^ I always wondered.... the New World is America. The Old World would be Eurasia. Then you got India and China.
What is Ahoootrahlya?
You gotta admit, it might be... Prison World?
Likely the only place in the World were being in prison was actually good for your health -compared to staying in the UK or Ireland.
BTW, I spent some time in Oz once. Surrounded by local engineers, drank tea and beer, survived the black mushrooms on the steak, grabbed lots of rugby on the Tele. when I got back to the States, I could do a pretty awesome impression of an Aahstrahlyan. Drove my family bonkers.
Sorry mate... ;-)
Nice people, fantastic beer they won't ship anywhere. Killer bugs.
What is Ahoootrahlya?
You gotta admit, it might be... Prison World?
Likely the only place in the World were being in prison was actually good for your health -compared to staying in the UK or Ireland.
BTW, I spent some time in Oz once. Surrounded by local engineers, drank tea and beer, survived the black mushrooms on the steak, grabbed lots of rugby on the Tele. when I got back to the States, I could do a pretty awesome impression of an Aahstrahlyan. Drove my family bonkers.
Sorry mate... ;-)
Nice people, fantastic beer they won't ship anywhere. Killer bugs.
Unrelated but...
The famous aria "Moon in the Deep Sky" (Mesicku na Nebe Hlubokem) from Dvorak's Rusalka sung by Armenian soprano Asmik Grigoryan is unbelievably good.
Mesicku Asmik Grigoryan
The famous aria "Moon in the Deep Sky" (Mesicku na Nebe Hlubokem) from Dvorak's Rusalka sung by Armenian soprano Asmik Grigoryan is unbelievably good.
Mesicku Asmik Grigoryan
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Thanks for this adason. But the War Requiem was completed in 1962.
Anyone interested in this, perhaps the greatest example of Western classical music, should at least hear Britten's own Decca recording with the original forces https://www.deccaclassics.com/en/artists/benjamin-britten/benjamin-britten-war-requiem-2656
This is a very early stereo recording but is still unmatched in its aural depiction of the 3 separate worlds that Britten envisaged. Let alone the performances of the original cast.
Haha that’s the undrinkable sugary junk that we export. Poms seem to love it. The good stuff stays home.
Requiems i posted are chronological by composers birthday. Not by completion date, which is problematic most of the time.
What do you have against Mozart Down Under?
I gave you Mozart in the Barcelona Cathedral in 1990.
Live.
No recording can match it.
Hopefully we'll see another one in Vienna, Budapest or Prague next year. Or who knows, they might have it also at the Barcelona Cathedral.
You chose a specific piece that is meant to be played and experience in a large European Cathedral! You need the long delay times that support the choral lines. It should sound not like a chorus but like the voices of angels coming from above.
Go read my initial description.
I gave you Mozart in the Barcelona Cathedral in 1990.
Live.
No recording can match it.
Hopefully we'll see another one in Vienna, Budapest or Prague next year. Or who knows, they might have it also at the Barcelona Cathedral.
You chose a specific piece that is meant to be played and experience in a large European Cathedral! You need the long delay times that support the choral lines. It should sound not like a chorus but like the voices of angels coming from above.
Go read my initial description.
Berlioz Requiem, one of my favorites:
It is not the overall performance that is the best, although it is quite good, but the incredible contribution by the tenor Charles Bressler. Listen to his Sanctus, it will blow you away:
Berlioz Sanctus Bressler
It is not the overall performance that is the best, although it is quite good, but the incredible contribution by the tenor Charles Bressler. Listen to his Sanctus, it will blow you away:
Berlioz Sanctus Bressler
No medieval cathedrals exist in my country, only a few basilicas from the 18th, 19th century.
Robert Schumann
Not just one, but two! The first one, op.98b, "Requiem fur Mignon" is not a true Requiem, but short piece of incidental music to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. It is written for boys' voices, baritone, mixed chorus, organ, and orchestra. It is sung in German. It is rather extroverted and cheerful, as is typical for Schumann's style.
Schumann Requiem Mignon Harding
Not just one, but two! The first one, op.98b, "Requiem fur Mignon" is not a true Requiem, but short piece of incidental music to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. It is written for boys' voices, baritone, mixed chorus, organ, and orchestra. It is sung in German. It is rather extroverted and cheerful, as is typical for Schumann's style.
Schumann Requiem Mignon Harding
The second, op. 148, is a true requiem. There is quite a story behind it. Schumann wrote it a few years before his death while confined to mental institution. The manuscript has so many markings and corrections that mainstream opinion used to be that Schumann was in mental decline and struggled through the process of composition. This is totally false - the music is such complete departure from what Schumann composed before that the struggle is understandable. Here we have a very introspective, tragic, Schubert-like style. For me there is no doubt that this work is Schumann's pinnacle creation, not a work of madman as it is commonly referred to. Remember, Schumann's piano concerto has been also once considered a work of a madman. Thanks God, nowadays there is realization of what this masterpiece really is, with virtual explosion of performances. Sawallisch is considered a reference recording, but IMHO several more recent ones are better.
Schumann Requiem Spering
Schumann Requiem Spering
I sang the Gregorian Requiem mass many times when I was younger. Mediaeval? Probably rather what the 19th century made of it. Superb texts like in the Dies Irae, we had been immersed enough in latin at school to understand every word. Just sublime.
What of later adaptations? Mozart, Michael Haydn and Hector Berlioz seem to have produced an acceptable approach. I have never investigated many other adaptations. The Requiem is music for a decease, never very pleasant to be confronted with.
If the OP started this thread because of a terrible event in his personal life, I wish him all the strength that would be required to cope with the situation.
What of later adaptations? Mozart, Michael Haydn and Hector Berlioz seem to have produced an acceptable approach. I have never investigated many other adaptations. The Requiem is music for a decease, never very pleasant to be confronted with.
If the OP started this thread because of a terrible event in his personal life, I wish him all the strength that would be required to cope with the situation.
Well, I listen to different requiems not because my grandma had passed recently, but because of fascination with how music can subtly yet powerfully convey human feelings and emotions. Schubert said that the more suffering he puts in his music, the more people like it. I am a typical Schubert listener: I like Lacrimosa much, much more than Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.