" 3:49
  16. War Requiem, Op. 66, Agnus Dei: "One Ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part" 3:39
  17. War Requiem, Op. 66, Libera me: "Libera me, Domine" 7:36
  18. War Requiem, Op. 66, Libera me: "It Seemed That Out Of Battle I Escaped" 9:35
  19. War Requiem, Op. 66, Libera me: "Let Us Sleep Now.In Paradisum" 5:36