War Requiem

Album by Benjamin Britten & Stefania Woytowicz & Peter Pears & Hans Wilbrink & Melos Ensemble & Benjamin Britten & Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir & Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra & Carlo Maria Giulini

War Requiem is a large-scale choral and orchestral work by English composer Benjamin Britten, premiered in 1962. The work sets the Latin requiem text alongside English war poetry and pairs liturgical scoring with mid-20th-century harmonic language and expanded orchestral colour, and it was composed at a mature stage of Britten's career following his earlier vocal and choral works.

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    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: "Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine"
    5:53
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    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?"
    3:42
  3. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: "Dies irae, dies illa"
    3:34
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    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: "Bugles sang, saddening the evening air"
    2:31
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    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: "Liber scriptus proferetur"
    2:48
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    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: "Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death"
    1:53
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    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: "Recordare, Jesu pie"
    4:46
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    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: "Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm"
    3:05
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    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: "Lacrimosa dies illa"
    2:08
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    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: "Move him into the sun"
    4:58
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    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium: "Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae"
    3:25
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    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium: "So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went"
    5:57
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    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus: "Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus"
    5:54
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    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus: "After the blast of lightning from the East"
    3:39
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    War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei: "One ever hangs where shelled roads part"
    3:36
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    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: "Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna"
    6:51
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    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: "It seemed that out of battle I escaped"
    9:06
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    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: "Let us sleep now"
    5:14

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