REQUIEM THROWDOWN

I shouldn't be surprised by the number of these I've sung but damn I've sung a lot of these

ps: if you are not picking Brahms, Verdi or Faure you are probably crazypants, unless you're writing in Howells

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Requiem_%28album%29.jpg

real talk though; if that initial theme in movement II of the Brahms Requiem doesn't slay you, you are already dead

also the movement II fugue is fucking yes

Dislike Verdi (though the Requiem is his best work), don't really know Brahms (and he is also not my favorite. Btw I am singing in the Alto-Rhapsody in a few hours) My top three at the moment:

1: Britten
2: Mozart
3: Fauré

I've sung the last two ones.

I would probably love Ockeghem as well. Heard Ars Nova sing Graduale recently, and it was amazing.

okay I won't front, that is a wholly respectable top three

really I'm not gonna be mad unless someone starts genuinely championing Rutter

fyi here's a Spotify playlist of all of the options:

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/0MH0mNMTDWBynjguhqpMDJ

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Faure 4eva

Aw why couldn't LvB Missa Solemnis count? ;_;

I guess it shouldn't but I always lump it in with these in my head.

was torn between britten and faure, went with britten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLGTFNVszpI

'm going to pick Britten, but a surprisingly good selection to choose from.

voted mozart because i bought it on SACD at a garage sale for a buck

Favorite poll to date. Fauré, and happy to see others agree. Joined BMG Classical Club from multiple addresses to jumpstart a collection years ago, and requiems were a favored selection.

PICK YR REQUIEMS PPL

If I can't have Missa Solemnis, then Berlioz.

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thank you guys for not going auto-mozart on this one. pretty sick of that requiem tbh.

the opening/closing fugue still bangs

+ Confutatis and Lacrimosa, and lots of other stuff. It's good.

I've borrowed a lot of requiems from my parents because of this thread, including one by Schnittke and Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà by Messiaen, which sort of seems like a similar thing. Love them all, more people should write Requiems, it really brings out emotions. I have to ask though: I love Fauré, my third favorite, but it's a bit... easy... isn't it? I once called it Sigur Ros for the 19th century, and that is kinda what Sanctus-Pie Jesu-Agnus Dei is to me... I mean, it's absolutely gorgeous, and I want to listen to it all the time, but I can't help but think: "yeah, that is probably not what dying feels like..."

It's like the difference between a Requiem that knows it is redeemed and a Requiem that isn't sure whether it's gonna burn in hell or not, eh?

BTW, check out Holmboe's Requiem For Nietszche.

Fauré is very easy to perform, definitely, but I don't think that robs it of any of its emotional depth

Rutter, OTOH... the only thing he got right was the Agnus Dei

Would be neat to do a movement by movement comparative listen of, say, 10 of these...

man, I last performed Britten's "War Requiem" back in... 2000? with the BSO (soloists were Christine Goerke, Ian Bostridge and Thomas Quasthoff, all of whom were on Grammy-winning classical recordings that year) and I apparently still have the "Dies Irae" memorized (did I mention we had to memorize the thing? madness)

I would have put in 10 votes for Ockeghem under aliases if I had seen this poll in time.

And 8 for Victoria.

^^^ OG requiem head

it's only just registering now how absolutely crazypants it is that no one voted for Verdi

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I didn't see this but I am gonna listen to that playlist and am thanking you in advance