Thread: Your top choral pieces?

For me, it has to be Mozart's Requiem and Handel's Messiah.
I love Karl Jenkins The Armed Man, as well as Benjamin Britten's War Requiem...
I know they're all very popular pieces, but I love them!

Does anyone agree or disagree with me? Give me your comments!

John Rutter's Requiem is delightful as is his Te Deum.
Also partial to Fauré's Requiem and the Seven Last Words by Dubois.

Bruckner's Te Deum
Beethoven's Choral fantasy

Mahler's Eight.
Vaughan-Williams: Towards the unknown region.

Mozart's Great Mass.

Faure's Requiem

funny that they are both requiems but definitley

Mozart's requiem and Brahm's requiem!!

Have you heard / tried the new Jenkins Stabat Mater? It's only just premiered.

I love Ode to Joy by Beethoven and any version of Psalms 121. I lift up mine eyes
to the hills. That one is very beautiful when a choir sings it.
judy tooley

I watched some Highlights of Messiah on Christmas at Belmont University and it was pretty good. I love Verdi's Requiem and Mozart's Requiem (especially Dies Irae) and I've heard that Faure's Requiem was good, but haven't actually listened to it.

The 5th movement of Mahler's 2nd tops the list though for me.

Bach- St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven- Missa Solemnis
Fauré's Requiem

Has to be a toss-up between Mozarts Reqiem and Handels Messiah...But I also like Thomas Tallis and Palestrina at times....Also hear Bruckners "Helgoland"... Oh mustn't forget Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, that's and awesome piece!..

Heil Unserm König from Egmont (Beethoven), The Bells (Rachmaninoff) and
Joshua (Mussorgsky).

I think that some of the old hymns sound good in a choral.
judy tooley

John Rutter's Requiem is delightful as is his Te Deum.

We are doing that in Chorale at uni. Saccharine rubbish.

Mine would be (in no particular order)
Verdi's Requiem.
Mahler 2,
Any Mozart,
Bruckner Motets
A few Weelkes pieces,
Arcadelt's pieces (especially Il bianco e dolce cigno)