ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PHILIPPE HERREWEGHE
War Requiem op.66
Eleanor Lyons soprano
Jeremy Ovenden tenor
Thomas Bauer baritone
Collegium Vocale Gent
Kinderkoor van de Vlaamse Opera
Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe conductor
After the trauma of the Second World War, Europe experienced the miracle of resurrection. Peace was in the air, people were euphoric. But Benjamin Britten knew that the past was never told… His War Requiem contains, in addition to parts of the Latin Requiem Mass, texts by war poet Wilfred Owen, who unfortunately died at the front in northern France just before the Armistice in 1918. This gigantic sound machine is a gripping indictment against the futility of all wars.