Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ)
London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you... — More…
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 / Requiem aeternam
- Peter Pears (tenor), Simon Preston (organ)
- London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Melos Ensemble, Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1963-01-10
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
1a. Requiem aeternam
1b. What Passing Bells for These who die as Cattle?
Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 / Dies irae
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor)
- London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Bach Choir
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1963-01-10
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
2a. Dies irae
2b. Bugles Sang, Saddening the Evening Air
2c. Liber Scriptus
Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 / Offertorium
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Simon Preston (organ), Peter Pears (tenor)
- London Symphony Orchestra, Highgate School Choir, Melos Ensemble, Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1963-01-10
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
3a. Domine Jesu Christe
3b. So Abram Rose, and Clave the Wood
Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 / Sanctus
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
- Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1963-01-10
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
4a. Sanctus
4b. After the Blast of Lightning from the East
Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 / Agnus Dei
- Peter Pears (tenor)
- London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1963-01-10
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
5. One ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part
Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 / Libera me
- Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Simon Preston (organ)
- Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Highgate School Choir
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1963-01-10
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
6a. Libera me, Domine
6b. It Seemed that out of Battle I Escaped
6c. Let Us Sleep Now...In Paradisum
Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
- Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Melos Ensemble (chamber ensemble), Simon Preston (organ), John Culshaw (narrator), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Peter Pears (tenor)
- The Melos Ensemble Of London, London Symphony Orchestra, Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir, London Symphony Chorus
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1963-01-10
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
Requiem aeternam
Dies irae
Dies irae