ANTONIO PAPPANO
ORCHESTRA DELL’ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DI SANTA CECILIA
CORO DELL’ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DI SANTA CECILIA
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
War Requiem
Anna Netrebko
Ian Bostridge
Thomas Hampson
ANTONIO PAPPANO
Conductor Antonio Pappano
Orchestra Orchestra dell’Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Chorus Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale
di Santa Cecilia
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
“Intensive, touching… a deeply moving plea for peace” (News) –
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem marks the composer’s 100th birthday
with a stellar Salzburg Festival cast: Anna Netrebko, Ian Bostridge and
Thomas Hampson in the solo parts, accompanied by the Orchestra
dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the baton of Antonio
Pappano. A “truly moving” performance, according to La Stampa
newspaper.
Composed in memory of victims of World War II and premiered in
Coventry Cathedral in 1962, the War Requiem occupies a special
place in Britten’s musical oeuvre. Despite orchestral forces that are
larger than what Britten usually called for, the composer succeeds in
achieving an intimacy in this work capable of expressing the suffering
and misery of the war in all its graphic horror – “a delicate yet
monumental memorial to war” (Wiener Zeitung).
Soprano Anna Netrebko
Tenor Ian Bostridge
Baritone Thomas Hampson
Produced by ORF
Video Director Henning Kasten
Length: approx. 95'
Shot in HDTV 1080/50i
Cat. no. A04050013
A co-production of ORF and UNITEL
in cooperation with
Salzburg Festival and CLASSICA
This is the first time that Anna Netrebko has sung 20th-century music
at the Salzburg Festival and she wins us over right from the outset:
“Anna Netrebko’s Rex tremendae is profoundly ominous, her Sanctus
full of passion, her Lacrimosa overflows with tortuous transcendence
– a complex tour de force” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Ian Bostridge
“provided the poignant moments” and “gave a profound impression
of the creative impact of the War Requiem” (Die Presse). The Kurier
newspaper recognises in Thomas Hampson a “profoundly touching
baritone, unparalleled in this fach”, and continues: “Each soloist is
ideally cast – that’s the way we want a music festival.”
Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale
di Santa Cecilia “with utmost transparency and maximum dynamics,
awesome and enchantingly tender” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and
never allows the tension to flag. The Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di
Santa Cecilia never sounds too heavy, accurately adheres to the score
and is supported by the “excellently rehearsed children’s chorus of the
Salzburg Festival” (Kronen Zeitung). All this, then, adds up to a musical
interpretation “inspired by such incredible dignity that it must go down
in the Festival’s history” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).
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ORCHESTRA DELL’ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DI SANTA CECILIA
CORO DELL’ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DI SANTA CECILIA