Requiem Mass for the Modern Era

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In honor of 9-11, the classical station was playing Mozarts "Requiem Mass"; and as I listened I got to thinking, whats modern music is the closest equivalent to grandiose spiritual agony of the Requiem Mass?

Side thread: Apocalyptica...search and destroy, classic or dud, taking sides (vs your fave other...um...cello playing metalheads)

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 15:02 (twenty-four years ago)

There was a great Franks APA zine once which scientifically proved that Ligeti's Requiem was the best music in the world ever.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 15:03 (twenty-four years ago)

The correct answer to this is the requiem mass. People are still writing them, you know (see: Britten).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 15:42 (twenty-four years ago)

"There was a great Franks APA zine once which scientifically proved that Ligeti's Requiem was the best music in the world ever."

Written by a profesional marxist i.e. someone who had plenty of experience at scientifically proving things.

Arvo Part might get my vote. Though I'm playing Eugene McDaniels' "Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse" now so maybe that'll do.

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 15:49 (twenty-four years ago)

Frank Zappa: Titties n' beer.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 18:12 (twenty-four years ago)

wot's that, dan, britten's still working on his?!

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 12 September 2002 01:39 (twenty-four years ago)

PHEAR MY GRAMMAR ABUSE.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 September 2002 12:58 (twenty-four years ago)

lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven!

― Michael Dieter, Friday, 13 September 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan: The correct answer to this is the requiem mass. People are still writing them, you know (see: Britten).
Gimme some detail. Who? Where? When? Is it available on cd? Download? KaZaa? Audiogalaxy?

And the world is ready for a speed metal version of Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries", so why hasn't anybody made one?

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Friday, 13 September 2002 20:42 (twenty-four years ago)

nuthin deserves a speed metal version

― vic (vicc13), Friday, 13 September 2002 20:49 (twenty-four years ago)

The Electric Prunes, Mass in F Minor.

― hstencil, Friday, 13 September 2002 20:52 (twenty-four years ago)

Custos, you *really* need to hear this mp3. Wagner is alive and well...

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Friday, 13 September 2002 22:11 (twenty-four years ago)

And the world is ready for a speed metal version of Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries", so why hasn't anybody made one?

Apparently you haven't heard Vorak's "Blitzkrieg -- Fighting Under the Rune of Triumph" from the Triumph of the Will album:

"Is it a screeching petrodactyl attacking a piano? Wagner gone mad with a drum machine?? Actually this is a Nietzsche-obsessed multi-instrumentalist manaic from Austrialia. Vorak is his one-man "black metal" band, and he's either got to be joking or he is totally out of his mind."

Sound samples available here. (It's not really a speed-metal version of "The Ride of the Valkyries" per se, but...)

― Phil (phil), Friday, 13 September 2002 22:31 (twenty-four years ago)

Stay away! Vorak is *incredibly* bad...

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Friday, 13 September 2002 22:41 (twenty-four years ago)

Magma's "Zess"

"Aujourd'hui est le jour, nous allons mourir, et je te dis merci..."
("Today is the day, we are going to die, and I say to you thanks...")

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 14 September 2002 01:56 (twenty-four years ago)

h,
i was coincidentally listening to that very mass as i read this thread sitting at duane's computer -- made me think of zappa'a "duke of prunes"

― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:45 (twenty-four years ago)

Argh. I rescind my previous assertion. I have now heard a metallic version of "Ride of the Valkyries" and it was much much worse than I had ever imagined.
Sigebran is right. Vorak does suck.
Heres Proof
What the hell is the point of the drum machine track? Why does the song have such a sludgy tempo? The whole point of a metallic Ride ov ze Valkyries would be something with a fast beat and bone-crushing power. The sound sample had neither. Granted, it was one of those damnable 24 kilobit RealPlayer bits of fluff, but I bet the 128 bitrate mp3 doesn't sound any more compelling.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:25 (twenty-four years ago)

Stay away! Vorak is *incredibly* bad...

I hope I didn't give the impression that I linked that track because I thought it was good!

― Phil (phil), Sunday, 15 September 2002 02:04 (twenty-four years ago)

LCA, You ought to be able to find snippets of the following 20th century pieces on various file-sharing networks:

Britten - "War Requiem"
Poulenc - "Stabat Mater"
Martin - "Mass for Double Choir"
Faure - "Requiem"

There's also a new Requiem written by John Harbison which is going to premiere at Carnegie Hall early next year. Don't think you can find sound clips of that one, though.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 15 September 2002 10:23 (twenty-four years ago)

I hope I didn't give the impression that I linked that track because I thought it was good!
You didn't, it's just that I'd want to spare everyones ears.

And Custos, what about that mp3 I linked?

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Sunday, 15 September 2002 12:27 (twenty-four years ago)

I heard about 50% of it, but then my browser crashed. (I liek Mozilla's feature set, and its much more stable than IE or Netscape...but this is still the 1.1a Beta and it sometimes flips out for no understandable reason.)
Anyhow, The music is right up my alley. Dead can Dance-ish but with metal metal meh-tuhl!
Keep sending out these suggestions, Siegbran...they are definitely appreciated.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:37 (twenty-four years ago)

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