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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.
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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 ...
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.
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In the beginning the choir was run by a group of three adults: John Andrewes, who also led the Finchley Children's Music Group, Rosamund Strode, a musician, singer and later assistant to Britten, and Jonathan Steele, [3] deputy to George Malcolm at Westminster Cathedral. Steele became the conductor and leader of the London Boy Singers.
By 1928, the BBC had decided there was a need to develop a large amateur chorus of its own. Notices advertising the formation of The National Chorus were placed, auditions were held, a broadcast was delivered in August 1928 discussing the new choir and its upcoming programme, and the choir gave its first performance later that year in Granville Bantock's oratorio The Pilgrim's Progress. [3]
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