War Requiem

Album by Benjamin Britten & Galina Vishnevskaya & Peter Pears & Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau

War Requiem is a large-scale choral and orchestral work by Benjamin Britten, premiered at the consecration of Coventry Cathedral in 1962. The composition juxtaposes the Latin Requiem Mass with contemporary war poetry, blending liturgical textures with orchestral and chamber forces, soloists and chorus, and it occupies a central place in Britten's middle period and in the development of post-war British choral repertoire.

War Requiem by Benjamin Britten - album cover

First released: 1963

Vocal Classical Western classical

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War Requiem, Op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: Requiem Aeternam
5:55
2.
War Requiem, Op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: What Passing-Bells for These Who Die as Cattle?
3:33
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War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies Irae
3:37
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War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Bugles Sang
2:34
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War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Liber Scriptus Proferetur
2:57
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War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Out There
1:55
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War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Recordare Jesu Pie
4:49
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War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Be Slowly Lifted Up
1:51
9.
War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies Irae
1:13
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War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Lacrimosa Dies Illa
1:54
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War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: Move Him Into the Sun
4:48
12.
War Requiem, Op. 66: III. Domine Jesu Christe
3:31
13.
War Requiem, Op. 66: III. So Abram Rose
6:07
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War Requiem, Op. 66: IV. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
6:00
15.
War Requiem, Op. 66: IV. After the Blast of Lightning
3:48
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War Requiem, Op. 66: V. Agnus dei: One Ever Hangs
3:38
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War Requiem, Op. 66: VI. Libera me: Libera Me, Domine
7:36
18.
War Requiem, Op. 66: VI. Libera me: It Seemed That Out of Battle I Escaped
9:33
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War Requiem, Op. 66: VI. Libera me: Let Us Sleep Now... In Paradisum
5:33