Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66 [2012 LSOlive][FLAC]

CD1
Requiem aeternam
01 Requiem aeternam (chorus and boys’ choir)
02 "What passing bells" (tenor solo) – Owen’s "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
Dies irae
03 Dies irae (chorus)
04 "Bugles sang" (baritone solo) – Owen’s "Voices"
05 Liber scriptus (soprano solo and semi-chorus)
06 "Out there, we walked quite friendly up to death" (tenor and baritone soli)- Owen’s "The Next War"
07 Recordare (women’s chorus)
08 Confutatis (men’s chorus)
09 "Be slowly lifted up" (baritone solo) – Owen’s "Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action"
10 Reprise of Dies irae (chorus)
11 Lacrimosa (soprano and chorus) interspersed with "Move him, move him" (tenor solo) Owen’s "Futility"
Offertorium
12 Domine Jesu Christe (boys’ choir)
13 Quam olim Abrahae (chorus)
14 Isaac and Abram (tenor and baritone soli)- Owen’s "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
15 Hostias et preces tibi (boys’ choir)

CD2
Sanctus
01 Sanctus and Benedictus (soprano solo and chorus)
02 "After the blast of lightning" (baritone solo) – Owen’s "The End"
Agnus Dei
03 Agnus Dei (chorus) interspersed with "One ever hangs" (chorus; tenor solo) – Owen’s "At a Calvary near the Ancre"
Libera me
04 Libera me (soprano solo and chorus)
05 Strange Meeting ("It seemed that out of battle I escaped") (tenor) – Owen’s "Strange Meeting"
06 "’None’,said the other"(baritone)
07 Let us sleep now/in paradisum(all)
08 Conclusion -Requiem Aeternam and Requiescant in Pace (Organ, Boys` choir and Mixed Chorus)

Gianandrea Noseda(cond)
Sabina Cvilak (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Choir of Eltham College

FLAC DOWNLOAD (http://www.adrive.com/public/fRwngA/BritteenWR-LSOlive.rar)

Oh yea, forgot this was largely choral. Still, great to have an alternate recording of this 🙂 It is one of Britten’s most praised works.

I haven’t downloaded this, so I can’t re-up it…