British Composers: Britten: War Requiem / Bliss: Morning Heroes

British Composers: Britten: War Requiem / Bliss: Morning Heroes

Benjamin Britten, Sir Arthur Bliss; Elisabeth Söderström, Robert Tear, Sir Thomas Allen, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle, John Westbrook, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves

Album
Label EMI Classics Release date Format 2×CD Country 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Tracklist 143:07

CD 1

1 Morning Heroes: I. Hector's Farewell to Andromache (The Iliad) Sir Arthur Bliss 14:04
2 Morning Heroes: II. The City's Arming (Walt Whitman) Sir Arthur Bliss 11:46
3 Morning Heroes: III. Vigil (Li-Tai-Po) Sir Arthur Bliss 8:18
4 Morning Heroes: III. The Bivouac's Flame (Whitman) Sir Arthur Bliss 4:43
5 Morning Heroes: IV. Achilles Goes Forth to Battle (The Illiad) Sir Arthur Bliss 7:25
6 Morning Heroes: IV. The Heroes Sir Arthur Bliss 1:50
7 Morning Heroes: V. Now Trumpeter for Thy Close: Spring Offensive (Wilfred Owen) Sir Arthur Bliss 5:59
8 Morning Heroes: V. Now Trumpeter for Thy Close: Dawn on the Somme (Robert Nichols) Sir Arthur Bliss 5:35
9 War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine" Benjamin Britten 6:09
10 War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" Benjamin Britten 2:20
11 War Requiem, op. 66: I. Requiem aeternam. "Kyrie eleison" Benjamin Britten 1:24

CD 2

1 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Dies irae, dies illa" Benjamin Britten 3:58
2 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Bugles sang, saddening the evening air" Benjamin Britten 2:46
3 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Liber scriptus proferetur" Benjamin Britten 2:46
4 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death" Benjamin Britten 1:45
5 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Recordare Jesu pie" Benjamin Britten 4:44
6 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm" Benjamin Britten 1:52
7 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Dies irae, dies illa" Benjamin Britten 1:17
8 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae. "Lacrimosa dies illa" Benjamin Britten 2:04
9 War Requiem, op. 66: II. Dies irae "Move him into the sun...Pie Jesu" Benjamin Britten 5:55
10 War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium. "Domine Jesu Christe" Benjamin Britten 3:33
11 War Requiem, op. 66: III. Offertorium. "So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went" Benjamin Britten 6:16
12 War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus" Benjamin Britten 3:18
13 War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini" Benjamin Britten 2:52
14 War Requiem, op. 66: IV. Sanctus. "After the blast of lightning from the East" Benjamin Britten 3:43
15 War Requiem, op. 66: V. Agnus Dei Benjamin Britten 3:44
16 War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna" Benjamin Britten 7:34
17 War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "It seemed that out of battle I escaped" Benjamin Britten 9:47
18 War Requiem, op. 66: VI. Libera me. "Let us sleep now...In paradisum" Benjamin Britten 5:25