British Composers: Britten: War Requiem / Bliss: Morning Heroes

Album by Benjamin Britten & Sir Arthur Bliss & Elisabeth Söderström & Robert Tear & Sir Thomas Allen & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Simon Rattle & John Westbrook & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Charles Groves

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Morning Heroes: I. Hector's Farewell to Andromache (The Iliad)
    14:04
  2. 2.
    Morning Heroes: II. The City's Arming (Walt Whitman)
    11:46
  3. 3.
    Morning Heroes: III. Vigil (Li-Tai-Po)
    8:18
  4. 4.
    Morning Heroes: III. The Bivouac's Flame (Whitman)
    4:43
  5. 5.
    Morning Heroes: IV. Achilles Goes Forth to Battle (The Illiad)
    7:25
  6. 6.
    Morning Heroes: IV. The Heroes
    1:50
  7. 7.
    Morning Heroes: V. Now Trumpeter for Thy Close: Spring Offensive (Wilfred Owen)
    5:59
  8. 8.
    Morning Heroes: V. Now Trumpeter for Thy Close: Dawn on the Somme (Robert Nichols)
    5:35
  9. 9.
    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine"
    6:09
  10. 10.
    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?"
    2:20
  11. 11.
    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "Kyrie eleison"
    1:24

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Dies irae, dies illa"
    3:58
  2. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Bugles sang, saddening the evening air"
    2:46
  3. 4.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Liber scriptus proferetur"
    2:46
  4. 5.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death"
    1:45
  5. 6.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Recordare Jesu pie"
    4:44
  6. 7.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm"
    1:52
  7. 8.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Dies irae, dies illa"
    1:17
  8. 9.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Lacrimosa dies illa"
    2:04
  9. 10.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae "Move him into the sun...Pie Jesu"
    5:55
  10. 11.
    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium. "Domine Jesu Christe"
    3:33
  11. 12.
    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium. "So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went"
    6:16
  12. 13.
    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus"
    3:18
  13. 14.
    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini"
    2:52
  14. 15.
    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "After the blast of lightning from the East"
    3:43
  15. 16.
    War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei
    3:44
  16. 17.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna"
    7:34
  17. 18.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "It seemed that out of battle I escaped"
    9:47
  18. 19.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "Let us sleep now...In paradisum"
    5:25

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