György Ligeti, Requiem 

Props to the audience for attending this concert even though they're dying of tuberculosis

Vocalists: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" *turns page in song book* "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

What strikes me as especially fascinating about this requiem is how he utilized the dying audiences coughing

Before you scroll down, 90% of the comments are about the audience coughing. There, just saved you 10 minutes.

imagine going to your first concert and its this

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...."

Please edit the video description to give credit to the audience as guest vocalists

11:02 lady hits her head with tuning fork. Some amazing expressions in the choir must be wonderful to perform.

This was my wedding song! My wife and I danced to this as new husband and wife!

Legend has it that all the members of the audience actually came in with hrwlthy lungs but Ligetis music was so haunting that they began spontaneously infected with terminal tuberculosis

7:50 - The Monolith 9:00 - Approaching the Monolith 9:50 - Fear and Reckoning 10:12 - Terror 10:59 - Subsides

In all my years attending and playing concerts I have never heard such a consumptive audience!!

I though yall was joking bout the extent the audience is coughting. I was mistaken. And gosh what a mistake it was

00:33 - I. Introitus 07:52 - II. Kyrie 14:53 - III. Dies Irae 23:34 - IV. Lacrimosa

the feeling of dread, hopelessness, fear, death, evil but all of it is so damn beautiful.

Proud. My nations composer and choir. Great conductor. I didn't know about any hospital with such concert hall....

As kids we had the album for 2OO1. We tried to see how long we could play this piece with the lights off without getting scared to death.

This is the soundtrack for COVID-19 ☠️👩‍🚀😷

The added coughing brilliantly underscores the frailty and uncontrolled nature of human existence... I've never heard it in the studio recording but it adds so much. Bravo

the impact this song has had on cinema

Makeda Monnet is amazing! Her pitch and control are dead nuts on!! Actually both gals were. Wow. Despite the tuberculosis brigade the performance is masterful all around. Ligeti absolutely visionary and so patient in his notation ascriptions.

A wonderful performance of a twentieth century masterpiece. Shame about the noisy audience.

There's no way to remove the coughing and other ambient noises from the audience, simply because of the techniques necessary to correctly mic this orchestra. With a choral section like this, very sensitive mics are used. You can pick up the creak of chairs, the click of a bow on a cello neck as the musician turns a page, even sometimes the gurgle of a stomach. The coughing of this audience in the beginning is very infuriating, however. /Audio engineer

So cool how Godzilla 2014 used this song during the HALO jump scene. God meets man

If i would wittness this live I don’t know if I would cry or be shaking

Only a brilliant mind can compose sounds like these, Kudos to you György Ligeti! Love the Kyrie with its extended polyphony which Ligeti called micropolyphony. Some of the sounds are almost like the dead speaking, scary music influenced by Ligeti's family history of being sent to concentration camps. His brother died in one, only his mother survived. Even Ligeti was sent to a labour camp, when you know this you can understand the sounds he creates much more and the closeness he has been to death during his life! The Kyrie influenced by the Renaissance composer Ockeghem is wondrous, listen to the 20 part polyphony. It's almost like people mourning the dead during a funeral to me, or even the dead souls seeking redemption? The horrors of war are horrendous, which in this 20th Century masterpiece Ligeti totally encapsulates.

Love the choir member checking the tuning fork at 11:02.

Smoking a really nice joint and listen to this great music. Love it!!

What kind of genius does it take to imagine such sounds, and then figure out how to notate all of it? Incredible stuff. And this was the same genius who, many years later, gave us the _Etudes for Piano_ and the _Horn Trio..._

When you die: What your family feels: Mozart - Requiem What you actually feel: Ligeti - Requiem

It is a piece that demands your attention from start to finish, and remains completely memorable, unforgettable. Like Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion, this work shows is the “other side” to music, one we never knew existed.

Uma obra prima incontestável!!!! Ligeti maravilhoso!!! Sobreviveremos à hecatombe final, à sombra dos grandes Mestres e Artistas do mundo!!!

This is definitely one of the greatest works of the 20th century.

Listening to this while I write something truly mad.

Bravo et merci à Pintscher d'avoir persévéré malgré l'ajout impromptu des notes discordantes du tousseur, car cette prestation est sublime. L'étrangeté, l'inquiétude, l'angoisse et le désarroi de cette pièce y sont parfaitement interprétés et facilement ressentis. Mais moins d'un an plus tard, c'est le tousseur qui dirige l'orchestre.

8:50 when Kubrick himself is part of the choir. Oh, and selling cough drops at this venue would be a fantastic business venture.

this was probably the most impressive thing in the whole movie. incredible atmosphere and mood set by these sounds. especially the thrilling vocal part.

The phrasings written by Ligeti in this Requiem and how well achieved they are in this peformance are memorable.

This performance had me entranced! To hear this piece performed live is just a stroke of genius by the composer and the artists... Well done you all!!!!!!

I’m so glad there are others who “get” this amazing piece of music. It’s admittedly not an “easy” piece but once affording it the proper time and attention one can’t help but be mesmerized.

Most terrific coral work of XX century, but superb

The only requiem in existence that does not ascend towards heaven in the end, but to the grave. The greatest oratorium of the 20th century imo I assume most people know about the usage of the Kyrie in 2001, A Space Odyssey? If you want to go all out, after this listen to Giacinto Scelsi's "Uaxuctum" about the downfall of an ancient Aztec city.

