John Rutter: Requiem 1/7 - Requiem aeternam

[steverlfs]

So, there are still great composers! This music takes me away to somewhere I want to stay for ever.

[rahrahkadybugg]

@sweetyates we sing "reh" as well. I think it is the correct Latin.

I love this piece soooooo much <3

[bimmerboy87]

@rahrahkadybugg this is a german choir, so they are singing the latin in the germanic style, a sort of germanic latin, which is to diphthong the "e" instead of the correct latin pronunciation of "eh" (e.g. reh-queim v. ray-quiem). Notice also how they don't have a "ch" sound in "luceat" but pronounce it with an "s" sound.

[sweetyates]

We sing it R-e-h instead of R-e-e. Which one is proper?

[Seanschemmelfan]

This is an amazing piece of music that i like but i went to the east troy community choir and camerata mixed in and it was amazing! I was going to cry and the music combine with the song was utterly amazing

[Linz031487]

The "e" sounds are a bit off; if I remember correctly, in Latin it should be more of an "eh" sound...but besides that, wonderful blend and wonderful performance! I sang this piece in university, I love it!

[claudialegg]

I remember singing this at a November choral concert with 3 different choirs at school. What an amazing experience and we were lucky enough to be asked back again 2 years later. Still makes me emotional remembering the reasons we were singing it

[somanyusernames1]

HARP!!!!!!!! i love it

[SingerofOpera2466]

John Rutter has such a beautiful soul and heart to be able to write directly to

a person's inner being. I want this Requiem played at my funeral because it

is heavenly music. Thank you John Rutter.

Sincerely,

Marion Cawood

[tycondryus]

So much moving memories are taking me over when I listen to this Requiem. I wish I were back on the stage, singing it!

[tycondryus]

So much moving memories are taking me over when I listen to this Requiem. I wish I were back on the stage, singing it!

[jamiehillcox]

at 3:54, my heart melts

[kaleydoskopyo]

Some choir! Some ensemble! Some piece! Wonderfull. It made me fly without moving. Bravo.

[grover9559]

Nice to be able to hear the entire work performed so well!

[KurtSinna]

ABOUT TO GO H.A.M

[Livethe3rd]

Please refer to the Italianized Ecclesiastical pronunciation on the Latin: It is really off in the entire performance. Other than that, good job with consonants and cut offs.

[WhoAreYouRightNow123]

John Rutter Is Incredible! He came and conducted our choir for a day, and he is so amazing. If you are reading this, Thank you so much and you are brilliant John Rutter! x Ella Rusbridger, Westbourne House xx

[MusicalPandaa]

Just performer this is Carnegie Hall last night! Was a great expierience! John Rutter is a great guy, i got to meet him and talk with him a bit and I am so glad I was able to expierience Carnegie Hall!

[nancysatterfield]

My brother is singing this in New York on Monday night! I hope he does good!!!

[vessel187]

I'm singing this with my choir tomorrow for Good Friday, Los Altos UMC in Long Beach, CA, 7 PM.

[Firegirl336]

When I was in school chior we did this song as our last performance of the year I love his music

[spasticaster]

My school choir will be performing the entire Requiem next month, really excited about it. It's been lovely practicing it.

[margotlorena1]

nice, what a pleasure it must be to sing rutter's requiem!

[megadrone]

@margotlorena1 it really is. I've been fortunate enough to be in the chorus for a couple of Rutter's pieces and they are a pleasure. They are not necessarily the most difficult pieces to sing but you have to be spot on accurate and it sounds amazing.

[qbanchick17]

simply love it, i sang it back in high school during my sophomore yr. Beautiful

[Lol8Kitty]

I'm only in high school and I'm singing this! xD

[TMCstudentblogs]

I can't believe that the Collegiate Singers from The Master's College will get to sing this piece! We did the Gloria for Christmas last semester and it was then that I decided that I liked John Rutter's music.

