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.
That is not true, if you say a Requiem is a piece of music to honor someone that have died, Brahms' does qualify for a requiem. However it is not a Requiem in the traditional sense of the word, being a Catholic Roman mass, sung in Latin with the text we all know (Lux perpetua, Kyrie, Dies Irae, and so on). Brahms broke with the traditional Roman Requiem tradition and chose to work with texts he found in the whole Lutherian Bible.
Nevertheless, the work itself is brilliant, I agree on that.
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...
I once went through a phase of being quite keen on Requiems. Perhaps rather sadly I have lost interest now and seldom play them.
I collected most of the well-known ones but in all honesty only really liked two: Mozart and Brahms. I found most of the others over-dramatic (Berlioz and Verdi) or over-slushy (Faure).
One other came up quite close behind and that was one by Michael Haydn, Requiem pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo (MH154). I gather that Mozart's was partly modelled on this work. What I especially liked about it was that it is (a) Classical, (b) straightforward liturgically, as opposed to many others which are little more than concert pieces, and have some ghastly additions that don't interest me one tiny bit.
It so happens that Schubert was a big admirer of Michael Haydn and when I began to delve further into the latter's works I could see why.
I have very little choral work, though my appreciation and enjoyment of them have grown over the last year or so. To date though, I have to admit to only listening to Mozart's Requiem, though one of my goals for classical music this year is to hear the other "greats". On my hit list is Brahms, Fuarve, Verdi and Bernstein.
1) Mozart
2) Verdi - a while back I would not have mentioned this one, until I stumbled upon Barenboim/CSO recording which "enlightened" me
3) Fauré
4) Brahms
And, Beethoven's requiem remains the single largest void in all of music to this day.
Sometimes you have to take the initiative and do a little learning on your own. Instead of the 13 hours or so spent on asking and waiting for a reply, you could of simply looked it up yourself and got your answer.
Either of your two replies would have surely been shorter if they had just answered my question.
Instead of me having to trudge through a few hundred words of an unclear wiki article, couldn't one of the people who apparently know what a requiem is, just tell me?
Or is it actually so complex as to be unexplainable in less than a few sentences?
Either of your two replies would have surely been shorter if they had just answered my question.
Instead of me having to trudge through a few hundred words of an unclear wiki article, couldn't one of the people who apparently know what a requiem is, just tell me?
Or is it actually so complex as to be unexplainable in less than a few sentences?
"No, I shouldn't have to spend time looking it up! Slaveboy! Spend your time telling me what it means! Me too important to look through a wikipedia article!"
It is basically a musical setting of the catholic requiem mass, though in the last century requiems have been written with other texts. A mass for the dead basically.
I was responding to the two of ye who responded by telling me to look it up. Couldn't either of ye just answered my question? Or said nothing?
You should really make some sort of notice that questions are not to be asked on this board. - Because people could always do their own research. Add it along with the "people who dislike anything are not openminded".
You do have this pattern, though, of asking questions, then getting upset when the answer isn't spoon-fed to you without any effort on your part.
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