Unparalleled, unprecedented, ultimate masterpiece. I dare to say this music is the greatest one written in 20th century. Probably still now.

7:52 The Monolith appears 12:43 The Monolith vanishes and the Stargate opens

Interesting choice on the part of the audio tech to mic the audience

Darkly beautiful.

You better go home when you're sick unless if you want your own requiem

Seems like an emotional and deep piece I would love to listen to *non stop coughing in the background*

i love seeing things as the woman in 12:08 during performance

Just listen to the basses at 1:54. Absolutely impressive.

I firmly believe that everyone else inside this room had the moral duty of beating the coughers into mush. Nobody who goes to watch something like this and is unable to keep quiet can possibly have a valid reason to exist.

2001 space odissey, 2014 godzilla The most terryfing ,epic,amazing masterpiece of the music... love the female voices of angels dante,s inferno

Conclusion: do not make a public recording in winter.

Set aside your premonitions. Don't expect anything. Do nothing else but concentrate. Take everything as it comes. You will begin to breath together with the music filling the space. Surrender yourself for half an hour. And after that you may feel that you have witnessed a great execution of one of the greatest musical artworks of one of the greatest composers of the past century. And then read about Ligeti. His passions. His techniques. His absolute belief that music can be and must be great by definition. And his conviction that musical difficulty is a challenge and an inspiration and not a turn-off. This is awesome.

What is this? A requiem for the coughers?

Haunting piece.

Tragique et prenant. Une musique de timbre et de sons... Superbe interprétation toute en tension

Requiem for Covid. Placement of microphones in or near the audience always results in a hospital ward soundtrack. Very wonderful music. Thank you.

10 minutes in I felt like crying from fear. Dear god....

La potenza di quest'opera e' tale che i musicisti hanno assunto delle espressioni "funerale " così tanto potere ha 'questa musica da coinvolgerli completamente .

Listening to Ligeti I couldn't help thinking this piece must be incredibly difficult to perform, so I googled and found an account by a singer in the Seattle philharmonic. Bottom line is, yes, it takes months of rehearsal and is extremely difficult to perform. Hats off to these performers

Magic music, spine tingling - THANKYOU

This piece befuddles me. I have the full score, and have listened to it well over a hundred times, and still I feel I have barely started to understand much less ''track'' with the piece. I will probably have to listen to it probably closer to a thousand times, before it makes sense...AND I LOVE, AND ADORE SUCH CHALLENGES!

Dark beyond horror, when all that remains is this supplication: "Dona eis requiem".

The dynamics of this piece is incredible.

I love what the Ensemble Intercontemporain does. Once again it offers us a superb version of a masterwork of contemporary music. Thank you for all these emotions!

Quelle magnifique exécution et surtout quelle profondeur d'âme et de vérité dans cette musique ü Je l'écoute souvent chez moi et l'adore. Merci pour ce partage.

2:41 when you put your head against the bus window while it’s moving

Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Thank you for posting.

That's INSANE! 🥵😵‍💫🤩🥰💖💖💖

A lot of people are complaining about the audience's intrusiveness in the recording, and I can sympathise. However, for me it highlights one of the distinctive upsides of Western Formal Music (classical music, for the layman): there are expectations about which sounds are intended by the composer to be perceived by the listener. Because of the history of live performance central to the genre, one can quite easily guess that the coughs are not intentional in regards to the music, and can therefore look beyond them to the intentional sounds, something you can't easily do with other styles of music. While I absolutely do notice the coughs, making me wish I could find a studio recording, I can quite easily look past them in favour of being mesmerised by the music itself.

This is my kind of concert.

this is pure, visceral music output from a lot of pain.

29:27 cough signaled the end of the concert wtf

biblically accurate requiem

Best version, worst audience.

I was in the audience. Beautiful and haunting moment (I hate coughing people too)

Wanting to see this Ligeti piece performed. Awesome directing and to see so many people and instruments involved.

This piece used to scare me, when I was younger. But getting to see it performed is a different experience, entirely. It's so mesmerizing and well done. S'beautiful! :) Much thanks to you. ♥

L'œuvre centrale de l'un des géants du ciècle précédent avec une magnifique interprétation ! Merci ensemble intercontemporaine et Matthias Pintscher!!!

Absolutely fantastic work and performance! Brings to mind another contemporary Requiem - by Eli Tamar.

Splendida esecuzione, grande direzione, grazie.

this is my wedding song

The first movement is one of the greatest works in all music.

Technically difficult piece, well done!

"György Ligeti's Requiem captivates listeners with its hauntingly intricate tapestry of dissonant harmonies, ethereal vocal clusters, and an evocative use of silence, immersing them in a mesmerizing sonic journey that transcends the boundaries of traditional choral music." - ChatGPT.

Excellent version!!! 👌🏻

Magnifique.

Fantastic!

FANTASTIC!

Masterpiece that comes from infinity and goes to the infinity. Amazing performance.

Music full of genius as Ligeti himself was.

Le Kyrie est bien l'une des pièces les plus géniales du XXe siècle, c'est clair.

Simplesmente fantástica a interpretação dessa obra prima!!!!!! Mathias Pintscher em sua melhor forma.

That was amazing !!

Beautifull!

Thanks to the audience, I could not finish this masterpiece. 10/10

Wonderful, yet misunderstood music.

Stunning. Wow.

Wow! 5 minutes in, I feel better already!