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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | June 12th 20 |
This Requiem is resolutely modern in that it lines hooking sections designed to mark memories in quite rapid succession, and does not linger much at all. While it is excellently done in the first half or even two thirds, with the whole piece clocking a 100+min total length it starts to saturate the ear after a while for it hardly ever comes down. The relatively calm Lacrimosa on 10 is a much welcome break after the fantastic but quite intense Recordare. The Sanctus that ensues feels like it could have been a brilliant conclusion, but there is still a half hour to go during which the Requiem almost thoroughly failed to move me, with a conclusion that is particularly laborious and 'poussive'. Before that tough, it is an amazing, ominous, evil, and sometimes epic piece of music. I do have a bit of an issue with some of the solo male voices on 7 or the second half of 8 which make me feel a bit like I'm listening to a Disney villain song of sorts, but otherwise it is all fantastic. 1-2 are deliciously evil, 3 is really dark and evokes an epic boss fight to my young ears, 5 has icy moments and is perhaps my favourite movement of all, and 6 is amazingly cinematic. That first half is in 4.1-4.3 territory really. Jammed the Swedish Philarmonic version. 3.85
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| 0.0 | ZIG | October 3rd 18 |
Being one of Penderecki's best known works, this Requiem is a rather dramatic and dark long composition. However, the overall motion of the work drags (maybe due to the fact that this work is overly hour and forty minutes), apart from a couple sequences (e.g. Lacrimosa, Recordare Jesu pie, and Swiety Boze). That said, it can be enjoyable, but its length makes it somehow frustrating here and there.
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| 4.0 excellent | Rodrigo | November 30th 18 |
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