BRITTEN'S WAR REQUIEM

The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, will mount a performance of Benjamin Britten's WAR REQUIEM on Thursday 14 August 8 pm at Usher Hall. A stellar lineup of international vocalists as well as the combined forces of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the National Boys Choir will be featured.

A cry of fury at the futility of war and an intensely moving tribute to the dead, Benjamin Britten summed up his deeply held pacifist beliefs in the powerful WAR REQUIEM, which contrasts texts from the Latin Requiem Mass with searing visions of the First World War in poetry by Wilfred Owen.

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