War Requiem

Album by Benjamin Britten & Annette Dasch & James Taylor & Christian Gerhaher & Aurelius Sängerknaben Calw & Festivalensemble Stuttgart & Helmuth Rilling

War Requiem is a large-scale choral and orchestral composition by English composer Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1962. The work juxtaposes the Latin Requiem Mass with settings of First World War poetry, combining expansive choral and orchestral forces with intimate solo writing and stark contrasts in timbre and dynamics, and was composed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, reflecting post‑war themes in mid‑20th‑century British music.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam
    9:22
  2. 2.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae
    26:15
  3. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium
    10:31

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam
    9:22
  2. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae
    26:15
  3. 4.
    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium
    10:31

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam
    9:22
  2. 4.
    War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae
    26:15
  3. 5.
    War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium
    10:31

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus
    9:54
  2. 5.
    War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei
    3:27
  3. 6.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me
    23:05

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus
    9:54
  2. 6.
    War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei
    3:27
  3. 7.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me
    23:05

Disc 6

  1. 6.
    War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus
    9:54
  2. 7.
    War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei
    3:27
  3. 8.
    War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me
    23:05

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