Benjamin Britten | Benjamin Britten: War Requiem | 2CD

Benjamin Britten was a British composer whose music includes operas, orchestral works, chamber music and vocal repertoire. His writing combines detailed instrumental textures with expressive vocal lines, often using distinctive dramatic and rhythmic structures to develop the material.

War Requiem presents Benjamin Britten’s work across two CDs. Its musical design brings liturgical text together with poetry by Wilfred Owen, using different vocal and instrumental forces to develop an extended reflection on war and remembrance.

Track List

Disc 1

1. Requiem Aeternam
2. What Passing Bells for These Who Die As Cattle?
3. Dies Irae
4. Bugles Sang, Saddening the Evening Air
5. Liber Scriptus
6. Out There, We've Walked Quite Friendly Up to Death
7. Recordare Jesu Pie
8. Be Slowly Lifted Up
9. Dies Irae
10. Lacrimosa Dies Illa
11. Move Him Into the Sun
12. Domine Jesu Christe
13. So Abram Rose, and Clave the Wood
14. Sanctus
15. After the Blast of Lightning from the East
16. One Ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part
17. Libera Me, Domine
18. It Seemed That Out of Battle I Escaped
19. Let Us Sleep Now...In Paradisum

Disc 2

1. Requiem Aeternam - Rehearsal
2. Dies Irae - Rehearsal of the Opening Section
3. Dies Irae - Discussion in the Control Room Between Britten and Galina Vishnevskaya (Via Her Interpreter), Then Between John Culshaw and Galina Vishnev
4. Dies Irae - Rehearsal of End of Movement
5. Offertorium - Rehearsal
6. Sanctus - Rehearsal
7. Sanctus - Discussion in the Control Room Between Britten and Galina Vishnevskaya (Via Her Interpreter)
8. Agnus Dei - Discussion in the Control Room Between Britten, Peter Pears and John Culshaw
9. Libera Me - Discussion in the Control Room Between Britten and John Culshaw
10. Libera Me - Rehearsal
11. Libera Me - Rehearsal of Closing Page
12. Closing Remarks