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Britten: War Requiem
by: Galina Vishnevskaya Peter Pears Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau The Bach Choir London Symphony Chorus The Melos Ensemble Of London London Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Britten
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028947575115
Format: Box set
Label: Universal Classics
Manufacturer: Universal Classics
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Universal Classics
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Running Time: 131 minutes
Studio: Universal Classics
Sales Rank: 4631
MPN: 000638902
Disc 1:- Requiem aeternam - London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir, Melos Ensemble, Simon Preston, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- What passing bells for these who die as cattle? - Peter Pears, Melos Ensemble, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Dies irae - London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Bugles sang, saddening the evening air - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Melos Ensemble, Benjamin Britten
- Liber scriptus proferetur - Galina Vishnevskaya, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death - Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Melos Ensemble, Benjamin Britten
- Recordare Jesu pie - London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Be slowly lifted up - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Dies irae - London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Lacrimosa dies illa - Galina Vishnevskaya, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Move him into the sun - Peter Pears, Galina Vishnevskaya, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Domine Jesu Christe - Highgate School Boys' Choir, Simon Preston, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- So Abraham rose, and clave the wood - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Pears, Highgate School Choir, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, Simon Preston, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus - Galina Vishnevskaya, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- After the blast of lightning from the East - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Melos Ensemble, Benjamin Britten
Disc 2:- One ever hangs where shelled roads part - Peter Pears, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Libera me, Domine - Galina Vishnevskaya, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- It seemed that out of battle I escaped - Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Melos Ensemble, Benjamin Britten
- Let us sleep now...In paradisum - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Pears, Galina Vishnevskaya, Highgate School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Requiem Aeternam (Rehearsal) - The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Highgate School Choir, Simon Preston, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Dies Irae (Rehearsal) - Galina Vishnevskaya, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Dies Irae (Rehearsal) - Galina Vishnevskaya, John Culshaw, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Dies Irae (Rehearsal) - Galina Vishnevskaya, The Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Offertorium (Rehearsal) - Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Highgate School Choir, Melos Ensemble, Simon Preston, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Sanctus (Rehearsal) - Galina Vishnevskaya, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, The Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir, London Symphony Chorus, The Melos Ensemble Of London, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Sanctus (Rehearsal) - Galina Vishnevskaya, Benjamin Britten
- Agnus Dei (Rehearsal) - Peter Pears, John Culshaw, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, The Melos Ensemble Of London, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Libera Me (Rehearsal) - John Culshaw, Benjamin Britten
- Libera Me (Rehearsal) - Galina Vishnevskaya, The Bach Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
- Libera Me (Rehearsal) - Galina Vishnevskaya, Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, The Bach Choir, Highgate School Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Simon Preston, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
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This was the piece of music that first really turned me on to classical music, listening to the very first performance from Coventry Cathedral on a small tranny radio. What I failed to realise then was that this massive impact was achieved by brilliant structural simplicity.
The whole work is effectively a study on the tritone, the 'diabolus in musica', that most disturbing and unstable of intervals. From the bells at the start to the harmonically ambiguous endings of the first and second movements and of the entire work; from the alternating tonics of the boys' Te Decet Hymnus to the alternating tintinnabulations of the soprano's Sanctus; from the fanfares of the Dies Irae to the two halves of the tenor's ineffable Dona Nobis Pacem ... Read More:
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