Continuez ce que vous faites France Musique, vous m’accompagnez toutes les nuits quand je conduis et c’est un bonheur. Il faut rendre la musique « classique » populaire de nouveau. Vive le service public !
Definitely the best version on TH-cam to me right now. 1:52 it is Basilique Saint Denis, the place where French Kings and Princes were buried ! This place gives this performance another dimension
Thanks for this reaction. This classical masterpiece in particular is much better understood, admired and enjoyed if you know the context of its writing (Mozart near to his own death) as well as the content of the lyrics.
I have listened the the requiem more than any other piece, and I will tell you, Herreweghe's interpretation is the best. Thia requiem is great, with Confutatis being a masterpiece, and his last true finished work. After that, his friend Xavier (after who Mozart named his son, who also was a really goos composer) finished it according to Mozart's sketches, and thus, lacking in the Mozart "touch". Mozart only wrote the forst 8 or so measures of the Lacrimosa before he stopped, and even then, it was just minimal (not fully orchestrated).
Herreweghe's version is so good! Lovely tempo, I believe it uses period instruments, really love the way the soloists perform their vocal parts but also the clarity of the brass. If you listen to the pretty famous 60s Karajan version, you can hardly hear the brass at all. Herreweghe just has it all very clear so no part is missed.
It was so exciting to watch your experience of this piece! The video production on this live performance is top notch and really shows you what you are listening to. Can't wait to see the rest of your videos on Mozart's Requiem
Amazing! Very excited for this. I suggest you listen to the third section (III. Sequentia) as a whole ( that includes Dies Irae, Tuba mirum, Rex tremendae, Recordare, Confutatis, Lacrymosa) which should be about 20 min.
I just discovered your channel and your journey with classical music. I would highly- and I mean highly recommend you listen to Beethoven's Piano Concerto 5 "Emperor", all Three Movements with Zimerman and Bernstein.
Yeah Requiem!!! Love Mozart, literally his last work. He didn't even finish it and his students had to do it. There are several movements and the lyrics are in Latin. Most of Mozart pieces sound very happy but only few of them are in a minor key, just like this. I will put another video that in my opinion has great sound quality and, of course lyrics. Literally Mozart composed his requiem for his funeral, that's why it has a sensation of death and there are rumors about who was the person that request him to do the piece. There are a lot of points to tell but for now I think that's enough. Keep it up!
I suggest you to react to this video instead. Save it, it has great sound quality and lyrics in all languages. Greetings 👍👍 th-cam.com/video/54h8TxJyNy0/w-d-xo.html
Someone saw Amadeus. The requiem was never intended to be for him, that's just a conspiracy however, he did write in a lettee that as he wrote more of it he felt weaker (due to illness) and that it felt like he was writing it for himself
@@danielw9542 Yes, the requiem wasn't intended to be for him, but since it was an anonymous commission, Mozart never knew who he was writing it for. As he grew weaker he did say he felt like he was writing it for himself. Which was prescient since the first two movements of the work were first performed at his own memorial a few days after his burial.
I’d say it’s worth listening to the guys 4 or 5 tracks of this piece without interruption. It’s all meant to flow. And the first 4 or 5 are the best ;) They aren’t separate pieces like Chopin etudes for example after all. It’s one long piece. It’s one requiem only. One mass for a dead person. With his music to be played. It gets performed all in a row.
