War Requiem

Album by Benjamin Britten & London Symphony Chorus & Galina Vishnevskaya & Peter Pears & Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau & The Bach Choir & Melos Ensemble & London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus & Benjamin Britten

War Requiem is a large-scale choral and orchestral work by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1962. It juxtaposes the Latin Mass for the Dead with contemporary war poetry, employing soloists, chorus and orchestra to create dramatic contrasts and representing a major work in Britten's output and in post-war British music.
First released: 5th August 2013

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam
    5:55
  2. 2.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam
    5:55
  3. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Requiem aeternam
    7:22
  4. 4.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies Irae
    9:46
  5. 5.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Requiem aeternam: What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
    3:40
  6. 6.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Requiem aeternam: What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
    3:40
  7. 7.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies Irae
    2:05
  8. 8.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Dies irae
    3:38
  9. 9.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Dies irae
    3:38
  10. 10.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Bugles sang, saddening the evening air
    2:35
  11. 11.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies Irae
    4:39
  12. 12.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Bugles sang, saddening the evening air
    2:35
  13. 13.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Liber scriptus proferetur
    2:57
  14. 14.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Liber scriptus proferetur
    2:57
  15. 15.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Offertorium
    8:24
  16. 16.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Sanctus
    6:16
  17. 17.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death
    1:57
  18. 18.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death
    1:57
  19. 19.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Recordare Jesu pie
    4:49
  20. 20.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Sanctus
    0:19
  21. 21.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Recordare Jesu pie
    4:49
  22. 22.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Agnus Dei
    1:07
  23. 23.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Be slowly lifted up
    1:52
  24. 24.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Be slowly lifted up
    1:51
  25. 25.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Dies irae
    1:13
  26. 26.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Dies irae
    1:12
  27. 27.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Libera me
    1:12
  28. 28.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Lacrimosa dies illa
    1:54
  29. 29.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Dies Irae: Lacrimosa dies illa
    1:54
  30. 30.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Libera me
    5:22
  31. 31.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Offertorium: Move him into the sun
    4:50
  32. 32.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Libera me
    3:18
  33. 33.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Offertorium: Move him into the sun
    4:50
  34. 34.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe
    3:33
  35. 35.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe
    3:33
  36. 36.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Offertorium: So Abraham rose, and clave the wood
    6:10
  37. 37.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Offertorium: So Abraham rose, and clave the wood
    6:10
  38. 38.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Sanctus: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus
    6:01
  39. 39.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Sanctus: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus
    6:01
  40. 40.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Sanctus: After the blast of lightning from the East
    3:50
  41. 41.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Sanctus: After the blast of lightning from the East
    3:50
  42. 42.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Agnus Dei: One ever hangs where shelled roads part
    3:40
  43. 43.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Agnus Dei: One ever hangs where shelled roads part
    3:40
  44. 44.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Libera me: Libera me, Domine
    7:36
  45. 45.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Libera me: Libera me, Domine
    7:36
  46. 46.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Libera me: It seemed that out of battle I escaped
    9:36
  47. 47.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Libera me: It seemed that out of battle I escaped
    9:36
  48. 48.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Libera me: Let us sleep now...In paradisum
    5:37
  49. 49.
    War Requiem, op. 66, Libera me: Let us sleep now...In paradisum
    5:37