We’re singing two Mozart choral works and I want to know if you guys know any famous or popular work of his?
On the other hand, feel free to list your favorite or famous choral works by other composers.
Thank you… umm
don’t have to list Carmina Burana, Messiah, Missa Solemnis, Choral fantasy, Requiem by Verdi, Mozart and Brahms,Haydn’s the Creason and the Seasons lol.
Qualified as great or not, I am partial to Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Op. 80.
Stravinsky – the Symphony of Psalms is already mentioned, but I have to add;
the lovely, small and quiet Mass
the monumental Opera/Oratorio, Oedipus Rex ~
scene1, start at 25”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lk7sXP5wTY
scene 4, start at 2’04”
and the fantastic Cantata, Threni.
Prokofiev: Cantata Alexander Nevsky, exerpts, The crusaders in Pskov
Alexanders entry into Pskov
Leos Janáček, Glagolitic Mass (aka Slavonic Mass) I introduction
II Gospodi pomiluj (Kyrie eleison)
Bela Bartok, Cantata Profana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOkgB1VYVfU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DL9ukHhfg
Pierre Boulez, Cantata – Le Soleil des eaux
Olivier Messiaen, Trois petites liturgies sur la Presence Divine. Here, the second of three movements, start at 25”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhzhvY8jXE
John Adams, Harmonium
Excerpts – with Simon Rattle discussing the work,
excerpt – last part of 3rd movement ‘wild nights’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67dgff4DKJk
On the transmigration of souls
Robert Moran, Requiem: Chant Du Cygne
Michael Torke: Proverbs
David Lang: The Passing Measures. (The work is for women’s chorus, and very softly played amplified acoustic instruments. You might find a tiny taste in an audio clip on Amazon.)
best regards, p.b.
The most famous and respected choral work in the world of classical music would be ‘Ode To Joy’ from Beethoven’s 9th. Symphony.
You might also want to acquaint yourself with Mahler’s 8th. Symphony, known as ‘Symphony Of A Thousand’ or Igor Stravinsky’s wonderful ‘Symphony of Psalms.’
All of these works for choral are intriguing and much more demanding musically than Mozart. Even Bach is more complex musically than Mozart’s choral pieces.
References :
Some more choral works that are real good
Johann Sebastian Bach "Komm Susser Tod" (Come Sweet Death)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXnTujrJN9U
Lament for Beowulf by Howard Hanson – {Alas no Youtube postings}
Stabat Mater by Karol Szymanowski
Here’s the final movement,not the best recording though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgVxnHRsqZg&feature=related
"Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt", Opus.112
(Becalmed Sea and Prosperous Voyage)
by Ludwig van Beethoven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5zr0dWN7wk&feature=related
Requiem’s by Gabriel Faure and also SaintSaens
Ciao!
Mephisto
References :
Qualified as great or not, I am partial to Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Op. 80.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Qb_ZsKhe0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C58rU2Ed64
Stravinsky – the Symphony of Psalms is already mentioned, but I have to add;
the lovely, small and quiet Mass
the monumental Opera/Oratorio, Oedipus Rex ~
scene1, start at 25”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lk7sXP5wTY
scene 4, start at 2’04”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W8kDDKSswE
and the fantastic Cantata, Threni.
Prokofiev: Cantata Alexander Nevsky, exerpts, The crusaders in Pskov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiChPNqQeI
Alexanders entry into Pskov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqjEXcdHTZg
Leos Janáček, Glagolitic Mass (aka Slavonic Mass) I introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vSm4v2Ero
II Gospodi pomiluj (Kyrie eleison)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPWdZHIDqvA
Bela Bartok, Cantata Profana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOkgB1VYVfU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DL9ukHhfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5gMTQNPl8
Pierre Boulez, Cantata – Le Soleil des eaux
Olivier Messiaen, Trois petites liturgies sur la Presence Divine. Here, the second of three movements, start at 25”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhzhvY8jXE
John Adams, Harmonium
Excerpts – with Simon Rattle discussing the work,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51wgChtHoDI
excerpt – last part of 3rd movement ‘wild nights’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67dgff4DKJk
On the transmigration of souls
Robert Moran, Requiem: Chant Du Cygne
Michael Torke: Proverbs
David Lang: The Passing Measures. (The work is for women’s chorus, and very softly played amplified acoustic instruments. You might find a tiny taste in an audio clip on Amazon.)
best regards, p.b.
References :