Britten: War Requiem
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for tonight's Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall.
The War Requiem is one of the major choral works of this century: a passionate denunciation of war, expressed through a setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead interspersed with the anti-war poems of Wilfred Owen.
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Peter Pears (tenor)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society Wandsworth School Choir Organists
MALCOLM HICKS , RALPH DOWNES
London Philharmonic Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS
London Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Ensemble leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor Bernard Haitink
Lighting BERT OATEN
Sound GRAHAM HAINES , JAMES HAMILTON .Director RODNEY GREENBERG
(The fourth of five simultaneous relays in stereo from this year's Proms. To obtain the best effect, viewers with stereo R3 should turn off TV sound and position their loudspeakers on either side of the screen - not too far apart, to help relate stereo image to picture size. Or use stereo headphones.) (The last BBC2/R3 Prom relay is on Sat 11 Sept)