Thread: Top 5 Requiems?

I know that there are hundreds out there, unfortunately I know of very little so my list will probably be generic. I would still like to see some good requiems that I dont know yet.

1. Mozart
2. Brahms
3. Verdi
4. Dvorak
5. Berlioz

Is the Brahms really a Requiem? Ah well - who cares? It's great.

For me in no particular order:

Brahms
Ligeti
Durufle
Faure
okay - I admit, Mozart too.

Yes it is, hes just chosen the german translation

1. Fauré
2. Brahms
3. Mozart
4. Ligeti
5. Berlioz

when you say Requiem, you just think of Mozart!

Verdi
Mozart
Britten
Brahms (In the mother tongue) German of course.

These are all I have, but I would as always be interested to explore more. Probably Mozart and Verdi are my favorites.

Easy one:

1. Berlioz
2. Faure
3. Brahms
4. Durufle
5. Britten

Originally Posted by Weston

Is the Brahms really a Requiem? Ah well - who cares? It's great.

It may not be a "requiem" in the traditional sense, but yes, it is one.

1. Mozart
2. Faure
3. Brahms
4. Verdi
5. Benjamin Britten (War Requiem)

1. Brahms
2. Rutter (if you havnt...you need to).
3. Mozart
4. Faure
5. Durufle/Britten

Originally Posted by tenor02

1. Brahms
2. Rutter (if you havnt...you need to).
3. Mozart
4. Faure
5. Durufle/Britten

I have!

My music teacher has met the man

Easy.

1. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

2. Luigi Cherubini - C Minor
3. Luigi Cherubini - D Minor
4. Michael Haydn - C Minor
5. Brahms (Yes, the German one!)

Also of note are Palestrina and Ockeghem's Missa pro Defunctis', the latter's being the first setting of its kind. I would also like to take a moment to mourn the Requiem that Beethoven never wrote...

Originally Posted by Mirror Image

It may not be a "requiem" in the traditional sense, but yes, it is one.

Considering Brahms et. al., depending on our definitions, something like Verdi's Requiem isn't a requiem in the 'traditional sense', both for his atheism and because he wrote it at a time when the requiem had moved away from being a piece to actually serve its religious purpose to something that was more intended as a concert item. So language shouldn't really be a defining factor.

Anyway, I don't possess much choral music, so I'm too uninformed to answer this question properly, but, of the ones I own, I'd put them in the order:

Brahms
Verdi
Dvorak
Mozart

I only know 3! :

Brahms
Fauré
Mozart

Well you two I recommend listening to some of the others mentioned.