BRITTEN: War Requiem (2CD)

CD1 beginning
I. Requiem aeternam
1. Requiem aeternam
(chorus/boys’ choir) 7’46
2. What passing-bells (tenor) 3’08
3. Kyrie eleison (chorus) 1’43
II. Dies irae
4. Dies irae, dies illa (chorus) 4’11
5. Bugles sang (baritone) 3’11
6. Liber scriptus proferetur
(soprano/chorus) 3’07
7. Out there, we walked quite friendly up to Death (tenor/baritone) 1’58
8. Recordare, Jesu pie (chorus) 5’37
9. Be slowly lifted up (baritone) 1’43
10. Dies irae, dies illa
(chorus/soprano) 1’21
11. Lacrimosa (chorus) –
Move him into the sun (tenor) 6’52
12. Pie Jesu Domine (chorus) 1’51
III. Offertorium
13. Domine Jesu Christe
(boys’ choir) 1’44
14. Sed signifer sanctus Michael
(chorus) 2’21
15. So Abram rose (baritone/tenor) 4’45
16. Quam olim Abrahae (chorus) 1’35
IV. Sanctus
17. Sanctus (soprano/chorus) 2’41
18. Hosanna – Benedictus –
Hosanna (chorus/soprano) 4’13
19. After the blast (baritone) 3’28

Total time 63’33

CD2 conclusion
V. Agnus Dei
1. One ever hangs (tenor/chorus) 4’32
VI. Libera me 21’47
2. Libera me (chorus/soprano) 7’26
3. It seemed (tenor/baritone) 8’28
4. Let us sleep now (tenor/baritone/soprano/boys’ choir/chorus) 5’53

Kari Lövaas soprano
Anthony Roden tenor
Theo Adam bass-baritone
Hansjürgen Scholze organ

Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Gert Frischmuth chorus master

Dresdner Kapellknaben
Konrad Wagner chorus master

Dresdner Philharmonie
Herbert Kegel conductor

Krzysztof Penderecki b. 1933
5. Threnody ‘To the Victims of Hiroshima’ 8’32

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig
Herbert Kegel conductor

Alban Berg 1885–1935
Violin Concerto ‘In Memory of an Angel’
6. I. Andante – Allegretto 10’59
7. II. Allegro, ma sempre rubato,
frei wie eine Kadenz – Adagio 14’06


Manfred Scherzer violin

Dresdner Philharmonie
Herbert Kegel conductor

Total time 60’19

Recording: 1978, Studio Bethaniekirche, Leipzig (CD2 tr.5); 1980 (CD2 tr.6–7), 1989 (CD1 & CD2 tr.1–4), Studio Lukaskirche, Dresden, Germany