War Requiem

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: “Requiem aeternam” (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:57
• 2
  War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: “What passing bells for these who die as cattle?” (Tenor)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:38
• 3
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Dies irae” I (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:37
• 4
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Bugles sang, saddening the evening air” (Baritone)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:34
• 5
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Liber scriptus proferetur” (Soprano)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:57
• 6
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death” (Tenor and Baritone)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:57
• 7
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Recordare Jesu pie” (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:30
• 8
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Be slowly lifted up” (Baritone)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:10
• 9
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Dies irae” II (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:11
• 10
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Lacrimosa dies illa” (Soprano and Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:54
• 11
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Move him into the sun” (Tenor)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:50
• 12
  War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium: “Domine Jesu Christe” (Boys)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:30
• 13
  War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium: “So Abram rose, and clave the wood” (Tenor and Baritone)

  Benjamin Britten
  6:08
• CD 2
• 1
  War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus: “Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus” (Soprano and Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  6:06
• 2
  War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus: “After the blast of lightning from the East” (Baritone)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:50
• 3
  War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei: “One ever hangs where shelled roads part” (Tenor)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:40
• 4
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: “Libera me, Domine” (Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  7:36
• 5
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: “It seemed that out of battle I escaped” (Tenor)

  Benjamin Britten
  9:33
• 6
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me: “Let us sleep now”…“In Paradisum” (Baritone, Tenor, Boys, Soprano and Chorus)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:33

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Release credits

• Benjamin Britten
  conductor
• Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
  baritone vocals [2.2, 2.5-6, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.13]
• London Symphony Chorus
  choir vocals [1.1-3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9-13, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6, 1.1-3, 1.5, 1.7-13]
• Melos Ensemble
  performer [2.2-3, 2.5-6, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.11-13]
• Peter Pears
  tenor vocals [1.2, 1.6, 1.11, 1.13, 2.3, 2.5-6]
• Simon Preston
  organ [1, 12-13]
• Sir David Willcocks
  chorus master [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6, 1.1-3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9-13]
• The Bach Choir
  choir vocals [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6, 1.1-3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9-13]
• Галина Вишневская
  soprano vocals [1.5, 1.10-11, 2.1, 2.4, 2.6]

Issues

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  War Requiem

  2x 12" Vinyl
  1963
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  War Requiem

  2x 12" Vinyl
  1963
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  War Requiem

  2x CD
  1985
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  War Requiem

  2x CD
  1985
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  War Requiem

  2x CD
  1 April 1999
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  W
  War Requiem

  2x CD
  1999
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  W
  War Requiem

  2x CD
  16 May 2006
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  War Requiem

  CD
  2011
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  War Requiem

  Digital Media (2023 remaster)
  3 November 2023