If you study voice, sing w a choir, Catholic or similar....you get recruited to lead "in paradisum".
Abs true story ... our much beloved choir director got canned by a new parochial vicar who preferred saxophone and drums so a bunch of us decamped to the next nearest Catholic parish....a place which regaled itself in the old order. When she passed the choir massed at her old place of worship for the funeral mass and performed much to the consternation of the jagoff who had fired her.
Abs true story ... our much beloved choir director got canned by a new parochial vicar who preferred saxophone and drums so a bunch of us decamped to the next nearest Catholic parish....a place which regaled itself in the old order. When she passed the choir massed at her old place of worship for the funeral mass and performed much to the consternation of the jagoff who had fired her.
Anton Bruckner
If Schumann's Requiem marks the end of his career, the Bruckner's marks the beginning. Written at the age of 25, only one year after his first serious appointment as a musician (organist at a monastery), it is a secondary work strongly influenced by Michael Haydn (and perhaps Mozart). However, a few moments give a hint of Bruckner's future monumental symphonic style. The composition is too archaic for the year it was written (1849).
Bruckner Requiem Borowicz
If Schumann's Requiem marks the end of his career, the Bruckner's marks the beginning. Written at the age of 25, only one year after his first serious appointment as a musician (organist at a monastery), it is a secondary work strongly influenced by Michael Haydn (and perhaps Mozart). However, a few moments give a hint of Bruckner's future monumental symphonic style. The composition is too archaic for the year it was written (1849).
Bruckner Requiem Borowicz
Didn’t realize you were that old. I’ve performed them live, but then I was alive at the time, and still am ;-)
Thank you sser2 for filling in all the requiems i do not have. I appreciate it.
Now the list of composers in this thread is in the first post.
Hundred percent agree Richard. I was in the chorus of a production in Southampton that was broadcast on R4. Looks like was 1976 https://www.southamptonphil.org/web/about
That was my first exposure to this wonderful piece of music, which always reduces me to tears.
I too have the original vinyl records of Britten conducting the original cast. Hardly ever, if at all played. Stunning. From a local charity shop for less than a fiver. Could not believe my luck
If you search, you can find more:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Requiem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(album)
Subtitled Requiem for a Post-War Dream
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Requiem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(album)
Subtitled Requiem for a Post-War Dream
Many years ago in my last year of secondary school, we studied Wilfred Owen's poetry and our teacher bought in the 1963 War Requiem recording to add some interest to the lessons. We thought it was a great way to get more discussion on the poems, as well as being an impressive piece of music, even on a portable record player - although I can't listen to Peter Pears' voice without thinking of Dudley Moore's Britten/Pears parody "Little Miss Muffet".
A few months later in the final English exam, I was pleasantly surprised when one of the questions was about Owen's poetry: "Wilfred Owen's Poetry Has Been Described as 'All Mud and Blood' - Please Discuss". I drew on the Requiem to illustrate some points in my essay.
Geoff
A few months later in the final English exam, I was pleasantly surprised when one of the questions was about Owen's poetry: "Wilfred Owen's Poetry Has Been Described as 'All Mud and Blood' - Please Discuss". I drew on the Requiem to illustrate some points in my essay.
Geoff
This thread has me reviewing the hundreds of choral CD's I own....this afternoon I decided that the Delius Requiem was also going to the second-hand book store/charity bin.
You're also motivating me to rid the collection of the Vittoria Requiem. It just bores, and not to any emotional tears.
You're also motivating me to rid the collection of the Vittoria Requiem. It just bores, and not to any emotional tears.
How Tomas Luis Vittoria would have created polyphony if he were transported to the 21st century:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1546720929379563
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1546720929379563
Nice thread - thanks for starting it adason.
By chance I was searching for something completely different at the time and this requiem was far down the result list (for some reason??):
Cimarosa: Requiem (2002) Live at Festival de Pâques de Deauville Choeur de Chambre des Musiciens du Louvre.
Never heard about it - but playing it now, it sounds nice - it must have been dedicated to a person who had a trouble free and harmonic life as it is not so grave as many - https://open.qobuz.com/album/scfh9s9h2z0na
My favourites:
1: Faure (https://open.qobuz.com/album/u56cph5rwe45b) - it represents the depth, drama and joy of life as I hear it.
2: Mozart (discogs) The Dies Irae sealed the deal for this rec after an intensive search for a recording with the right drive and intensity of this track.
3: Verdi (good ol' Shaw - Telarc) for the big momma drum sake 🙂
Heard all live. (Favo recordings in parenthesis)
Faure for the SQ....: https://open.qobuz.com/album/hm850iqprfj5a
And a few "odd ones":
Sandström: https://open.qobuz.com/album/v2m9800gq4wvc
A Saami Requiem: https://open.qobuz.com/album/i1r6qofi945tb
Trotta: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ffb2eice75m3a
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By chance I was searching for something completely different at the time and this requiem was far down the result list (for some reason??):
Cimarosa: Requiem (2002) Live at Festival de Pâques de Deauville Choeur de Chambre des Musiciens du Louvre.
Never heard about it - but playing it now, it sounds nice - it must have been dedicated to a person who had a trouble free and harmonic life as it is not so grave as many - https://open.qobuz.com/album/scfh9s9h2z0na
My favourites:
1: Faure (https://open.qobuz.com/album/u56cph5rwe45b) - it represents the depth, drama and joy of life as I hear it.
2: Mozart (discogs) The Dies Irae sealed the deal for this rec after an intensive search for a recording with the right drive and intensity of this track.
3: Verdi (good ol' Shaw - Telarc) for the big momma drum sake 🙂
Heard all live. (Favo recordings in parenthesis)
Faure for the SQ....: https://open.qobuz.com/album/hm850iqprfj5a
And a few "odd ones":
Sandström: https://open.qobuz.com/album/v2m9800gq4wvc
A Saami Requiem: https://open.qobuz.com/album/i1r6qofi945tb
Trotta: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ffb2eice75m3a
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I noticed that, at the time of dear Adason starting this thread, by coincidence (?), I was buying a 5CDs collection from Berlioz' Instrumental music, so today I arrived and started his Requiem (Maazel) and I declare that whoever listens to this most outer-wordly music will get waves and waves of Bliss-charge/Supreme Love that will catapult him to 5D and beyond....
Andre Campra
Contemporary and at one time mentor of Jean Gilles. His requiem dates two years after Gilles' untimely death. It is probably not as dramatic as Gilles work, but it is such a fine example of French baroque! The accompaniment is small-scale - strings, organ, and continuo, with occasional recorder solo; then mixed chorus and soloists. The music is smooth and easy-going. For the fans of baroque, it is very enjoyable. To get the taste of it, go to Agnus Dei (33.33) in the link recording:
Campra Requiem Schneebeli
Contemporary and at one time mentor of Jean Gilles. His requiem dates two years after Gilles' untimely death. It is probably not as dramatic as Gilles work, but it is such a fine example of French baroque! The accompaniment is small-scale - strings, organ, and continuo, with occasional recorder solo; then mixed chorus and soloists. The music is smooth and easy-going. For the fans of baroque, it is very enjoyable. To get the taste of it, go to Agnus Dei (33.33) in the link recording:
Campra Requiem Schneebeli
Francois-Joseph Gossec
Contemporary and admirer of Joseph Haydn, whose style he adopted. He is not the first-tier composer, and his Requiem is over an hour long, so there isn't much interest in performing it. The performances I listened to make strange impression - the music is upbeat most of the time, more akin to a coronation mass than to a funeral service. Maybe this is because of being composed on occasion of passing of 22-year-old daughter of his patron, Prince Conde. But Gossec was probably among the first enthusiasts of the grandiose orchestral and choral scale, so in this respect he paved the way to grand requiems of Berlioz and Verdi.
Contemporary and admirer of Joseph Haydn, whose style he adopted. He is not the first-tier composer, and his Requiem is over an hour long, so there isn't much interest in performing it. The performances I listened to make strange impression - the music is upbeat most of the time, more akin to a coronation mass than to a funeral service. Maybe this is because of being composed on occasion of passing of 22-year-old daughter of his patron, Prince Conde. But Gossec was probably among the first enthusiasts of the grandiose orchestral and choral scale, so in this respect he paved the way to grand requiems of Berlioz and Verdi.
Andrea Luchesi
This is a very interesting one. When I've heard his Requiem for the first time, I was dumbfounded - such wonderful music from a composer I didn't know anything about. It sounded like a fusion of styles of many different composers: Joseph Haydn symphonic, Michael Haydn choral, and Mozart mass styles, with strong whiff of Beethoven. But none of these composers could have influenced this work. By the time this Requiem was written (1771), the Haydns didn't yet publish their music, Mozart was 15, and Beethoven 1. However, Luchesi was quite a celebrity at his time. Leopold Mozart introduced teenage Wolfgang Amadeus to Luchesi, and Mozart family performed Luchesi's music. Luchesi was prominent in Vienna during Beethoven's formative years. So, it seems like Luchesi influenced these composers, not the other way around.
Luchesi Requiem Columbra
This is a very interesting one. When I've heard his Requiem for the first time, I was dumbfounded - such wonderful music from a composer I didn't know anything about. It sounded like a fusion of styles of many different composers: Joseph Haydn symphonic, Michael Haydn choral, and Mozart mass styles, with strong whiff of Beethoven. But none of these composers could have influenced this work. By the time this Requiem was written (1771), the Haydns didn't yet publish their music, Mozart was 15, and Beethoven 1. However, Luchesi was quite a celebrity at his time. Leopold Mozart introduced teenage Wolfgang Amadeus to Luchesi, and Mozart family performed Luchesi's music. Luchesi was prominent in Vienna during Beethoven's formative years. So, it seems like Luchesi influenced these composers, not the other way around.
Luchesi Requiem Columbra