It is on Decca Classics, and features singers Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Galina Vishnevskaya (who was invited to participate in the actual premiere but was prevented from doing so by Soviet officials), along with the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of the composer.

WSJ: The Sounds of Sacrifice | Benjamin Britten | War Requiem | Masterpiece by Stuart Isacoff

Although now recording for the Mariinsky and LSO Live Labels, he has recorded extensively for Decca (Universal Classics), and appears on the Philips and Deutsche Grammophon labels.

UNESCO: Valery Gergiev