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In this war He too lost a limb, But His disciples hide apart; And now the Soldiers bear with Him. Chorus Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem. Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, grant them rest. Tenor Near Golgatha strolls many a priest, And in their faces there is pride That they were flesh-marked by the Beast
The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a British choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. [1] 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.
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Structure of War Requiem: the vocals. In War Requiem, the combination of the Mass for the Dead and Owen’s poetry is played out on three levels.. Two soldiers, a tenor and a baritone, sing Owen’s poems to the accompaniment of a chamber orchestra of 12 instruments, to represent the experience of individuals caught up in conflict.
The War Requiem, moreover, was tied to a pair of events—the destruction of Coventry Cathedral in an air raid during the night of November 14-15, 1940, and its reconsecration more than twenty-one years later—that were heavily freighted with history and emotion. Its first performance was planned as an international event with respect both to ...
Nov 1, 2023 · One of the greatest choral works of the twentieth century, Britten‘s War Requiem was written for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. It juxtaposes the traditional Latin text of the Requiem Mass with the anti-war poetry of soldier Wilfred Owen, who was killed a week before the Armistice.
