War Requiem

by Benjamin Britten

War Requiem cover art

Benjamin Britten conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a monumental recording of his non-liturgical requiem mass. The composition interweaves the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead, performed by a soprano and chorus, with the anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen delivered by a tenor and baritone.

Genres

  • Modern Classical
  • Requiem
  • Orchestral Music

Tracklist

  1. War Requiem, Op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: a. Requiem aeternam
  2. War Requiem, Op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: b. What Passing Bells for These who die as Cattle?
  3. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: a. Dies irae
  4. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: b. Bugles Sang, Saddening the Evening Air
  5. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: c. Liber Scriptus
  6. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: d. Out there, We've Walked quite Friendly up to Death
  7. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: e. Recordare Jesu pie
  8. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: f. Be Slowly Lifted Up
  9. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: g. Dies irae
  10. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: h. Lacrimosa dies illa
  11. War Requiem, Op. 66: II. Dies irae: i. Move Him into the Sun
  12. War Requiem, Op. 66: III. Offertorium: a. Domine Jesu Christe
  13. War Requiem, Op. 66: III. Offertorium: b. So Abram Rose, and Clave the Wood
  14. War Requiem, Op. 66: IV. Sanctus: a. Sanctus
  15. War Requiem, Op. 66: IV. Sanctus: b. After the Blast of Lightning from the East
  16. War Requiem, Op. 66: V. Agnus Dei: One ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part
  17. War Requiem, Op. 66: VI. Libera me: a. Libera me, Domine
  18. War Requiem, Op. 66: VI. Libera me: b. It Seemed that out of Battle I Escaped
  19. War Requiem, Op. 66: VI. Libera me: c. Let Us Sleep Now...In Paradisum
  20. War Requiem, Op. 66: Requiem aeternam - (Rehearsal)
  21. War Requiem, Op. 66: Dies irae - (Rehearsal)
  22. War Requiem, Op. 66: Dies irae - (Rehearsal)
  23. War Requiem, Op. 66: Dies irae - (Rehearsal)
  24. War Requiem, Op. 66: Offertorium - (Rehearsal)
  25. War Requiem, Op. 66: Sanctus - (Rehearsal)
  26. War Requiem, Op. 66: Sanctus - (Rehearsal)
  27. War Requiem, Op. 66: Agnus Dei - (Rehearsal)
  28. War Requiem, Op. 66: Libera me - (Rehearsal)
  29. War Requiem, Op. 66: Libera me - (Rehearsal)
  30. War Requiem, Op. 66: Libera me - (Rehearsal)