Britten - War Requiem (Monteverdi Choir, North German Radio Symphony Chorus Orchestra, 1993 Lubeck)

Год выпуска: 1993 Продолжительность: 1:27:6 Исполнители: Monteverdi Choir North German Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra L. Organasova(soprano) A. Johnson(tenor) B. Skovhus(baritone) Germany, Lubeck, 1993. The War Requiem, Op. 66 is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem Mass composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed January 1962. Interspersed with the traditional Latin texts are pasted, collage-like, settings of Wilfred Owen poems. The work is scored for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, chorus, boys’ choir, organ, and two orchestras (a full orchestra and a chamber orchestra). It has a duration of approximately 85 minutes.