[princeofcrunk20o8]

ur saying some of the word wrong but i love this version!

[xaratherus]

The first time I ever heard this song, it was as the 'coda' piece to our school's production of Our Town. Before the curtain call, the director (who was also our choir director) put on a simple light display over the stage, highlighting the set pieces that made up the graveyard that closes the play, with this music in the background. It was incredibly powerful, and moving; even some of the more hard-hearted members of the cast were moved to tears.

[ComputerratteWG]

Can't understand how there are people, who can listen to that......When we sing this in our choir last year  i started to love this( to be a part of this angle-like-sound)...but just sitting there and just listen to it.....can't understand how you can do this without standing up and singing....this sound makes me always smile and sing...

sorry for my bad English, i'm from Germany X)

[LordKoda99]

Such beautiful music! I was able to travel to Carnegie Hall as well to sing this with my Choir back in 2002, such memories!

[Merzoker]

Vraiment très très beau et très bien réussi !!! Je le travaille en ce moment avec la choral de mon lycée et une chose m'a particulièrement frappé et qui une erreur très minime mais c'est dans le mot "luceat le "ce" se prononce "che" et non "s" c'est l'une des règle essentiel de la musique grégorienne bien quand latin dit standard on prononce cela "s".

[alipitogen]

I used to decry this man's music.It doesn't connect.Then I did a little survey of Karl Jenkins YT videos, left a few sardonic comments and said "Come back John Rutter, all is forgiven". I can hear there is meat in this writing - while Jenkins is for musical vegetarians.

[alipitogen]

@alipitogen Having said the above, my cd collection includes roughly a thousand J.S.Bach recordings and every NIcolas Gombert recording available. My KJ and JR total amounts at the moment to zero and will remain so until I hear something to change my mind, the which would , by the way, be in the form of music, not words.

[Mackaronni]

Very expressive performance...so "Rutter-Like" and uplifting to the soul...Great choir and director....many thanks for posting...

[broadway520]

The substitute teacher my high school choir had when we rehearsed this had his score signed. We referred to kyrie as the jurassic park part sometimes.

[tremor454]

what a beautiful sound out of this group! True Rutter sound...minus the tight vowels!

[chittermouse3]

We're singing this Requiem with all the high schools in our district for a combined concert. I want to cry when I hear just our 22-person chamber choir sing it [roughly] in rehearsal; I can't imagine how it will sound with 200 voices, perfected. This song is superb.

[HoofyandPoofy]

The sound is extravagant!!! It's too bad the diction is not completely on spot. theirs Es are just weeeeeiiird. haha

[bordone32]

Bellissima esecuzione.

Complimenti!!!

[mpsnknox]

@enderfan Oh I know, I've sung in "German Latin" several time here in the U.S. and in Europe. I just figured since this is an English composition they latin would have been pure Latin.

Sorry.... having issues posting.

[mpsnknox]

An open "e" vowel would be nice! Other wise, very beautiful!

[enderfan]

@mpsnknox German choirs sing that vowel tight, like in this recording.

[yasnazu]

buenissimo ..........

[GeorgiaOnUrMind89]

We sang this at my high school. But we had to have it memorized. I actually auditioned for the solo but just missed it. I loved this piece. My chorus at the time was over a hundred people. We had the opportunity to go to Carnegie??  Spelling?? but I couldn't go!

[yasnazu]

precioso de parar los pelos...

[watcher53]

Modern Catholic music that doesn't suck!

[kerryhadden]

Gives me goosebumps! I sang this with my high school concert choir about 15 years ago, and hearing it again gave me the shivers. Beautiful job!!

[snuffy701]

This man is amazing, he isn't all uptight and serious as you would expect from a composer, he was actually a fun guy to sing with, my school and a neighboring school got to sing the Requiem in Carnegie Hall in June, it was an amazing experience, let me tell you, if you want an autograph from him, have fun with that, he gave 5 minute breaks and always had to delay people off to the next break and the one after, etc.

