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War Requiem: Ashkenazy conducts Britten

08 November 2013 – 09 November 2013

Venue: Concert Hall  View Seat Map
Presented by: Sydney Symphony

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Britten’s War Requiem – a call for peace with a multinational cast led by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

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Music’s most famous pacifist, Benjamin Britten, composed his War Requiem for performance in the new Coventry Cathedral. This ambitious and daring music caused an immediate sensation. It combined the traditional words of the Latin Requiem mass with anti-war poems by Wilfred Owen and draws on huge forces – two choirs, two orchestras and three soloists.

1961 – the Berlin Wall, Cuba, Vietnam. 1961 – Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in an air raid during World War II, is rebuilt. 1961 – music’s most famous pacifist, Benjamin Britten, composes his War Requiem for performance in the new cathedral.

This ambitious and daring music caused an immediate sensation. It combined the traditional words of the Latin Requiem mass with anti-war poems by Wilfred Owen. It drew on huge forces – two choirs, two orchestras and three soloists.

The intended soloists carried symbolic weight: an English tenor and a German baritone (“I am the enemy you killed, my friend”) and a Russian soprano. Our cast represents the same mix of nationalities. And while half a century has elapsed, this protest against the horrors of war retains its power to do what Britten hoped: to make us “think a bit”.

BRITTEN War Requiem

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Artist Information

Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Soprano Dina Kuznetsova
Tenor Andrew Staples
Baritone Dietrich Henschel
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
Sydney Children’s Choir

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