Ligeti: Requiem II Kyrie

[@louvregroove]

The sound of thousands of lost souls crying out from far beyond.

[@osborl12]

David Crawford Like from Alderaan?

[@masterofthecoop]

+osborl12 well played sir :)

[@sparrowlt]

or a Stargate opening to let pass by a small spacecraft

[@KuBi4K]

It's.... the Warp !

[@ZechsMerquise73]

The sound of about 75 aging white people from central France.

[@lezzman]

I can't imagine how difficult it must be to sing this. With so many different notes being played and sung by so many other people at the same time, trying to concentrate on your own piece must be an absolute nightmare. No wonder some of them are using tuning forks to keep their pitch. That must be one incredibly well disciplined choir.

[@InquisitorMatthewAshcraft]

Earplugs, and concentration on your own voice.

[@genericallyentertaining]

It's fitting that such a nightmarish piece should be nightmarish to play.

[@criztu]

you'd be surprise what humans are capable of doing, for a fistful of dollars

[@randomaccessfemale]

@@criztu And sometimes just for a few dollars more.

[@edjours45]

It's their job, like others in the mine, to which they adapt over time... The latter are also admirable, albeit in the service of a less noble mission.... @@criztu

[@CarlosHenriqueXavierEndo]

I've heard this when I've found a big black stone when I was walking around my house. I touched the stone and everything changed.

[@loge10]

+Carlos Henrique Xavier Endo Yes, but for the better?

[@casinoBC]

Or up until an artificially intelligent spaceship tries to kill you

[@lefael_]

Lol

[@CarlosHenriqueXavierEndo]

@@loge10, definitely no! I had to kill a tapir and eat the raw meat! I won't say what I did next, I regret it deeply.

[@kepler6500]

I see youve watched 2001 space oddity

[@kool_dud8547]

the fly that's keeping me awake at 4 am:

[@markdshook]

Isn't it crazy to see this performed by actual humans? I always picture it coming from faces in the smoke of a burning church or something. And I mean that in the most respectful way.

[@wesleyan97]

Yup, the sound shouldn't come from bodies,

[@Alter_Ego247]

kinda takes the magic

[@alecjones4676]

I listen to this while mowing the lawn.

[@DruidButcherFreeVT]

The grass is just like "do you guys even WANNA grow back?"

[@CarlosHenriqueXavierEndo]

You're just a lawnmower. You can tell me, by the way I walk

[@kingleech16]

😀😀😁😁😂😂

[@Erny_Module]

Oh, you're the other one that does that....

[@alecjones4676]

Lol I know it's probably strange but there's something remarkably peaceful about Ligeti's music to me. Maybe I was raised by the Outer Gods or something.

[@xxCrapNamexx]

You can sense the suffering that went into this piece... It's not the type of suffering that perpetuates modern songs about relationships failing after the infatuation period but a much deeper soul shattering suffering... I daren't imagine what could of inspired it.

[@Fear_the_Nog]

Maybe it's because I saw 2001 when I first heard this piece, but I don't associate it with suffering. I associate it with the unfathomable and alien mystery of the cosmos. Like, if a black hole had a voice, what would it sound like?

[@ChollieD]

Yes, and he also had great trauma in Hungary after the war as well.

[@Mazeppa6]

snillocgrom awesome comment!

[@frombeyond4913]

@@Fear_the_Nog I know you commented a long time ago but I would like to add that, it has nothing to do with that. Kyrie are the angels in heaven praising Christ our lord and that he is the son of God.

[@chambermuses7802]

Not least of all losing his brother Gabor in Mauthausen and his father in Auschwitz. But Ligeti, like any true artist, is not drawing only on personal experiences and feelings - his vision transcends that... Not to mention his assertion that he was neither a believer nor an atheist... "there are other possibilities..." kzbin.info/www/bejne/anLLfIqlm7uJZqc @ 20:33.

[@chuckanziulewicz9655]

I have the profoundest admiration for ANY choir that dares to tackle this piece.

[@mysticmouse7261]

To say this music is ahead of its time would be a huge understatement. This music creates its own time and therefore vibrates outside of ours.

[@benhinton4613]

Great comment

[@AlanCanon2222]

I got to thank Ligeti in person for terrifying me in childhood with his music, especially this piece! He came to my city (Louisville) in 1986 to accept the Grawemeyer Award and I attended the concert.

