What work would you pick to be played on your own funeral? : [复制链接]

不适合中国国情。

21:Nice selections. When my dad died a couple of years ago, I carefully searched his records for a version of the Lord's Prayer set to music and sung in English--he'd told me he wanted this played at his funeral. Found it no problem (Gordon MacRae or some such singer), but he had it only on LP and the funeral home had no turntable, no way to transfer it, and didn't have their own copy on tape or CD. No other version in their library either. Local CD stores...also no go. Then I found a version on cassette tape at dad's house: a cousin in Holland is in some choral society and she had sent him a tape of a concert they did. In this case the Lord's Prayer was in Dutch, but I figured it was better than going without entirely, especially since that had been his only musical request. As it turned out, the person from the funeral home who was supposed to turn on the cassette player (I had already cued it up precisely myself) managed to hit rewind instead of play and had to search for the selection as mourners endured tape squeal and fast-forward sounds. Not exactly a flawless performance. Hope dad at least got a kick out of that. At least once the proper tape position was found, the singing on the tape wasn't half bad. OTOH, the whole experience rather reinforced the feeling that formal funeral proceedings just aren't my own cup of tea.

22:Further to my earlier Rachmaninov choices, I'd like the assembled to leave after a rousing version of Saint-Saens 'Organ' Symphony. Take it from the section in the third movement, where the excitement rises as the opening of the fourth movement is hinted at ... that steadily rising music that has tingles running up and down my spine. Then, once the organ kicks in, don't be surprised if I'm actually raised from the dead

23:If ye guys play anything Beethoven at my funeral I'll haunt you.   Scared?

24:If I could (I doubt I'd have the money) I would want to have Mozart's Requiem in D performed. One of my very favorite works to begin with, I should love to be ushered off from the mortal realm with such a beautiful mass

25K, so if someone can bring a portable turntable, I'm pretty sure I can find a scratchy old copy of Wellington's Victory. Turned up to distortion level, this could be pretty much paul's all-around "descent into hell" music...even if he's headed in the other direction.

26:If one decided on a popular song for a funeral, how about Edith Piaf singing "Non je ne regrette rien.-不，我了无遗憾。" I was surprised to hear it burst forth from the screen during a children's animated film called "Valiant." Piaf is my favorite popular singer and this song is her greatest.

27:I agree Strauss' four last songs are a good choice for checking out of this world. Equally appropriate would be Brahms' four serious songs, especially the third. It has always struck me as one of the most marvellous songs ever written and the best one by Brahms. The composer makes a wonderful transition from the bitterness of death in youth to acceptability in old age. At the very end he embraces death like a lover.

贺绿汀, 哀乐.

which work 还是  what work???

如果有可能的话，我要莫扎特的安魂曲，我需要的，呵呵~~~~

11:I was not talking to or about anyone but myself and my friends and family (many Catholic) - and my (controlled) impulse for a complete Requiem Mass was in no way a reference to anything anyone else wrote.

12:I wish I did live in a culture in which the Verdi would be considered an appropriate choice that doesn't impose on the attention of the mourners. I always listen to a Requiem at the death of kith or kin (and couldn't get the Dies Irae from Mozart's out of my head on and after 9/11). Playing Requiem by Killing Joke just doesn't have the same dignity

13:I would chose from Brahms "Ein deutsches Requiem", the 2nd movement, "Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras".

14:I may save a little money ,so that my family and friends can hire a good organist and ,if possible, a good choir ( a few voices will do) - I won't come back from the hereafter if they use CD's...
A few works by Zoltan Kodaly : Esti dal, Veni Veni Emmanuel...
Anything by Bach they can master and or sing reasonably well
Jehan Alain's "Litanies" for organ
I mentioned before G.F.Telemann's Trauer Actus and the wonderfull chorus :
Schlaft Wohl, Ihr Seligen Gebeine
(Sleep well, thou glorious bones, untill the Lord wakes you back to life...)I'm an optimist!

15:My uncle Allan actually got his wish in this regard. At the funeral for his wife, about four years ago, a violinist from the community orchestra he belonged to played that old chestnut, the Meditation from Massenet's Thais (sp?). Uncle Allan thanked her and said, with his characteristic humor, "I'm booking you now for my funeral." For a variety of reasons, he didn't have a traditional funeral, but that piece was played, in fact, at the memorial meeting for my uncle on June 11. However, the player was his granddaughter, Ilana Goldstein, concertmaster of the Rhode Island Youth Symphony. Her expressive playing brought tears to the eyes of many in the audience.

16:Either the 'Bless the Lord, O my soul' or the 'Ave Maria' from Rachmaninov's All-night Vigil. If you want to hear/see how effective the first of these two choices can be at a funeral, watch the film 'Inside I'm Dancing' all the way to the end. If it doesn't bring a tear to your eye, you're already dead, so it's too late a pick a piece for your own funeral

17:I plan to be cremated and have NO plans for a funeral ceremony as such. If my wife survives me, I'll probably suggest that a recording of the Om Namah Shivaya mantra be used as a sort of soundtrack for the spreading of ashes--either in Darbari Raga style (my current fave) or Bhupali style. If friends decide to hold a gathering anyway, then an ecstatic chant would be more appropriate (and a lot more fun for the participants). If I'm to have a vibratory send-off, that'll suit me fine.

18he Faure requiem would be a soothing and consoling accompaniment to my final departure.

19:Not sure about my own funeral, but when my father passed away some years ago I engaged a cellist friend with the local symphony to play Faure's "Elegie" at the gravesite. Some days later at the memorial service (per his request) was sung the fifth movement from Brahms' Requiem (for solo soprano), following which at a smaller gathering of family and close friends we played Strauss' "Four Last Songs" with Gundala Janowitz in his favorite recording. Nice.

20:I also want to be cremated, and have my ashes scattered off the Oregon coast into the Pacific. The sound of the ocean waves will provide the music.

让耳朵休息休息，他们已经工作太久了。。。

话题过于沉重了...没想过

人已入土，听什么还重要么？