The story of Mozart's requiem has been told for many years. In the Summer of 1791, Mozart was visited by a mysterious figure, who we now know to be Count Franz von Walsegg, an Austrian aristocrat and pianist who commissioned the religious work for his recently passed wife. Walsegg refused to name himself, saying that the requiem was the only important thing. Of course, Mozart never declined a commission, and at the time, he was struggling for money and his financial status was slowly decreasing. So, he started writing it, but only after he completed his Clarinet Concerto and his final two operas, The Magic Flute and La clemenza di Tito. He began writing at the beginning of November 1791, and soon began feeling extremely ill, and was bedridden. He suffered from vomiting, nausea, swelling of the limbs/joints, excessive bleeding and high fevers. Near the end of his life, he stated: "I swear that I have been poisoned, I cannot rid myself of this idea". Although it would make for a good story (= Amadeus), historians and musicologists have long since dismissed poison as the cause of Mozart's death. An operatic bass had visited Mozart's abode in Vienna to rehearse the "Recordare" section of the requiem, but he never finished, because the composer began to weep violently: "Did I not say that I was writing this requiem for myself?", he states wearily. His wife, Constanze, talked about Mozart's last days after his death. She said that he never ate, but drank multitudes of wine every day, and would lapse in and out of sleep continuously. Finally, after 15 days of painful suffering, at 12:55 am on 5 December 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died. His wife and other friends were present at his death, and, after lapsing in and out of consciousness, passed away. To this day, the precise cause of Mozart's death is practically unknown, but thanks to the fantastic invention of modern medicinal studies, doctors have found some answers. The most plausible of these discoveries was kidney failure. After all, Mozart did become an alcoholic during the later period of his life after his music fell out of favour in Vienna, and excessive intake of alcohol can lead to such results. Others believe that it was a result of multiple cases of rheumatic fever. Throughout his earlier childhood years, Mozart suffered from recurring bouts of rheumatic fever, which wasn't surprising considering he travelled for 3 and a half years all over Europe in a coach lined with straw and hay. Another theory is that he consumed an uncooked pork chop, and that severely damaged his insides. Whatever it was, it definitely wasn't a pretty death. After his passing, Constanze sought after a number of Mozart's old pupils to finish the work for him. Many of them refused, except for one: Franz Xaver Sussmayr. Sussmayr was an amateur composer at the time, and was a favourite pupil of the late Mozart, so naturally, he accepted Constanzes' request. From the Offertorium onwards, it's Sussmayr's work. Although definitely not in the style of Mozart, it still shows considerable talent and virtuosity in choral, orchestral and operatic writings. Mozart was buried in a paupers' grave just outside of Vienna. It was a miserable day, with heavy rain and clouded skies, so nobody accompanied his coffin to the graveyard. In the mid 20th century, a monument was placed in Vienna in memoriam of Mozart, with a large rose garden styled as a treble clef to represent Mozart's contribution to music. Well, I've talked for way too long, but I think that one thing is certain: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a genius. God bless him.
"The most plausible of these discoveries was kidney failure. After all, Mozart did become an alcoholic during the later period of his life after his music fell out of favour in Vienna, and excessive intake of alcohol can lead to such results. " What bunch of hogwash. Mozart's music never fell out of favor in Vienna during his lifetime. He was at the height of his success. And he also never became an alcoholic"later in life". And it's also not true that he was struggling for money. He was making lots of it, and at the same time had high expenses. But the idea of an impoverished Mozart is a 19th Century myth. And it is also not true that the Requiem is Süssmayrs work from the Offertorium onwards. Actually the much beloved Lacrimosa is the first movement that Süssmayr basically had to write all on his own, because Mozart only sketched 10 bars of it. And the Offertorium itself was still sketched by Mozart. So the sketch ends AFTER the Offertorium and thus Süssmayr had to write everything from the Sanctus onwards. Here is a performed version of Mozarts sketch: th-cam.com/video/M_0wBTkkT7U/w-d-xo.html
@@Quotenwagnerianer He was struggling financially. There's a series of letters that Wolfgang wrote to his friend and fellow Freemason Michael von Puchberg, in which Mozart is almost on the brink of begging him to lend him sums of money. He also did become an alcoholic, as in her later life Constanze took part in interviews and wrote, in partnership with her sister Sophie, an account of the last weeks of her first husband's life. And my information is not a load of hogwash, and I can refer to books and articles where I got this information from: "Mozart: The Man" by John Suchet, "Mozart: The Reign of Love" by Jan Swafford, "Mozart: A Life in Letters", edited and compiled by Cliff Eisen.
