25 aprile 1945 – 2025 / 80° anniversario della Liberazione dell’Italia dal nazifascismo.
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) – War Requiem op. 66
per soli, coro, coro di ragazzi, orchestra e orchestra da camera
Testo: “Missa pro Defunctis” e versi di Wilfred Owen
1. Requiem aeternam – coro [00:00]
What passing bells for these who die as cattle? – tenore
2. Dies irae – coro [9:45]
Bugles sang, saddening the evening air – baritono
Liber scriptus proferetur – soprano
Out there, we’ve walked quite friendly up to Death – tenore e baritono
Recordare Jesu pie – coro
Be slowly lifted up – baritono
Dies irae – coro
Lacrimosa dies illa – soprano e coro
Move him into the sun – tenore
3. Offertorium [37:30]
Domine Jesu Christe – coro di voci bianche
So Abram rose, and clave the wood – tenore e baritono
4. Sanctus – [48:09]
Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus – soprano e coro
After the blast of lightning from the East – baritono
5. Agnus Dei [1:00:07]
One ever hangs where shelled roads part – tenore
6. Libera me [1:04:10]
Libera me, Domine – coro
It seemed that out of battle I escaped – tenore
Let us sleep now… In paradisum – baritono, tenore, coro di voci bianche, soprano e coro
Luba Orgonasova, Sopran
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Tenor
Boje Skovhus, Bariton
NDR Sinfonieorchester
Monteverdi Choir London
NDR Chor
Tölzer Knabenchor
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor