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Recital
War Requiem
Benjamin Britten
19 March 1997
Konzerthaus (Großer Saal), Vienna
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Andrea Gruber, soprano
Robert Tear, tenor
Simon Rattle, conductor
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chorus
and Youth Chorus
What the critics say
Der Standard, 21st March 1997 (Ljubisa Tosic)
.....All the orchestral virtues between tender lyricism and a brutal inferno of sound did also triumph in Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem (with its alternation of devotion and those numerous expressive climaxes – furthermore the vocalists conductor Rattle had to coordinate were nothing but impeccable too. They were soprano Andrea Gruber as well as the tenor Robert Tear and the bass Simon Keenlyside. And the collective vocal contribution of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus was no less accomplished....