@@RequiemAeternam01 It's funny that you mention Cliff Eisen, because it is he whose Biographical notes I base my refutation of your claims on. For example he postulates that the letters in which Mozart begs for money are greatly exaggerating Mozart's financial struggles, because he never had to let his maid go, or that he even had his own carriage, which points to him being considerably wealthy. It is also Eisen who refutes that Mozart's popularity was declining and nowhere does he mention that Mozart became an alcoholic due to that fact. Simply because it never happened.
@@Quotenwagnerianer I understand that his supposed financial difficulties and loss of favour has been tweaked over the years, and that the story has been over exaggerated, mainly during the late 20th century, but the fact remains that these letters to Puchberg DO exist, and there's no denying that Mozart was short of money during the period of 1790-1791, because we literally have letters to prove it. I understand where you're coming from, and I wrote that comment a while ago and since then have read some very interesting things about the latter half of Mozart's life. I apologize for exaggerating the story, and after some extensive reading I found out that he WASN'T an alcoholic, and that was just a 20th century myth popularized by the release of Amadeus in 1984. But there's no denying that Mozart's death was tragic. Another theory is that it was caused by rheumatism, which can cause kidney failure and diseases. During his childhood, whilst touring around Europe he suffered from severe bouts of rheumatic fever. He also contracted a severe case of typhoid fever, which he passed on to Nannerl and who eventually was given the Last Rights. Anyway, I apologize for my false information and hope this sorts everything out.
Amazing reaction ! I love mozart requeim so much !!.Please react to rachmninoff symphone no 2. I saw you are love rachmninoff so you are gonna love that piece so much ((: This piece is my favorite You are gonna get goospumps for sure(sorry for my english im not good at it..)
I have a good suggestion since you seem to be enjoying Mozart, you could react to one of his operas 'Die Entführung aus dem Serail', it has 3 acts of about 50 minutes each if I'm not mistaken Operas are very long so I don't know how many videos it would take to finish it but it would be a fun ride! My favorite rendition of it is: th-cam.com/video/_oHfgVeXd04/w-d-xo.html
Strongly recommend to switch to the Herbert von Karajan recording: th-cam.com/video/pK1bSBHeY-A/w-d-xo.html Although your current one is good, too. Karajan’s is regarded THE recording. If not on your channel, might wanna give it a listen off camera.
I actually don’t agree, it’s not because of Yt views that video that video is popular it’s because it’s an amazing version in a beautiful place. You’ve probably listen to the Karajan or Bernstein version your entire life, i enjoy it of course but this version is definitely not secondary. (I actually find this one maybe better in some aspects, especially by considering the tempo choices)
When listening to a piece for the first time, I'd recommend choosing a TH-cam search result that does not have the video of an entire orchestra playing the music, as it distracts the listener. Instead it is better to choose those TH-cam search results that has just a picture of the composer or a beautiful scenery with the music playing in the background. That way it is much easier to concentrate on the music.
completely disagree here, watching the conductor and the orchestra play is really important and makes the piece more enjoyable, no matter how long it is. Atleast in my opinion.
In the first 30 seconds I can tell that the singers and orchestra were not togther. Then the soprano takes breaths in the middle of the phrases, which is highly distracting and breaks the flow of the music. There are better recordings.
Hello Gidi, thank you for reacting to our video of Mozart's Requiem 😄🎶
I'm honored to react to this beautiful performance! Much love!
Continuez ce que vous faites France Musique, vous m’accompagnez toutes les nuits quand je conduis et c’est un bonheur. Il faut rendre la musique « classique » populaire de nouveau. Vive le service public !
@@Fitz_92 Merci beaucoup pour ce retour 🤩
Oh yeahhh
Definitely the best version on TH-cam to me right now.
1:52 it is Basilique Saint Denis, the place where French Kings and Princes were buried ! This place gives this performance another dimension
Thanks for this reaction. This classical masterpiece in particular is much better understood, admired and enjoyed if you know the context of its writing (Mozart near to his own death) as well as the content of the lyrics.
So great to see you react to music that means so much to people. Very heartwarming.
