Top 11 Favourite Sacred Works

[Brahmsian]

Per demand for that 'extra' one  , your 11 favourite sacred works.  Could be songs, requiems, masses, oratorios, you name it....

[kyjo]

Yay! In no particular order and off the top of my head:

Schmidt: The Book with the Seven Seals
Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas
Suter: Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi Poulenc: Gloria
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi
Berlioz: Requiem
Durufle: Requiem
Dvorak: Requiem Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Tobias: Das Jonas Sendung
Bloch: Sacred Service
Kreek: Estonian Requiem Szymanowski: Stabat Mater
Schmitt: Psalm 47

[kyjo]

Oops....gotta throw Szymanowski's Stabat Mater in there somewhere.....guess it'll have to replace Kreek's Estonian Requiem.

[Brahmsian]

In no particular order (except for the first three):

1 - Berlioz - Requiem

2 - Mozart - Great Mass in C minor

3 - Bruckner - Mass in F minor

4 - Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms

5 - Penderecki - St. Luke Passion

6 - Verdi - Requiem

7 - Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem

8 - Mozart - Requiem

9 - Rachmaninov - Vespers

10 - Haydn - Seven Last Words.....(does the string quartet version count?)  It's my poll, so yes! 

11 - Tchaikovsky - Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

[Brian]

1. Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
2. Dvorak: Te Deum
3. Berlioz: Te Deum


Hrm, I only needed three.

[kyjo]

1. Janacek: Glagolitic Mass

Damn it! I keep forgetting the Eastern Europeans! I guess the Dvorak is out.....

[Brahmsian]

Damn it! I keep forgetting the Eastern Europeans! I guess the Dvorak is out.....

But you took out an Eastern European for another?  By the time 10 more posters come over, your list will look like a doodling pad. 

[kyjo]

But you took out an Eastern European for another?  By the time 10 more posters come over, your list will look like a doodling pad. 

Once everyone has posted, then I'll post my (hopefully) final version.

[Sammy]

Bach - Mass in B minor
Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Mozart - Requiem
Mozart - Mass in C minor
Haydn - The Creation
Haydn - The Seasons
Berlioz - Requiem
Brahms - Requiem
Dvorak - Stabat Mater
Handel - Messiah
Handel - Acis and Galatea

[TheGSMoeller]

Durufle Requiem
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Poulenc Gloria
Poulenc Mass in G
Faure Requiem
Mozart Requiem
Bach B Minor Mass
Bach St. Matthew Passion
Brahms German Requiem

Can't think of 11; the Durufle is far and away my favorite.

Very nice list, SA. I would definitely include Poulenc in mine, especially the Mass, although I'd go for the Stabat Mater before Gloria, but not because I don't enjoy Gloria.

[Brian]

Durufle Requiem
Faure Requiem

I'm planning on listening to these and some Poulenc works tomorrow. What instrumentations/versions are your favorites here?

So far Poulenc's "Gloria" is the only work I want to add to my way-too-short list. Maaaybe Verdi's Requiem.

[kyjo]

Poulenc's "Gloria"

Aaaaargh! Another glaring omission from my list! I guess the Suter will have to go!

[kyjo]

On the topic of sacred works, I wonder what Atterberg's Requiem is like and why it hasn't yet been recorded.....

[Brian]

On the topic of sacred works, I wonder what Atterberg's Requiem is like and why it hasn't yet been recorded.....

This reminds me that I also need to listen to Franz von Suppe's Requiem. Between that, Durufle, Faure, and Poulenc, tomorrow's playlist is set!

[kyjo]

Just remembered Lili Boulanger's beautiful Psalm 24. Geez, this is agonizing!

[kyjo]

I like the chamber and full orchestra versions of the Faure and Durufle Requiems equally. Both offer entirely valid perspectives on the music. Some days I'll prefer the chamber version and others I'll prefer the full.

[Mirror Image]

Per demand for that 'extra' one  , your 11 favourite sacred works.  Could be songs, requiems, masses, oratorios, you name it....

Hmmm...11...eh? That's an odd number, Ray. Anyway...mine would look like this (in no particular order):

Szymanowski: Stabat Mater
Martin: Golgotha
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Poulenc: Stabat Mater
Durufle: Requiem
Berlioz: Requiem
Schnittke: Requiem
Milhaud: Sacred Service
Bloch: Sacred Service
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Pärt: Te Deum

[Todd]

Bach – B Minor Mass
Faure – Requiem
Janacek – Glagolitic Mass
Haydn – The Creation
Haydn – Nelson Mass
Morales – Officium Defunctorum
Morales – Requiem
Morales – Missa Pro Defunctis
Mozart – Requiem
Szymanowski – Stabat Mater
Beethoven – Mass in C

[The new erato]

Bach - Mass in B minor
Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Mozart - Requiem
Mozart - Mass in C minor
Haydn - The Creation
Haydn - The Seasons
Berlioz - Requiem
Brahms - Requiem
Dvorak - Stabat Mater
Handel - Messiah
Handel - Acis and Galatea

Sorry Sammy, the Seasons isn't sacred.

[North Star]

Bach - Mass in B minor
Bach - St. Matthew Passion
Berlioz – Requiem
Britten - War Requiem
Fauré – Requiem
Janacek – Glagolitic
Mozart - Requiem
Mozart - Mass in C minor
Rakhmaninov – All-night Vigil
Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms
Zelenka – Missa Votiva