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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 47 - Britten's 'War Requiem'
Performance Date21 August 2014
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:37
Main PerformersSusan Gritton,
Toby Spence,
Hanno Müller-Brachmann - vocals
Orchestra or BandCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Proms Youth Choir
ConductorsAndris Nelsons
Set List'War Requiem', Britten
Performance Notes'My subject is War, and the pity of War.' Wilfred Owen's shattering verse sits at the heart of Britten's War Requiem - that great pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow. To mark 100 years since the start of the 1914–18 conflict, the War Requiem is performed here by the same orchestra that premiered it in 1962. The CBSO and Music Director Andris Nelsons are joined by the BBC Proms Youth Choir in its third great English choral work, following powerful performances of Tippett's A Child of Our Time (2012) and Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony (2013).

There was no interval.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/98),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£38.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/asZa92axd0dX
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/98BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 4721 August 2014
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9894BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/1181City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO); 1920-; English orchestra
DS/UK/1182Nelsons; Andris (1978-); Latvian Conductor
DS/UK/917British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Proms Youth Choir; 2012-; British choir
DS/UK/885Gritton; Susan (1965-); English soprano
DS/UK/1003Spence; Toby (1969-); English tenor
DS/UK/19314Brachmann; Hanno Müller- (fl 1996-); German bass-baritone
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