Royal Albert Hall Review: War Requiem Copy

My review of Royal Albert Hall's concert of Britten's War Requiem on Remembrance Day Sunday has been posted at: http://passionofopera.blogspot.com/2013/12/atmosphere-defeated-brittens-war.html

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