Comments on: Verdi’s Requiem still scares the pants off me. https://wolfiewolfgang.com/verdis-requie/ Check in for my regular blogs and reviews Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: WolfieWolfgang (Colin Bell) https://wolfiewolfgang.com/verdis-requie/#comment-923 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:51:13 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=891#comment-923 Send me an email Malcolm telling me what format the Wilfred Owen is on and what computer equipment you have and I will try to help.

On the Dies Irae front, I suspect Verdi would have been less interested in the whole project if he couldn't have used the Dies Irae as it is the germ behind the whole of his conception of the work but then I don't think he was really a Christian.

]]> By: Malcolm Kemp https://wolfiewolfgang.com/verdis-requie/#comment-922 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:27:16 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=891#comment-922 I can't remember the exact details but I remember hearing on the radio years ago of a school music master who enthused his students to an unprecedented degree by starting with the very earliest and most primitive music and tracing it through plainchant and up to modern pop-music so that each period and style was related directly to what had gone before. It apparently worked very well. I have to confess that the Verdi has never particularly attracted me but I've only heard it once, at a Hereford Three Choirs. The RC church now makes the Dies Irae very much an option and I think most clergy choose not to do it. I've played for a number of RC funerals at our local crematorium over the past few years and most of them never mention hell but simply say that nobody is permanently debarred from Heaven; a sentiment with which I would personally not argue one iota.

On a slight side-track (I'm rather good at those!) I have a rather good, very good in fact, privately made recording of someone you know reading Wilfred Owen's "Strange Meeting" but I can't work out how to transfer it to either Facebook direct or You-Tube. Any suggestions, please?

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