“War Requiem” for soloists, choruses and orchestras, Op. 66

The Latin Requiem Mass is interwoven with poems by Wilfred Owen. The premiere was held at Coventry Cathedral on 30 May 1962.

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The Latin Requiem Mass is interwoven with poems by Wilfred Owen. The premiere was held at Coventry Cathedral on 30 May 1962.

for soprano, tenor and baritone solos, chorus, orchestra, chamber orchestra, boys` choir and organ, op. 66.
Text: The Missa pro Defunctis (set in Latin) and poems by Wilfred Owen.
First performance: 30 May 1962 - At the festival to celebrate the consecration of St. Michael`s Cathedral, Coventry.
Duration: 85.0`
Dedication: `In loving memory of Roger Burney, Sub-Lieutenant R.N.V.R., Piers Dunkerley, Captain Royal Marines, David Gill, Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy, Michael Halliday, Lieutenant R.N.Z.N.V.R.`

Movements:
1. Requiem aeternam
1.1 Requiem aeternam (SATB /soprano-alto-tenor-baritone/)
1.2 Te decet hymnus (boys` choir)
- Anthem for Doomed Youth (`What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?) (T)
1.3 Kyrie eleison (SATB)
2. Dies irae
2.1 Dies irae (SATB)
- Bugles sang (`Bugles sang, saddening the evening air`) (B)
2.2 Liber scriptus proferetur (S, SATB)
- The Next War (`Out there, we`ve walked quite friendly up to Death`) (T,B)
2.3 Recordare Jesu pie (SATB)
- On seeing a Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action (`Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm`) (B)
2.4 Dies irae (S, SATB)
- Lacrimosa dies illa (SATB)
- Futility (`Move him into the sun`) (T)
2.5 Pie Jesu Domine (SATB)
3. Offertorium
3.1 Domine Jesu Christe (boys` choir)
3.2 Sed signifer sanctus Michael (SATB)
- The Parable of the Old Man and the Young (`So Abram rose`) (T,B)
3.3 Hostias et preces tibi Domine (boys` choir)
4. Sanctus
4.1 Sanctus (S, SATB)
- The End (`After the blast of lightning from the East`) (B)
5. Agnus Dei
5.1 At a Calvary near the Ancre (`One ever hangs where shelled roads part`) (T)
5.2 Agnus Dei (SATB)
6. Libera me
6.1 Libera me, Domine (S, SATB)
- Strange Meeting (`It seemed that out of battle I escaped`) (T,B)
6.2 In paradisum (S, boys` choir, SATB)

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