British Composers: Britten: War Requiem / Bliss: Morning Heroes

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Morning Heroes: I. Hector's Farewell to Andromache (The Iliad)

  Sir Arthur Bliss
  14:04
• 2
  Morning Heroes: II. The City's Arming (Walt Whitman)

  Sir Arthur Bliss
  11:46
• 3
  Morning Heroes: III. Vigil (Li-Tai-Po)

  Sir Arthur Bliss
  8:18
• 4
  Morning Heroes: III. The Bivouac's Flame (Whitman)

  Sir Arthur Bliss
  4:43
• 5
  Morning Heroes: IV. Achilles Goes Forth to Battle (The Illiad)

  Sir Arthur Bliss
  7:25
• 6
  Morning Heroes: IV. The Heroes

  Sir Arthur Bliss
  1:50
• 7
  Morning Heroes: V. Now Trumpeter for Thy Close: Spring Offensive (Wilfred Owen)

  Sir Arthur Bliss
  5:59
• 8
  Morning Heroes: V. Now Trumpeter for Thy Close: Dawn on the Somme (Robert Nichols)

  Sir Arthur Bliss
  5:35
• 9
  War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine"

  Benjamin Britten
  6:09
• 10
  War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?"

  Benjamin Britten
  2:20
• 11
  War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "Kyrie eleison"

  Benjamin Britten
  1:24
• CD 2
• 1
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Dies irae, dies illa"

  Benjamin Britten
  3:58
• 2
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Bugles sang, saddening the evening air"

  Benjamin Britten
  2:46
• 3
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Liber scriptus proferetur"

  Benjamin Britten
  2:46
• 4
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death"

  Benjamin Britten
  1:45
• 5
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Recordare Jesu pie"

  Benjamin Britten
  4:44
• 6
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm"

  Benjamin Britten
  1:52
• 7
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Dies irae, dies illa"

  Benjamin Britten
  1:17
• 8
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Lacrimosa dies illa"

  Benjamin Britten
  2:04
• 9
  War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae "Move him into the sun...Pie Jesu"

  Benjamin Britten
  5:55
• 10
  War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium. "Domine Jesu Christe"

  Benjamin Britten
  3:33
• 11
  War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium. "So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went"

  Benjamin Britten
  6:16
• 12
  War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus"

  Benjamin Britten
  3:18
• 13
  War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini"

  Benjamin Britten
  2:52
• 14
  War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "After the blast of lightning from the East"

  Benjamin Britten
  3:43
• 15
  War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei

  Benjamin Britten
  3:44
• 16
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna"

  Benjamin Britten
  7:34
• 17
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "It seemed that out of battle I escaped"

  Benjamin Britten
  9:47
• 18
  War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "Let us sleep now...In paradisum"

  Benjamin Britten
  5:25

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Release credits

• Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
  choir vocals [1.9, 2.10-11, 2.18]
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1.9-11, 2.1-18]
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus
  choir vocals [1.9, 1.11, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7-10, 2.12-13, 2.15-16, 2.18]
• Edmund Walters
  chorus master [1-8]
• Elisabeth Söderström
  soprano vocals [3, 8-9, 12-13, 16, 18]
• Francis Grier
  chorus master [1.9, 2.10-11, 2.18]
• Hugh Ottaway
  liner notes
• John Westbrook
  spoken vocals [1-8]
• Mark Blatchly
  chamber organ [2.1-18, 1.9-11]
• Robert Tear
  tenor vocals [2.4, 2.9, 2.11, 2.15, 2.17-18, 1.10]
• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
  choir vocals [1-8]
• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1-8]
• Simon Halsey
  chorus master [1.9, 1.11, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7-10, 2.12-13, 2.15-16, 2.18]
• Simon Rattle
  conductor [2.1-18, 1.9-11]
• Sir Charles Groves
  conductor [1-8]
• Sir Thomas Allen
  baritone vocals [2, 4, 6, 11, 14, 17-18]
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  British Composers: Britten: War Requiem / Bliss: Morning Heroes

  2x CD
  5 November 2007