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    Default Your favourite Requiem ?

    I've only recently got 'into' classical music and from using Qobuz I seem to be liking Requiem music the best.

    Can anyone recommend their favourite albums? recordings?

    I think I saw a post from Martin T about how a new piece of equipment he'd bought had opened up one of his favourite recordings so much it 'moved' him.

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    It might be better to post this thread in the Classical Music bit of AOS. http://theartofsound.net/forum/forum...ssical-Section

    Requiems - try Brahms, Faure, Dvorak for religiosity. Try Berlioz, Verdi for a huge sense of scale and awe!

    Brahms - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Germa...uiem+Klemperer

    Berlioz - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlioz-Requ...+naxos+requiem
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    Its Faure for me.

    The Choir of King's College, Cambridge with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conductor David Willcoks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gordon Steadman View Post
    Its Faure for me.

    The Choir of King's College, Cambridge with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conductor David Willcoks.

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    +1 for the Faure, my favourite recording is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox with Aled Jones (treble) and Stephen Roberts (baritone). As a bonus it's coupled with another favourite of mine, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.

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    It has to be Mozart for me


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    Lordy, yes!
    how could I forget Mozart?
    My fave is Bohm on DG http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Requi...t+bohm+requiem

    I must admit that the idea of there being a "best" Requiem strikes me as bizzare in the extreme - many of them are very wonderful!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jandl100 View Post
    Lordy, yes!
    how could I forget Mozart?
    My fave is Bohm on DG http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Requi...t+bohm+requiem

    I must admit that the idea of there being a "best" Requiem strikes me as bizzare in the extreme - many of them are very wonderful!
    I heard the Mozart Requiem at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh at the end of September last year with the BBC Scottish Symphony and the National Youth Choir of Scotland, conducted by Donald Runnicles. It was the single best concert I have been to in the last year, no question. I can't speak highly enough of the experience. I'm listening to the Requiem now on Spotify with volume turned up to 11

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    My most memorable "requiem experience" was Celibidace conducting the Brahms at the Royal Festival Hall in the mid 70s.
    It lasted an astonishing 86 minutes (it's usually about 65 minutes) - slow? yes, but absolutely spellbinding.
    Celibidace was a genius conductor, no doubt about it, imo.
    Sadly, the versions available commercially with Celi conducting come nowhere near to matching that unforgettable experience.
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    I'd vote for many of Brahms' German Requiem's recordings - any of Klemperer, HvK (DG, EMI) Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi). J E Gardiner's effort is no mean thing, either.

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    Fauré or Britten's War Requiem depending on mood.
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