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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 ...
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.
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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War Requiem is a 1989 film adaptation of Benjamin Britten's musical piece of the same name. It was shot in 1988 by the British film director Derek Jarman with the 1963 recording as the soundtrack, produced by Don Boyd and financed by the BBC. Decca Records required that the 1963 recording be heard on its own, with no overlaid soundtrack or ...
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.