Favorite section of Faure's Requiem

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What is your favorite movement of Faure's Requiem?

I. Introitus
II. Offertorium
III. Sanctus
IV. Pie Jesu
V. Agnus Dei
VI. Libera Me
VII. In Paradisum
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EigenUser

August 18, 2014, 02:22:08 PM Last Edit: August 19, 2014, 11:21:28 AM by EigenUser
Here's a nice laid-back poll compared to the more all-encompassing ones we've had recently. Just out of curiosity, I was wondering which of the seven movements of Faure's heart-melting Requiem is most popular.

I'd vote for all if I could, but if I'm singling one out it would have to be the Libera Me (particularly the outer sections). Runners-up would be the Introitus, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

TheGSMoeller

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August 18, 2014, 04:51:48 PM
Easy, Agnes Dei. Perfect from beginning to end. I really love the interesting shifts in tone and mood throughout.

Ken B

#2
August 18, 2014, 05:57:49 PM
You should have named this "One Faure Requiem section to rule them all."
;D

Karl Henning

#3
August 19, 2014, 03:09:28 AM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 18, 2014, 04:51:48 PM
Easy, Agnes Dei. Perfect from beginning to end. I really love the interesting shifts in tone and mood throughout.

I have an old, dear friend named Agnes. You mean Agnus  0:)   8)   :)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Rinaldo

#4
August 19, 2014, 03:53:28 AM
Introït et Kyrie. Specifically the moment requiem aeternam kicks in.

Runner-up? In Paradisum!

https://www.youtube.com/v/3qK82JvRY5s
"The truly novel things will be invented by the young ones, not by me. But this doesn't worry me at all."
~ Grażyna Bacewicz

TheGSMoeller

#5
August 19, 2014, 03:55:11 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 19, 2014, 03:09:28 AM
I have an old, dear friend named Agnes. You mean Agnus  0:)   8)   :)

Oh no!  ???
I blame Nate, he has Agnes in his opening post, I must have seen it and it stuck in my head.  ;)


TheGSMoeller

#6
August 19, 2014, 03:56:44 AM
Sanctus is quite special, especially when the solo violin is used.

Karl Henning

#7
August 19, 2014, 03:58:47 AM
Nice av, BTW, Greg!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

TheGSMoeller

#8
August 19, 2014, 04:07:29 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 19, 2014, 03:58:47 AM
Nice av, BTW, Greg!

Thank you, Karl!  8)

Karl Henning

#9
August 19, 2014, 04:08:02 AM
"Have you got a 27b/6?"
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

TheGSMoeller

#10
August 19, 2014, 04:15:53 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 19, 2014, 04:08:02 AM
"Have you got a 27b/6?"

Haha! That was seriously just going through my head trying to remember the sequence of numbers/letters.
Good one, Karl.  8)

Karl Henning

#11
August 19, 2014, 04:18:20 AM
That's my favorite role of Bob Hoskins's!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#12
August 19, 2014, 04:20:21 AM
All right, Eddie Valiant runs a close-ish second . . . .
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Sergeant Rock

#13
August 19, 2014, 06:00:20 AM
Sanctus gets the vote;  Libera me a close second.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

EigenUser

#14
August 19, 2014, 11:22:51 AM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on August 19, 2014, 03:55:11 AM
Oh no!  ???
I blame Nate, he has Agnus in his opening post, I must have seen it and it stuck in my head.  ;)
I'm not sure what you're talking about, Greg. ;D
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

TheGSMoeller

#15
August 19, 2014, 11:50:38 AM
Quote from: EigenUser on August 19, 2014, 11:22:51 AM
I'm not sure what you're talking about, Greg. ;D

:P

vandermolen

#16
August 29, 2014, 10:27:22 AM
I'm the sole vote for In Paradisum, which I find intensely moving.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).
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