War Requiem – review

Barbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra and its chorus are about to visit New York to give three concerts at the Lincoln Centre. Large-scale choral music features prominently, with Colin Davis repeating the performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis he gave at the Proms and Gianandrea Noseda conducting Britten's War Requiem, with soprano Sabina Cvilak, tenor Ian Bostridge and baritone Simon Keenlyside as the soloists. The same lineup, with the offstage addition of the trebles of Eltham Coll...

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