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Britten War Requiem Pappano Bostridge Hampson Netrebko
The new recording of Britten's War Requiem with Antonio Pappano, Ian Bostrideg, Thomas Hampson and Anna Netrebko could re-shape the way the piece is heard. That's not necessarily a bad thing as we get into lazy habits if we expect to hear the same thing done the same way all the time. All too often, performance practice smothers music under a fire blanket of false familiarity. Instead of listening to the music, we end up listening to what we think the music "ought" to be, which is not at all the same thing. Britten's War Requiem is specially prone to that kind of non-listening. It's dangerous. With so many performances of the piece coming up, it's high time to ditch the baggage that's accrued to the piece and listen to it on its own terms. What IS the War Requiem ? Everyone knows it was written to mark […]
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