Concerts
BRITTEN WAR REQUIEM
Information on time and tickets for this event will be available in the coming weeks.
Performers
- Cambridge University Orchestra
- Cambridge Symphony Chorus
- Cambridge Chorale Scholares
- Ludovic Morlot
- conductor
- Marcus Barcham Stevens
- leader
- Elizabeth Watts
- soprano
- Ed Lyon
- tenor
- Gareth Brynmor John
- baritone
Programme
- Britten
- War Requiem
Britten Sinfonia joins with massed forces from Cambridge University in Benjamin Britten's staggering War Requiem.
Britten’s 1962 War Requiem is one of the twentieth century’s great musical masterpieces. In a once-in-a-generation event, over 300 of the University of Cambridge’s finest musicians unite with Britten Sinfonia for a monumental performance of Britten’s War Requiem at Ely Cathedral, where the composer himself conducted the work performed by Cambridge students soon after its premiere.