Most awesomest choral work ever - poll

[wagnernn]

Top one must be Bach's Mass in B minor.

Mozart's and Verdi's Requiem share the next postion.

May I add Messiaen's La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ and James Macmillan's St John Passion (maybe with his Seven Last Words from the Cross also) to the list?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rreb9BCxb0A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VYbRchUAJY (too bad I can't find any video on Youtube of the very last moment of the Passion. Truly divine)

[jwinter]

 Quote from: wagnernn on Today at 07:09:55 AM

Top one must be Bach's Mass in B minor.

 
QFT.  Also the St. Matthew Passion.  Lately I've been listening a lot to Haydn's Creation, and Henry Purcell, and Rachmaninov's Vespers, and... (OK, I'll stop beating a dead horse now...)

Parts of Mozart's Requiem are undeniably gorgeous, but for me the overall work is too uneven -- I'm not qualified to get into the argument of which parts were composed/completed after his death, but some of the later sections just don't seem to rise to the same level of inspiration, and I confess that I often stop listening part way through. [ducks]  I'll confess that this may be partly due to the fact that my first exposure to the Requiem as a wee lad was on the Amadeus soundtrack, which featured only selections, and may have permanently skewed my taste regarding this work.  If I could just vote for the sections I like  , Mozart would be #1.

Of the works listed, I'll pick Alexander Nevsky and the Brahms Requiem for an easy top two; my third choice is torn between Bruckner and Verdi (the Requiem is the only Verdi that I currently like, though I'm very slowly warming to opera)