LPO/Edward Gardner review – Britten’s pacifist War Requiem lands with a bitterness and snarling irony
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThree fine soloists were joined by the excellent Tiffin Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs alongside the London Philharmonic Choir and the London Symphony Chorus whose pianissimo singing left us with a much-needed glimpse of hope‘All a poet can do today is warn,” Wilfred Owen wrote in 1918. The London Philharmonic Orchestra, launching their new season In Search of…
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThree fine soloists were joined by the excellent Tiffin Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs alongside the London Philharmonic Choir and the London Symphony Chorus whose pianissimo singing left us with a much-needed glimpse of hope‘All a poet can do today is warn,” Wilfred Owen wrote in 1918. The London Philharmonic Orchestra, launching their new season In Search of…