John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir. This performance was filmed at the Palau de la Musica Catalana, Barcelona in Dec. 1991. A Requiem Mass in the Roman Catholic tradition is a service designed to pray for the souls of the departed. The parts of the liturgy that are meant to be sung are what constitute all Requiem Mass compositions, including Mozart’s. The structure is as follows: 1. Introit 2. Kyrie 3. Sequence: a. Dies irae b. Tuba mirum c. Rex tremendae d. Recordare e. Confutatis f. Lacrimosa 4. Offertory: a. Domine Jesu Christe b. Hostias 5. Sanctus 6. Benedictus 7. Agnus Dei 8. Lux Aeterna Mozart died before finishing the Requiem Mass, and his wife Constanze gave the task of finishing the work to a pupil of Mozart’s named Süssmayr. From the Sanctus onward, the Requiem is the creation of Süssmayr, though he did use portions of the Introit and Kyrie for the Lux Aeterna, as requested by Mozart and as per tradition. Despite, or maybe partially because of, the controversy surrounding this Requiem Mass, it is widely regarded as Mozart’s greatest masterpiece. Latin Lyrics and English translation follow:
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Mozart actually wrote only up to his seventh movement, Franz Xaver Sussmayr (his student) finished it using Mozart’s style.
the first 30 seconds Wolferl must have seen the paradise…
Man don’t you just love that suspended D just before the end?
the tempo could be compromised slightly for an added effect of tenderness and expression. Other than that…excellent performance!
I like Giulini’s version a lot better
That’s what i said. Britney Spears is a bit better than Bach, but still not as good as Michael Jackson (R.I.P.)
I’m confused. Bach and MJ are both good.
OMG, how can anyone compare Spears to Verdi?
She’s somewhere beetween Bach and Michael Jackson.
please don’t compare that nitwit spears to verdi….its an insult to musicians everywhere, and all her fans are either sluts or trashy like she is….and i know ppl that adore her and are sluts and trash…just as well as having a low I.Q. level…..
And I’m brazilian as well.
Eu realmente não vejo a galera do baile funk aparecendo no Teatro Municipal e achando o máximo, da mesma forma que eu não vejo os assinantes da Sala S. Paulo indo num baile funk e se divertindo muito (a maioria esmagadora, pelo menos. Sempre há exceções). Cada um serve a um propósito e nenhum desses é melhor ou pior que outro. Pelo menos eu não acho.
I’m really more into Verdi than into Britney. But I guess we have to respect who’s not. It’s not about being dumb. We’re talking about different cultures. I’d prefer not to discuss my intelligence on youtube, anyway.
And it’s not about a country, it’s about a culture. Verdi is european culture (which is not universal culture at all) and Britney is north-american culture (same for her). Liking or not any of them is not a matter of dumbness or intelligence. And ‘intelligent’ is a vague concept.
Jesus H. Christ.
I’m brazilian, and I bet most intelligent brazilian would be ashamed of you.
What’s your point, britney is better because her music is more acessible(read: dumb), or because she’s from a certain country? You must admit that those people are dumber, or that they’re from the same country as her.
But you’re brazilian and she’s not.
Oh wait.
I really don’t know where this came from, but I guess that, for some people, Britney is indeed better than Verdi. Britney may not be that good, but for some people, she makes more sense and is more meaningful than Verdi. And I really don’t expect Verdi to make sense to, let’s say, most of brazilians, since he’s italian and we’re not. Does that make sense?
By the same logic britney spears is better than, lets say, Verdi, because she’s more known.
Well I would expect a choral work to show up in piano books anyway. On the other hand I would certainly agree that this poll is unlikely to be the correct measure worldwide. But it IS the largest official measure of this sort of thing that I am aware of, and so must hold some weight.
I’d say that Fur Elise is more well-known as you do. But this piece is not “crap” just because not many people know it. Fur elise is shorter and easier to play – and that makes the difference, I think.
it’s kind of hasty to claim that this poll represents the worldwide popularity of songs. Unless you can prove that this classicFM poll is the official worldwide indicator of the popularity of songs through some quantitative measure, you surely can’t expect me to accept it. On the other hand, through qualitative measures, I can prove otherwise. The number of pop culture references to fur elise and the number of instances in which the piece shows up in piano books greatly overshadows this requiem
If you’re going to be like that then it makes sense to look at the classicFM poll run every year, in which consistently this piece is in the top 40 and Fur Elise is outside the top 100. So in fact this is more popular than Fur Elise. And deservedly so, for while both are brilliant pieces in their own right this piece speaks far more to the heart.
(Hostias et preces, tibi, Domine,
laudis offerimus:
tu suscipe pro animabus illis,
quarum hodie memoriam facimus:
fac eas, Domine, de morte Iransire ad vitam,
quam olim Abrahae promisisti
et semini ejus.)
We offer unto Thee this sacrifice
of prayer and praise.
Receive it for those souls
whom today we commemorate.
Allow them, O Lord, to cross
from death into the life
which once Thou didst promise to Abraham
and his seed.
This truly is a gorgeous mass!
I just cant help but find it funny how its a mass written as a tribute to the dead…….
quality is just as subjective as popularity…to be honest, popularity probably has more credibility
Just because a thing is popular doesn’t mean that it is the best.
Just because a thing is unpopular doesn’t mean that it is not brilliant.
Popularity has little to do with quality.
Beautiful.
its amazing how such great music can be a result from a religion. being athiest its really incredible in what really inspired these people and its expression through music is mind blowing
you dont know anything about classical music. the best piece ever composed was fur elise because everyone knows about it. play this shit versus fur elise to 10 people and see how many more know and appreciate fur elise over whatever requiem this is
lol at 2:30 then everything just went… “WHOA!!!!!”
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