To name a few, teh masses and oratorios of Haydn, especially The Creation,
and the Mozart Requiem.
Most 19th century choral music does get pretty soppy.
In the 20th century check out the Ives Harvest Home Chorales and his psalm
settings, Martin. I'm also fond of Janacek's Glagolotic Mass. There's an
amazing setting of some of Neruda's Canto General by Theodorakis. A live
performance at a post-junta outdoor rally in Athens was acoustically
challenged but is the one to get if you can find it. Latin American idiom
translated into Balkan folk. Nonetheless moving. There's a lot. But Bach
reigns.
I love vocal music because of my love of the spoken word.
Mark
At 11:46 AM 5/20/2005, you wrote:
>Yes, it is, it swoons quintessentially, perhaps a little too much for
>frequent listening, whereas the Piano Quintet has everything, ardour,
>swoon, abrasion, gaiety - definitely on my Desert Island Discs.
>I like very little choral music after Bach, until the 20th C. The Missa
>Solemnis, Berlioz & Verdi are exceptions, in every way. And Schumann's
>Faust Scenes.
>mj
>
>Joanna Boulter wrote:
>
>>Best of all is the Clarinet Quintet. Music to die to, that.
>>
>>best joanna
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour"
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>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 3:18 PM
>>Subject: Re: Snap - Jones
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>>
>>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:
>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:27 PM
>>>Subject: Re: Snap - Jones
>>>
>>>
>>>>.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
>>Douglas Barbour
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>>Words cling to other words
>>As we have seen, although even these are
>>Migratory and the forgotten shows through as correction.
>>This noun has been defunct for centuries.
>>
>> Ann Lauterbach
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