London Symphony Orchestra

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)

Performers

Gianandrea Noseda	Conductor
London Symphony Orchestra
Sabina Cvilak	Soprano
Ian Bostridge	Tenor
Sir Simon Keenlyside	Baritone
London Symphony Chorus
The Choir of Eltham College

Tickets £10 £15 £19.50 £27 £35

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War and Peace

Helen Fraser, 9th October

Famous for his operas, Benjamin Britten had been planning something new for some time when he was invited in 1958 to compose a work to celebrate the rebuilding of the bombed Coventry Cathedral. The composer saw the resulting War Requiem as a force for unification, choosing his three soloists from the UK, USSR and Germany, the countries he believed to have suffered the most during World War Two.