Requiem

[Dax]

Here's a very brief Requiem by Jon Leifs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwCkVqUhX78

and the first parts of what would have been a very long one by Reger, the Latin Requiem op 145a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8nHkGJHm34

and the Dies Irae

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kms09fj03s&feature=mfu_in_order&playnext=1&videos=EuTHd-NJ-sc

[petrarch]

One of my personal favorites is Jean Gilles', the first excerpt can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKskBLVYRTU

The version I have on CD is the Collegium Vocale Gent/Musica Antiqua Köln/Philippe Herreweghe on Archiv.

[Bulldog]

One of my personal favorites is Jean Gilles', the first excerpt can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKskBLVYRTU

The version I have on CD is the Collegium Vocale Gent/Musica Antiqua Köln/Philippe Herreweghe on Archiv.

Yes, an excellent work.  I had no idea that Herreweghe recorded it twice.  I have his Harmonia Mundi version recorded in 1990; the one on Archiv was recorded 1981.

[Wanderer]

Off the beaten path, Cherubini's Requiems and the World Requiem by Foulds are very dear to me.

Also, a short but very powerful work in the Requiem genre is Langgaard's Fra Dybet.

[Maciek]

This person on YouTube seems to be a sort of requiem fan (note the name):
http://www.youtube.com/user/Amantesderequiems (this blog seems to be an extension: http://requiemvision.blogspot.com/)
Lots of stuff to try. Among other things, you can find two excerpts from the Maciejewski I mentioned earlier in this thread. (There's also a completely random, out of focus anonymous video here)

[Guido]

I'm sure this has been remarked on many times before, but it is piquant that the three most important and moving requiems of the late Romantic (Verdi, Brahms, Fauré) were written by committed agnostics, who seemed to get less religiously inclined with age.

[San Antone]

I didn't notice that this could be used as a general requiem thread. I guess I can make a good attempt at torpedoing it by requesting discussion about Pedro de Escobar's one (one of the very earliest to survive)...

*** bump ***

Fantastic!  I've been listening to this work and loving it.



There are a few other recordings but the Ensemble Gilles Binchois's is the best, I think. 

I am glad there is already a thread on requiems, a quiet obsession of mine.

[Maestro267]

My favourite Requiem is Britten's, followed by Berlioz and Dvorák fighting amongst themselves for 2nd and 3rd place. Not really a big fan of the Verdi though. Too much solo writing for my personal liking. But that's to be expected from an opera composer.

Another favourite of mine is Maurice Duruflé's. The full-orchestra version has a bit more beef to it than the oft-paired Fauré, and the ending has a wonderfully eerie organ part to it.

Requiems I want to hear/get recordings of in the future include Foulds' World Requiem, Stanford's and Saint-Saëns'.

[pjme]

I have a day off and listen to Frank Martin's Requiem - after reading the newspaper... we do live in sad, cruel,testing times...

There's only a fragment of it on YT. 

https://www.youtube.com/v/kvxB-pXzSxQ

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I have wandered into the realm of the Requiem a few times.....

Joonas Kokkonen has a beautiful requiem which provided me some musical solace and helped me get through the emotional turmoil of the premature death of my cat Lulu last year.

Mozart's Requiem makes MUCH more sense in the Druce completion and no one can convince me otherwise!

Ligeti's Requiem is a stunning masterwork of the 20th century, and I deem it his best work of his middle period and perhaps his best work overall!

Faure's Requiem puts me in a philosophical mood

[mc ukrneal]

My favourite Requiem is Britten's, followed by Berlioz and Dvorák fighting amongst themselves for 2nd and 3rd place. Not really a big fan of the Verdi though. Too much solo writing for my personal liking. But that's to be expected from an opera composer.

Another favourite of mine is Maurice Duruflé's. The full-orchestra version has a bit more beef to it than the oft-paired Fauré, and the ending has a wonderfully eerie organ part to it.

Requiems I want to hear/get recordings of in the future include Foulds' World Requiem, Stanford's and Saint-Saëns'.

The Stanford is interesting, but different. Well worth exploring. Same for the Foulds. Both used to be on youtube (assume this is still the case). I'm not as familiar with the Saint-Saens, but I have a recording - will have to listen again. Always good to have an excuse!

I am glad there is already a thread on requiems, a quiet obsession of mine.

Same here. I will listen to composers I normally would not pay attention to in order to hear their requiem, so a nice way to open the door in some cases. One of my most recent was the Lotti Requiem - very good one. This excellent recording:
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[Drasko]

Not yet mentioned but definitely worth hearing:

[mc ukrneal]

I just got the Gardiner version last week! It sounded a little oomphier than the Herreweghe on the clips..

[king ubu]

Not yet mentioned but definitely worth hearing:

Guess that would be my very first recommendation! But I'm not that far into requiems  0:)

[Drasko]

I just got the Gardiner version last week! It sounded a little oomphier than the Herreweghe on the clips..

Haven't heard Gardiner, I'm afraid not much of a fan of his. Herreweghe is a clear favorite of three I have/had, the most oomph definitely and doesn't use boy soloists as Malgoire (Virgin, also tends to plod) or Schneebeli (K617) who is probably the gentlest of the three.

Guess that would be my very first recommendation!

Would be one of mine as well.

[San Antone]

This person on YouTube seems to be a sort of requiem fan (note the name):

http://www.youtube.com/user/Amantesderequiems (this blog seems to be an extension: http://requiemvision.blogspot.com/)

Thanks.  Wonderful resources.

[San Antone]

Valentin Silvestrov : Requiem for Larissa



Valentin Silvestrov composed Requiem for Larissa between 1997 and 1999 as a memorial to his wife, musicologist Larissa Bondarenko, who died in 1996. It is a big and unceasingly somber work, scored for chorus and orchestra. Understandably, this Requiem is to a degree reflective, incorporating musical themes drawn from older works that had special meaning to the couple. While Silvestrov's typically glacial tempos are in evidence here, some of the opening half of the piece has an angular spikiness that recalls serial techniques without actively engaging in them.

[TheGSMoeller]

A few of my favorites not mentioned yet..

Preisner: Requiem for my Friend - Lacrimosa
https://www.youtube.com/v/1MOkUwbAdEU


Spears: Requiem
Go to time 25:32 for the Kyrie, a nice sample of this piece.
https://www.youtube.com/v/SbQmIhcz3yw

[aligreto]

Preisner: Requiem for my Friend - Lacrimosa

https://www.youtube.com/v/1MOkUwbAdEU

+1 for Preisner. I was going to mention that one myself but you got there before me 

[Maestro267]

One that doesn't get mentioned a lot is Herbert Howells' Hymnus Paradisi, a Requiem for his son who died of polio aged 9.