The Very Last Work You'd Like to Hear

[Florestan]

Morbid but perhaps not uninteresting.

You're on the brink of dying. What piece of music would you want to hear for the last time?

[Todd]

Faure Requiem.

[Mirror Image]

The work I would choose to leave this world behind would be Duruflé's Requiem.

[Biffo]

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, by a whisker from Die Zauberflöte

[classicalgeek]

Mahler 2! I can't think of a better way to go than that final chorus...

[LKB]

Mahler 2! I can't think of a better way to go than that final chorus...

I've performed the Resurrection a number of times, and it's probably going to be in my head otw out, assuming there's time.

That being said, l hope to be hearing Mahler's Eighth.

[André]

Faure Requiem.

+1

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti - Lux Aeterna.

[ritter]

Parsifal....

[bhodges]

I've performed the Resurrection a number of times, and it's probably going to be in my head otw out, assuming there's time.

That being said, l hope to be hearing Mahler's Eighth.

I could be happy with either of these. That said, then this option showed up:

Ligeti - Lux Aeterna.

Maybe there will be time for all of it. That would be nice. (Along with a bottle of champagne.)

--Bruce

[Sergeant Rock]

"Boulder to Birmingham" sung by Emmylou Harris

Sarge

[vandermolen]

The work I would choose to leave this world behind would be Duruflé's Requiem.

+1

or 'Epithalamion' by Vaughan Williams

or 'Christchild's Lullabye' by V. Novak (the last of 8 Nocturnes for Voice and Orchestra)

[Olias]

Something by Wagner so that I'd actually prefer death.   

[Mirror Image]

+1

or 'Epithalamion' by Vaughan Williams

or 'Christchild's Lullabye' by V. Novak (the last of 8 Nocturnes for Voice and Orchestra)

Lovely choices, Jeffrey. Good to read you love the Duruflé Requiem as much as I do.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Beethoven Op. 130, the third movement.

With my luck, I'll get something by Nikolai Kapustin or Havergal Brian.

[Operafreak]

Strauss - Four Last Songs - Lucia Popp

[amw]

A lot of these are good choices. The piece I thought of most recently in this context is the third movement of Bruckner 8.

In practice, if I have any control over the matter, I'll probably avoid listening to music when I'm dying. There's nothing more likely to cause me to return as a vengeful ghost than dying before I get to hear the end of the piece. Hate being interrupted.

[Spotted Horses]

Roughly 12 years ago.

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17042.0.html

Vandermolen has changed his choice. I stick with my original choice.

[TheGSMoeller]

Brian Eno's appropriately titled piece, An Ending (Ascent)

[Maestro267]

The finale of Elgar 2