John Eliot Gardiner conducts Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at the SHMF final concert in Lübeck in 1992. The War Requiem premiered on May 30, 1962 in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral. The cathedral was largely destroyed during the German bombing of the city of Coventry during World War II. In his almost 90-minute piece, Britten set the Latin text of the fair Missa pro Defunctis to music with poems by the British poet and soldier Wilfred Owen.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
War Requiem op.66
Requiem aeternam - 00:01
Dies irae 9:45
Offertory 37:30
Sanctus 48:09
Agnus Dei 1:00:07
Libera me 1:04:10
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor
Boje Skovhus, baritone
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Monteverdi Choir London, mastered by John Eliot Gardiner
NDR choir, rehearsal by Howard Arman
Tölzer Boys' Choir, rehearsed by Gerhard Schmidt-Garden
Recording from the SHMF final concert in 1992, St. Marienkirche in Lübeck
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