It is a greater protest than the whole public and correct statement of the "War Requiem."

Perhaps one day our descendants will wonder what a "War Requiem" could possibly have been about, but we seem to be far from that paradisiacal time.

The "War Requiem" is a work of intermittent emotional power and remarkable intricacy, though not at any time difficult in the usual contemporary sense.

Britten's "War Requiem," as a prayer for peace, had more to do with the living than with the dead.

Two performances of Britten's War Requiem, in 1964 and 1967, are particularly remembered.

Britten's original intention was to conduct the War Requiem himself.

The War Requiem was not exactly what he would have chosen but he accepted with feigned enthusiasm.

The War Requiem is his greatest work which combines writing for choir and orchestra.

His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989.

No one connected to the filmed "War Requiem" seems to have considered the possibility that oratorios are far more effective when heard than seen.