BBC Proms Season 30 Episode 5

Overview:
Britten: War Requiem

BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for tonight's Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall.

The War Requiem is one of the major choral works of this century: a passionate denunciation of war, expressed through a setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead interspersed with the anti-war poems of Wilfred Owen.

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Peter Pears (tenor)

Thomas Hemsley (baritone)

BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society Wandsworth School Choir Organists

MALCOLM HICKS , RALPH DOWNES

London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS

London Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Ensemble leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor Bernard Haitink

Lighting BERT OATEN

Sound GRAHAM HAINES , JAMES HAMILTON .Director RODNEY GREENBERG

Genre : Documentary

Actors : -

Release Date : 1976-08-15

Duration : 180 menit

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