Britten: War Requiem
Alison Hagley, Catherine Robbin, John Mark Ainsley, Bo Skovhus, Luba Orgonasova, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
The Monteverdi Choir · NDR-Chor
Salisbury Cathedral Boy Choristers
Philharmonia Orchestra · Tölzer Knabenchor
NDR-Sinfonieorchester, John Eliot Gardiner
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Britten: Spring Symphony, Op. 44
- John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Alison Hagley (soprano), Catherine Robbin (contralto), Richard Seal (chorus master)
- Philharmonia Orchestra, Salisbury Cathedral Choristers, Monteverdi Choir
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1995-06
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
1. Introduction: Shine out
2. The merry cuckoo
3. Spring, the sweet Spring
Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27
- Emma Preston-Dunlop (soprano), Gill Ross (soprano), Penelope Vickers (contralto), Peter Mitchell (tenor), Richard Savage (bass (vocal))
- Monteverdi Choir
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1995-05
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
In a garden shady
I cannot grow
O ear whose creatures
Britten: Five Flower Songs, Op. 47
- Philharmonia Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1995-05
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
1. To Daffodils
2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
3. Marsh Flowers
4. The Evening Primrose
5. Ballad of Green Broom
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Requiem aeternam
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Howard Arman (chorus master), Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (chorus master)
- NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Tölzer Knabenchor
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1992-08
- Recording Venue: St. Marien-Kirche, Lübeck
Requiem aeternam
What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Dies Irae
- Bo Skovhus (baritone), Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Howard Arman (chorus master)
- NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1992-08
- Recording Venue: St. Marien-Kirche, Lübeck
Dies irae (I)
Bugles sang, saddening the evening air
Liber scriptus proferetur
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Offertorium
- Bo Skovhus (baritone), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (chorus master), Howard Arman (chorus master)
- NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Tölzer Knabenchor, Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1992-08
- Recording Venue: St. Marien-Kirche, Lübeck
Domine Jesu Christe
So Abraham rose, and clave the wood
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Sanctus
- Bo Skovhus (baritone), Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Howard Arman (chorus master)
- NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1992-08
- Recording Venue: St. Marien-Kirche, Lübeck
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus
After the blast of lightning from the East
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Agnus Dei
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Howard Arman (chorus master)
- NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1992-08
- Recording Venue: St. Marien-Kirche, Lübeck
One ever hangs where shelled roads part
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Libera me
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Bo Skovhus (baritone), Howard Arman (chorus master), Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (chorus master)
- NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, NDR Chor, Tölzer Knabenchor
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1992-08
- Recording Venue: St. Marien-Kirche, Lübeck
Libera me, Domine
It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Let us sleep now...In paradisum