War Requiem

War Requiem

Benjamin Britten; Sir John Eliot Gardiner, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Album
Label Deutsche Grammophon Released Format 2×CD Country US

Tracklist 83:21

CD 1

1 War Requiem op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam (Chorus) / Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion (Boys’ Choir) Benjamin Britten 5:30
2 War Requiem op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam: “What passing‐bells for these who die as cattle?” (Tenor) / Kyrie eleison (Chorus) Benjamin Britten 3:56
3 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies irae, dies illa (Chorus) Benjamin Britten 3:55
4 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Bugles sang, saddening the evening air” (Baritone) Benjamin Britten 2:39
5 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Liber scriptus proferetur (Soprano, Semi‐chorus) Benjamin Britten 2:52
6 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Out there, we’ve walked quite friendly up to Death” (Tenor, Baritone) Benjamin Britten 1:43
7 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Recordare Jesu pie (Chorus) Benjamin Britten 4:35
8 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm” (Baritone) Benjamin Britten 1:46
9 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Dies irae, dies illa (Chorus) Benjamin Britten 1:23
10 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: Lacrimosa dies illa (Soprano, Chorus) Benjamin Britten 2:06
11 War Requiem op. 66: II. Dies irae: “Move him into the sun” / Lacrimosa (Tenor / Soprano, Chorus) Benjamin Britten 5:52
12 War Requiem op. 66: III. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe (Boys’ Choir) / Sed signifer sanctus Michael… Quam olim Abrahae promisisti (Chorus) Benjamin Britten 3:51
13 War Requiem op. 66: III. Offertorium: “So Abram rose, and clave the wood” / Hostias (Baritone, Tenor / Boys’ Choir) Benjamin Britten 5:59

CD 2

1 War Requiem op. 66: IV. Sanctus: Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth (Soprano, Chorus) Benjamin Britten 6:36
2 War Requiem op. 66: IV. Sanctus: “After the blast of lightning from the East” (Baritone) Benjamin Britten 4:10
3 War Requiem op. 66: V. Agnus Dei: “One ever hangs where shelled roads part” / Agnus Dei (Tenor / Chorus) Benjamin Britten 3:41
4 War Requiem op. 66: VI. Libera me: Libera me, Domine (Chorus, Soprano) Benjamin Britten 7:21
5 War Requiem op. 66: VI. Libera me: “It seemed that out of battle I escaped” (Tenor, Baritone) Benjamin Britten 9:23
6 War Requiem op. 66: VI. Libera me: “Let us sleep now” / In paradisum (Baritone, Tenor / Boys’ Choir, Chorus, Soprano) Benjamin Britten 5:59