[Huffinearts]

@snuffy701 Darn! It was my dream to get choral arranging private lessons with him.

[snuffy701]

@Huffinearts yeah, i nearly didn't go because it was in New York and im from Texas, but we were able to fund the trip, and we had a pretty big group, but it was still a great experience and i learned alot of things that made me better as a singer and as a musician

[mcflynaturalluvr]

@snuffy701 i got to do that a few years ago when i was in high school! sooooo amazing.

[danyelejames]

@snuffy701 soo cool my school is going this april

[danyelejames]

@snuffy701 Really cool my school is going this April 

[sujimanfsu]

@snuffy701 I think I may have sang with you if it was back in 89 @ Carnegie Hall awesome experience with Mr.Rutter.

[chrism823]

John Rutter, composer of my favorite Christmas carol: The Angels' Carol.

[slinkybrew]

This is one of the most amazing pieces of music I have ever performed.

It was really quite difficult for me to sing it in the beginning as I got completely choked up listening. Simply beautiful.

[mtoyopon]

awesome

[itstaylorhere]

Ozark High School is preforming the requiem,

im very excited, this song is my favorite. :)

[asv1066]

Heard this on Classic FM today whilst driving home - felt like angels were singing to me. Glad I managed to find out what it was and discover this Youtube video...

[chJacques1]

Je viens de découvrir ce compositeur et cette œuvre sur YT. Je suis heureux d'entendre une musique plutôt moderne à la portée des chanteurs et des auditeurs. C'est vrai que j'ai faible pour la prononciation italienne du latin. Ceci dit le chœur chante remarquablement.

[megadrone]

I sang this in a choral group. With Rutter's work the diction and tonality is so important, not necessarily difficult to sing but you have to be spot on accurate.

[pfl1953]

why do you even bother? let those of us who find it beautiful have our pleasure, and you go find yours somewhere else.

[weez1119]

the sound on this is amazing! thanks for the upload! ^_^

[j0andc0]

John Rutter's most brilliant work for me. Absolutely love this.

[N5CProductions]

Great song. My high school did a joint concert singing the complete Rutter requiem

[gateley]

One of the most beautiful renditions of this most beautiful piece that I've heard. Thank you!

[WhiteSilverAngel]

I sang this with my choir and we did an awsome job too. As did these guys Bravo! The only thing that makes me wonder their pronounciation of e. the sang ee a couple of times when in latin its eh O.o;

[pfl1953]

they sang with german diction, which one might expect of germans...

[WhiteSilverAngel]

@pfl1953 Ah sorry I didn't read the location...It still is beautiful nonetheless.

[texdave01]

Wow. Totally awesome performance. Both the choir and orchestra are outstanding.

[pfl1953]

couldn't agree more.

[makefunnyfacesbitch]

beautiful music.

love compositions that have many crescendos & decrescendos.

[HerrWarja]

This is the voice of God!

[Harzmov]

We´ll sing this piece in october with our choir.

I love it!

Especiallys the theme in the parts 2:02 - 3:00 , 3:53 - 4:45 and at the end is gorgeous!

[tkdforever18]

its incredible, from México that is one of the most beautiful songs i ever heard!!!

I just love it!!!

[PolyphonicSeduction]

The stuff I have heard John Rutter write is just so powerful. I absolutely love.

[ArionLiShingHin]

Very good , quite strong female voice

[KKrause024]

Yeah my high school chamber singers didn't quite cut it. :]

[Mike642484]

could use some extra tenors tho

[Mike642484]

well this kicks the shit out of our school choir XD

[Tredecim125]

the middle part has such a power after the solemn ambience

beautiful

[miamusicina]

Bellissimo!

Fa venire i brividi...

[littleleelow]

I love this.

I am so happy our choir is learning this.

