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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2005-01-23 02:22 pm

musical BUT WAIT moment

okay, first off, i admit, this is the very first time ever ever that i am listening to verdi's requiem.

with that confession out of the way:  where have i heard this "dies irae" before?  ... it's something lame like in a car commercial or similar, but damn, man ...

[identity profile] cannons-at-dawn.livejournal.com 2005-01-23 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
My memory's saying it was used in Interview with the Vampire, but I could have just imagined that - been years since I watched it.

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2005-01-23 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
that wouldn't be it anyway, i think, as i've only seen most of that film, and only once -- the brass-and-timpani bits sounded really familiar to me, and it's going to bug me now ... off to google. :-)

[identity profile] jgesteve.livejournal.com 2005-01-23 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I know a snippet of it is used during La Vie Boheme in rent, and I believe that it was very much an influence on Sondheim in Sweeney Todd.
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[identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com 2005-01-23 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Try and get the Carlo-Maria Giulini version. 1970s I think. Probably the best.