This performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, captured for television at Tanglewood on July 27, 1963, by WGBH-TV, is now available commercially for the first time.An outspoken pacifist, composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) combined texts from the Latin Mass for the Dead with the sharply poignant writings of the World War I poet Wilfrid Owen to create one of the most gripping works of the modern classical repertoire. This video presents the historic 1963 American premiere of the War Requiem, as performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of its Music Director, Erich Leinsdorf. The DVD boasts a magnificent stereo soundtrack drawn from the archives of the Boston Symphony.
War Requiem, Op. 66 (American Premiere)Music by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)Latin text from the Missa pro defunctisPoems by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)Performed in memory of Serge KoussevitzkyPhyllis Curtin, sopranoNicholas Di Virgilio, tenorTom Krause, baritoneChorus Pro Musica (Alfred Nash Patterson, director)Columbus Boychoir (Donald Bryant, director)Daniel Pinkham, portative organBoston Symphony OrchestraErich Leinsdorf

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