BOSTON — What can music teach us about war? As images of the catastrophe in Ukraine flood our daily lives — the crumble of bombed city blocks, the looming plumes of black smoke, the obscenity of ...

Nagasaki, and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. These ideas gestated over a period of years, during which he completed operas and other works. In 1958, Britten was asked to write a piece to ...

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 ...

A stellar new recording from the London Symphony Orchestra of Benjamin Britten's masterpiece reminds listeners of a poignant and ever-timely piece... Britten's War Requiem: 50 Years On, Still As ...

An historic performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem by The Bach Choir on October 3rd at Westminster Cathedral will be supported by a cast of three celebrities speaking and reading about the ...

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 ...

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will present Britten's WAR REQUIEM at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, conducted by Brett ...

In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler advanced his war on democracy as his troops marched relentlessly across Europe to seize power. Protesting against the violence unleashed by Hitler’s enablers were ...

"My subject is war and the pity of War... All a poet can do today is warn." These lines come from Wilfred Owen, a British poet and soldier who died at age 25 just one week before the armistice that ...

One of classical music’s most unlikely popular successes, Britten’s War Requiem was premiered 50 years ago in Coventry Cathedral. The composer taped the work shortly afterwards and the resulting LP ...

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: ...

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 ...