War Requiem

Album by Benjamin Britten & Carol Vaness & Jerry Hadley & Thomas Hampson & American Boychoir & Westminster Symphonic Choir & New York Philharmonic & Kurt Masur

War Requiem is a large-scale choral work by English composer Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1962. It is scored for large chorus, multiple soloists and full orchestra and it sets Latin liturgical texts alongside 20th-century war poetry, with dense choral passages placed next to spare, sometimes abrasive orchestral writing, and it was written for the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral during the mature phase of Britten's career when he focused on large-scale vocal works.

War Requiem by Benjamin Britten - album cover

First released: 1998

Classical

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Disc 1

1.
War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam Te decet hymnus
6:56
2.
War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Kyrie eleison
4:03
3.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies irae, dies illa
3:41
4.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Bugles sang, saddening the evening air
2:37
5.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Liber scriptus profertur
3:34
6.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death
1:45
7.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Recordae, Jesu pie
4:45
8.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Be slowly lifted up
1:59
9.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies irae, dies illa
1:19
10.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Lacrimosa dies illa
2:07
11.
War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: Move him into the sun, Pie Jesu, Domine
5:13
12.
War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe Sed signifer scantus Michael
3:48
13.
War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium: So Abram rose, Hostais et preces tibi, Quam olim Abrahae promisisti
6:08

Disc 2

2.
War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus. Pleni sunt coeli et terra. Benedictus
6:05
3.
War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus: After the blast of lightening from the East
3:41
4.
War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus dei: One ever hangs where shelled roads part/Agnus dei Agnus Dei/Dona nobis pacem
3:26
5.
War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: Libera me, Domine
7:20
6.
War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: It seemed that out of the battle I escaped
8:34
7.
War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: Let us sleep now/ In paradisum
6:04