War Requiem Op. 66

Album by Benjamin Britten & Christine Brewer & Anthony Dean Griffey & Gerald Finley & London Philharmonic Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Kurt Masur

War Requiem, Op. 66 is a large-scale choral and orchestral composition by English composer Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1962. It blends elements of the Latin Requiem Mass with English war poetry, juxtaposing expansive choral and orchestral forces with more intimate solo and chamber textures, and it occupies a central place in Britten's late output as a work that addresses themes of war and remembrance.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam
    6:43
  2. 2.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Requiem aeternam: What passing-bells for those who dies as cattle?
    4:03
  3. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies Irae: Dies Irae
    3:33
  4. 4.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies irae: Bugles sang
    3:01
  5. 5.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies irae: Liber scriptus proferetur
    3:23
  6. 6.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies irae: Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death
    1:40
  7. 7.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies irae: Recordare
    3:24
  8. 8.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies irae: Confutatis maledictis
    1:06
  9. 9.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies irae: Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm
    3:06
  10. 10.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies irae: Lacrimosa
    2:04
  11. 11.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Dies irae: Move him into the sun
    5:05

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Offertorium
    3:46
  2. 3.
    War Requiem, op. 66: So Abraham rose, and clave the wood
    6:30
  3. 4.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Sanctus
    3:06
  4. 5.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Benedictus
    3:03
  5. 6.
    War Requiem, op. 66: After the blast of lightning from the East
    3:53
  6. 7.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Agnus Dei
    3:41
  7. 8.
    War Requiem, op. 66: Libera me
    6:58
  8. 9.
    War Requiem, op. 66: It seemed that out of battle I escaped
    8:37
  9. 10.
    War Requiem, op. 66: "Let us sleep now..."
    6:26

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