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Proms 2014 Prom 47: Britten – War Requiem

Prom 47: Britten – War Requiem
Prom 47: Britten – War Requiem
19:30 Thu 21 Aug 2014 Royal Albert Hall
Wilfred Owen’s shattering verse sits at the heart of Britten’s War Requiem – that great pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow. Performed here in this First World War centenary year by the same orchestra which premiered it in 1962, in this performance the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons are joined by the Â鶹Éç Proms Youth Choir.
Wilfred Owen’s shattering verse sits at the heart of Britten’s War Requiem – that great pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow. Performed here in this First World War centenary year by the same orchestra which premiered it in 1962, in this performance the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons are joined by the Â鶹Éç Proms Youth Choir.

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‘My subject is War, and the pity of War.’ Wilfred Owen’s shattering verse sits at the heart of Britten’s War Requiem – that great pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow. To mark 100 years since the start of the 1914–18 conflict, the War Requiem is performed here by the same orchestra that premiered it in 1962.

The CBSO and Music Director Andris Nelsons are joined by the Â鶹Éç Proms Youth Choir in its third great English choral work, following powerful performances of Tippett’s A Child of Our Time(2012) and Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony (2013).

There will be no interval

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