Your top 5 Choral works?

[Drasko]

Drasko, Can you tell us about Leifs - Hafis? I have not heard of it.

Mike

I can do better, here it is (35 MB, 256 kbps):

http://rapidshare.com/files/42089075/Hafis.mp3.html

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Wow, Drasko! Thanks for sharing! I shall have a listen. (I own a few works by Jón Leifs - 1) Hekla and 2) the Saga Symphony, both volcanic works.)

Jez

[knight66]

Boo-Hoo I am on dial-up just now...waiting on AOL to provide broadband to my new address....So I tried the link and watched paint dry for a while.

Mike

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Boo-Hoo I am on dial-up just now...waiting on AOL to provide broadband to my new address....So I tried the link and watched paint dry for a while.

You have my sympathy, Mike. But - you shall overcome.

Jez

[karlhenning]

...So I tried the link and watched paint dry for a while.

Hey, watching surfaces dry is High Art now, Mike:

[knight66]

You have my sympathy, Mike. But - you shall overcome.

Jez

I think there may be a song in there somewhere.

Mike

[karlhenning]

I think there may be a song in there somewhere.

Someday, Mike.

[Drasko]

Boo-Hoo I am on dial-up just now...waiting on AOL to provide broadband to my new address....So I tried the link and watched paint dry for a while.

Mike

Link should be active for the next 90 days, can AOL be that slow?

Perhaps Jezetha could give you his impressions of the piece in the meantime.

[knight66]

Perhaps Jezetha could give you his impressions of the piece in the meantime.

That would be good.

In passing, I am afraid it cannot just be five. As well as many of those above; I NEED the Bruckner Motets, Berlioz Te Deum, Bach Magnificat, RVW Serenade to Music, Handel's Belsazar and that Walton piece.

Mike

How about 55 rather than 5.

[karlhenning]

How about 55 rather than 5.

Sign me up!

[bhodges]

...and that Walton piece.

Rats, forgot about Belshazzar's Feast...have to revise again...

--Bruce

[Tancata]

My list is rather predictable. Also, I note with interest that the Bach passions and Magnificat are being considered as "choral" works - but I guess anything more than one singer makes a choir these days... 

There seems to be much agreement in this thread. Odd.

So, the list:

Monteverdi / Vespers 1610 - being really sneaky, since this contains a whole bunch of excellent choral works as well as the dazzling Magnificat...

Bach / B Minor Mass & Matthew Passion - yes, yes.

Mozart / Requiem

Beethoven / Missa Solemnis

There is a lot of music by Victoria, Morales, Dufay, Buxtehude, Schutz, Mahler &c. that should be included but can't fit into a list of this format.  0:)

[karlhenning]

Link should be active for the next 90 days, can AOL be that slow?

You'd be surprised just how slow AOL can be 

[max]

...amazing! Not a single honorable mention of a Schubert Mass. I believe it was the one in A-flat D.678 that Harnoncourt found hardly less great than Beethoven's Missa. It's not an opinion I would disagree with too much.

[hornteacher]

Mine are pretty common choices I'd guess:

Beethoven 9th
Mozart Requiem
Bach's Cantata #80
Beethoven Missa
Holst's Planets (can I count that because of the chorus in Neptune?)

[Greta]

Holst's Planets (can I count that because of the chorus in Neptune?)

I love Hornteacher.

[hornteacher]

I love Hornteacher.

Love ya back, Greta!   

[jurajjak]

Hello,

I am new to this board...choosing 5 works is, of course, impossible, but--

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Bliss: Morning Heroes 
Prokofiev: Seven, They Are Seven
Prokofiev: Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution
Klami: Psalmus
(or Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake)

These are obviously favorites, not the works I would necessary consider the "greatest" (though the Glagolitic Mass and Seven, They Are Seven could qualify).


andrew

[karlhenning]

Welcome, Andrew, and great list!

[BachQ]

Hello,

I am new to this board...choosing 5 works is, of course, impossible, but--


andrew

Welcome, Andrew!