Vishnevskaya in 1963, the year she recorded and gave her first public performance of the War Requiem CREATIVE genius and the inspiration gleaned from close personal friends were always inseparable in ...

Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox. Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” is a rare beast. Most only get the chance to conduct the piece once or ...

Anne Midgette's Nov. 5 Style review of the "War Requiem" ["Powerful 'Requiem' for Britten centenary"] omitted the context that makes this such a unique and deeply moving work. She thus missed an ...

With the Russian soprano Irina Lungu, the British tenor Allan Clayton and the German baritone Matthias Goerne, a star cast has been found that ties in with the history of the work in a special way: ...

The BBC has pulled an advert for a pacifist organisation that was due to appear in the programme for the Prom’s performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem”. The choral work, which is a meditation ...

More than 300 musicians with the Erie Philharmonic rehearse Britten's War Requiem on May 7 at the Warner Theatre ahead of its season finale on May 9.

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem was composed in 1961 for the consecration of Coventry Cathedral – newly rebuilt following its destruction in the Second World War. Britten took as his inspiration the ...

Watch Erie Philharmonic rehearse Britten's War Requiem More than 300 musicians with the Erie Philharmonic rehearse Britten's War Requiem on May 7 at the Warner Theatre ahead of its season finale on ...

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