War Requiem by Benjamin Britten (LP309)

Published 1962: First Edition / Softcover / Very Good Condition

Original stiff card covers with white titles on the cover and spine. 236 very clean and bright pages, small Trinity College stamp on the first and last page. Slight shelf wear on covers and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (LP309)

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Requiem, Op. 66', which was composed by Benjamin Britten in 1961-1962 and performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was rebuilt after the original cathedral was bombed in World War II. The Programme Note, written by Alec Robertson, notes that Britten intersperses Latin from the Mass for the Dead, with nine of Wilfred Owen's war poems. Owen was a poet and WWI soldier who died in 1918 at age 25.

https://www.antipodean.com/pages/books/21231/wwi-benjamin-britten/benjamin-britten-war-requiem-op-66-words-from-the-missa-pro-defunctis-and-the-poems-of-wilfred-owen

Commissioned to celebrate the opening of the new cathedral at Coventry, built to replace the one destroyed by bombs, Britten used the opportunity to write a large-scale composition embodying his deeply held pacifist and humanitarian beliefs. The result, the War Requiem, is regarded by many as his masterpiece in the non-operatic sphere. Britten intersperses his setting of the traditional Latin Missa pro Defunctis with nine poems of the First World War poet Wilfred Owen, resulting in highly subtle and powerful contrasts and ironies. Written in a direct style, the War Requiem carries overwhelming conviction, and concert audiences the world over continue to respond to its timeless relevance.

https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Benjamin-Britten-War-Requiem/15495