War Requiem (LSO Live SACD x2)
Britten, Benjamin
War Requiem (LSO Live SACD x2)
Britten, Benjamin
Publisher: LSO Live
Catalogue No: LSO0719
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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.