From: tsai@tecrus.enet.dec.com (Kuo-Yeang Tsai)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Compiled list of recommendations for Requiem music.
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:59:36 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Thank you all for your inputs to my inquiry about Requiem music. I compiled
all the recommendations except for the following 5 composers.
1. Mozart
2. Brahms
3. Faure
4. Durufle
5. Verdi

Regards,
kyt
P.S. Be warned that I may make mistakes during the compilation.
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Babbitt, Milton
"A Solo Requiem"


Bach
(Bach wrote lots of good funeral music -- several of the motets --
as well)


Beecham
(A live Beecham Requiem is still available here in the US (Hunt), and
is definitely worth a listen)


Berlioz
(quite nifty)
(Shaw on Telarc.  It seems okay, but nothing special)
(Best one for me is the fairly elderly Munch because it has the
unearthly tenor solo of the much-underheard French Canadian tenor
Leopold Simoneau.  The tenor solo is by far the single most important
element in this piece for me)
(My favorite performance is Scherchen's on Adda, performed in the
original venue.  If you think the sound of the Davis is awful, wait
until you hear this!  But Scherchen was THE great Berliozian.  Never
mind that horrible men's chorus, squeally French brass, &c. &c.)


von Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz 
"Requiem". RICERCAR RIC 081063. (27'23).


Britten
"War Requiem"


Bruckner


Delius
Requiem: "to the memory of all young artists fallen in the war".
(Don't listen to it while depressed; it'll finish you off)
(A 1965 recording was recently released. A review in one of the record 
magazines in the store noted that the work had sexual overtones.)

Campra, Andr(e'). 
"Requiem" ADDA 581250. (*39'31).


Charpentier, Marc-Antoine 
two "Messes des morts"
one "Messe pour les trepasses"


Cherubini (two: one in c, one in d)


Dvorak
(sweetly haunting)


Gilles, Jean. 
Requiem. ADDA 581221. (*36'45).


Handel
Funeral Music for Queen Caroline


Hindemith
"When Lilacs ..." is subtitled as a requiem


Howells, Herbert
A Requiem Mass for SATB unaccompanied
(4 recording on the market, absolutely pretty and powerful)
(BTW, you didn't mention Howells' requiem, which is a little gem. Including that
reminds me that Howells also wrote Hymnus Paradisi, which is as near to a
Requiem as his Requiem is (if you see what I mean.)


Josquin
La Deploration sur la mort de J. Ockeghem


Lasso, Orlando di (ca. 1570)


Ligeti and Schnittke


Liszt
a Requiem for male chorus
(Yes, it's a gorgeous piece.  I have two commercial recordings, one by a Red
Army chorus (Hungarian, I think) and the other by a French chorus.  Neither
one is great, but they'll give you a feel for the piece.  (Both of my
recordings are on LP, by the way, and some of the sonic problems may have
been fixed if either has been reissued on CD.)


Martin, Frank


Ockeghem, Victoria, Orlando di Lasso
(also spelled Roland de Lassus; same person)
(probably the first polyphonic one of all; very ancient style);


Penderecki
"Polish Requiem"


Reger


Rue, Pierre de la  (ca. 1500);


Rutter and Lloyd Webber


Schuetz
"Musikalische Exequien"


Schumann
"Requiem"
"Requiem for Mignon" 


Stravinsky, Igor
"Requiem Canticles"


Victoria, Tomas Luis de [1548-1611]
(1st Requiems: published in 1583 in a book of masses for 4-part choir
2nd Requiems: he last work the composer published [1605] is an hour-long 
masterpiece, stunningly performed by the Westminster Cathedral Choir under 
David Hill's direction on Hyperion CD A66250)
(The Tallis Scholars recording (Gimell CDGIM 012) is of the 1605 Requiem,
following the edition of Bruno Turner.  The 1605 publication included some
extra motets and liturgical items to be performed along with the _Missa pro
defunctis_ proper.  It omitted a setting of the usual verse 'Hostias et
preces' and the consequent repeat of 'Quam olim Abrahae' in the Offertorium.

The CD tracks are listed as
1 Taedet animam meam  {second lesson of Matins of the Dead; 4-part}
2 Introitus: Requiem aeternam
3 Kyrie
4 Graduale
 i) Requiem aeternam
ii) In memoria
5 Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe
6 Sanctus & Benedictus
7 Agnus Dei I II & III
8 Communio: Lux aeterna
9 Funeral motet: Versa est in luctum
10 Responsory: Libera me  {the Absolution, with final Kyrie}

The performance time is 42:07.)

(I also have Victoria's "Responsories for Tenebrae", also on Hyperion
and done by Westminster Cathedral Choir, which is likewise spledid. I
like the Requiem a little more, but both of these disks are highly
recommended to anyone who loves High Renaissance sacred choral music
by one of the finest cathedral choirs in the world.)


von Suppe


Weill/Brecht

Miscellaneous:
conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad) writes:
If you're interested in exploring Requiems, a good book to find (most
music-department libraries have it) is Alec Robertson's "Requiem:  Music
of Mourning and Consolation."  He discusses many settings of the Requiem
Mass, and also of similar texts like the Stabat Mater.  It should
provide some good ideas for further exploration.