Which is your favorite Requiem?

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Brahms, Berlioz & Cherubini (the C minor one), with honorable mention to Stravinsky for his Requiem Canticles.  I've heard all but a handful of the listed.  It's a great reminder to give a listen to others!

[Moonfish]

Brahms, Berlioz & Cherubini (the C minor one), with honorable mention to Stravinsky for his Requiem Canticles.  I've heard all but a handful of the listed.

  It's a great reminder to give a listen to others!

So true Zauberdrachen!

My choices (so predictable) are Mozart, Verdi and Fauré.

[North Star]

Changed Ligeti to the Brahms. 

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Changed Ligeti to the Brahms. 

Wise move, Polaris.  (I didn't know you could do that!). 

[North Star]

Wise move, Polaris.  (I didn't know you could do that!).

Well I hadn't heard the Brahms until some days ago.

[amw]

Mozart, Berlioz, Stravinsky.

[Drasko]

Ockeghem, Verdi, Mozart

[Jo498]

I have heard too few to vote. But my favorite "funeral musics" are protestant: Brahms' "Ein deutsches Requiem", Purcell's "Funeral anthems" and Handel's "The ways of Zion do mourn" (the first choral movement of which was a big unfluence on Mozarts "Introitus")

[madaboutmahler]

Faure, Mozart and Schnittke! The latter contains some of the most haunting music I know.

[Mirror Image]

You bring up an interesting point, Daniel. Why isn't Schnittke on this list? If he was I would have voted for him, so I officially change my vote to the following: Schnittke, Durufle, and Britten.

[Karl Henning]

A friend of mine sang in a performance of the Duruflé just this past Saturday.

[Moonfish]

Faure, Mozart and Schnittke! The latter contains some of the most haunting music I know.

What is a good version of the Schnittke requiem?

[North Star]

What is a good version of the Schnittke requiem?

This is the one I have, excellent performances of both the Requiem and the Choir Concerto.
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[Marc]

Difficult task.
From this list: Victoria, Mozart, Cherubini (C minor), but with a tear shed for Ockeghem, Verdi, Duruflé .... et cetera.

I will remember them in my prayers.

0:)

[TheGSMoeller]

I didn't pick the Verdi, probably wouldn't even make my top 5 (or 10), but it does contain one of the all time great writings of the Dies Irae....

http://www.youtube.com/v/hO1pn6D-t4M

[Ken B]

I banana the absence of Richafort and Morales. Of those listed probably Ock, Vic, Lobo.

Robert Moran's Trinity Requiem from 2011 deserves a listen.

[Mirror Image]

A friend of mine sang in a performance of the Duruflé just this past Saturday.

A gorgeous work. What version was performed, Karl?

[Mirror Image]

What is a good version of the Schnittke requiem?

I think this recording is the best version of the Requiem:



Coincidently, it also contains my favorite performance of Symphony No. 4.