I have listened the the requiem more than any other piece, and I will tell you, Herreweghe's interpretation is the best. Thia requiem is great, with Confutatis being a masterpiece, and his last true finished work. After that, his friend Xavier (after who Mozart named his son, who also was a really goos composer) finished it according to Mozart's sketches, and thus, lacking in the Mozart "touch". Mozart only wrote the forst 8 or so measures of the Lacrimosa before he stopped, and even then, it was just minimal (not fully orchestrated).
Herreweghe's version is so good! Lovely tempo, I believe it uses period instruments, really love the way the soloists perform their vocal parts but also the clarity of the brass. If you listen to the pretty famous 60s Karajan version, you can hardly hear the brass at all. Herreweghe just has it all very clear so no part is missed.
This is a REAL mastepiece 😲👍❤️🤩🥰😍🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 goosebumps
It was so exciting to watch your experience of this piece! The video production on this live performance is top notch and really shows you what you are listening to. Can't wait to see the rest of your videos on Mozart's Requiem
Amazing! Very excited for this. I suggest you listen to the third section (III. Sequentia) as a whole ( that includes Dies Irae, Tuba mirum, Rex tremendae, Recordare, Confutatis, Lacrymosa) which should be about 20 min.
I’ve already recorded it a bit separately due to copyright reasons when the video gets too long but I’ll try to figure something out
I just discovered your channel and your journey with classical music. I would highly- and I mean highly recommend you listen to Beethoven's Piano Concerto 5 "Emperor", all Three Movements with Zimerman and Bernstein.
Noted!
You can realize how asked is this piece that even a Native Mexican search the Mozart's Requiem reaction. I hope you enjoyed, greetings amigo
Yeah Requiem!!! Love Mozart, literally his last work. He didn't even finish it and his students had to do it.
There are several movements and the lyrics are in Latin. Most of Mozart pieces sound very happy but only few of them are in a minor key, just like this.
I will put another video that in my opinion has great sound quality and, of course lyrics.
Literally Mozart composed his requiem for his funeral, that's why it has a sensation of death and there are rumors about who was the person that request him to do the piece.
There are a lot of points to tell but for now I think that's enough.
Keep it up!
I suggest you to react to this video instead. Save it, it has great sound quality and lyrics in all languages.
Greetings 👍👍
th-cam.com/video/54h8TxJyNy0/w-d-xo.html
Someone saw Amadeus.
The requiem was never intended to be for him, that's just a conspiracy however, he did write in a lettee that as he wrote more of it he felt weaker (due to illness) and that it felt like he was writing it for himself
@@danielw9542 Yes, the requiem wasn't intended to be for him, but since it was an anonymous commission, Mozart never knew who he was writing it for. As he grew weaker he did say he felt like he was writing it for himself. Which was prescient since the first two movements of the work were first performed at his own memorial a few days after his burial.
I’d say it’s worth listening to the guys 4 or 5 tracks of this piece without interruption. It’s all meant to flow.
And the first 4 or 5 are the best ;)
They aren’t separate pieces like Chopin etudes for example after all.
It’s one long piece. It’s one requiem only. One mass for a dead person. With his music to be played. It gets performed all in a row.
If your amazed by this performance, you should watch Carl Orff - Carmina Burana, Epic!
Ouuuuu, The Requiem......
