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Aug 15, 2016 · Benjamin Britten ConductorMeredith Davies ConductorHeather Harper sopranoThomas Hemsley baritonePeter Pears tenorMelos EnsembleBBC Symphony ChorusBBC Symphon...
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Jun 29, 2014 · War Requiem. Cristina Bizjak. 103 subscribers. 61K views 9 years ago.
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Dec 14, 2016 · Britten. The War Requiem, 1 Requiem aeternam, score. Anna Naumova. 10.1K subscribers. 10K views 6 years ago. ...more.
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The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a British choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.
Britten’s War Requiem is at the London Coliseum from 16 November. Video. Learn the harrowing story behind Britten's beautiful opera, War Requiem, which is considered an act of reparation for those lost or impacted by wartime Britain.
Maestro Noseda is at the podium of the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for this powerful performance of Benjamin Britten's 'War Requiem' performed here over half a century after it was originally composed.
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Benjamin Britten’s pacifist masterpiece War Requiem, premiered in 1962, is among the greatest settings of a liturgical text, linking past and present by interweaving poems on the horrors of war by WWI poet Wilfred Owen.
