Excellent concert! I'm going to use it in a course about Jona and his personal turmoil and the turmoil of the unjust city Nineve that turned around 180 degrees
I remember watching this with my mother as a live TV broadcast on the other side of the world. It was stunning and moving then as it is now. You don't have to be religious or old fashioned to appreciate the beauty of the voices and music. Think about the emotion of the music. If you don't like it - don't listen, but please don't dismiss it too easily.
ok I understand how the "hating know it-all" comments are annoying and I'm with you on that. But lets face it, Webber is the composer of rock operas, and popular songs. I quite like his music and think this requiem is very interesting, and some parts do give me goosebumbs, however it's very hard for a "rock-opera" artist to pass off purely classical work and in my oppinion while some parts of the requiem can be stunning, there's something missing and replaced with a tendancy to "overwhelm"
@Phersephoie Having grown up listening to some of the greats, having a mother who taught music and a father (for whom he wrote this work) who played church organ music and composed, I'd say he's much more than a "rock opera composer", though I know what you're saying. After his father's death he had a dark period with Cats (Memory is all about death), Requiem, and Phantom (also heavy on death). I love the opening music. Love the Requiem music in Evita as well.
If you pay attention to most singers they move. it helps to keep from locking there knees and it's like a sign of how they get into the music, and everyone prepares to sing high notes differently. being a soprano is hard at times.
On my opinion, Sarah Brightan moves to much. Just look at her, how she trembling when she prepares the high notes... honestly, I don't like her, meaning no offense.
@bergkalis I remember watching the premier of this piece in the 80s. I believe it was at St. Thomas's Church in New York. I thought he was wonderful....but I respect your opinion.
@JustJim70118 a violin teacher of mine use to say "If you don't mind, I will just talk about the not so good things, if I don't talk about all the other things, it means they are in the right way."
This is the same situation, may I had been a bit unfair not talking about all the other elements of the production but I just loved them. Thanks for the warning.
Are they singing "et tibi reddetur votRum in Ierusalem"? Totally wrong! It is very dangerous to perform music works in languages the conductor does not understand. The performance itself is absolutely amazing!
Arrggh this is killing me. I've got the album and having listened to it a million time I'm back from the dead to tell you it is exquisitely, (is that a word?) killing me.
"As far as the Requiem goes, it was basically intended to be primarily a contemplation for myself, to deal with some things that I was feeling after the death of my father.."
wow, that's still so amazing! i went to see this song preformed live. i still cant find the exact concert though. this is an amazing song and its hard to believe that it's still not finished!
Incredible music. And I can't believe that some of you think, that modern music (zeitgenössische Musik) must be non tonal. Every composer has it's own stile. I am studying music and I compose. I compose tonal music and that's no reason my my music or Webbers music or any composer's music is bad, just because it is tonal.
I like that. Its a good idea to involve cathedral boyschoirs in creation of new works. This sound pretty melodic, not like all the strange choral music of the end of th century.
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Sorry retofit, but i am very competent.Are you competent?The times in which we were writting tonal music are at least for 100 years over!People don´t want to believe that but it is exactly like that.Every good composer of the 20-th century aggreed with that. Because it´s logical.But it is ok that people like you do like this kind of music otherwise Webber wouldn´t have been able to buy himself those nice houses he has got.Greetings from germany.
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Why such a starcast for such a stupid, trashy, cheap and laughable score?How stupid must have been a composer to have written in the eighties of the last century such a tonal and bad orchestrated work?What about Ligeti.The last great written Requiem of our time?Again A.L.WEbber has prooved his incapacities as a composer and as a instrumentator.
Between Ligeti and Webber there's a huge abyss but I don't think his music is so bad. Modal/tonal today doesn't always mean old and ridiculous. I enjoyed this music and I know it's not so deep as Stockhausen or Xenakis (that I love) :)
A lovely piece, particularly in the Requiem Aeternam and Pie Jesu sections, but I'm not sure this really compares to the requiems of Mozart, Verdi, and Britten.
Well the orchestrations are talking about the Day of Judgement, or the moment preceeding and after it. So of course it will sound "creepy" in some sections, but otherwise - I think the entire piece has a feeling of justice and mourning.
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is it just me or does someone else think that the boy sopranos all look like they will be future homos.........i guess its because they're all so white and they have really gay haircuts. Whatever, they sound good. Lets just hope they decide to keep their balls.