The story of Mozart's requiem has been told for many years. In the Summer of 1791, Mozart was visited by a mysterious figure, who we now know to be Count Franz von Walsegg, an Austrian aristocrat and pianist who commissioned the religious work for his recently passed wife. Walsegg refused to name himself, saying that the requiem was the only important thing. Of course, Mozart never declined a commission, and at the time, he was struggling for money and his financial status was slowly decreasing. So, he started writing it, but only after he completed his Clarinet Concerto and his final two operas, The Magic Flute and La clemenza di Tito. He began writing at the beginning of November 1791, and soon began feeling extremely ill, and was bedridden. He suffered from vomiting, nausea, swelling of the limbs/joints, excessive bleeding and high fevers. Near the end of his life, he stated: "I swear that I have been poisoned, I cannot rid myself of this idea". Although it would make for a good story (= Amadeus), historians and musicologists have long since dismissed poison as the cause of Mozart's death. An operatic bass had visited Mozart's abode in Vienna to rehearse the "Recordare" section of the requiem, but he never finished, because the composer began to weep violently: "Did I not say that I was writing this requiem for myself?", he states wearily. His wife, Constanze, talked about Mozart's last days after his death. She said that he never ate, but drank multitudes of wine every day, and would lapse in and out of sleep continuously. Finally, after 15 days of painful suffering, at 12:55 am on 5 December 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died. His wife and other friends were present at his death, and, after lapsing in and out of consciousness, passed away. To this day, the precise cause of Mozart's death is practically unknown, but thanks to the fantastic invention of modern medicinal studies, doctors have found some answers. The most plausible of these discoveries was kidney failure. After all, Mozart did become an alcoholic during the later period of his life after his music fell out of favour in Vienna, and excessive intake of alcohol can lead to such results. Others believe that it was a result of multiple cases of rheumatic fever. Throughout his earlier childhood years, Mozart suffered from recurring bouts of rheumatic fever, which wasn't surprising considering he travelled for 3 and a half years all over Europe in a coach lined with straw and hay. Another theory is that he consumed an uncooked pork chop, and that severely damaged his insides. Whatever it was, it definitely wasn't a pretty death. After his passing, Constanze sought after a number of Mozart's old pupils to finish the work for him. Many of them refused, except for one: Franz Xaver Sussmayr. Sussmayr was an amateur composer at the time, and was a favourite pupil of the late Mozart, so naturally, he accepted Constanzes' request. From the Offertorium onwards, it's Sussmayr's work. Although definitely not in the style of Mozart, it still shows considerable talent and virtuosity in choral, orchestral and operatic writings. Mozart was buried in a paupers' grave just outside of Vienna. It was a miserable day, with heavy rain and clouded skies, so nobody accompanied his coffin to the graveyard. In the mid 20th century, a monument was placed in Vienna in memoriam of Mozart, with a large rose garden styled as a treble clef to represent Mozart's contribution to music. Well, I've talked for way too long, but I think that one thing is certain: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a genius. God bless him.
Damn, what a story. Appreciate it! I’m glad his student took on this difficult task tho
"The most plausible of these discoveries was kidney failure. After all, Mozart did become an alcoholic during the later period of his life after his music fell out of favour in Vienna, and excessive intake of alcohol can lead to such results. "
What bunch of hogwash. Mozart's music never fell out of favor in Vienna during his lifetime. He was at the height of his success. And he also never became an alcoholic"later in life".
And it's also not true that he was struggling for money. He was making lots of it, and at the same time had high expenses. But the idea of an impoverished Mozart is a 19th Century myth.
And it is also not true that the Requiem is Süssmayrs work from the Offertorium onwards. Actually the much beloved Lacrimosa is the first movement that Süssmayr basically had to write all on his own, because Mozart only sketched 10 bars of it. And the Offertorium itself was still sketched by Mozart. So the sketch ends AFTER the Offertorium and thus Süssmayr had to write everything from the Sanctus onwards.
Here is a performed version of Mozarts sketch: th-cam.com/video/M_0wBTkkT7U/w-d-xo.html
@@Quotenwagnerianer He was struggling financially. There's a series of letters that Wolfgang wrote to his friend and fellow Freemason Michael von Puchberg, in which Mozart is almost on the brink of begging him to lend him sums of money. He also did become an alcoholic, as in her later life Constanze took part in interviews and wrote, in partnership with her sister Sophie, an account of the last weeks of her first husband's life. And my information is not a load of hogwash, and I can refer to books and articles where I got this information from: "Mozart: The Man" by John Suchet, "Mozart: The Reign of Love" by Jan Swafford, "Mozart: A Life in Letters", edited and compiled by Cliff Eisen.
@@RequiemAeternam01 It's funny that you mention Cliff Eisen, because it is he whose Biographical notes I base my refutation of your claims on.
For example he postulates that the letters in which Mozart begs for money are greatly exaggerating Mozart's financial struggles, because he never had to let his maid go, or that he even had his own carriage, which points to him being considerably wealthy.
