I've been a fan of this piece since 1966. Heard it through countless, countless times. But this rendition got to me more than all others. Marin Alsop is the best. BZ.

0:39 Requiem Aeternam pt1 (page 1) 4:45 Requiem Aeternam pt2 (page 10) 9:09 Kyrie eleison pt1 (page 19) 10:27 Dies Irae pt1 (page 20) 21:28 Soprano/Alto Duet (page 44) 24:47 Confutatis Maledictis - Bass/Tenor duet (page 50) 27:42 Dies Irae pt2 (page 59) 28:47 Lacrimosa (page 62) 34:50 Kyrie Eleison pt2 (page 71) 37:45 Sed signifer sanctus (page 75) 38:09 Quam olim Abrahae pt1 (page 77) 44:23 Quam olim Abrahae pt2 (page 95) 46:46 Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua (page 104) 47:29 Sanctus pt1 (page 108) 48:38 Benedictus (page 113) 50:41 Sanctus pt2 (page 118) 55:51 Agnus Dei (page 126) 58:50 Libera Me pt1 (page 130) 1:02:23 Dum discusio Venerit (page 137) 1:03:46 Dies Irae pt3 (page 150) 1:04:34 Libera Me pt2 (page 154) 1:16:11 In Paradisum pt1 (page 167) 1:18:49 In Paradisum pt2 (page 170) 1:19:04 Kyrie Eleison pt3 (page 179)

i was a part of the children's chorus (in the red shirts). this was my first time performing the war requiem, and since, i have performed it a few more times. truly my favourite piece.

Stage worker here, we prepared this today. I could go and watch the concert this evening form behind the scenes. Yet I sit home and watch this. Being the introvert :D

3:50 Children's Chorus, 10:27 Dies Irae, 12:00 good bit. 19:24 Soldiers welcomed by death 28:50 Lacrimosa 34:52 Prayer 1:05:40 Strange Meeting

Singing this on 10 November in the Sage, Gateshead. Finding it very difficult but this performance is inspirational and i will listen to it again and let it get under my skin. Very moving and technically brilliant from such young performers.

A wonderful performance by all a true tribute to the many young people who gave their lives in the First World War. Stunning as always with Marion Alssop armed with a baton you know it will be magical. Forty years ago I heard it in the Albert hall for the 60 th and now singing in Lincoln Cathedral 3:11 2018 for 100 an honour. Thank you who ever put this up

I sang this in the early 1960s with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus. I believe it was the second performance in the United States. I tear up when I hear it to this day. The Wilfred Owen poems are wonderful--would that the world knew them and lived by them.

What a wonderful performance, one of the best I have seen/heard of the War Requiem. The soloists were outstanding, particularly the Soprano. Thank you for posting this.

Absolutely brilliant... and moving.

Muchas gracias por subir esta maravillosa obra....para mi es de lo mas bonito que compuso Britten!!!

I have managed to track down the names of the soloists: Natalia Tanasiiciuc soprano Ben Johnson tenor Johannes Kammler baritone

Thank goodness thank you for your good work for showing us this.😊

The very minor imperfections of the children's voices makes this piece, perhaps the greatest representation in art of the immense suffering and useless waste of human life during wartime, so incredibly creepy!!! This is nightmarish! So incredibly beautiful and dark at the same time!!!

Es impactante escuchar y ver esta magna obra de Benjamín Britten, sobre todo en un año tan especial, en que se conmemora la Primera Guerra Mundial. Todos habremos perdido a alguien en esa o en la Segunda. Terribles tiempos de la Historia, que algunos artistas, como Britten, han grabado para siempre en música llena de sentimientos y evocaciones. Gran pieza que, posiblemente, tiene reminiscencias del fantástico Requiem de Verdi.

Frau Marin Alsop is superb !!! The Camera directore clearly don't know nothing about the Master work, only the 30 final minutes. Exellent performance of All ! Danke .

Very good job !!!

The orchestra and adult choir brought back memories of hearing the composer conduct the premier of this work with the London Symphony, Bach Choir and Highgate School Boy's Choir (UK) in the 1960s. We felt this U.S. group was rather good--- only regret the use of this particular children's choir which negated the effect of a boy's choir which Britten specifically desired and used in Britain and other areas of Europe.

I also sang this, with Mike Swanson, in the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Robert Shaw. I believe that it was in my second season with the group, 1962-63. Mr. Shaw also directed a performance of it in Cleveland's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in the 1980s, sponsored by PAND (Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament.) My favorite portions are the entire "Dies Irae" and the hauntingly beautiful Tenor solo in the "Agnus Dei." The piece was probably my favorite in my sixteen years in the COC, exceeded only by the Bach B Minor Mass.

Benjamin Britten's 'War Requiem" was composed to commemorate the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral, which was badly damaged by the Nazi's bombing of London during W.W. II. I had the privilege of performing this work once during my years as a chorister with the Choral Arts Society of Washington.

What a fantastic performance of this incredibly moving work. I was particularly impressed with the young soprano soloist. Whoever she is, she was marvelous in this solo. If anyone knows her name I would be grateful to be told. Would love to hear whatever else she has done. Over all thank you so much for posting this.

47:20 this part always gives me an eargasm. This performance does it the best since in other performances the trumpets always enter hesitantly and the climax just falls flat, but in this one they double down and play loud as it should be.

Thank you very much for this sharing! It's very beautiful. Tell me please: Which is orchestra (and chorus)? Who are soloist? Thanks.

27:43 that (appropriate) camera shaking tho

Premiered #otd in 1962 🌺🌺🌺

Information about this concert is here: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/remembrance-sunday-brittens-84201

¿Qué estamos haciendo con los coros infantiles? Amo verdaderamente este requiem, incluso tuve la oportunidad de ser parte de un concierto del mismo en mi país como miembro del coro infantil y me entristece que algo tan aparentemente simple como esto pueda entorpecer la experiencia por no atribuirle la importancia que merece. Pese a tener ejemplos tan buenos como Libera, la Schola Cantorum de la catedral de Bogotá entre muchos otros que demuestran que se puede hacer un gran trabajo con coros infantiles en este ámbito se suele asumir que como son niños y mas en sima un coro no se esforzarán por lo que no me extraña no haber visto el primer concierto de este requiem donde el coro infantil de la talla pero si encontrar orquestas y solistas implacables. Schola Cantorum de la Catedral de Bogotà: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gp6Zq9ieyLvHc5s.html Libera: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g6ebi6uZ2J_af5c.html

Ben Johnson sounds like Pears.

10.26 11.10 11.59 12.49

im 11 jears old and i like ... rap ? no ... i like klassik!

Is Marin Alsop still with the Buffalo Philharmonic? Anyone?

No five-string bass in this work.

Kinderchor ist schlecht

I have listened to this work on and off for forty years. I wish I could speak differently, but at 64, I find it a tedious and tuneless work (with the possible exception of the Agnus Dei and In Paradisum, which are very moving). In her autobiography Galina, Vishnevskaya called it the greatest choral work of the 20th Century. I cannot agree. Britten does the moving Owen texts very little justice. What an occasion - unlimited resources and the opening of an impressive modern cathedral! And how little Britten made of the occasion. The work used pretty much all of the avant garde compositional devices of its day. Yet how old and clichéd it sounds today, in contrast to Bach's Matthew Passion, which sounds as fresh as the day it was written, nearly 300 years ago - precisely because it is timeless. I wish I could say something different and more positive; regretfully, I must be honest.

Soloists fine but the rest is a mess. Alsop just doesn't 'get' this piece.