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| jcstar |
RequiemThree questions about this:What is it about? Is the album still available? Can it be staged as a musical? and... What do you think about ALW's Requiem? I've seen the PBS specoial with Brightman and Damingo in a church. I love "Pie Jesu." Andy. |
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| Dvarg |
Re: Requiem
Death. It's the death mass.
Here
No.
It's awful. |
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| B3TA07 |
Only he could manage to write a Pie Jesu for a Requiem and make it a pop hit. And that boy soprano is scary.
Stay away. |
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| MusicFan |
Re: Requiem
In your opinion. I thought I'd post this review by Lawrence Johnson because it offers some musicological insight which is always interesting (whether you actually agree with the views expressed or not). From Lawrence A Johnson: "Out of the swirl of all the accompanying publicity and hype at the premiere 17 years ago, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem now seems like the most convincing classical effort to come from a rock-oriented populist composer to date, a moving, melodic and greatly underrated work. Lloyd Webber's Mass is straightforwardly traditional in style, yet offers a graceful melding of rock and classical influences. There is much to impress one listening with open ears to the Requiem recording, conducted with fire and sensitivity by Lorin Maazel (EMI). Inspired by the death of his father, a composer and organist, and by a horrific newspaper story about Cambodian war atrocities on children, Lloyd Webber's "most personal" composition is predominantly somber and dark-hued. The Requiem makes its dramatic effects with a sure hand and in no way plays to the Broadway gallery. Sarah Brightman's sweet yet tremulous high soprano adds a not inapt vulnerability to the "Recordare," a plea for heavenly mercy, and Placido Domingo sings magnificently, heroic yet sensitive in the "Ingemisco." The militarist swagger of the men's chorus at "Confutatis maledictus" is hardly the work of a Broadway hack; in the years since it was written -- post-Bosnia and post-Yugoslavia -- the indictment of war and the regret for its innocent human victims have, sadly, only increased in power and relevance. Under Domingo's soaring solo line, the lively rhythmic melody of the "Hosanna" builds into a joyous choral fugue with increasing organ sonority adding excitement until it explodes in unbridled exuberance. It then seems like the most natural thing in the world when a rock-flavored piano, electric guitar and drums steal into the textures, amid leaping woodwind lines. There is a kind of unselfconscious artlessness here, and the energy released by the rock instrumentation, orchestral brass and choruses conveys all the vitality of rock 'n' roll while deploying large classical forces with style and an easy assurance. In the celebrated "Pie Jesu" that follows, the simple, indelible tune is sung by the soprano, followed by the pure bell-like tones of treble Paul Miles-Kingston, solo, then both singers in a duet. With sensitive scoring of choral and organ counterpoint, the music delivers an island of hope amid the bleak tone of much of the rest of the Requiem, and the sense of elevated calm and repose achieved is quite extraordinary." |
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| Dvarg |
Re: Requiem
I was exaggerating. Pie Jesu is a pretty tune. |
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| MusicFan |
You were being asked for your opinion anyway so my comment was a bit pointless really. | ||||||||
| Rumpleteazer4760 |
A requiem is a set of music composed to be played and/or sung at a funeral mass. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote his Requiem for his father's funeral.
I don't know if the album is still available, as I have never looked into it. No, I don't think it would work as a musical because it doesn't have a story. I love the "Pie Jesu" and if everything goes right at my church (sometimes things get crazy in the music department, you see) I'll be singing it on Good Friday. I've been wanting to do it for a couple years now and I'm very excited. 
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