Benjamin Britten Centenary

BBC Music magazine gets in early for the Britten centenary year with the free cover disc featuring his War Requiem. Murphy's Law for me since I only recently purchased another recording of the piece and would not have bothered had I known this was upcoming. This is a perectly respectable performance of the work by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Paragon Ensemble, Edinburgh Festival Chorus and National Youth Choir of Scotland conducted by Ilan Volkov and Garry Walker. A live recording from the Edinburgh Festival, the soloists are Olga Guryakova soprano, Mark Padmore tenor and Christian Gerhaher baritone.