Disc1

• I. Requiem aeternam
• 1. a. Requiem aeternam Chorus
• 2. b. What Passing Bells for These who die as Cattle Tenor
• II. Dies irae
• 3.a. Dies irae Chorus
• 4. b. Bugles Sang, Saddening the Evening Air Baritone
• 5. c. Liber Scriptus Soprano
• 6. d. Out there, We've Walked quite Friendly up to Death Tenor & Baritone
• 7. e. Recordare Jesu pie Chorus
• 8. f. Be Slowly Lifted Up Baritone
• 9. g. Dies irae Chorus
• 10. h. Lacrimosa dies illa Soprano & Chorus
• 11. i. Move Him into the Sun Tenor
• III. Offertorium
• 12. a. Domine Jesu Christe
• 13. b. So Abram Rose, and Clave the Wood
• IV. Sanctus
• 14. a. Sanctus Soprano & Chorus
• 15. b. After the Blast of Lightning from the East Baritone
• V. Agnus Dei
• 16.One ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part Tenor & chorus
• VI. Libera me
• 17. a. Libera me, Domine Chorus
• 18. b. It Seemed that out of Battle I Escaped Tenor
• 19. c. Let Us Sleep Now ... In Paradisum Baritone, Tenor, Boys, Soprano & Chorus

Disc2

• Rehearsing War Requiem*
• These recordings were made using the courtesy microphone by the conductor’s Podium and a microphone in the producer’s control room. Hence the sound is mono.
• 1. Requiem aeternam Rehearsal
• 2. Dies irae Rehearsal of the opening section
• 3.Dies irae Discussion in the control room between Britten and Galina Vishnevskaya (via her interpreter), then between John Culshaw and Galina Vishnevskaya
• 4.Dies irae Rehearsal of end of movement
• 5. Offertorium Rehearsal
• 6. Sanctus Rehearsal
• 7.Sanctus Discussion in the control room between Britten and Galina Vishnevskaya (via her interpreter)
• 8.Agnus Dei Discussion in the control room between Britten, Peter Pears and John Culshaw
• 9.Libera me Discussion in the control room between Britten and John Culshaw
• 10.Libera me Rehearsal
• 11.Libera me Rehearsal of closing page
• 12.Closing remarks