Favorite REQUIEM?
Favorite REQUIEM?
#0Favorite REQUIEM?
Posted: 8/5/04 at 8:45pm
What is your favorite REQUIEM? I have only heard two and I love them both:
John Rutter's REQUIEM (GORGEOUS, GORGEOUS)
ALW REQUIEM (I know people are going to have comments about this, but I still like it. "Pie Jesu" is one of my favorite ALW song)
#1re: Favorite REQUIEM?
Posted: 8/5/04 at 8:46pmVerdi. The word "awesome" (in its true sense) was invented for that one.
#2re: Favorite REQUIEM?
Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:13pm
I second John Rutter's Requiem.
As a boy soprano, I used to knock it out of the park.
#3re: Favorite REQUIEM?
Posted: 8/6/04 at 12:42amMozart - and I've sung virtually ALL of them! Thought I do love alot of Verdi's also...
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NYadgal
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#5re: Favorite REQUIEM?
Posted: 8/6/04 at 8:05amMozart. The Sanctus.
magruder
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#7re: Favorite REQUIEM?
Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:05amCan I vote for Requiem for a Dream?
#8re: Favorite REQUIEM?
Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:15amFaure
#9Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:51am
Mine's definitely the Mozart...AND, lucky me (and all of you), I will be performing it in September.
Mark thine calendars: September 12th, 7:30 pm, the Astoria Symphony (including moi, le assoc-principal violist) and a bunch of uber-fabulous singers will be performing Mozart's Requiem at St. Joseph's Church on E. 84th. I'll re-post closer to the date for y'all who are interested.
#10Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:09am
I have sung both ALW and Rutters...Both are beautiful....love Mozarts as well. Sang Verdi's requiem in college with Maureen Forester as the Contralto...sat right next to her. It was like sitting next to a foghorn! Amazing sound out of that women!
"Dein, Yah Dein!!!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:28pmI have to vote for Mozart: so sweetly spiritual! I often wonder what it would have been like if he'd lived to complete it himself.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#12Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/6/04 at 9:55pmMagruder, I'm with you. Ellen Burstyn, her diet pills, her dreams of a TV appearance--the fridge that damn near explodes as it beckons--and the electric shock treatments when she implodes. Unforgetable. Haunting. Scary. Til the very end. And we haven't even talked about the heroin crowd in the movie.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#13Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:29pmJohannes Brahm's Deutsche Requiem... especially Denn Alles Fleisch Es Is Wie Gras (it might be the fourth movement...). It's very dark and somber, and I love it when I'm in a dark and somber mood.
#14Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:37pm
Rutter.
(But I'm biased. 
PM me to find out why.)
mmajer
Understudy Joined: 4/12/04
#15Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/6/04 at 10:51pmRutter Requiem is goregous but you really need a soprano with an amazing voice to carry the "Pie Jesu" and especially "Lux Aeterna". We did this at my high school my junior year and two altos did the solos and it was horrible. I found a recording at Borders that features Elin Manahan Thomas as the soloist and she has a goregous voice. Mozart's Requiem is also absolutely stunning. I caught a performance of Mozart's Requiem by Apollo's Fire at Finney Chapel in Oberlin a few years ago and this choir sounded phenominal. The soprano soloist floated through her solos which made "Recordare" even more breathtaking. Thinking about it now she would be phenominal as the soloist in Rutter's Requiem but alas I can not recall her name. While listening to her I also thought of this woman as Lily in "The Secret Garden" she had the perfect etheral voice. Even though this is not a Requiem I am also a large fan of Rutter's Gloria, especially the second movement.
MusicMan
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MusicalDirector109
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#18Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/10/04 at 6:22pm
Verdi having performed it in college as the very first Live from Lincoln Center aired on PBS. - what a thrill to sing with the New York Philharmonic!!
Faure - simply beautiful
Brahms - loved singing it in German
#19Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/10/04 at 6:33pmMozart -- no questions
kitkatgirl54
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#20Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/10/04 at 6:56pmfaure and rutter. for sure. although i also sang verdi's and that was beautiful also. i like that ALW wanted to do it, but i think some of the choral things being sung for evita's death were much more beautiful.
#21Speaking of REQUIEMs...
Posted: 8/10/04 at 6:59pm
I'm with Macgruder--Requiem for a Dream!!
I really enjoyed singing Duruflé's Requiem in high school.
John Rutter rocks.
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