This is amazing; I can't help but smile =]

[gr8wallofchina]

lol hi leelow

[littleleelow]

lol hi.

[pbeng12]

I love this Requiem back in 1990 or was it 91 my god I am old my high school choir performed it.... listening to it now brings back a ton of memories and I can sing the tenor 1 part word for word still after almost 20 years lol

[rydenskirt]

@pbeng12. It does have that effect, doesn't it? I sang it in at San Joaquin Delta College under the direction of Dr. K. Scott Bowen. Such a wonderful piece of music--the words and the music become a permanent part of the singer. It's great!

[hoopzw1]

we r singing this song in my school.. it is so hard.. my teacher made us look it up to hear it... i love it...

[BlinkinFirefly]

I sang this with my chorus in high school! omg such beautifully written work. john rutter you're amazing!

[southboundheritage]

it is usually the ones who know nothing of the music that whine about it......Thnk on that.

[klickenpod]

Right, well, besides everyone trying to analyze this, I'm just going to say that I find this to be beautiful. Excellent job, you guys!

[witchofheart]

latin is one of my favorite languages to sing in

[Iceman822]

you guys are gay, it was epic

[chonak1]

It was going along so well, and then at 3:55, along came a torrent of bland comforting stereotypically Rutteresque material -- which seems out of keeping with the sobriety of the text (asking God to grant eternal rest to the dead). That ran for a minute, and then it let up. The drum-beat toward the end was odd: was this an attempt to balance the comforting material with ominous material?

Well, this is just a response on a first hearing.

[klickenpod]

There is a psychological sort of thing he was going for.. I was surprised at that when I first did his requiem, too. But I love it.

[RandiKreger]

I just posted the answer.

[RandiKreger]

The bad pronounciation made me smile.

[Clouseau5000]

May I ask on what criteria your choice of the adjective 'bad' is based?

Is it the intensive study of the latin language or just experiencing your local environment?

[ToxicPopsicle]

It made me smile as well. It simply proves that just because you pronounce every other word wrong, it doesn't make it any less amazing, sound-wise.

[Adanengul]

LeathanL couldn't be more right. My Choir in Kansas City has performed this in Carnegie Hall as well, in a larger choir than just ours though, and these people did exceptionally well.

[LeathanL]

My choir here in L.A. has sung this several times - including Carnegie Hall. As far as procunciation: hey they're German-speaking people. It's sounds perfectly appropriate with that in mind.

[glasskimono]

sorry, its beautiful, but the pronunciation is horrible!

[Clouseau5000]

Perhaps you can change 'horrible' into 'not used to'. You could check wikipedia for 'latin pronunciation'. They are not doing the 'italianate pronunciation' which you are used to, I guess.

[glasskimono]

well, i guess if that IS a way latin can be pronounced, they shouldn't pronounce it the way they do because if they spoke in "italianate" or whatev they could create an even richer tone just cuz their mouthes would be even more open. right now all their jaws sound super tight. so i just think that the other pronunciation sounds good because its more appealing, and technically, healthier.

[marinda1984]

Thank you for posting the Rutter Requiem. I am going to sing it with a local choir and being able to hear it all the way through while I looked over the music was very helpful. It makes me excited to participate in such beautiful, uplifting music. :)

[aaronbarker14]

are you people stupid!?

what are you saying?!

read the bloody words!

its latin!

grr!!!

[marinda1984]

What's the matter?  Are you against them singing latin or are they not enunciating correctly enough? (Oh, by the way, they are singing, not reading. :P )

[renatavitovacom]

krásné!

[Pumkinpie012]

so beautiful...im singing this in carnegie hall next monday and i cant wait!

[TIPZ4ME]

very weel sung. i sang this with my high school and im a freshmen.

[sousukesagaraJKD]

very good work!! but the words "requiem" and "aeternam" are pronunced wrong(reequiem aechernam..it's not english, it's latin!)

[baum782]

Große Klasse!