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Joined: Feb 29, 2008
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: Choral a-cappella music on Youtube
Like in the Symphonies/Orchestra , the Opera and the Chamber-/Solomusic-Thread this one is dedicated to Choir a-cappella performances.
Please feel free to post every kind of vocal a-cappella performance here!
For choir and orchestra (oratories, mass etc.) please use the Symphonies/Orchestra-Thread, for solo Singers with e.g. piano accompaniment or choir with piano/organ (other instruments in a small number) please use the Chamber-/Solomusic-Thread.
Have fun contributing and enjoy!
PS: Finding GOOD performances on youtube in the choir genre is a little bit tougher than I thought, so I'll also take some videos where the audio quality may not be the best, but as long as the musical performance is alright (good intonation etc.) that shouldn't be to big of a problem.
If you find a good alternate video, post it too!
The more, the merrier!
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Psalm No.43 "Richte mich, Gott"
Here's another very nice version of it, this time with better sound quality.
The JUGENDKAMMERCHOR INGOLSTADT performs:
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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bpewien
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject:
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Locus iste
for mixed choir a-cappella
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
weaponlordzero
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Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject:
heh Good idea bp. I like Gregorian Chant as well as other choir solos. _________________ Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
-- Felix Mendelssohn
bpewien
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject:
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
Misere mei, Deus
You probably have heard this piece before, it's been used in some movies over the years
Part II
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
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bpewien
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Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject:
Here an alternate version, more focussing on the solo singers. I personally prefer this performance since it has some sort of intimacy the other seems to lack of.
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject:
Maurice Durufé (1902-1986)
Ubi caritas
One of four motets (and very sparse choral a-cappella works) by french composer Maurice Duruflé, whose style was to combine gregorianic elements, cantus firmi and melodies with the musical language of the early 20th century and the impressionism.
Especially his Requiem is well-known and also on the Playlist here at AFM.
I've sung this piece myself very often and it's really a shame that it's so hard to find a really good performance of this classic on youtube.
Anyway, I think I've spotted out the most bearable ones.
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
A very interesting male choir version, "The Suspicious Cheese Lords in concert at the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist"
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject:
Vytautas Miškinis (*1954)
Cantate Domino
I've sung this quite jazzy piece some years ago, rehearsing it was really fun. If you have the right groove approach to it.
Luckily this performance is really good.
University of the Philippines Concert Chorus'
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
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Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject:
Vytautas Miškinis (*1954)
Ave Regina Coelorum
Here we have recording of the composer conducting the piece himself.
Performed by Azuoliukas male choir, conductor - Vytautas Miškinis.
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Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:
i realy dont understand music without instruments.
i mean, isnt instruments the point of music, without them theres no music.
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Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject:
Well... the voice is an instrument. It has a range of given tones with the performer having control of the notes played and it can be used to play (sing) a melody. Now, lyrics without music is simply poetry _________________ Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
-- Felix Mendelssohn
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Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:21 am Post subject:
And don't forget, most music (especially in the time around the renaissance and the sacral sector) was written for choir a-cappella, since the voice was regarded as "a gift of god".
(I'm not religious, but still there may be some truth in this...)
Around the middle age the vatican & later on other christian churches wouldn't allow any musical instruments except the voice in their Mass.
For example the orthodox church still mostly uses choir than organ or orchestra for their services...
Also, a really good choir can be so extremely excitimg.
It's another kind of challenge to make a good performance (pitch, intonation, pronounciation, dynamics).
Many of the most beautiful moments in music history (and in a great deal of filmscores too) were achieved by a-cappella choir.
Facit: if you sit in a concert and listen to a Mahler Symphony, Verdi or Brahms Requiem etc. and the choir performs solo (without any other instruments) and you don't get goosebumps... you're probably dead already _________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Ich aber bin elend, op.110 No.1, for mixed double choir a-cappella
Performed by
Ensemble Vocal Hamburg/Germany;
Dir.: Cornelius Trantow
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject:
Now for something completely different, this time from the 20th (or 21st) century:
Guido Lopez-Gavilan: Que rico e'! (Mambo)
A very difficult piece, very rhythmically, tough harmonies etc.
I didn't know this piece myself till I found it on youtube today.
Municipal Chamber Choir Lipetsk/Russia, Dir.: Igor Tsilin
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
In stiller Nacht... (In a silent night)
This time a poem turned into wonderful music by Brahms.
_________________ "If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good!"
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject:
This is the winner of the first Bulgarian Music Idol (their American Idol) Nevena Tzovena performing a Bulgarian folk song called Delio Haidutin as her celebration performance. This song, originally performed by Valia Balkanska, was sent into space in 1977 with an American shuttle along with many other famous songs (songs from Bach, Mozart, etc) so when other life finds it they see what earth is all about.
This song is absolutely entrancing. Take a listen!
_________________ Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
-- Felix Mendelssohn
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