Follow the text of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, compiled from poems by Wilfred Owen and the Latin Mass for the Dead. The English translations of the Latin texts is reproduced in italics below each ...

Fifty years ago on Wednesday, composer Benjamin Britten's haunting work "War Requiem" premiered at the ... this choral work in combination with the text of the traditional Latin Mass for the ...

with its extraordinary interweaving of the traditional Requiem text and poetry by Wilfred Owen (who was killed in action by a sniper a week before the end of World War I) in a bright, bold and ...

His music is a contemporary setting of the Latin text of the Requiem Mass. The uniqueness of this mass, though, is Britten’s use of poetry by the most famous of the World War I British war poets ...

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.

I love this piece so much.” Britten used the text of the Roman Catholic Mass as the basis for “War Requiem,” but interspersed poems by Wilfred Owen, who served as a rifleman in World War I ...

Britten’s “War Requiem” uses the text of the Latin mass of the dead interspersed with the poetry of Wilfred Owen. It will be performed on Saturday 17 August at the Royal Albert Hall by the ...

The text was based on the Latin text of the Missa pro Defunctis and poems by Wilfred Owen, one of the most important literary witnesses to the horrors of the First World War.

The Israeli Opera concludes the year with War Requiem by British composer Benjamin Britten. Originally commissioned to mark the 1962 consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral after its ...

Composer Benjamin Britten inscribed the passage on the title page of his War Requiem, which is being performed on Saturday at Proctors in Schenectady as the culmination of a series of local events ...