theculturewarrior Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 I love Sacred Music. I think historically it is just more artistic, in general! There are so many beautiful sacred works, but some of my faves are: Faure's Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine and Messe Basse Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli, and Missa Pro Defunctis Alonso Lobo's Ave Maria Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium. ^ In no particular order. (I would have put this in the music forum but they only respond to contemporary music there! : )
theculturewarrior Posted October 21, 2005 Author Posted October 21, 2005 I forgot Palestrina's Cantici Canticorum!
Piccoli Fiori JMJ Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 Dvorak's Stabat Mater is beautiful...
StColette Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 [quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Oct 21 2005, 01:37 PM']Dvorak's Stabat Mater is beautiful... [right][snapback]766316[/snapback][/right] [/quote]
theculturewarrior Posted October 21, 2005 Author Posted October 21, 2005 [quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Oct 21 2005, 01:37 PM']Dvorak's Stabat Mater is beautiful... [right][snapback]766316[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I just listened to the first part. It's gorgeous, but a bit melodramatic compared to the stuff I usually listen to. I'm generally turned off by Classical and Romantic composers. The former sounds pompous, and the latter is a bit melodramatic. Faure is Romantic, but his music is gentle and "humble." (Can't think of a better word. ).
termitescoming4u! Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 (edited) I love Poulenc's Gloria . actually performed the piece with my skool's choir last fall. WAS VERY GOOD. Also like Verdi's Requiem xcept that he wasn't a true catholic [so I heard]. Edited October 21, 2005 by termitescoming4u!
photosynthesis Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 (edited) [quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Oct 21 2005, 02:29 PM']Faure's Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine and Messe Basse Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli, and Missa Pro Defunctis Alonso Lobo's Ave Maria Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium. [right][snapback]766298[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Faure makes me so weak in the knees!!! I especially love the "Pie Jesu." [quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Oct 21 2005, 02:37 PM']Dvorak's Stabat Mater is beautiful... [right][snapback]766316[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I agree I like the music of Marty Haugen! Just kidding. Some of my favorites are: Poulenc's [i]Gloria[/i] Faure's [i]Requiem[/i] Pergolesi's [i]Magnificat[/i] Mozart's [i]Ave Verum Corpus[/i] Palestrina's [i]Stabat Mater[/i], [i]Sicut Cervus[/i] Josquin Desprez is cool too. I also enjoyed the Verdi [i]Requiem[/i] even though he was an anti-Catholic meanie. We sant it in chorus last semester and it is so fun to sing, especially the [i]Dies Irae[/i]. I wish I knew more about some of the faith backgrounds of composers of sacred music. After I graudate (provided that I graduate, God willing!) I want to sing in a choir that performs sacred music. None of this Marty Haugen nonsense. Edited October 21, 2005 by photosynthesis
theculturewarrior Posted October 21, 2005 Author Posted October 21, 2005 Right now I'm listening to an ancient Stabat. I like it. I don't know who the composer is. It's from an album called, "The Crown of Thorns/The Eton Choirbook Vol. I" By the Sixteen and Harry Christophers. (I had never heard of them, but I might start checking out more of their stuff!).
photosynthesis Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 [quote name='termitescoming4u!' date='Oct 21 2005, 03:13 PM']I love Poulenc's Gloria . acually performed the piece with my skool's choir last fall. WAS VERY GOOD. Also liked Verdi's Requiem scept that he wasn't a true catholic [so I heard]. [right][snapback]766391[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Pray for the conversions of Serafina and Tom Hall. I just found out from talking to Serafina after chamber singers that she hasn't been going to Mass
theculturewarrior Posted October 21, 2005 Author Posted October 21, 2005 [quote name='photosynthesis' date='Oct 21 2005, 02:15 PM']Faure makes me so weak in the knees!!! I especially love the "Pie Jesu." I agree [right][snapback]766395[/snapback][/right] [/quote] It's GORGEOUS when it's sung with a white tone. I once heard a version that sounded kind of like Copeland was conducting it. GORGEOUS!
photosynthesis Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 Has anyone heard Dvorak's [i]Requiem[/i]? It's nice too.
photosynthesis Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 [quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Oct 21 2005, 03:19 PM']It's GORGEOUS when it's sung with a white tone. I once heard a version that sounded kind of like Copeland was conducting it. GORGEOUS! [right][snapback]766412[/snapback][/right] [/quote] what do you mean by a "white tone"?
photosynthesis Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 (edited) [quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Oct 21 2005, 04:07 PM']no vibrato [right][snapback]766514[/snapback][/right] [/quote] oh, YES.... now I see what you're saying. yes, that is gorgeous... there was a period of time when I thought I was a soprano, and that it was in my range. that would not have been gorgeous. Edited October 21, 2005 by photosynthesis
theculturewarrior Posted October 21, 2005 Author Posted October 21, 2005 It's a 20th century thing. Some of Faure's stuff sounds beautiful sung that way. (Think the strings in Appalachian Springs. That's a white tone).
photosynthesis Posted October 21, 2005 Posted October 21, 2005 [quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Oct 21 2005, 04:11 PM']posted too soon! [right][snapback]766524[/snapback][/right] [/quote] it's OK
missionseeker Posted October 22, 2005 Posted October 22, 2005 I like Mozart's Ave Verum and Victoria's Ave Maria Does chant count in here too?
zabbazooey Posted October 22, 2005 Posted October 22, 2005 I love Te Deum Laudamus And Salve, Regina. I don't know if that qualifies as classic but I love those
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