Benjamin Britten: War Requiem op.66 on 2 Super Audio CDs
War Requiem op.66
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- Sound Format:
- stereo & multichannel (Hybrid)
- Artists:
- Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Sabina Cvilak, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
- Label:
- LSO
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2011
- UPC/EAN:
- 0822231171928
- Release date:
- 1.5.2012
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Brittens War Requiem ist ein eindringliches Plädoyer für Frieden und Völkerverständigung und seit seiner Uraufführung 1962 zu einem Klassiker der Moderne geworden. Den Abschnitten der lateinischen Totenmesse werden Gedichte des im 1. Weltkrieg gefallenen Dichters Wilfried Owen beigestellt, die nach wie vor traurige Aktualität besitzen. Die unmittelbare Botschaft des War Requiems ist unmissverständlich: Nie wieder Krieg! Die hochkarätig besetzte Einspielung auf LSOlive transportiert diese Botschaft in eindringlicher Weise.
Premiered in 1962, the War Requiem is one of the twentieth century's defining works. Britten was commissioned to write it for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed during the Second World War. Interspersing the Latin mass of the dead with texts by war poet Wilfred Owen he created a work that both mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war.
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'Noseda’s unashamedly dramatic interpretation held the audience transfixed. It was all so vivid … an overwhelming evocation of the grief, the waste and the pity of war.’ The Times (UK)
‘Noseda marshalled the finest War Requiem that I have heard.' The New Yorker (USA)
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Reviews
,,Der 48-jährige Gergiev-Schüler Gianandrea Noseda setzt hier mit dem London Symphony neue Maßstäbe.(...) Exellente Solisten um den Tenor Ian Bostridge runden diese Aufnahme ab ..." (Audio, Juli 2012)Disk 1 von 2 (SACD)
War Requiem op. 66
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1 Requiem aternam
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2 Te decet hymnus
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3 What passing-bells for these who die as cattle
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4 Kyrie eleison
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5 Dies irae
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6 Bugles sang, saddening the evening air
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7 Liber scriptus
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8 Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to death
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9 Recordare lesu pie
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10 Confutatis maledictis
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11 Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm
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12 Dies irae
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13 Move him into the sun
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14 Pie Iesu domine
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15 Domine Iesu christe
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16 Sed signifer sanctus
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17 So Abram rose, and clave the wood
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18 Hostias et preces tibi
Disk 2 von 2 (SACD)
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1 Sanctus
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2 After the blast of lightning from the east
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3 One ever hangs where shelled roads part
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4 Libera me
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5 It seemed that out of battle I escaped
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6 None, said the other
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7 Let us sleep now
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8 Requiescant in pace
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