[placenta medicae talpae]

I'm completely addicted to:

Mozart's requiem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHbgt3e-TC8
Verdi's requiem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsZEv7kAllo
Mendelssohn's Elijah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBMTzryAnrk

So can anyone recommend some other great works?

[schenker]

Works of a similar style? Or just other great works?

Oh, and regarding Elijah - Look out for a new recording coming out by the Gabrieli Consort & Players, it's going to be awesome

[Foxydelic54]

Rachmaninov's piano concertos -especially http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG6Y-...eature=related

[Fingersmith]

If you like Requiems, try Brahms, Faure and Durufle

[placenta medicae talpae]

(Original post by schenker)
Works of a similar style? Or just other great works?

Oh, and regarding Elijah - Look out for a new recording coming out by the Gabrieli Consort & Players, it's going to be awesome

Anything that's choral and epic, the sort of thing that you listen to and think, "I just have to buy the score!"
I heard a prom of Bach's B Minor Mass the other day, and I'd say that qualifies

(Original post by Foxydelic54)
Rachmaninov's piano concertos -especially http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG6Y-...eature=related

You wouldn't believe it, but I'd just started listening to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...maninov_Piano/ when I saw this!

As far as piano concerti are concerned, it's got to be Rachmaninov and Grieg for definite.

By the way, Knutsford is my second home -- or at least Tatton Park is

(Original post by Fingersmith)
If you like Requiems, try Brahms, Faure and Durufle

Thanks!

[christielovesyou]

(Original post by placenta medicae talpae)
As far as piano concerti are concerned, it's got to be Rachmaninov and Grieg for definite.

Try Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto, it's fantastic.

[j.alexanderh]

Epic and choral you say? Can't do better than the Berlioz Requiem. And if you like following the scores as well...

[placenta medicae talpae]

(Original post by christielovesyou)
Try Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto, it's fantastic.

Thanks! Quite a playful concerto, which I've heard loads before, but never been able to attach a name to.
They're doing the complete Beethoven piano sonatas on the Proms at the moment, if you're interested?

I also noticed from your signature that you're into languages in music.
Do you know any Scots Gaelic?
I've started to learn some this vacation, and it's an awesome language!

(Original post by j.alexanderh)
Epic and choral you say? Can't do better than the Berlioz Requiem. And if you like following the scores as well...

I've now listened to the whole work (available here) and I completely agree with you!
Now to buy the score and run it over and over ...

[WillowSummers]

If you like choral, go for Vivaldi's Magnificat.

[j.alexanderh]

And (IMO) the king of large scale choral works - Beethoven's Missa Solemnis:

[placenta medicae talpae]

(Original post by j.alexanderh)
And (IMO) the king of large scale choral works - Beethoven's Missa Solemnis:

Yes! I heard this a while ago and just thought, wow

[christielovesyou]

(Original post by placenta medicae talpae)
Thanks! Quite a playful concerto, which I've heard loads before, but never been able to attach a name to.
They're doing the complete Beethoven piano sonatas on the Proms at the moment, if you're interested?

I also noticed from your signature that you're into languages in music.
Do you know any Scots Gaelic?
I've started to learn some this vacation, and it's an awesome language!

I didn't know that about the Beethoven sonatas! May need to listen to them, Beethoven is one of all-time favourites. I loved the Beethoven symphony cycle that was done at the Proms a few weeks ago.

I know odd words in Gaelic but nothing spectacular, and don't get me started on how to spell the few words and phrases I do know. It was compulsory in our primary school for the first five years (then we switched over to French), so I mainly remember useless stuff like "yellow" and "frog". The most useful things I know are "what's your name?" and "my name is...". I do like the sound of the language, even though it's not widely spoken (that could be because I've got a bit of a Brave obsession at the moment). To be honest though I am much more of a Romance languages person.

[j.alexanderh]

Some other suggestions:

- Bach: St Matthew Passion
- Mahler: Symphony #8
- Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor
- Brtitten: War Requiem
- Haydn: The Creation

[Fingersmith]

Everyone knows "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff but have a listen to his sequel "Catulli Carmina". Not so memorable but arguably more subtle.

On a less lofty note, the predictive text on my iPad keeps changing Carmina to carminative which is something that makes you fart. Hmmm

[placenta medicae talpae]

(Original post by j.alexanderh)
And (IMO) the king of large scale choral works - Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

Guess what!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ht_21_08_2012/

Thanks everyone else for the suggestions too

Top-quality music pretty much 24:7 at the moment with the proms

[danadd9]

I hate you guys for not recommending Wagner in the two months that this thread has existed