Britten: War Requiem
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Performer: Dietrich Fischer-DieskauComposer: Benjamin Britten
Conductor: Benjamin Britten
Performer: Melos Ensemble of London
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Simon Preston
Performer: Galina Vishnevskaya
Performer: Peter Pears
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Music Label: Decca
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- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Requiem aeternam. Requ
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Requiem aeternam. What
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Dies irae
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Bugles sang
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Liber scrip
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Out there
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Recordare J
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Be slowly l
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Dies irae
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Lacrimosa d
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Dies irae. Move him in
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Offertorium. Domine Je
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Offertorium. So Abram
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Sanctus. Sanctus, sanc
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Sanctus. After the bla
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Agnus Dei. One ever ha
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Libera me. Libera me,
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Libera me. It seemed t
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Libera me. Let us slee
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
- War Requiem, for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66: Rehearsing War Requiem
Music reviews of Britten: War Requiem
Music Review: The hell with war in music
Rating: 5 Stars
This is the best recording of the War Requiem by far. For Britten, a life-long pacifist, this was his most explicit anti-war statement. And it is pact with symbolism, from the poems by Wilfred Owen ("My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity ..."), to the pick of soloists, a German (Fischer-Dieskau), an Englishman (Pears) and a Russian (Vishnevskaya - not at the first performance), to its premier in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral in 1962. The composer's response to the devastation of war, the bombings of Coventry itself, London, Dresden, Berlin, the siege at Leningrad (St. Petersburg), etc...
One reviewer referred to the work as "grating and discordant", as well it should be. In Owen's words, "Only the monstrous anger of the guns." It is about the horrors of war after all ! Apparently he or she didn't bother to listen to the last section of the Libera me, "Let us sleep now", a disturbingly quiet, gentle, and ironic end to suffering.
Conducted by the composer, this is the War Requiem to have if you want to get to the heart and ache of this piece. The London Symphony Orchestra play superbly, and the soloists are committed and in superb voice, even Pears who more often disappoints. The Decca/London recording, the first of this work, although dating from 1963, is clear and bright. And it can now be purchased at a much reduced price.
Hickox's interpretation with the same LSO (Chandos), with a superb cast of soloists (Harper, Langridge and Shirley-Quirk), is rightly admired but it lacks the immediacy of this recording. It may have better sonics but it misses the historic, emotional, context of Britten's effort. Both are excellent versions. A toss up.
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