My college concert choir did this one season. We watched this show several times, t used to give me nightmares! LOL I would wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat seeing the boy as a "children of the corn" kid! Hahahaha!
there is no such thing as castrati anymore, and hasn't been since the practice was outlawed over 100 years ago...perhaps you are referring to countertenors?
The final movement in most Requiems typically expresses the releasing of the dead and their passage into paradise, so these sequences can be a lot more pretty and peaceful. It depends on the composer really.
lol obvisously u know alot more about the settings of a requim...i've never played a requium....im a cellist and i play for a youth ochestra in new zealand....we do mostly symphony works and stuff like that.....but i should deffantly have to get a recording of this reqium
I'm a choral singer myself, and while I haven't performed a Requiem myself, my brother performed the Verdi Requiem and I'm familiar with the Mozart Requiem, and I personally performed Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D, which is similar in structure to a Requiem, but not quite the same. In general I'm just a music nerd. :)
faure's requiem is stunning, absolutely gorgeous. and the lloyd-webber is certainly a grower, although it has nowhere near the gravity or depth of faure's. verdi's i've never been so keen on, although i adore the "libera me."
i'm singin though in a quite well-know boy choir, and we are singing this piece now for the second time in december.
i never heard such a piece, such big feelings, i cant even describe it... but what is sure, it always makes me shiver when i have the occasion to sing it.
Excellent concert! I'm going to use it in a course about Jona and his personal turmoil and the turmoil of the unjust city Nineve that turned around 180 degrees
jerkedevries 1 month ago
Paul is creepy O.o but i love the music
Lovett19991 1 month ago
Of course there is room for improvement, but it is an excellent work for the time.
1AdrianR 3 months ago
What is the name of the orchestra, choir and conductor?
cateyemarble 3 months ago in playlist Andrew Lloyd Webber
I remember watching this with my mother as a live TV broadcast on the other side of the world. It was stunning and moving then as it is now. You don't have to be religious or old fashioned to appreciate the beauty of the voices and music. Think about the emotion of the music. If you don't like it - don't listen, but please don't dismiss it too easily.
spinytoad288 4 months ago 2
this boy looks and sings like an alien
wanek87 4 months ago
Webber is amazing!!! I love his Requiem!!! So gorgeous!
ThePokegaga 5 months ago
ok I understand how the "hating know it-all" comments are annoying and I'm with you on that. But lets face it, Webber is the composer of rock operas, and popular songs. I quite like his music and think this requiem is very interesting, and some parts do give me goosebumbs, however it's very hard for a "rock-opera" artist to pass off purely classical work and in my oppinion while some parts of the requiem can be stunning, there's something missing and replaced with a tendancy to "overwhelm"
Phersephoie 5 months ago
@Phersephoie Having grown up listening to some of the greats, having a mother who taught music and a father (for whom he wrote this work) who played church organ music and composed, I'd say he's much more than a "rock opera composer", though I know what you're saying. After his father's death he had a dark period with Cats (Memory is all about death), Requiem, and Phantom (also heavy on death). I love the opening music. Love the Requiem music in Evita as well.
tuber33 5 months ago
This is not at all like the Requiem masses we are used to hear, but it is pretty good. Pure Webber style!
samlab0920 6 months ago
I'm waiting for Damien Thorn any moment.
MrMusicman488 8 months ago
After a year i still say... Sigh......... Why?
jkern99 9 months ago
Fabulous after all these years! Thank you Webber.
sjteel1 10 months ago
If you pay attention to most singers they move. it helps to keep from locking there knees and it's like a sign of how they get into the music, and everyone prepares to sing high notes differently. being a soprano is hard at times.
msvintagehippie 10 months ago 2
On my opinion, Sarah Brightan moves to much. Just look at her, how she trembling when she prepares the high notes... honestly, I don't like her, meaning no offense.
ALittleSipOfWine 1 year ago 2
@ALittleSipOfWine lol@ Sarah trembling! :D
wenchy2 11 months ago
Era demasiado bello de niño!
EmmoThe 1 year ago
Gorgeous music
1AdrianR 1 year ago
Add the name of the boys´choir to the information please, Editor...:)
MrChannel14 1 year ago
Oh my goodness. This is bone chilling!! Webber you are a mad genius!
ThePokegaga 1 year ago
This is gorgeous. Absolutely breathtaking. I am almost in tears. Also, Comment if EA sent you here <3
ObliqueNightShade 1 year ago 9
There are better Sopran Boys...
