Government Denies Knowledge - Requiem

Advantages: Allows you to relive the film from moment to moment, wonderful composition, Additctive overture.
Disadvantages: Tracks are fragmented and short

...Requiem for a dream .. aka Delusion Over Addiction Soundtracks accompany and enhance the experience of a movie. But seldom does it happen that that the score is so good that it stands out on its own to be marvelled at…. The Film ~ Requiem for a Dream, is an adaptation of Hubert Selby's 1978 novel about the harrowing lives of four drug addicts. A mother her son and his beloved Girlfriend, all who become dependant upon drugs and suffer mental illness. This film documents the emotional downfall of these characters, and illustrates their sheer drug induced desperation and melancholy quite graphically. Don't expect any happy end for its swamped in tragedy. The film itself is highly stylised. Aronofsky tries to a degree through surrealist imagery to create a realism where you become emotionally connected with the characters... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting, beautifull, well written
Disadvantages: Bad choice of soloists

...The Requiem, written shotly after his fathers death, is the only piece in this genre that Andrew Lloyd Webber has written. It is a relatively short piece, only 45 minutes long (NOT as the CD discription says, 1h 45min!!), written for chamber orchestra, organ, SATB choir and tenor, soprano and treble soloists. It uses the well known texts of the Requiem mass. I find the music beautifull in a haunting way. The music os mainly classical, but bears a modern touch, which is refreshing. The music is reasonably easy to sing for a choral singer, which makes it an attractive piece for choirs. This recording uses a boy choir and the soloist Placido Domingo (tenor), Sarah Brightman (soprano) and Paul Miles-Kingston. To me, the soloist are the weakest part of the recording. Placido Domingos voice is to heavy to manage the fast Hosanna, Sara... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful Requiem
Disadvantages: Better live

...This review is of the requiem itself rather than the entire CD as it makes up most of the music on the disc. Of all the classical requiems out there Faure's is perhaps the most emotive. Its movements are sombre without being morose and solemn without being boring. Listeners may be familiar with extracts used in recent television adverts particulaly the Agnes Dei whose middle passage and modulation are perhaps the most fantastic in the whole work. Another great is the Libere Me where a solo male voice is a nice contrast to the soprano solo in the Pie Jesu. My only qualm with the piece is the In Sanctum Spiritum where the staccato organ part conjures up images of the magic roundabout?! Defintely one to listen to very loudly after a long day. For a very tranquil experience give it a try...!... Read review

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