James Strickland
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Richard Dirksen: A Child My Choice
Richard W. Dirksen, organist and choirmaster
The National Cathedral Choir
--
Let folly praise that fancy loves, I praise and love that Child
Whose heart no thought, whose tongue no word, whose hand no deed defiled.
I praise Him most, I love Him best, all praise and love is His;
While Him I love, in Him I live, and cannot live amiss.
Love's sweetest mark, laud's highest theme, man's most desired light,
To love Him life, to leave Him death, to live in Him delight.
He mine by gift, I His by debt, thus each to other due;
First friend He was, best friend He is, all times will try Him true.
Though young, yet wise; though small, yet strong; though man, yet God He is:
As wise, He knows; as strong, He can; as God, He loves to bless.
His knowledge rules, His strength defends, His love doth cherish all;
His birth our joy, His life our light, His death our end of thrall.
Alas! He weeps, He sighs, He pants, yet do His angels sing;
Out of His tears, His sighs and throbs, doth bud a joyful spring.
Almighty Babe, whose tender arms can force all foes to fly,
Correct my faults, protect my life, direct me when I die!
--Robert Southwell
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Відео

The Holly and the IvyThe Holly and the Ivy
The Holly and the Ivy
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The Holly and the Ivy Traditional; arr. Howard Cable The Classical Brass Recorded December 1991 at Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
O Come, All Ye FaithfulO Come, All Ye Faithful
O Come, All Ye Faithful
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O Come, All Ye Faithful Traditional; arr. Sir David Willcocks Cathedral Choral Society of the National Cathedral J. Reilly Lewis, Conductor R. Benjamin Dobey, Organ The Classical Brass Recorded December 1991 at Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Durufle: Requiem, Op. 9Durufle: Requiem, Op. 9
Durufle: Requiem, Op. 9
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Maurice Durufle (1902-1986) Requiem, Op. 9 Choir of King's College, Cambridge John Butt, Organ Philip Ledger 1. Introit (0:00) 2. Kyrie (3:24) 3. Domine Jesu Christe (7:08) 4. Sanctus (15:21) 5. Pie Jesu (18:08) 6. Agnus Dei (21:23) 7. Lux aeterna (24:55) 8. Libera me (28:49) 9. In Paradisum (34:17) [5] Dame Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano [5] Timothy Hugh, cello [3, 8] Stephen Roberts, baritone
Richard Dirksen: ChanticleerRichard Dirksen: Chanticleer
Richard Dirksen: Chanticleer
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All this night shrill Chanticleer Day's proclaiming trumpeter, Claps his wings and loudly cries, Mortals, Mortals, wake and rise! See a wonder Heav'n is under; From the earth is ris'n a Sun, Shines all night tho' day be done. Wake, O earth, wake ev'rything, Wake and hear the joy I bring; Wake and joy, for all this night, Heav'n and ev'ry twinkling light, All amazing still stand gazing Angels, P...

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  • @annemariekirschhofer1392
    @annemariekirschhofer1392 Місяць тому

    Ja! Ein wunderbares Stück Chormusik! Ich hatte das unverschämte Glück, dies mitsingen zu dürfen... Und "In Paradisum" ist ein besonders schöner Juwel..! Jedesmal bekomme ich spätestens hier Tränen in die Augen.. Merci, Monsieur Duruflė❤ Christoph Kirschhöfer in Aachen

  • @uncatila
    @uncatila Рік тому

    what music is this?

  • @burmesecolourneedles4680
    @burmesecolourneedles4680 Рік тому

    For me, the most exquisite work ever written. I've loved this superb performance for decades, but I do wish it was more langorous, less rigid in places. Total respect, and it's a very tall order, but Ledger wasn't quite right for this.

  • @johnbratland3746
    @johnbratland3746 2 роки тому

    I love this music.

  • @kyotokid4
    @kyotokid4 5 років тому

    ...performed this when I was back in college. I loved how he split each voice up as well to where we were singing 6 and even 8 parts. of every large mass//oratorio I sang, this work sticks with me and I still often find myself humming the bass part.

  • @andrewlee-hart211
    @andrewlee-hart211 5 років тому

    I am going to hear it tonight in Liverpool alongside Mozart's 39th Symphony, thought I would give it a listen. Enjoying it and thank you for posting.

  • @jim_halpbert
    @jim_halpbert 5 років тому

    2:17

  • @enochkao
    @enochkao 5 років тому

    That pedal at the end of In Paradisum gave me instant chills and bumps :0

  • @mattnorman4292
    @mattnorman4292 5 років тому

    Great piece! also check out the Poulenc "Gloria" equally as mind blowing.

  • @fabientremblay7701
    @fabientremblay7701 5 років тому

    Joli

  • @ewanodoherty2545
    @ewanodoherty2545 6 років тому

    Our choir (Dublin Bach Singers) have the privilege of performing this magnificent work (Duruflé) on the centenary of the 1918 Armistice, Sun 11th Nov at 3pm.

  • @simonblake3722
    @simonblake3722 6 років тому

    Stunnning. An ethereal sublime preformance.

