Benjamin Britten

Because of Copyright concerns the Midi Files identified below are not publicly available.

War Requiem

There is an excellent performance of this Work, conducted by the Composer, Benjamin Britten, himself, by the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir and the Bach Choir on YouTube starting here.

Here is a "clickable" Table of the available Midi Files for this Work. In these Files the SSAATTBB Chorus Voices are on Channels 1,5,2,6,3,7,4,8 - SATB-SATB format - and are sounded by piccolo/whistle, clarinet/flute (or cor Anglais), French horn/trombone and bassoon/tuba. The Children are piccolo and flute on Channels 1 and 4.

My grateful thanks to Mike Gibson, whose NWC2 Files I made much use of.

War Requiem
UNemphasized	Children - Trebles	Children - Altos	Soprano 1	Soprano 2	Alto 1	Alto 2	Tenor 1	Tenor 2	Bass 1	Bass 2
Sections 1 to 16 1: Requiem     Te decet hymnus     Requiem aeternam     What the passing bells     Kyrie eleison
Sections 17 to 27 2a: Dies Irae     Tuba mirum     Bugles sang softly	None	None
Sections 28 to 32 2b: Liber scriptum proferetur     Rex tremendae     Salva me	None	None
Sections 32 to 38 2c: Out there	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Sections 39 to 53 2d: Recordare Jesu pie     Confutatis maledictis     Be slowly lifted up     Dies irae	None	None
Sections 54 to 60 2e: Lacrimosa     Move him into the sun     Lacrimosa     Think how it wakes     Qua resurget     Pie Jesu	None	None
Sections 60/61 to 78 3a: Offertorium     Domine Jesu Christe     Sed signifer sanctus     Quam olim Abrahae     So Abraham rose     Then Abraham bound the youth     When lo! an angel     And half the seed of Europe
Sections 79 to 83 3b: Quam olim Abrahae	None	None
Sections 83/84 to 86 4a: Sanctus     Pleni sunt caeli	None	None
Sections 87 to 92 4b: Hosanna in excelsis     Benedictus qui venit     Hosanna in excelsis	None	None	(all three parts)	(all three parts)	(all three parts)	(all three parts)	(all three parts)	(all three parts)
Sections 93 to 96 4c: After the blast	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Sections 96/97 to 100 5: Agnus Dei	None	None
Sections 100 to 117 6a: Libera me     Dum veneris     Tremens factus     Dies illa     Libera me	None	None
Sections 118 to 126 6b: It seemed	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	None
Sections 128 to end 6c: Let us sleep now     In paradisum     Requiescant in pace

That's the end of the Work.

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