[@lizs004]

I'm really jealous of you.

[@christopherkempf1507]

The choir is in fact singing the text 'Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison' but through Ligeti's genius the supplication of the prayer is expressed instead through the harrowing texture and micropolyphony

[@archimedesnation]

It's amazing that such a piece can be composed, let along performed like this. Excellent.

Please don’t play this in my funeral.

[@armelliumthefulgent.6053]

The ashen one awakens...

[@GigaJinGaming3711]

Don't worry. I got you covered.

[@tarkineWild]

Yes,please don't

[@jooplin]

I actually want this to be played at my funeral

[@howardchambers9679]

@@jooplin me too. Because A) it's beautiful And B) my kids aren't going to accidentally come across it on the radio.

[@danielplainview2584]

One of the greatest pieces ever composed. Insane.

[@PaulWrightDirector]

This piece genuinely fuels my nightmares.

[@jellomakesmehappy]

Remind anyone of Date's Inferno? The sound of a million lost souls begging for mercy and relief from the eternal flames of suffering

[@kevinbyrne4538]

This piece was intended to commemorate the victims of the Second World War -- particularly the victims of the concentration camps, where the composer lost members of his family. The music depicts the souls of millions of victims crying up to God.

[@prometheanevent]

It's nice to see that I'm not alone in appreciating one of the 20th centuries great masterpieces. I often found the turbulent washes of sound in this work to be like what a person with synesthesia might "hear" upon seeing a pleated curtain blowing slowly - the edges periodically lining up in a full state of dissonance and easing away into temporary harmony. The piece no doubt takes time to fully assimilate but after several hearing it's hard not to notice a structural integrity every bit as s

[@WhoeverThatGuyIs]

This... This is the sound of billions of souls begging, wretching, and screaming for mercy on the day of judgement. Kyrie Eleison... Lord, have mercy.

[@Sploooks]

oh please just shush

[@gabrialplague]

It's black mass

[@kool_dud8547]

dori me ameno

[@Voiletflames_2]

thats the power of classical acapella. it gives me goose bumps and creates horror. Feels like the world is going to end right now.

[@delpechphilippe4404]

Tellement sublime, on ne peu pas oublier d'avoir chanté une oeuvre pareille.

[@SMATF5]

If I ever get abducted by aliens, I want this to play while it happens.

[@theo9952]

Incredible music. A 20th century classic masterpiece.

[@gnoink]

I wonder how this was composed. Incredible. One of the most eerie pieces of music I have ever heard.

[@draugmor17]

Cauchemardesque et à la fois magnifique c'est en partie grâce à cette musique que 2001 l'odyssée de l'espace m'a autant marquer. Gyorgy Ligeti à créer un véritable chef d'œuvre musical.

[@mynarinhamelo]

As vozes parecem ventos uivando em janelas fechadas... é sutil e profundo, toca em algum lugar muito escondido dentro de nós.

[@alexwalter2262]

I and my colleagues in Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will be singing this at a live screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey later this week at the Sydney Opera House as part of this year's Sydney Festival. Both shows completely sold out but there might be standing room available if anybody is around and wants to experience something special!

[@p.terodactyl6848]

Disney should put the entire Requiem in a 3rd Fantasia movie. I'm interested to see what they would get from this.

[@Rinesmyth]

that would be *astounding*

[@richardaristo]

Hades scene from Hercules

[@StefaanHimpe]

This is wonderful. Singing this piece with a choir must be astonishingly difficult. At 3:58 : I've never seen a singer use a tuning fork during a performance before :)

[@nasrosubari49]

Happen's often in atonal music. I once watched a performance of Krenek's "Lamentationes" for 12 solo singers and it looked as if they were saluting all the time... PS: and after the break, they DID play Ligeti's Requiem (with full forces)!!

[@fanwithnoname]

THIS MUSIC, and the camera pans down, we see JUPITER. And my mind is BLOWN.

