Do you know of any #choral works for a #melancholy heart like mine? Something like the German Requiem by Brahms or Vespers (All Night Vigil) by Rachmaninov? Something to instill some spirituality in my hardened little atheist heart? I didnât find Beethovenâs Missa Solemnis but it didnât touch me. Should I give it another try? Something else? #classic #music #help
@kensanata It's not purely choral, but I would suggest Bach's St-Matthew's Passion. For contemporary choral music, Arvo PĂ€rt's Nunc Dimittis.
@wim_v12e I definitely could use some more Arvo PĂ€rt! Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Miserez, and other pieces are already favorites of mine. And exploring YouTube from there is leading me to some good stuff. Thanks!
@kensanata FaurĂ©âs Requiem.
@wrenpile That's the one that I ended up on via YouTube! I'm going to spend some time listening to it.
@kensanata Brahms and FaurĂ© donât sound like each other, but I hear a deep emotional similarity between them, and not only in their requiems.
Some of the names I was given led me to this wiki I had never heard of: ChoralWiki, home of the Choral Public Domain Library! âHere you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.â I love that these things exist.
http://cpdl.org/
As for myself, Iâm listening to Gabriel FaurĂ©âs Requiem.
https://youtu.be/UnilUPXmipM
@kensanata Heh I routinely add my own choral works to CPDL. :-)
YouTube playlist of some of them here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTD0uLdQte10ZBGPBHzHT8vesbvTkGFef
@kensanata
fauré requiem a personal fave
exhibits a more evolved approach to death
(especially for european)
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@kensanata I'd try the Bach St John Passion, maybe. Or the B minor Mass, though it isn't exactly melancholy.
Also, go earlier and check out some Renaissance polyphony.
@kensanata indodana is aiming more for grief than melancholy but it still might work for what youâre looking for? Its a traditional christian song in isiXhosa, whoâs lyrics translate roughly to: The lord has taken his son who lived among us, the son of god was crucified, oh father, Father Jehovah, we cry for him
Best sound quality I could find online was: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7mbcGleTw3U
@Satsuma Very nice, thank you.
@kensanata Serenity (O magnum mysterium) by Ola Gjeilo.
@kensanata no chorals, but take a look at Max Richter's neoclassical Ćuvre (e.g. his Blue Notebooks for a start), which is quite suitable for rmelacholy.
As for the real classics, HĂ€ndel or Telemann should do finde, but they are more cheerful most of the time.
As for the hardened atheist heart that's fine as it is, IMHO.