But is a great work!
bergkalis 1 year ago 2
@bergkalis I remember watching the premier of this piece in the 80s. I believe it was at St. Thomas's Church in New York. I thought he was wonderful....but I respect your opinion.
JustJim70118 1 year ago
@JustJim70118 a violin teacher of mine use to say "If you don't mind, I will just talk about the not so good things, if I don't talk about all the other things, it means they are in the right way."
This is the same situation, may I had been a bit unfair not talking about all the other elements of the production but I just loved them. Thanks for the warning.
bergkalis 1 year ago
Are they singing "et tibi reddetur votRum in Ierusalem"? Totally wrong! It is very dangerous to perform music works in languages the conductor does not understand. The performance itself is absolutely amazing!
Fabian140788 1 year ago
AmaZing
AndriyuhO 1 year ago
Some people do not see/hear beauty in everything. *sigh*
affilinairess 1 year ago 3
aw man, Webber.... what *happened* to you? This is amazing!
Sigh.
angely78 2 years ago 4
He hasn't been the same since Phantom. Although I do like Sunset Boulevard
wafflyadam4757 1 year ago
Incredible!!!! I'm also a fan of Rutter's Requiem. Both are amazing!
xygblarbin31 2 years ago
Sigh.... That is all... just... sigh...
jkern99 2 years ago
agreed...
toyaccordian 2 years ago
I'm glad someone shares my thoughts
jkern99 2 years ago
Genius!!!...from Chile...
maestritopianoman 2 years ago
This is one of my favorite Requiems, Either this one, John Rutter's or Mozart's.
Theconcertbass 2 years ago
Arrggh this is killing me. I've got the album and having listened to it a million time I'm back from the dead to tell you it is exquisitely, (is that a word?) killing me.
troughsnout 2 years ago
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pitkju2 2 years ago
This is the most amazing requiem....second only to Mozart's in my opinion
karlenfan 2 years ago
Never heard of German requiem?
pitkju2 2 years ago 3
there are so many emotions packed in
thats how they should be.
its feels sad
yet sometimes the music sounds angry,
i love muted trumpets :D
crazitaco 2 years ago
Paul is absolutely amazing. I am a girl and I couldnt reach those notes when I was little
lovemeg5186 2 years ago
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poor boys with their penii cut off :(
sooperfukker 2 years ago
it wasnt it penii it was the balls :S
yonoestoydeacuerdo 2 years ago
look at that kid sing O_O
emothredburry 2 years ago
May I know which English cathedral or abbey choir is taking part in this video?
To be honest, I like the treble soloists much more than Sarah Brightman's soprano.
scholarmark 2 years ago
As much as I like this requiem, I admit I could help but laugh at some of this. Particularly at Sarah Brightman. That woman is so intense.
littlepipandcowbell 2 years ago 2
I like this Requiem much better than Britten's War Requiem. Britten's Requiem is so over decorated in some way.
jantigercat 2 years ago
This was written after his father died. He said:
"As far as the Requiem goes, it was basically intended to be primarily a contemplation for myself, to deal with some things that I was feeling after the death of my father.."
sandiegomama 2 years ago
I didn't know he wrote a Requiem!! This is awesome!
TheRippedPianist 2 years ago
OH MY GAWD I had no idea Andrew Lloyd Webber was this Prolific in music!
EasternMerchant 2 years ago
Andrew LLoyd Webber is the most prolific and best conposer of modern times.. Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Requiem, and several others
mkl8000 2 years ago
feel free to see my performance ...
marfikgnidka 2 years ago
wow, that's still so amazing! i went to see this song preformed live. i still cant find the exact concert though. this is an amazing song and its hard to believe that it's still not finished!
shadowed0musician 3 years ago
Where did you find it? Where can I buy it?
GOOD VIDEO!
SSLLPVM 3 years ago 2
la misa de requiem debe de ser seria. recuerda ke esas misas deben de ser tristes y misteriosas.
m847250 3 years ago 3
Incredible music. And I can't believe that some of you think, that modern music (zeitgenössische Musik) must be non tonal. Every composer has it's own stile. I am studying music and I compose. I compose tonal music and that's no reason my my music or Webbers music or any composer's music is bad, just because it is tonal.
k8i8m 3 years ago 20
@k8i8m Of course. Webber's music is terrible, not having to do with it being tonal, but because of many other factors.
