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「有史以來最受推崇的商業錄音之一，一場無可匹敵、極度忠實於原作的演出，理應成為每個人音樂收藏的一部分。」——《留聲機》
由作曲家 班傑明・布列頓親自指揮，並由他為此作品量身打造的三位獨唱家參與演出，對許多人而言，這張錄音至今仍是無可取代的標準版，大型交響樂團 + 合唱團 + 兒童合唱團 +獨唱solo，堪稱就算不是古典樂迷，櫃子裡也得收的一張。
黑膠唱片在 Abbey Road Studios 以 半速刻刻製；同時這也是自 1963 年 11 月 Decca 在布瑞頓 50 歲生日時，僅特別壓製並贈送給他的一次後，首次正式發行布瑞頓《戰爭安魂曲》排練過程的秘密錄音 LP。內容物極為豐富，收錄了 John Culshaw 自傳《Putting the Record Straight》的節選、三位 1963 年原始 Decca 錄音團隊成員的回憶、技術說明、關於《戰爭安魂曲》與錄音過程的深入評論文章、以及珍貴的歷史照片!
TRACK
Disc 1
Requiem Aeternam
What Passing Bells for These Who Die As Cattle?
Dies Irae
Bugles Sang, Saddening the Evening Air
Liber Scriptus
Out There, We've Walked Quite Friendly Up to Death
Recordare Jesu Pie
Be Slowly Lifted Up
Dies Irae
Lacrimosa Dies Illa
Move Him Into the Sun
Domine Jesu Christe
So Abram Rose, and Clave the Wood
Disc 2
Sanctus
After the Blast of Lightning from the East
One Ever Hangs Where Shelled Roads Part
Libera Me, Domine
It Seemed That Out of Battle I Escaped
Let Us Sleep Now...In Paradisum
Requiem Aeternam - Rehearsal
Disc 3
Dies Irae - Rehearsal of the Opening Section
Dies Irae - Discussion in the Control Room Between Britten and Galina Vishnevskaya (Via Her Interpreter), Then Between John Culshaw and Galina Vishnev
Dies Irae - Rehearsal of End of Movement
Offertorium - Rehearsal
Sanctus - Rehearsal
Sanctus - Discussion in the Control Room Between Britten and Galina Vishnevskaya (Via Her Interpreter)
Agnus Dei - Discussion in the Control Room Between Britten, Peter Pears and John Culshaw
Libera Me - Discussion in the Control Room Between Britten and John Culshaw
Libera Me - Rehearsal
Libera Me - Rehearsal of Closing Page
Closing Remarks