[@ct-hv1uz]

This is the sound of the combined human suffering of Earth over the previous 40,000 years condensed into 7 minutes of cosmic time. A quick and painful experiment in intelligent life that went wrong and produced an abysmal primate creature, capable of horrors beyond that of any other living being. The hordes of hominid creatures constructed vast civilizations and regularly wiped each other out, slithering across the laboratory floor in confusion and pain and pleasure. The experiment did eventually end, thankfully, but pitifully not soon enough.

[@ChollieD]

Oh lighten up. It could easily be heard as a call out to a god that is truly mysterious and beyond understanding.

[@blacksunapocalypse]

Edgy.

[@cathbadcock7970]

shut the fuck up

[@FilosofiadiCazzeggio]

Very beautiful and Lovecraftian, thank you

[@GentlemanAmerican]

This sounds remarkably like the original recording used in 2001. Brilliant!

[@thomasgroves3611]

The high-altitude insertion scene from Godzilla comes to mind

[@melissaduffy4]

My great aunt Marie Pierik, whom I was named after, taught Gregorian Chant globally and wrote books on this,. Growing up I listened to a record of her leading a group of monks singing plainchant for years while I studied. This musical piece is a fascinating, powerful, frightening and moving rendition that takes the chant to a whole new level. In this music there is so much present... Bees communicating in hives, vibrating and pulsing as a community; people in massive quantities having their lives extinguished in gas chambers and the feeling of foreboding and inevitable doom as bombs descend from the sky above.

[@pj8883]

I knew Ligeti was good, but this is astonishing.

[@joeyuzwa891]

This combined with the beginning of Left Hand Path by Entombed and the sounds of crackling fire is what I imagine Hell sounds like

[@chuckanziulewicz9926]

This is absolutely sublime.

[@gianzua5727]

The most terrifying composition..it give me a huge sense of anxiety

[@TheRam324]

I am surprised that the media does not use this song during COVID-19 pandemic. Viewers will be scared shitless. It is the voices of those who are suffering severely from this illness. We are all in this together. Stay strong, everyone.

[@tuckerbrowning]

Yeah because the media does that all the time right

[@EddyOfTheMaelstrom]

Bad bot.

[@vidiveniviciDCLXVI]

I have listened to much music in my life, but nothing has close to a real emotion. This Piece feels like pure fear. It makes the hairs stand up on the back of my arms. Its a master piece. Its tops anything I heard from the greats of the past, because it makes me feel scared. With out reason, just pure fear.

[@elizabethwallace7495]

Had the honor of singing this in Madrid at the Royal Concert Hall and at the Alhambra at night! During daytime rehearsals, birds charged overhead as if hunted! At first we laughed at the score. (He's kidding, right?) But no more. I play it out the window every Halloween night as do my adult children!

[@asyrip]

I'm an atheist but thought about religion and God when I was a wee boy. This music gives me the same feeling I felt while doing so. Not the hallelujah, church commissioned stuff!

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

This exact piece is used in Godzilla during the H.A.L.O. jump scene. How perfect it was. It genuinely sounded like the battalion was descending into hell. Seeing Godzilla and the hokmuto duke it out quietly while this played was riveting, easily became one of my favourite films ever. These singers are something else, it really sounds like thousands upon thousands of souls lamenting, though not in agony. Perfectly captures the original, authentic Biblical Sheol.

[@Carsfan58]

Absolutly fascinating and fantastic ! Extraordinary piece in real resonance with our world and our thought about it !

[@3C71]

An absolutely perfect performance! Great!

[@Rahatlakhoom]

This is the sound current. The word, in an attempt to give it a voice. If you associate it with some emotional context, then you miss the soul.

[@WaitingForTheHook]

This would be the smartest piece to mess up on 'cause nobody would really notice.

[@gerhardh.6239]

I consider this performance of the Ligeti Requiem to be the best interpretation of the brilliant work

[@MorningChoco]

人間の精神の深淵を表現した傑作！！ 本当に音楽って素晴らしい。

[@edjours45]

Comme un cri apocalyptique... Une superbe et d'une rare intérieure interprétation

[@gerdh.5819]

Absolutely the best I've ever heard! There is no better "Kyrie"!

[@nico3144]

Ive never heard anything like this this is hauntingly beautiful

[@roloug95]

saw it the other night! absolutely fantastic, a truly unforgettable magnificent experience.

