Hey Joanna
I like Brahms, too, but mostly his work for small groups (as we say in
jazz).
I am always happy to hear comments on choral music as it's not my major
interest, & I tend to listen to instrumental most of the time....
Doug
On 19-May-05, at 1:47 PM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
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>> .Actually, Ken, Fauré was not so religious as all that; I quote from
>> a convenient website
>> (http://members.macconnect.com/users/j/jimbob/classical/
>> Faure_Requiem.html):
>> Fauré spent much of his life in the service of the church, but his
>> personal views on religion were unconventional at best, downright
>> cynical or agnostic at worst. These are his thoughts on spirituality
>> in the /Requiem/:"Everything I managed to entertain in the way of
>> religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated
>> from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal
>> rest."< Nox est perpetua una dormienda. And Verdi was an atheist, I
>> believe. Berlioz wasn't too croyant, either, so that more or less
>> wraps up 19th C requiems of genius...(Well, OK, Cherubini, Dvorak...)
>> mj
>
> Will no one speak up for Brahms? He wasn't much of a believer in a
> regular church, and wrote his Requiem to texts from the German bible,
> hence its name, 'A German Requiem'. I happen to think it's a
> magnificent work, both in the music and in his choice of texts; but
> then, I like and admire Brahms.
>
> best joanna
>
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