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* BRITTEN: War Requiem – Soloists/ Netherlands Radio Choir / Netherlands Children’s Choir/ Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orch./ Jaap van Zweden – Challenge Classics (2 discs)

* BRITTEN: War Requiem – Soloists/ Netherlands Radio Choir / Netherlands Children’s Choir/ Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orch./ Jaap van Zweden – Challenge Classics (2 discs)

by John Sunier | Jan 16, 2013 | SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews

************ MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ************
It’s certainly one of the finest SACD versions of this work.

Ernest Ansermet Collection = BRITTEN: Les Illuminations; War Requiem; BERG: Sieben fruehe lieder – Soloists/Choir of Suisse Romande & ProArte Choir/Orch. Suisse Romande/Ernest Answerment – Cascavelle (2)

by Audiophile Audition | Aug 29, 2010 | Classical Reissue Reviews

Although Ansermet expressed little patience with twelve-tone developments in music, but we have a rare excursion (5 May 1959) into young Alban Berg.