Choral Music

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Yes indeed, I do think I like some choral music... Sticking to 20th century music unmentioned so far
https://www.youtube.com/v/VGc-Tu_1yGw

An excellent piece! Schnittke has composed a large bunch of shorter choral works I admire as well.

[bhodges]

Another fan of the Schnittke here, too. Also, this one occurred to me after mentioning it on the "favorite Stockhausen" thread:

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--Bruce

[Monsieur Croche]

In yet other veins of the contemporary:

David Lang ~ The Passing Measures (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/v/3jZsaUOQofU

David Lang ~ Crowd Out (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/v/puPmm9-3-nI

Joep Franssens ~ Harmony of the Spheres (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/v/wLkmMEEiNBk

[kishnevi]

Errr,  no one seems to have mentioned Part....or Taverner, although I like Part a good deal more.

There is a small but active community of Catholic composers producing music meant for liturgical use, much of it choral.  I don't know enough of it to say what its quality is.  Cato is undoubtedly a better source on that angle.

[hpowders]

Wow! I can't believe what I am reading! Less expressive?

The human voice is the MOST expressive instrument.

Why do you think there are so many shouts and screams after so many live opera performances? 

Favorite choral works: Haydn The Creation, Britten War Requiem, Verdi Requiem, Mozart Great C minor Mass.

[VonStupp]

I see that choral conductor Michel Corboz has passed. I always thought he had a unique view of the standard symphonic choral literature, partly due to the ensembles he led, such as the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

A few weeks ago I listened to Portuguese composer João Domingos Bomtempo's (1775-1842) Requiem à la mémoire de Camões in C minor, Op. 23, and was rather taken with it. I've posted Corboz's performance of it - Rest in Peace.

https://www.youtube.com/v/fk3WmE3-sIQ&ab_channel=Lusofolias

My apologies for slapping this tribute in the choral music thread, especially since Florestan specifies no orchestral accompaniment. I couldn't really find a memorial thread or a choral music category that seemed to fit.

[VonStupp]

One more from the late conductor Michel Corboz: Franz von Suppé's Requiem in d minor:

https://www.youtube.com/v/6bwrXQdA2Ho&ab_channel=José_Ignacio_H.

I see that choral conductor Michel Corboz has passed recently. I always thought he had a unique view of the standard symphonic choral literature, partly due to the ensembles he led, such as the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

A few weeks ago I listened to Portuguese composer João Domingos Bomtempo's (1775-1842) Requiem à la mémoire de Camões in C minor, Op. 23, and was rather taken with it. I've posted Corboz's performance of it - Rest in Peace.

https://www.youtube.com/v/fk3WmE3-sIQ&ab_channel=Lusofolias

[Karl Henning]

One more from the late conductor Michel Corboz: Franz von Suppé's Requiem in d minor:

https://www.youtube.com/v/6bwrXQdA2Ho&ab_channel=José_Ignacio_H.

Our Cato put me onto the von Suppé Requiem, I believe. Time I listened again.

[VonStupp]

[...] The one choral piece I have sung by the late R. Murray Schafer, I think it was called Gamelan, was really tough.

VS

I love when avant garde print music is a piece of visual art in and of itself, and R. Murray Schafer's Epitaph for Moonlight fits that bill.

The internet and I finally remembered what I had the opportunity to sing all those years ago. This group makes it sound really easy, although the two pieces couldn't be more different.

https://www.youtube.com/v/dzUXzu7JYFc&ab_channel=Vancouver_Chamber_Choir  https://www.youtube.com/v/BaOZzsqOqM8&ab_channel=Vancouver_Chamber_Choir