[@rwboa22]

This just creeps me out. I don't think of this as the Kyrie Elesion from a Requiem Mass, but the Jupiter Monolith (the one that captured David Bowman) from "2001" and "2010."

[@Frankee67]

Fantastisch! Dieser Klangteppich klingt wie ein wild gewordener Bienenschwarm ... beängstigend eindrucksvoll.

[@davehenry7262]

Without this, the greatest film of all time (2001: A Space Odyssey) would not have the profound impact that it does.

[@sieracki001]

Extremely difficult piece. I was unaware anyone else had attempted it since the Ligeti edition was recorded. Requires extreme virtuosity in the choir parts - usually they cannot handle. As you can hear the parts are not always "synched" but off each other by different evolving amounts. It's extremely difficult to keep your part under control while others are around you with totally different parts to sing. Well done.

[@delko000]

I saw the music sheet and i couldn't believe my eyes. How is it even possible?

[@EddyOfTheMaelstrom]

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[@gerdh.5819]

one of the best performances of Ligeti's work with a really great conductor.

[@marcusthales4370]

My god! It's full of stars!

[@damirbabic7403]

2001.space odissey,2014 godzilla this song is epic,terryfing, the female voices of angels masterpiece

[@ciupenhauer]

I really have to wonder what Ligeti was thinking when he composed this, beyond the obvious subversive stylistic approach. To me it was Kubrik that gave this piece it's ultimate meaning, that of being in shock and awe of being in front of something so great, so beyond, that the knees and hands tremble, and the mind freezes. This to me is the true expression of meeting an Archangel, if there ever was one. Or aliens, so advanced that Independence Day would seem like a crack head's attempt at SF by comparison.

[@autumnmelvi2978]

i am so glad i get to sing this this year

[@godzillalover3445]

"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds..."

[@bloodraynex871]

2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY!!! :D

[@halfmonk]

fantastic! i had the opportunity to see salonen conduct many of the ligeti pieces with the LA philharmonic. ligeti was actually present for many of them. it was astonishing and wonderful to finally hear them performed live. salonen also presented some of ligeti's smaller chamber pieces as part of the green umbrella series at the japan america theatre. very grateful to have heard those performances as well.

[@madelienehartman9125]

If u turn ur volume up really quickly it makes them sound like bees

[@reinaldocampos7232]

LA MÚSICA , AL CERRAR TUS OJOS , TE TRANSPORTA A LO INENTENDIBLE , LO ETEREO , LA INMENSIDAD , EL MIEDO A LO DESCONOCIDO .QUÉ SOMOS EN ESTE INMENSO UNIVERSO? NADA NI SIQUIERA UN GRANO DE ARENA EN EL MAS GRANDE DESIERTO DE NUESTRO INSIGNIFICANTE PLANETA. Y ENTONCES SURGE LA PREGUNTA VALE LA PENA ADQUIRIR TANTO CONOCIMIENTO PARA FINALMENTE DARNOS CUENTA DE LO POCO QUE SABEMOS Y SOMOS? OPINO , Y ASÍ INTENTO ENSEÑAR A MIS HIJOS, QUE LA MEJOR ÉPOCA DE NUESTRAS VIDAS ES LA NIÑEZ PURA Y ASISTIDA , SIN RESPONSABILIDADES MAYORES, SIN GRAN CONCOCIMIENTO DE LO QUE NO RODEA PERO A MEDIDA QUE CRECEMOS NUESTRA MENTE SE NUBLA CON LA LLEGADA DE LO QUE LLAMAMOS RAZON .

[@PorchBass]

This is the sound inside my head when I run out of weed. Haha!

[@reaverfang377]

Ha?

[@Gryffindor8]

spongebob when he discovers fire.

[@EL0Gonza]

You awake from cryo sleep and you are the last survivor of your crew, you don't know what happen but "that" is not done with the ship. You hold your last hope, a rosary beads from when you left earth. "Lord have mercy on my soul".

[@Carsfan58]

Thanks ! Many thanks ! Realy thanks for it !!! It's a so marvelous opera ! I Wonder ! Congratulations and many greathings to the all the "manufacturers"..

