Yes you're right it is odd mixing up the orchestra and singers. I would find brass in my ear quite offputting - unless the line it has fits with my own, which perhaps it does in this case. I only know the bass line for choir 1 though, so can't comment. I'd have to get out the score and have a look in detail.
49.30 onwards is just incredible. If I could still get those high notes I would love to sing it.
All your links are broken. Can you not go on the video and use the share tab, then paste it?
My Japanese preferences tend to start and stop with X Japan. Their "Last Live" concert from '97 (their farewell gig after a 15-year career) is simply awesome. Part of their appeal, to me at least, is that they can switch from very heavy/fast metal to the most incredible ballads.
As long as the cut-off is at 300 years ago. The period from ca. 1750 to 1850 is by far my least favorite period in Western Classical music. And apart from Bach and a small handful of pre-Baroque composers, 20th and 21st century is best--and, oddly, from the turn of the previous century to present, the vast majority of my favorite composers are from the US and the UK.Ha. People such as myself like the music from 300-400 years ago best.
The Lacrymosa gets me, every time.
That too is great to sing.
I'll check these out
A community choir my wife was going to sing with in 2020 had planned to do the Requiem. They had a couple rehearsals...in February. We were a little lachrymose when it was cancelled. Much favilla.
I found him more tricky, more serious not as pretty. However, when I heard the 2nd movement of his seventh, oh my.
I find his symphonies can be a bit militaristic. Napoleon and all that. But he is the great master of the piano. And his violin concerto is fabulous.
I like his piano stuff and string quartets, and some chamber pieces. Otherwise, Beethoven represents much of what I dislike in Western music generally. This may be a bit harsh, but I see Beethoven almost as a precursor to arena rock. But really, that whole period--from about the mid-18th to the mid-19th century--seems very much about excess and bombast.
I've always regarded Bach as worlds apart from Beethoven and Mozart. Obviously, there's the enormous stylistic differences; but I'm talking more about attitude. Bach's work has always struck me as deeply personal, and as though composed entirely for himself--albeit humbly.
, he does remind me of the middle section of their phenomenal 29-minute track "Art of Life"... a repetitive theme but then gets gradually more chaotic and dischordant, reflecting descent into mental despair/anguish. Before resolving (sorry for the spoiler! )
I do agree about the "bombast" in a fair bit of Romantic era music, especially Germanic. It turns me off too. The composer seems to be saying "Look at me, the great Artist, and my important ideas". People like Mahler, Bruckner and Wagner who often seem to use enormous orchestral forces to produce shouty music that seems to have a sort of muddy, unclear texture, or else to convey a kind of emotional wallowing. It all seems a bit pompous and self-indulgent to me.
Back in the day, Palestine was an associate of Lamonte Young, Tony Conrad, et al. Lots of those guys were mathematicians and liked to experiment with alternate tunings in their work, with a lot of "maths" and stuff done beforehand. Palestine has mostly worked with equal temperament and his work draws on the inevitable harmonic resonances of the strings, cabinet, environment, the beating, etc.--that's why you need the Bosendorfer Imperial! Some of this is calculable and predictable; some of it less so (I guess all of it would technically be calculable and predictable, but one would have to account for every single conceivable factor prior).Hmmm, that Charlemagne Palestine is different, for sure. Interesting. For some reason reminds me of early Tangerine Dream, albums like Phaedra, or Alpha Centauri, where they just take you on a journey.
However, bringing it aaaall the way back to X Japan, as I try to crow-bar another of their oeuvre into the conversation
But, yeah, that Palestine chap is certainly different.