Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!HNYMPI52!GAVIN From: GAVIN@HNYMPI52.BITNET (Gavin Burnage) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic Subject: RE: Faure plus Pinky and Perky Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 11:55:00 GMT Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music Reply-To: Discussions on all forms of Music Lines: 43 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway X-Original-To: ALLMUSIC@AUVM, GAVIN > I think that the Perky part in Faure's Requiem must be Pie Jesu, although >I'm not too sure . . . Soprano solo, right? Maybe it's Sanctus? Again, not > Yes. The Sanctus. That's it. I checked it last night. The tenors and basses come charging in together in a big way half way through. Very peaceful, very moving. The Pie is dished out straight after, and it's okay too, though it's the still the Sanctus which whumps the musical solar plexus for me. >My recording also has the Chichester Psalms by >Bernstein . . . interesting, to say the least. Anybody heard of them? Not me. It would be nice to know, even though the word `interesting' worries me slightly. Anyway please go ahead and broaden my ignorance on the matter. What are they? What do they sound like? Are they worth getting? > How is Bach's Requiem compared to Faure's? Did Bach write requiems? I don't know. Mozart wrote a nifty one by all accounts. Anyway, after discussing the subject with People Who Know I ended up singing a bit (when I say `bit' I think I mean `chorale') from Bach's Christmas Oratorio stuff -- `Shine forth O beauteous heavenly light' (pardon my German). It's got lots of cool runs in the bass part and is generally fun to sing. I don't really know much about big choral works like this, but the bits and pieces i do get to hear/sing I love: wee Bach bits mostly -- `Liebster Jesu', `Alles is an Gottes Segen', and what i think is the well known `Passion Chorale' -- `O sacred head sore wounded'. Also just before Christmas I cracked briefly on Handel's Messiah, which again has memorable bass bits all over the place, but especially a solo one `The people that walked in darkness'. If I don't watch out I'm going to end doing something really wierd and counter-intuitive (4 me) like liking opera. no no please anything but that > Billy, Don't be a Hero is 20 years old?!?!?!? > -TD Well maybe not, but I reckon Pinky and Perky are. The frisbee in question belongs to a friend, you understand, not to me... However if anyone should want a copy of this memorably awful waste of good plastic and cardboard, get in touch before it's recycled into a set of matching coathangers Gavin