  • @keithphilbin3054
    @keithphilbin3054 6 років тому

    Just settling to sleep..... then f****n ADVERTS ! ARGHHH

  • @keithphilbin3054
    @keithphilbin3054 6 років тому

    Oh, not Mass again Father !!

  • @akinkunmicook2977
    @akinkunmicook2977 6 років тому

    Simply beautiful!

  • @jake6575
    @jake6575 6 років тому

    My god the bass note at the very very last cadence......

  • @TheEternauta1972
    @TheEternauta1972 7 років тому

    METAFISICO...

  • @stephencochrane4993
    @stephencochrane4993 7 років тому

    Marvin the paranoid android brought me here life don't talk to me about life

  • @Sdnaurs
    @Sdnaurs 7 років тому

    Sung this in 2008 as a treble. On tour with Hereford Cathedral Choir in the USA. Unforgettable.

  • @stephencochrane4993
    @stephencochrane4993 7 років тому

    I don't believe in god but this music is soothing

    • @erichgroat838
      @erichgroat838 5 років тому

      You should try believing in God. The music will sound so much more beautiful you may never go back...

  • @stephencochrane4993
    @stephencochrane4993 7 років тому

    health problems brought me here

  • @KarenHernandez-kd7px
    @KarenHernandez-kd7px 7 років тому

    Que maravilla !

  • @marekk4620
    @marekk4620 7 років тому

    piękne

  • @stephencochrane4993
    @stephencochrane4993 7 років тому

    Misery bear goes to Paris 🤒

  • @donatellobellomo6641
    @donatellobellomo6641 7 років тому

    Altissima creazione, eccellente esecuzione. Commovente la qualità armonica. Chapeau!

  • @chickletta
    @chickletta 7 років тому

    We're singing Durufle's Requiem and Schubert's Mass in G major on April 22nd in Seoul, South Korea. We're an amateur choir composed of expats and Koreans. Beautiful music!

  • @kitzya1354
    @kitzya1354 7 років тому

    This piece has incredibly intense sense-memory for me... Something about it conjures up the first time i sang it, standing on creaking wooden choir stalls in a candlelit church after dark, smelling the last of the morning service's incense on the air. There was a wonderful stillness to the moment that calms me each time I hear it, particularly the deliberately elongated "dona eis requiem sempiternam" and "aeternam habeus requiem", which seem to linger even after the last echos have faded. A stunning, stunning work.

  • @TheVaughan5
    @TheVaughan5 8 років тому

    The name "Janet Baker" alone puts this recording at the top of the list. An extraordinary singer, whatever she undertook you could be guaranteed the finest performance in every way.

  • @SuzyBriseno
    @SuzyBriseno 8 років тому

    Beautiful poem lovingly set to music. I heard this sung this Christmas Eve at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston and have since listened to the recording over and over again. Thank you, Mr. Dirksen.

  • @chuckwilkinson686
    @chuckwilkinson686 8 років тому

    I sang this years ago in the early 1970's when I was in college concert choir with organ and chamber orchestra. Was the most moving piece of music I ever had the opportunity to perform. Thank you Dr. Ronald L. Gould from YSU Dana School of Music for introducing us to the magnificent piece of music.

  • @josegarza6495
    @josegarza6495 8 років тому

    This piece was originally written for the Extraordinary form of mass, where most of the priests prayers are silent. Let me tell you something. When you are singing this Requiem during mass for a loved one in extraordinary form, you will bawl your eyes out. Especially during the final commendation when the In Paradisum is performed.

    • @rave2thejoy
      @rave2thejoy 8 років тому

      Jose Garza AGREED!!!

    • @haysfordays
      @haysfordays 7 років тому

      I do this just listening to it!!

    • @MusicalDrewby
      @MusicalDrewby 6 років тому

      Agree 100%

    • @julievecchitto9855
      @julievecchitto9855 5 років тому

      I just got chills reading this comment while listening to the music. Can't wait to sing this again -- June 2019.

  • @johncraven3017
    @johncraven3017 8 років тому

    We shall be performing this Requiem on 3 Nov 16 at Boxgrove Priory near Chichester as the setting for the Allsoulstide Requiem (7.30pm). The Victoria 6-part Requiem is the setting we shall use for Remembrance Sunday.

  • @paul45b
    @paul45b 8 років тому

    The most shatteringly evocative choral work ever composed. Some have even stated they want it performed at their funeral even if they can't hear it. Kings College does a great job of it, but I agree with Ian Stafford. St. John's College under George Guest tops it out. You can hear the choristers breath in that recording and the "s" silibants; the mic placement is fabulous. The Pie Jesu is sung by a treble chorister, which to me enhances the melancholy of the work. The Truro Cathedral and Westminster Cathedral renditions are great too, but don't have the close mike placements of the St. John's College recording, and have a more muffled tone.

    • @haysfordays
      @haysfordays 7 років тому

      I just went and listened to that version. Very nice and special in it's clarity of the voices. Thanks for the tip I feel that this work transcends an particular version but each of them have something special to offer. I first heard it through the Robert Shaw recording, so that will probably always be my benchmark, + or -.

    • @agostinopizzolato4293
      @agostinopizzolato4293 5 років тому

      I definitely want it performed at my funeral.

