classical music.

Lovely!

Trisha, You took the words right out of my mouth!

Reviving this old thread because I've been listening to some choral music.
I belonged to a few choirs, but we never sang this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCULWK4tNuc

Just the first chorale, it's sublime (imo). Brings tears to my eyes.

Carrying Nellie's link over.

https://twitter.com/singingworkshop

One of my choirs runs three a year, we organise it and provide food etc. About a third of us turn up so that new people don't feel too nervous, they won't be left dangling mid-air, as it were. It's a good way of seeing if you would enjoy it.

I rather liked the contrast between the two. Also, Armed Man was far kinder to altos, which I appreciated!

The next concert, on Good Friday with another choir, will be Stainer again (did him last year with a different choir) and a third with yet another choir will be Mendelssohn's Hymn of praise. I don't like the Stainer at all (apart from flinging wide the gates) and vowed to never do it again, but a friend is short of altos for her choir.

For any more singers out there this site lists some of the come and sing days around the country.

https://twitter.com/singingworkshop

JaneRowena My choir did Faure Requiem last night with a couple of Vaughan Williams numbers.

The Faure is just wonderful but he is not very kind to Altos. We have about 3 notes, all the same, at the end of the Sanctus and similarly in the "In Paradisium." We Altos only get star rating in the "offertorium" when we start without the sopranos.
II. OFFERTORIUM
O Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex Gloriae
libera animas defunctorumetc

However the music all through is just beautiful You can't hear it without being moved.
Faure and "The Armed Man" seem to me an odd combination for one concert but I really like both of them.

I got talked into a come and sing day of The Armed man for a "Voices for hospices" day many years ago now, before I joined a choral society. I would love to do that one again. More lovely melodies in that.

I do have a "come and sing" day booked for the Mozart Requiem in early May that will be something to look forward to.
My last such day was the Haydn Nelson Mass with the Salford CS.
All good fun.

I agree with janer. Keep singing. I download music from Amazon then burn compilation CDs to play in the kitchen so I can sing along while I'm cooking. You can have a selection of whatever takes your fancy.

My voice went towards the end of Libera Me and I really panicked. Not a note could I squeak out until almost the end of In Paradisum, so I do feel for you. I was thinking, this is it, I shall never be able to sing again. If I tried to sing it really hurt, and nothing came out at all. Heaven only knows what it was. All I know is, I would be devastated if it ever became permanent.

Keep singing along to the radio, annodomini. Or this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmrt7sjNGPs&list=PL9A3852017B3C857F&index=1

Singing makes you happy, even if it isn't perfect.

I those of you who can sing in choirs. My singing has never been great, but acid reflux has made my vocal chords unpredictable and I seem to have a few gaps in my range! And there's nothing I'd like more than to join in the Hallelujah Chorus or the finale of Belshazzar's Feast. Or any of the great oratorios - a musical form which I love.

It's a beautiful poem for a funeral and so comforting.

It's lovely! I'll suggest it for next year.

Yes, I think one of my choirs would love it.

If you get a chance to listen to all of it, the last two movements are sublime.

Listening to it now, I love the soprano part. It is beautiful.

I thought it was American, being slightly folksy, but she's Canadian.

I've only just listened to the short bit! It was lovely, more informal than most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mketFlspmzc

Here's the whole Requiem. It's not too long and breathtakingly beautiful I think.

That was lovely, Merlotgran.
It has a feeling of Irish folk music.

I knew what you meant.

I've just noticed two Elizabeths in my post.

Thank you - I will do, once I have managed to get rid of DBH and interminable Time Teams!

For those who love listening to a Requiem Mass, try this lovely movement from Eleanor Daley's Requiem.

'In Remembrance' is Mary Elizabeth Elizabeth Frye's uplifting poem. We played this during the committal at Mum's funeral. It still reduces me to tears.

The whole Requiem is beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y74j136ddRQ

Mozart's is my favourite, I think. A friend said to me last week that she doesn't like it. Isn't it strange when your friends dislike music that you love. And vice versa. After greyduster said she liked the Agnus Dei in the Faure I dreamt about different versions all night long - it was exhausting, I was singing in my dreams for hours! Slipping seamlessly from one version to another, the fact is, I can no longer tell them apart. I need the intro, then I'm off, but I couldn't tell you who the composer is.

They're my longtime favourites janerowena, they give me goosebumps
I seem drawn to Requiems, Mozart's playing at the moment.

DD plays cello in several orchestras so I'm really lucky to get to hear new-to-me composers from time to time.