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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

This release includes a digital booklet

Contents

Britten: Spring Symphony, Op. 44

Work length41:28
$10.20
$13.80
  • 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

Track length8:38
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2. The merry cuckoo

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3. Spring, the sweet Spring

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4. The driving boy

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5. The morning star

Track length2:59
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6. Welcome Maids of Honour

Track length2:35
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7. Waters above!

Track length2:27
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8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed

Track length5:50
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9. When will my May come

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10. Fair and fair

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11. Sound the flute!

Track length1:21
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12. Finale: London, to thee I do present

Track length7:32
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Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27

Work length9:44
$2.55
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  • 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

Track length2:30
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I cannot grow

Track length1:55
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O ear whose creatures

Track length5:19
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Britten: Five Flower Songs, Op. 47

Work length10:33
$4.25
$5.75
  • Philharmonia Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Recorded: 1995-05
  • Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

1. To Daffodils

Track length1:55
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2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months

Track length1:49
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3. Marsh Flowers

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4. The Evening Primrose

Track length2:42
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5. Ballad of Green Broom

Track length1:52
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Requiem aeternam

Work length9:20
$1.70
$2.30
  • 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

Track length5:27
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What passing bells for these who die as cattle?

Track length3:53
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Dies Irae

Work length26:47
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  • 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)

Track length3:57
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Bugles sang, saddening the evening air

Track length2:39
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Liber scriptus proferetur

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Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death

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Recordare Jesu pie

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Be slowly lifted up

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Dies irae (II)

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Lacrimosa dies illa

Track length2:06
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Move him into the sun

Track length5:46
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Offertorium

Work length9:48
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  • 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

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So Abraham rose, and clave the wood

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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Sanctus

Work length10:38
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  • 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

Track length6:33
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After the blast of lightning from the East

Track length4:05
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Agnus Dei

Work length3:37
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  • 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

Track length3:37
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Britten: War Requiem, Op.66 / Libera me

Work length22:40
$2.55
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  • 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

Track length7:19
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It seemed that out of battle I escaped

Track length9:23
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Let us sleep now...In paradisum

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