Britten: War Requiem (LSO, Gianandrea Noseda)

Release Date: April 1, 2012

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***** Financial Times (UK)
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***(3 * max) Point de Vue (France)
Best International Album of the Year 2012 Musical Toronto(Canada)
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Premiered in 1962, the War Requiem is one of the twentieth century’s defining works. Britten was commissioned to write it for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed during the Second World War. Interspersing the Latin mass of the dead with texts by war poet Wilfred Owen he created a work that both mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war.