  • @phikep
    @phikep 8 років тому

    I first heard this performed at Holy Mass on All Souls Day about 3 years and had goose bumps. It was the first time I'd been to a Novus Ordo Mass that was offered in black vestments and one of the most solemn as well. It was also evident that this requiem affected everyone there as when the Mass ended, all of the noise and talking that normally takes place did not exist. EVERY ONE was silent upon leaving. This requiem left all in awe. I cried secretly throughout the performance.

  • @PhilipOMeara
    @PhilipOMeara 8 років тому

    The opening of the Domine Jesu is painfully cool

  • @CraigLemming37
    @CraigLemming37 8 років тому

    Dame Janet Baker's 'Pie Jesu' is miraculous.

  • @jobvink
    @jobvink 8 років тому

    Looks like singing this in november 2016 with my local project choir will be the absolute highlight of my now 9 year old choir singing career. This is such a beautiful masterpiece; it proves that not all 20th century composers were breaking with tonality or were abandoning beautiful arrangements in favor of more contemporary music styles. I've gotta say, that this is by far the most beautiful requiem I've ever heard. The recording in this video made me cry.

  • @bjorndyno2175
    @bjorndyno2175 8 років тому

    Beautiful recording of a gorgeous piece of music. To be honest, I usually don't like boy choirs and prefer adult female sopranos and altos, but in this recording, the paler boy sopranos fit perfectly well to the composition.

  • @Singsonggirl53
    @Singsonggirl53 8 років тому

    Terrible things happen in this world that I cannot comprehend, but this music makes me feel it. Never was there a more fitting ode to the dead.

  • @gregorypatriciaandjiyajais8819
    @gregorypatriciaandjiyajais8819 8 років тому

    One great masterpiece! Durufle s was overly critical of his music. the public needs to hear more of his great work

    • @pyraledubuis9744
      @pyraledubuis9744 2 роки тому

      Retrospectively, I keep as a precious treasure in my memory a moment of my young years, when my organ professor (titular of the neighbouring organ of St Médard, Paris) told me to join a concert he would attend, of Duruflé's Requiem at Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, the very church where Duruflé was titular, immediately next to his house, Place du Panthéon. It was in 1979 or 1980, I think Marie-Madeleine was at the keyboards. At the end of the concert, the Composer appeared in the nave to greet the audience, but following his legendary modesty, the salutations of the old man were so humble that the moment was almost surrealistic, .... He, who just composed the most immense of all Requiems, was standing there, at the side of the nave, bending under the years , as if he was apologizing being here, not daring to look at anybody in the eyes ... He then had only six more years to live, completely retired, and he burned many unpublished music. "Chant donné" appeared from nowhere after his death, saved from nothingness.

  • @jonathanensor3353
    @jonathanensor3353 8 років тому

    I am singing the baritone solos this afternoon - sprung on me last week - so thank you for this superb recording. Jonathan E

  • @cgmsounds
    @cgmsounds 8 років тому

    I think this version of Durufle's Requiem has the saddest Pie Jesu I've ever heard.

  • @mehrakvarzaldoust4235
    @mehrakvarzaldoust4235 9 років тому

    Beautiful music. Thanks

  • @BruceXuHasADream
    @BruceXuHasADream 9 років тому

    Why would anybody dislike this?

  • @StudioElectronics
    @StudioElectronics 9 років тому

    How can one hold the tears back when this majestic creation is in command?

  • @herol64700
    @herol64700 9 років тому

    nice complete live performance search Stanjaard on youtube

  • @WilliamFord972
    @WilliamFord972 9 років тому

    Playing the viola part this year. I knew this requiem was a beast, but jeez...

    • @MSCViolin
      @MSCViolin 8 років тому

      +William Ford Playing this right now, and heard the same reaction from a viola friend :/

  • @robrod1132
    @robrod1132 9 років тому

    Personally, me performing this was probably was the best thing I've sung ever in my life. Domine Jesu Christe was my favorite

    • @russedav5
      @russedav5 9 років тому

      +Robert Waltenbaugh An incredible gem it surely is.

    • @sinisamarovic
      @sinisamarovic 9 років тому

      +Robert Waltenbaugh I'll be performing it next month. Can't wait!

    • @Ridgyyy123
      @Ridgyyy123 8 років тому

      It's the first choral piece I've ever sung since starting in uni chorus. Incredible piece! Shame we're doing a jazz mass this semester :(

    • @davesmith6815
      @davesmith6815 8 років тому

      It is an extremely satisfying requiem to perform. I had never heard it (this was 20 years ago) and was so touched by its beauty and majesty.

    • @frandsenphilip1
      @frandsenphilip1 8 років тому

      First time I've heard this work, and it is amazing (thank you to an amateur musician friend of mine. Wish sometimes I was a singer!

  • @johnmontgomerymusic
    @johnmontgomerymusic 9 років тому

    Beautiful creation! Going to hear Scottish Chamber Choir perform it tonight 22 Nov. in St Pauls Edinburgh-tickets £10 -St Pauls-7.30

  • @Tizbax
    @Tizbax 9 років тому

    Michael Jackson brought me here