First Listen: Benjamin Britten's 'War Requiem'

When the British composer Benjamin Britten began to consider writing the oratorio about the time to complete the war hell and war sedation, the world was consumed several times by violence. A terrible event of World War II in Europe, atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and assassination of pacifist Briton who worships Modadus (Mahatma)

Britten eventually created correspondence to collective bloodshed and sadness called inner war Requiem as vibrant as when premiered more than 50 years ago. I was asked to rebuild the Coventry Cathedral in England which was destroyed by the 1940 Nazi bomb attack. The record of this exciting war comes from the newly reconstructed Warner Classic (with artist roster and post EMI classic management) that will be available just before November 22 when Britton 's 100 th anniversary starts on November 19 Come.

Among the traditional texts used in the Mass of the dead, Britton slipped Wilfred Owen's poems and himself was killed a week before the end of the First World War. Poetry is painful and it does not misunderstand the intentions of Britton's pacifists. He quoted Owen on the title page. "My theme is war, caring for war / poetry is disappointing / what a poet of today can do is a warning."

Britton means to understand instantly and any listener can use it. Two years ago, Christine Brewer wrote articles for NPR music writers, shared emotional experiences and introduced Britton's "War Requiem" to nearby St. Louis. Elementary school sixth grader who once lived in a coal mine town, most of them were fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq then.

Briton's paint, vivid colors, boldness, just listen to 'Bugles Sang' and 'Out There, we want to die'. The section titled "Isaac and Abram (ancient and young fables)" is the most disturbing harmony between the disturbing lyrics and tenor and baritone, and is still the most type. An exciting single. But in the crusade of war, the double shadow of fear and torture is always near, and amongst this work it is full of catastrophic power in 'unable to stop and unstoppable' dying. Appear once

The main line of this record is the conductor of soprano, Anna Netlebko, tenor Ian Bostridge, baritone Thomas Hampson, and orchestra and the National Conservatory of Antonio Papano. Amazing performance, it clearly shows the influence of Britton's music on the audience and artists

In the summer of 1963, Boston Globe announced a commentary on the premiere of the US premiere of Benjamin 's Britton War Requiem at Tanglewood. Not to mention premiere of major works of contemporary nature, I have never seen such a positive comment on any performance. I am not doing. I purchased the first available recordings and started listening carefully from the earliest. This is a moving work, definitely one of the most important works of the 20th century. This work was done to celebrate the devotion of St. Michael's Cathedral reconstructed in Coventry in the UK in 1962. The original building was destroyed by the German Air Force during the bombing of World War II. In the first performance of the recurrence of the war, the Cold War is getting hot and the threat is as urgent as the Cuban missile crisis and the deteriorating situation in Vietnam.

When the British composer Benjamin Britten began to consider writing the oratorio about the time to complete the war hell and war sedation, the world was consumed several times by violence. A terrible event of World War II in Europe, atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and assassination of Gandhi (Gazette) Gandhi who received Briton's extreme praise. Britten eventually created correspondence to collective bloodshed and sadness called inner war Requiem as vibrant as when premiered more than 50 years ago. I was asked to rebuild the Coventry Cathedral in England which was destroyed by the 1940 Nazi bomb attack. The record of this exciting war comes from the newly reconstructed Warner Classic (with artist roster and post EMI classic management) that will be available just before November 22 when Britton 's 100 th anniversary starts on November 19 Come.