John Rutter on the 'Requiem'. 2: Liturgical settings

[alger3041]

Very odd - this work really does speak to me in some way - but the Faure work, which I also love, does not come to mind.

First of all, I prefer to get my own message, form my own images, from the music as I hear it, and thus I completely distance myself from the text as covering an area far too specific for me. The religious aspect of it does not come to mind at all.

I hear a mixture of Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Ralph Vaughan Williams in this music, which is rather a curious combination.

[FaerienceChannel]

U did the hell of a requiem!

Its eternal like the ones of Mozart, Brahms, Verdi and Faure