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A beautiful symphony hall is like a sanctuary. It’s a place where members of a community gather to share a common experience. With phones off and conversations muted, there is communion between people ...

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 ...

Britten's response to the collective bloodshed of the 20th century remains as vital and visceral as it was when his Requiem premiered more than 50... Between the time when English composer Benjamin ...

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 ...

needs ticket revenue badly enough to bump Benjamin Britten's large-scale into the following season and replace it with Beethoven's popular Ninth Symphony this season. Beethoven's Ninth is an audience ...

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” is a rare beast. Most only get the chance to conduct the piece once or twice in their lives, but director of choral organizations and conducting Prof. Andrew Megill ...

Britten’s War Requiem touched a trapped nerve in the collective psyche of post-war Britain, commemorating the war dead with both solemn liturgy and intimately personal poetry. The 60th anniversary of ...

"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 ...

First transmitted in 1964, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed at the Royal Albert Hall. The Melos Ensemble is conducted by Benjamin Britten, and the performers include Heather Harper (soprano ...

The first thing you realize when working with Benjamin Britten is that he is a thorough professional, though he lives in an era which has tended, in all branches of the arts, to glorify the amateur.