SecondAgeOfReason 3 months ago
I like that. Its a good idea to involve cathedral boyschoirs in creation of new works. This sound pretty melodic, not like all the strange choral music of the end of th century.
donhenri01 3 years ago 3
can we all stop bashing this??? remember:
1. this is music about praying for the dead.
2. This took tremendous effort, and if you dont like it then don't write such mean and vicious comments.
AngelorPhantom1359 3 years ago 34
@AngelorPhantom1359 Weird yes.but stunning.
mitzi7416 8 months ago
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Sorry retofit, but i am very competent.Are you competent?The times in which we were writting tonal music are at least for 100 years over!People don´t want to believe that but it is exactly like that.Every good composer of the 20-th century aggreed with that. Because it´s logical.But it is ok that people like you do like this kind of music otherwise Webber wouldn´t have been able to buy himself those nice houses he has got.Greetings from germany.
tobik26 3 years ago
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Why such a starcast for such a stupid, trashy, cheap and laughable score?How stupid must have been a composer to have written in the eighties of the last century such a tonal and bad orchestrated work?What about Ligeti.The last great written Requiem of our time?Again A.L.WEbber has prooved his incapacities as a composer and as a instrumentator.
tobik26 3 years ago
You try to sound competent. In fact you know nothing, you understand nothing.
retofit 3 years ago
Between Ligeti and Webber there's a huge abyss but I don't think his music is so bad. Modal/tonal today doesn't always mean old and ridiculous. I enjoyed this music and I know it's not so deep as Stockhausen or Xenakis (that I love) :)
sousukesagaraJKD 3 years ago 2
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AaronCaldera 2 years ago
@tobik26 shut up
1AdrianR 1 year ago
A lovely piece, particularly in the Requiem Aeternam and Pie Jesu sections, but I'm not sure this really compares to the requiems of Mozart, Verdi, and Britten.
JeeRant 3 years ago 2
Thanx. Thanx very very much for posting this
jerkedevries 3 years ago
The Catholic Requiem Mass is VERY Serious!! Remember you have to pray them out of purgatory before they can go to heaven.
Operaman41 3 years ago 3
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wow ok utterly creepy choir and arrangements. and unnatural, forced screeching from Brightman.
only positives are Domingo and Maazel.
OettingerCroat 3 years ago
They are profesionals you dumbass... they play for 20 years with their instruments... and you act an expert....
FruityLoopsas 3 years ago
Well the orchestrations are talking about the Day of Judgement, or the moment preceeding and after it. So of course it will sound "creepy" in some sections, but otherwise - I think the entire piece has a feeling of justice and mourning.
EmilyGreene1984 3 years ago
As well as rejoicing and mercy.
EmilyGreene1984 3 years ago 2
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is it just me or does someone else think that the boy sopranos all look like they will be future homos.........i guess its because they're all so white and they have really gay haircuts. Whatever, they sound good. Lets just hope they decide to keep their balls.
00DarkAvenger00 3 years ago
this was 1985, you douche bag - you probably looked gay too - you probably still are. Only a closeted homo would say something like you did.
Adian00 3 years ago
Ok, is it just me or does it look like the boy sporano has eye shadow on??
craftylaura 3 years ago 3
No he doesn't, he just happens to have very dark eyelashes.
EmilyGreene1984 3 years ago
My college concert choir did this one season. We watched this show several times, t used to give me nightmares! LOL I would wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat seeing the boy as a "children of the corn" kid! Hahahaha!
BionicOkc 3 years ago
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brightman screeches out the notes its horrible
Babs22h 3 years ago
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wafflyadam4757 3 years ago
could you do better?
AngelorPhantom1359 3 years ago 6
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wafflyadam4757 3 years ago
I totally agree. In point of fact, Bach did not write a Requiem. It is possible you are thinking of his Messe in D moll.
Gippesvick 3 years ago
I disagree there. This is good orchestration. Besides which, it is the prerogative of the composer to decide on orchestration.
Gippesvick 3 years ago 2
I'm not overly fond of boy sopranos, perhaps because I fear they'll become castrati sopranos.
I love the Misere from this....
cqsallie 3 years ago
i agree that boy looks creepy
gives me nightmares
AngelorPhantom1359 3 years ago
there is no such thing as castrati anymore, and hasn't been since the practice was outlawed over 100 years ago...perhaps you are referring to countertenors?
darkfirehexe 2 years ago 4
I also believe that some members of The Winchester Cathedral Choir were involved seeing as how that is where PMK was a chorister.
