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26 de feb. de 2015 · In commemoration of the 100th year anniversary of World War One, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hu...
Twice in Benjamin Britten’s life, public awareness of his person and his work advanced dramatically, explosively. The first time was in 1945, when his opera Peter Grimes was produced for the postwar reopening of Sadler’s Wells Theater in London. The second time followed the premiere at Coventry and the subsequent series of performances all across Europe and North America of the War Requiem.
14 de oct. de 2021 · Ein Werk in Großbesetzung: Benjamin Brittens "War Requiem" mit dem NDR Sinfonieorchester (heute: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester), NDR Chor (heute: NDR Vokalen...
18 de may. de 2022 · Vor 60 Jahren wurde das War Requiem von Benjamin Britten in der wiederaufgebauten Kathedrale von Coventry uraufgeführt. Ein Akt der Versöhnung und eine Warnung vor dem Krieg. Heute ist das Werk ...
8 de may. de 2012 · War Requiem, Op. 66: xxi. Agnus Dei - “One ever hangs where shelled roads part” Agnus Dei (Ft. Ian Bostridge, London Symphony Chorus & The London Symphony Orchestra) Lyrics
22 de sept. de 2011 · Stravinsky sneered but the public loved it, and, nearly 50 years on, Britten's War Requiem has lost none of its power to move us, writes Ian Bostridge
15 de feb. de 1991 · The work ends with words of peace, the choral “Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine” and the boys’ “Requiescant in pace. Amen”. But there is no guarantee in Britten’s music that peace will be granted. At the head of his score Britten inscribed the solemn words with which Owen prefaced his poems: My subject is War, and the pity of War.
