Mark Seeley:
>Chris Bonds wrote of his search for the perfect Verdi Requiem. I am
>looking for the same of Britten's War Requiem. I am considering the London
>recording under the direction of Britten himself, but I hear it is not that
>well recorded. The others I am considering are Hickox on Chados and Shaw
>on Telarc.
Get the Britten. He was a superb conductor of his own music, the soloists
are excellent and I never felt the recording left anything to be desired.
Jim Tobin