Yes indeed. I have about 5 versions of that one. But actually love all
the quintets & sextets,,,,
Doug
On 20-May-05, at 8:41 AM, 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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>
> 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]>
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>> 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
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
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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