CoutureOrganiste 3 years ago
Actually the choir is that of St. Thomas Church, 5th Avenue New York City which is where this was filmed.
CoutureOrganiste 3 years ago
why; pourquoi; not having it; l'avoir; in dvd format; ne l'avoir en format DVD?????????????
brunoaudet 3 years ago
I Knew it!!!
(he he he he)
Jane1126 3 years ago
The director looks like Lorin Maazel.
Jane1126 3 years ago
its because he is Lorin Maazel
valqueso 3 years ago 2
we are performing this in concert and i cant wait
willnw15 3 years ago
You can really hear the influence of Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" in the Dies Irae. It seems musical theatre and church music are forever linked.
TiffanyVanDerMark 3 years ago
what strange kinda creapy music yet intreging
Rheesoman 4 years ago
Requiems tend to be on the... creepy side. Mainly because they're a death mass. They're not really intended to be cheery.
rikalovesdie 4 years ago 5
but the last movment from this requium is sooo pretty
Rheesoman 4 years ago
The final movement in most Requiems typically expresses the releasing of the dead and their passage into paradise, so these sequences can be a lot more pretty and peaceful. It depends on the composer really.
rikalovesdie 4 years ago 5
lol obvisously u know alot more about the settings of a requim...i've never played a requium....im a cellist and i play for a youth ochestra in new zealand....we do mostly symphony works and stuff like that.....but i should deffantly have to get a recording of this reqium
Rheesoman 4 years ago
I'm a choral singer myself, and while I haven't performed a Requiem myself, my brother performed the Verdi Requiem and I'm familiar with the Mozart Requiem, and I personally performed Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D, which is similar in structure to a Requiem, but not quite the same. In general I'm just a music nerd. :)
rikalovesdie 4 years ago
i think i'm fimlar with the verdi reqium...but idont have a favortire really....lol i like it all
Rheesoman 4 years ago
Faure's Requiem is beautiful too.
RSVPBlogger 3 years ago
Depends on the composer indeed.
I wouldn't say Verdi ended peacefully...
TheLOLrus12 3 years ago
and the firt (this) too
luciubi 3 years ago
faure's requiem is stunning, absolutely gorgeous. and the lloyd-webber is certainly a grower, although it has nowhere near the gravity or depth of faure's. verdi's i've never been so keen on, although i adore the "libera me."
TiffanyVanDerMark 3 years ago 2
hello, i wanted to thank u for posting this.
i'm singin though in a quite well-know boy choir, and we are singing this piece now for the second time in december.
i never heard such a piece, such big feelings, i cant even describe it... but what is sure, it always makes me shiver when i have the occasion to sing it.
thancs for the post
moo1ny 4 years ago
what choir is it?
Anja1246 4 years ago
I'ts from Luxembourg, called "Pueri Cantores"
moo1ny 4 years ago
thanx
Anja1246 4 years ago
im in the choir 2!!!
warescap 4 years ago
is the choir Pueri Cantores???
warescap 4 years ago
yes, but there exist lots of choirs which are called pueri cantores. this one comes from luxemburg
moo1ny 4 years ago
yes im in da luxembourg choir!!! do u know me, im Kristijonas, Pit calls me Kristianos
warescap 4 years ago
okay,this is funny.. how old are u? i know costas, which is from lithauen too, but kristianos.... i'm phil
moo1ny 4 years ago
phil paul
Its me Kris!!!
warescap 4 years ago
okay,nice,funny to meet u here^^
moo1ny 4 years ago
how old r u? r u in bass?
warescap 4 years ago
18,yes,bass
moo1ny 4 years ago
ok, i kno u
warescap 4 years ago
Without a doubt, ALW's most solemn piece of music. Just shows what a talented composer he is. Thank you very much for posting this.
AriesModerator 4 years ago 2
This show's Sarah's voice at it's best!
sarah4green 4 years ago
my video from when i was 5 years old is almost destroyed - thanks for posting!
candai 4 years ago
what is the choir exactly?
1calaf 4 years ago
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this is beyond awful.
wbarco 4 years ago
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wafflyadam4757 3 years ago
一直在找这个~thank you!
houxiaodan 4 years ago
thank you =]
xxcarebearxx 4 years ago
whats the name of the second song?
xxcarebearxx 4 years ago
Dies Irae (trans. "day of wrath")
smichelle65 4 years ago
I've alway wanted to watch this. Thank you
tzwu 4 years ago
Gracias!!!!! Hermosa música.
rubenmartinezsantana 4 years ago