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The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a 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, in the English county of Warwickshire, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.
Britten's War Requiem (1963) is the first recording of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.It featured Galina Vishnevskaya, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Peter Pears with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Melos Ensemble, The Bach Choir and the Highgate School Choir, and was conducted by Britten himself.
The boys who sang on Benjamin Britten's historic recording of War Requiem reunite, 61 years later.
Tony Palmer made three documentary films about Britten: Benjamin Britten & his Festival (1967); [263] A Time There Was (1979); [264] and Nocturne (2013). [265] In 2019, Britten's War Requiem was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically ...
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem incorporated the words of the World War One poet Wilfred Owen - whose poetry had also faded from popular consciousness - to a new generation. Anti-war sentiment was ...
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Op. 64, A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera (libretto by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, after William Shakespeare), 1960 Op. 65 , Sonata for cello and piano, 1961 Op. 66 , War Requiem , 1961
Meredith Davies—Versatile conductor who in 1962 took charge of Britten's War Requiem at the historic consecration of Coventry Cathedral [dead link ], The Times, 2 April 2005. Retrieved 2008-06-26. Meredith Davies, 1922–2005, Britten-Pears Foundation, 12 April 2005. Retrieved 2008-06-26.