Britten War Requiem, Op. 66 Boys Choir Score

Britten War Requiem, Op. 66 Boys Choir Score

It is regarded by many as his masterpiece in the non-operatic sphere: Britten's War Requiem, premiered in 1962 to celebrate the opening of the new cathedral at Coventry, built to replace the one destroyed during the war. Britten used the opportunity to write a milestone of post-war music history: In memory of the war dead he combined texts of a Latin mass with 20th-century poems and set his deeply held pacifist and humanitarian beliefs to music. The requiem's direct style has overwhelmed audiences for more than fifty years.

Also available:

Full Score, Vocal Score, Agnus Dei

Alternatively

Cambridge Music Handbooks: Britten, War Requiem, Britten: An Extraordinary Life, Knowing Britten

Opera Vocal scores: Turn of the Screw, Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring, Billy Budd, Gloriana, Midsummer Night's Dream, Death in Venice