War Requiem
Bostridge/keenlyside/cvilak/lso/...
- Label
- LSO
- Catalogue number
- LSO 0719
- EAN / barcode
- 0822231171928
- Release date
- 17 January 2012
- Number of CDs
- 2
For his first LSO Live recording, Gianandrea Noseda is joined by three of today's most widely acclaimed singers for a magnificent performance of Benjamin Britten's choral masterpiece. Premiered 50 years ago on 30 May 1962, the 'War Requiem' was commissioned for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by bombing raids during the Second World War. Using the Latin mass of the dead, interspersed with texts by war poet Wilfred Owen, Britten, a pacifist and conscientious objector, created a work that both mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war. The 'War Requiem' was to become one of the defining choral works of the 20th Century. Gianandrea Noseda was the first foreign Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg and over the past decade his reputation in the opera house and concert hall has blossomed. He regularly conducts the LSO, as well as many of the world's other great orchestras, and is Music
Tracklist
- 01 War Requiem, Op. 66: i. Requiem Aeternam - Requiem aeternam 03:37
- 02 War Requiem, Op. 66: ii. Requiem Aeternam - Te decet hymnus 03:00
- 03 War Requiem, Op. 66: iii. Requiem Aeternam - "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" 02:37
- 04 War Requiem, Op. 66: iv. Requiem Aeternam - Kyrie eleison 01:32
- 05 War Requiem, Op. 66: v. Dies Irae - Dies irae 03:32
- 06 War Requiem, Op. 66: vi. Dies Irae - "Bugles sang, saddening the evening air" 02:32
- 07 War Requiem, Op. 66: vii. Dies Irae - Liber scriptus 03:00
- 08 War Requiem, Op. 66: viii. Dies Irae - "Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death" 01:42
- 09 War Requiem, Op. 66: ix. Dies Irae - Recordare Iesu pie 03:51
- 10 War Requiem, Op. 66: x. Dies Irae - Confutatis maledictis 01:05
- 11 War Requiem, Op. 66: xi. Dies Irae - "Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm" 02:10
- 12 War Requiem, Op. 66: xii. Dies Irae - Dies irae 03:00
- 13 War Requiem, Op. 66: xiii. Dies Irae - "Move him into the sun" 04:11
- 14 War Requiem, Op. 66: xiv. Dies Irae - Pie Iesu Domine 01:35
- 15 War Requiem, Op. 66: xv. Offertorium - Domine Jesu Christe 01:18
- 16 War Requiem, Op. 66: xvi. Offertorium - Sed signifer Sanctus 01:51
- 17 War Requiem, Op. 66: xvii. Offertorium - "So Abram rose, and clave the wood" 03:22
- 18 War Requiem, Op. 66: xvii. Offertorium - Hostias et preces tibi 02:40
- 01 War Requiem, Op. 66: xix. Sanctus - Sanctus 07:05
- 02 War Requiem, Op. 66: xx. Sanctus - "After the blast of lightning from the East" 03:34
- 03 War Requiem, Op. 66: xxi. Agnus Dei - "One ever hangs where shelled roads part" Agnus Dei 03:09
- 04 War Requiem, Op. 66: xxii. Libera Me - Libera me 08:02
- 05 War Requiem, Op. 66: xxiii. Libera Me - "It seemed that out of battle I escaped" 02:50
- 06 War Requiem, Op. 66: xxiv. Libera Me - " 'None', said the other" 06:49
- 07 War Requiem, Op. 66: xxv. Libera Me - "Let us sleep now…" In paradisum 04:26
- 08 War Requiem, Op. 66: xxvi. Libera Me - Requiescant in pace 01:15
Source: MusicBrainz