It is also Eisen who refutes that Mozart's popularity was declining and nowhere does he mention that Mozart became an alcoholic due to that fact.
Simply because it never happened.
@@Quotenwagnerianer I understand that his supposed financial difficulties and loss of favour has been tweaked over the years, and that the story has been over exaggerated, mainly during the late 20th century, but the fact remains that these letters to Puchberg DO exist, and there's no denying that Mozart was short of money during the period of 1790-1791, because we literally have letters to prove it. I understand where you're coming from, and I wrote that comment a while ago and since then have read some very interesting things about the latter half of Mozart's life. I apologize for exaggerating the story, and after some extensive reading I found out that he WASN'T an alcoholic, and that was just a 20th century myth popularized by the release of Amadeus in 1984. But there's no denying that Mozart's death was tragic. Another theory is that it was caused by rheumatism, which can cause kidney failure and diseases. During his childhood, whilst touring around Europe he suffered from severe bouts of rheumatic fever. He also contracted a severe case of typhoid fever, which he passed on to Nannerl and who eventually was given the Last Rights. Anyway, I apologize for my false information and hope this sorts everything out.
Amazing reaction ! I love mozart requeim so much !!.Please react to rachmninoff symphone no 2. I saw you are love rachmninoff so you are gonna love that piece so much ((:
This piece is my favorite
You are gonna get goospumps for sure(sorry for my english im not good at it..)
I’ll add it to the list, I think it might be on there already 😌
Amigo, faz vídeo reagindo as obras do compositor Heitor Villa Lobos. Recomendo a obra "Rasga Coração". É incrível!
Try Jon Leifs' Saga Symphony.
I have a good suggestion since you seem to be enjoying Mozart, you could react to one of his operas 'Die Entführung aus dem Serail', it has 3 acts of about 50 minutes each if I'm not mistaken
Operas are very long so I don't know how many videos it would take to finish it but it would be a fun ride!
My favorite rendition of it is: th-cam.com/video/_oHfgVeXd04/w-d-xo.html
Strongly recommend to switch to the Herbert von Karajan recording: th-cam.com/video/pK1bSBHeY-A/w-d-xo.html
Although your current one is good, too. Karajan’s is regarded THE recording. If not on your channel, might wanna give it a listen off camera.
I actually don’t agree, it’s not because of Yt views that video that video is popular it’s because it’s an amazing version in a beautiful place. You’ve probably listen to the Karajan or Bernstein version your entire life, i enjoy it of course but this version is definitely not secondary. (I actually find this one maybe better in some aspects, especially by considering the tempo choices)
I find bernstein the best, certainly the most firey in my opinion
Thanks for the link, I’ll check that one out too but for now I’ll try and finish this one and then check out other versions in the future 😌
carmina burana next
Also, the opera Aida please
【C͟a͟n͟ ͟y͟o͟u͟ ͟p͟l͟e͟a͟s͟e͟ ͟r͟e͟a͟c͟t͟ ͟t͟o͟ ͟“͟T͟h͟e͟ ͟L͟a͟d͟y͟ ͟o͟f͟ ͟H͟e͟a͟v͟e͟n͟”͟ ͟f͟i͟l͟m͟ ͟T͟r͟a͟i͟l͟e͟r͟?】
When listening to a piece for the first time, I'd recommend choosing a TH-cam search result that does not have the video of an entire orchestra playing the music, as it distracts the listener. Instead it is better to choose those TH-cam search results that has just a picture of the composer or a beautiful scenery with the music playing in the background. That way it is much easier to concentrate on the music.
bruh
I don't recommend that for a piece 1 hour long
completely disagree here, watching the conductor and the orchestra play is really important and makes the piece more enjoyable, no matter how long it is. Atleast in my opinion.
@@idkk4125 x2
Bad advice.
In the first 30 seconds I can tell that the singers and orchestra were not togther. Then the soprano takes breaths in the middle of the phrases, which is highly distracting and breaks the flow of the music. There are better recordings.