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Requiem Aeternam
What Passing-Bells For These Who Die As Cattle?
Dies Irae
Bugles Sang
Liber Scriptus Proferetur
Out There
Recordare Jesu Pie
Be Slowly Lifted Up
Dies Irae
Lacrimosa Dies Illa
Move Him Into The Sun
Domine Jesu Christe
So Abram Rose
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
After The Blast Of Lightning
One Ever Hangs
Libera Me, Domine
It Seemed That Out Of Battle I Escaped
Let Us Sleep Now ... In Paradisum
Requiem Aeternam: Rehearsal
Dies Irae: Rehearsal Of The Opening Section
Dies Irae: Discussion In The Control Room Between Britten And Galina Vishnevskaya (Via Her Interpreter), Then Between John Culshaw And Galina Vishnevskaya
Dies Irae: Rehearsal Of End Of Movement
Offertorium: Rehearsal
Sanctus: Rehearsal
Sanctus: Discussion In The Control Room Between Britten And Galina Vishnevskaya (Via Her Interpreter)
Agnus Dei: Discussion In The Control Room Between Britten, Peter Pears And John Culshaw
Libera Me: Discussion In The Control Room Between Britten And John Culshaw
Libera Me: Rehearsal
Libera Me: Rehearsal Of Closing Page

notes

Recorded 3-5, 7, 8 & 10 January 1963 Recording: Kingsway Hall, London, 3-5, 7, 8 & 10 January 1963.
℗ 1963, 1999 Decca Music Group Limited
© 2006 Decca Music Group Limited

Includes 60-page booklet.
Chamber organ built by Noel Mander.

Dedication: In loving memory of : Roger Burney, Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve; Piers Dunkerley, Captain, Royal Marines; David Gill, Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy; Michael Halliday, Lieutenant, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve

Latin text from Missa pro defunctis (Mass for the dead).
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes

Originally released as Decca cat# SET 252/3, 1963.

Made in the EU.

credits

Baritone Vocals – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Choir – Highgate School Choir, The Bach Choir
Chorus – London Symphony Orchestra Chorus,
Chorus Master [Bach Choir], Chorus Master [Lso Chorus] – David Willcocks
Chorus Master [Highgate School Choir] – Edward Chapman
Composed By, Conductor – Benjamin Britten
Engineer – Kenneth Wilkinson
Lyrics By [Poems] – Wilfred Owen
Orchestra – Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra,
Organ – Simon Preston
Producer – John Culshaw
Remastered By – Phil Rowlands, Tim Handley
Soprano Vocals – Galina Vishnevskaya
Tenor Vocals – Peter Pears
Baritone Vocals – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Choir – Highgate School Choir, The Bach Choir
Chorus – London Symphony Orchestra Chorus,
Chorus Master [Bach Choir], Chorus Master [LSO Chorus] – David Willcocks
Chorus Master [Highgate] – Edward Chapman
Composed By – Benjamin Britten
Conductor – Benjamin Britten
Engineer – Kenneth Wilkinson
Libretto By [Poems] – Wilfred Owen
Liner Notes – Christopher Palmer, Donald Mitchell (2)
Liner Notes [Deutsche Übersetzung] – Gerd Uekermann
Liner Notes [Rehearsal Tapes] – Donald Mitchell (2)
Liner Notes [Traduction Française] – N. Lesieur,
Orchestra – Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra,
Organ – Simon Preston
Photography By [1914-1918 War] – Hulton Getty
Photography By [Benjamin Britten] – Decca (2)
Photography By [Wilfred Owen] – John Gunston
Producer – John Culshaw
Remastered By, Edited By [Re-Editing] – Phil Rowlands, Tim Handley
Soprano Vocals – Galina Vishnevskaya
Supervised By [Remastering Supervised By] – James Lock (2)
Tenor Vocals – Peter Pears
Transferred By [96kHz 24-bit Transfers From Analogue Masters] – Paschal Byrne
Translated By [Libretto into French] – N. Lesieur,
Translated By [Libretto Into German] – Gerd Uekermann

companies

Recorded At – Kingsway Hall
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Decca Music Group Limited
Copyright (c) – Decca Music Group Limited
Made By – EDC, Germany – 51699554
Made By – EDC, Germany – 51698800
Published By – Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
Recorded At – Kingsway Hall
Remastered At – AudioEdit, London

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