BBC Proms - Season 30 Episode 5
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
First Air Date : 1947-09-13
Last Air date : 2024-12-24
Runtime : 57 minutes
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Subtitles :
- Season 30 : Episode 11976-07-16
- Season 30 : Episode 21976-07-23
- Season 30 : Episode 31976-07-30
- Season 30 : Episode 41976-08-08
- Season 30 : Episode 51976-08-15
- Season 30 : Episode 61976-08-15
- Season 30 : Episode 71976-08-22
- Season 30 : Episode 81976-08-29
- Season 30 : Episode 91976-09-05
- Season 30 : Episode 101976-09-11
- Season 30 : Episode 111976-12-27
