2x CD

War Requiem

Album by Benjamin Britten; John Eliot Gardiner, NDR‐Sinfonieorchester

Released August 1992

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CD 1
1
War Requiem op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam (Chorus) / Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion (Boys’ Choir)
Benjamin Britten
5:30
2
War Requiem op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: “What passing‐bells for these who die as cattle?” (Tenor) / Kyrie eleison (Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
3:56
3
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies irae, dies illa (Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
3:55
4
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Bugles sang, saddening the evening air” (Baritone)
Benjamin Britten
2:39
5
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Liber scriptus proferetur (Soprano, Semi‐chorus)
Benjamin Britten
2:52
6
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Out there, we’ve walked quite friendly up to Death” (Tenor, Baritone)
Benjamin Britten
1:43
7
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Recordare Jesu pie (Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
4:35
8
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm” (Baritone)
Benjamin Britten
1:46
9
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies irae, dies illa (Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
1:23
10
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Lacrimosa dies illa (Soprano, Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
2:06
11
War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Move him into the sun” / Lacrimosa (Tenor / Soprano, Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
5:52
12
War Requiem op. 66: III. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe (Boys’ Choir) / Sed signifer sanctus Michael… Quam olim Abrahae promisisti (Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
3:51
13
War Requiem op. 66: III. Offertorium: “So Abram rose, and clave the wood” / Hostias (Baritone, Tenor / Boys’ Choir)
Benjamin Britten
5:59
CD 2
1
War Requiem op. 66: IV. Sanctus: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth (Soprano, Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
6:36
2
War Requiem op. 66: IV. Sanctus: “After the blast of lightning from the East” (Baritone)
Benjamin Britten
4:10
3
War Requiem op. 66: V. Agnus Dei: “One ever hangs where shelled roads part” / Agnus Dei (Tenor / Chorus)
Benjamin Britten
3:41
4
War Requiem op. 66: VI. Libera me: Libera me, Domine (Chorus, Soprano)
Benjamin Britten
7:21
5
War Requiem op. 66: VI. Libera me: “It seemed that out of battle I escaped” (Tenor, Baritone)
Benjamin Britten
9:23
6
War Requiem op. 66: VI. Libera me: “Let us sleep now” / In paradisum (Baritone, Tenor / Boys’ Choir, Chorus, Soprano)
Benjamin Britten
5:59