Mediocre beyond words
Like most of ALW's so called "music", this Requiem is complete musical pap. I am completely bewildered by the popularity of this hack. He hasn't written anything decent since his score to "The Odessa File", a surprisingly promising effort, but following his "career" has been a downhill ride ever since. I'll never forget the time I first played through much of his Phantom of the Opera. I started laughing so hysterically at its crappiness and total lack of inspiration, I rolled off the bench to the floor to the amusement of several singers. The new Phantom score by Claude Michel Schonberg is no masterpiece, but it's loads better then Webber's feeble attempt. I rank this Requiem as the worst ever attempted. If I was the composer, I'd be ashamed to put my name to it. I would have done with it what Sibelius supposedly did to his eighth symphony...toss it in a roaring fire, page by page