Noseda,Gianandrea / Lso / Lso Chorus / Bostridge Britten: War Requiem CD

A scintillating achievement... Sabina Cvilak's soprano has the focus... Bostridge brings piercing sincerity... Keenlyside - sonorous, commanding... an important issue: Noseda's judgement of pace is unerring, and the orchestra and chorus simply superb. (BBC Music 4). "LSO and Chorus are on cracking form, the soloists are as good as you will get... No one should be without (Britten's) but 50 years later, Noseda's dramatic, pulsating account represents another landmark." (Financial Times). "Noseda seeks to take the audience from the edge of consciousness to the blazing fires of the battlefield... Bostridge spins a beautiful line... Keenlyside is excellent throughout... Decisive and confident, Sabina Cvilak has the Slavic edge that has seemed hard-wired into the part since the incomparable Vishnevskaya." (Gramophone). "[Noseda] brings a strong sense of Italianate lyricism to bear on the score, reminding us of Britten's debt to Verdi... choral singing is fervent and intense, the playing fierce and sensitive." (The Guardian). "Another essential recording." (The Times).

1. War Requiem : I. Requiem Aeternam 2. Requiem Aeternam - Te Decet Hymnus 3. Requiem Aeternam "What Passing Bells for These Who Die As Cattle? 4. Requiem Aeternam - Kyrie Eleison 5. Dies Irae 6. Dies Irae - "Bugles Sang, Saddening the Evening Air" 7. Liber Scriptus 8. Dies Irae - "Out There, We've Walked Quite Friendly Up to Death" 9. Recordare Jesu Pie 10. Confutatis Maledictis 11. Dies Irae - "Be Slowly Lifted Up, Thou Long Black Arm" 12. Dies Irae 13. Dies Irae - "Move Him Into the Sun" 14. Pie Jesu Domine 15. Offertorium - Domine Jesu Christe 16. Sed Signifer Sanctus 17. Offertorium - "So Abram Rose, and Clave the Wood" 18. Offertorium - Hostias Et Preces Tibi 19. Sanctus 20. Sanctus - "After the Blast of Lightning from the East" 21. Agnus Dei - "One Ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part" 22. Libera Me 23. Libera Me - "It Seemed That Out of Battle I Escaped" 24. Libera Me - "None, Said the Other" 25. Libera Me "Let Us Sleep Now..." in Paradisum 26. Libera Me - Requiescat in Pace