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Jeff Dunn wrote:
>my vote is for the War Requiem. The shadow of WW1 still haunts us
>today, and didn't even start to fade until 1989. Once you list technology
>and death as characteristics of the century, there isn't much left.
I love much choral music, and have sung much, though never Britten's War
Requiem, and I definitely focus on 20th century music -- but I have never
found what exactly causes so many people to pick this piece above so many
others as great or exemplary. Can someone be specific about a movement or
section that could get me hooked?
For perspective, I love for instance Dallapiccola's opera "Il Prigionero"
and Lutoslawski's "Livre for Orchestra" and Elliot Carter's first String
Quartet. For the War Requiem I have a recording that would seem to be
definitive, Britten conducting London Symphony, with Vishnevskaya, Peter
Pears, and Fisher-Dieskau.
William Copper
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