War Requiem

One of the great choral masterpieces of all time, Benjamin Britten's monumental requiem with text from the Missa pro Defunctis and the poems of Wilfred Owen. Performed with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur, soprano Carol Vaness, tenor Jerry Hadley, baritone Thomas Hampson and the Westminster Symphonic Choir.

	Disc 1
	I. Requiem aeternam
1.	Requiem aeternam	Chorus	6:57	[listen]
	Te decet hymnus	Boys
2.	What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?	Tenor	4:04
	Kyrie eleison	Chorus
	II. Dies irae
3.	Dies irae, dies illa	Chorus	3:42
4.	Bugles sang, saddening the evening air	Baritone	2:38
5.	Liber scriptus proferetur	Soprano and Chorus	3:34
6.	Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death	Tenor and Baritone	1:45
7.	Recordare, Jesu pie	Chorus	4:46
8.	Be slowly lifted up	Baritone	1:59
9.	Dies irae, dies illa	Chorus	1:20
10.	Lacrimosa dies illa	Chorus and Soprano	2:07
11.	Move him into the sun	Tenor	5:14
	Pie Jesu, Domine	Chorus
	III. Offertorium
12.	Domine Jesu Christe	Boys and Chorus	3:49	[listen]
	Sed signifer sanctus Michael
13.	So Abram rose	Baritone and Tenor	6:09	[listen]
	Hostias et preces tibi	Boys
	Quam olim Abrahae promisisti	Chorus
	Disc 2
	IV. Sanctus
1.	Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus	Soprano	6:05
	Pleni sunt coeli et terra	Chorus
	Benedictus	Soprano and Chorus
2.	After the blast of lightening from the East	Baritone	3:42
	V. Agnus dei
3.	One ever hangs where shelled roads part/Agnus dei	Tenor	3:27
	Agnus dei/Dona nobis pacem	Chorus/Tenor
	VI. Libera me
4.	Libera me, Domine	Chorus and Soprano	7:21
5.	It seemed that out of battle I escaped	Tenor, Baritone	8:35
6.	Let us sleep now/In paradisum	Tenor, Baritone, Boys,	6:04
		Chorus and Soprano