成人快手

A powerful statement of the composer鈥檚 pacifist beliefs 鈥� composed in the shadow of the Second World War, but harking back to the carnage of the First via the war poetry of Wilfred Owen 鈥� Britten鈥檚 War Requiem today remains one of the most devastating artistic responses to conflict: a work that mourns but also rages against the senseless violence and destruction of war. Emotionally direct and uncompromising, the work retains a prophetic tone even today.

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