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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.
Libretto by Montagu Slater, after the poem The Borough by George Crabbe. Premiered on 7 June 1945 at Sadler's Wells, London. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Opera in two acts, 107'. Libretto by Ronald Duncan, after the play Le Viol de Lucrèce by André Obey. Premiered on 12 July 1946 at Glyndebourne. Published by ...
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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 ...
A Child of Our Time has survived periods of indifference, particularly in America, to be ranked alongside Britten's War Requiem as one of the most frequently performed large-scale choral works of the post-Second World War period. [47]
The topic is a group of children in Poland during World War II in quest of peace. It was, after Britten's War Requiem, another work inspired by his pacifist convictions, pointing out the "futility of war, witnessed through the eyes of a group of brave Polish children in the face of overwhelming odds", [2] based on Brecht's imagery.
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