[@MonalisaDeLego]

Crédits • Artistes : Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Virpi Räisänen-Midth (mezzo-soprano), Maîtrise de Radio France, Sofi Jeanin (direction maîtrise), Choeur de Radio France, Michel Tranchant (chef de choeur), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Esa-Pekka Salonen (direction) • Production : Camera Lucida

[@user-si5nm1bz3f]

the greatest music in 20th century. Anybody will not be able to write like this. Forever!! But this performance is not at its best, I think.

[@MarkGrindell]

I don't think it's about lost souls AT ALL, though I think that it's very sharp at times and difficult. I think that God made many things, some of which are good but scary, such as the deep parts of space, or fierce creatures; but these are themselves, good; a mother bear is very dangerous indeed but she loves her baby bears with an unconditional and jealous love - that's just an example. The music speaks to me of the wild parts of creation and of heaven; if I'm very fortunate, I'll be close to that danger one day, but safe in God. This music is simply glorious and powerful.

[@gzilla1149]

Remember..."It's full of stars!"

[@SerMordred1412]

Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists save empty space - and you! And you are but a thought

[@JesuDulcisMemoria]

Esto es genial y maravilloso, muchas gracias por publicarlo

[@will_adamborn]

Why do I find this relaxing?

[@globetrekker86]

Spine-tingling greatness!

[@realyodaad]

Damn! This makes me shiver!

[@supermichael9857]

Hmm. Sounds like hell.

[@smithy1578]

Actually it’s purgatory because once a soul is in hell they cannot be helped but the souls in purgatory can be helped but have to be cleansed if their sins before going to heaven

[@user-ys5qp4bq4s]

maybe hes protestant

[@dougol010]

Absolutely amazing piece so much depth so many images ,but after that i have to listen to St. Matthews Passion for a while just for hygienic purposes :)

[@JonahUniverse]

This is the scariest song ever created by mankind

[@BritishFoodGuide]

nice to hear chorus being used in a creative way for once.

[@Tropia]

I could watch Esa-Pekka Salonen conduct all day long, so much animation, omg!

[@douglasmatley]

One of my favorite works, Made more famous by 2001 A Space Odyssey. Thank you, would love to see score while the Kyrie is performed. Thank you D. Alexandr D'Maddalena

[@newvultraz]

This is where atonality and microtonality has a place. King Crimson is by far the most brutal and scary band out there, but this... it's different. It's ethereal, it's hellish, it's terrifying.

[@pchabanowich]

The most compelling and tragic Kyrie I have heard, in spite of Bruckner and Faure.

[@epemsley3787]

Friggin' genius

[@Tropia]

Okay, did some digging, the conductors name is Esa-Pekka Salonen, he conducts The Philharmonia Orchestra (one of the leading orchestras in Great Britain, based in London). Esa-Pekka Salonen is Finnish btw

[@CMSPMARCUS]

Absolutely fantastic...!!!

[@Nicar526]

oh if this is on DVD I'm so there

[@leo_ghost_riley_141]

I can feel the presence of Shinnigami Ryuk! In my room

[@ringeradam4575]

If I ever become the master of music at a Cathedral, I will do my Damnest to have a Halloween Evensong, and this will be the anthem owo

[@archdukebigdogkoopa3821]

That's the influence and inspiration on the Deep Note.

[@Kenoptic]

The next screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which includes performance of most of this movement, will be in the 2013 Adelaide Festival, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Chamber Singers conducted by Robert Ziegler, chorus director Carl Crossin.

[@PhysicsMasterMind]

The monolith gave me increased intelligence while listening to this.

[@kriegsmaschine4050]

Today I glimpsed the face of God through a keyhole. A mere pore was all that was displayed to me, yet it burned right through my retinas and melted away every bit of muscle and skin I had until all that was left was a trembling skeleton, bowing and clasping before Him. Lord, have mercy.

[@twalsh06]

At the Annunciation (see Luke 2), a multitude of the heavenly host sang God's praises. In this composition, a multitude of the damned and forgotten sing tortured agonies, begging God for mercy. These are the voices of those on whom His favor does not rest.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The forgotten? That's odd, surely he sees the meanest sparrow fall?

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

Wow, Elyon should've taught his son to not play with his toys like this.

[@supertommy1000ify]

It's normal when this started I found a big black stone in front of my house?

[@kisenon15]

“2001年宇宙の旅”　はこの曲が使われたからこそ衝撃的だった。。