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It uses the tritone as a basic unifying theme and its performers are divided into three distinct planes, with the boy's choir and organ in the distance and the three soloists nearest to the audience. It was first performed at the same ceremony as Michael Tippett's King Priam for the re-consecration of Coventry Cathedral and features six sections including Sanctus, which ends with "After the blast of lightning," while Te decet hymnus is interrupted by "What Passing Bells." In all, the composer set nine poems such as Strange Meeting, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est to music in, FTP, what 1961 work inspired by Wilfred Owen and composed by Benjamin Britten.
It uses the tritone as a basic unifying theme and its performers are divided into three distinct planes, with the boy's choir and organ in the distance and the three soloists nearest to the audience.
War Requiem