Thank you very much for your detailed and quietly humorous discussion of this magnificent piece which has been one of my favourites for many years. I appreciated your visual representation during the performance; it demonstrated the full complexity of Spem to me for the first time.
This is probably the most engaging discussion of Spem in Alium, (in terms of giving us historical context, other background - political and personal etc - a dive into the lyrics and music, in terms of presentation, and including some fun facts, humour and a ton of great research, etc.) ever. Very well done, and thanks for all your hard work, and for uploading this fascinating video about a really great piece of music.
You had me at 'hope in garlic'. A fantastic breakdown of a fantastic piece. I really appreciated the graphic depiction of the different choirs during the full piece; it really helps show the way it's constructed.
This video is a work of Art. Not only did I learn far more than I had hoped to learn, I am hoarse and have a belly ache from laughing so much. I had to frequently pause the video, because the tears were streaming down my face from laughter, and I couldn’t take in the wonderful information anymore. Thank you so much! This was an experience, and every educational video, I will watch in future, will from now on be judged by this new & high standard. Excellent work. Thank you!
The museum I work at is currently displaying Janet Cardiff's 40-part Motet, an art installation consisting of 40 speakers playing Spem in Alium. A friend visited the exhibit and sent this video to me, which I am grateful for. It's informative, funny and had greatly increased my appreciation of the artwork.
the janet cardiff installation has been on display for the past two weeks and i went to visit the place today and i was so impressed by the motet and how well it played with sound. it schocked me to my core and i have never been more grateful for an art installation in my life
I didn't think that I could have been more in awe of this piece of "sonic architecture" than I was already., but your explanation of the layout and structure of the work added a whole other level "OMG". Thank you so much!! I am going to share this with my beloved middle school choir director and some of my former fellow choir members.
Absolutely brilliant; super informative, very interesting, witty and with an amazing performance graphic that brings everything together at the end. Loved your closing credits too. Thanks so much for producing this - it’s an extraordinary amount of work. I’m sharing it with my choir - it deserves to go far and wide!
I know nothing about choral music, but as I live close to the site of Nonsuch Palace, I was looking for an introduction to Spem in Alium that I could understand. This video is brilliant in explaining something unfamiliar and rather complex in a way that is both informative and entertaining. No doubt many hours of creative work went into this video presentation, but the result is spectacular: Thank you, Jaakko Mantyjarvi, I now have a much greater appreciation of Spem in Alium and the work of Thomas Tallis. You have also inspired me to buy a number of different performances of Spem in Alium on CD and I'm enjoying hearing the similarities and differences.
I appreciate your comment more than you might realise. Choral music often gets a bad rap because of the mediocre-church-choir stereotype, so I count inspiring anyone to become interested (or more interested) in choral music as a win. It is also fascinating that Nonsuch Palace was the link here! And to all who will see this reply and to whose comments on the video I have not responded to, I appreciate all your feedback and apologise for not responding individually.
Possibly the most defining piece in my long musical life. It still excites me. I love the way you show the active layout in the performance, so that even when listening through two speakers my brain could be fooled into hearing the eight choirs all around me.
My initial motivation for this project was to do the graphic representation of the piece, because two-channel stereo (or indeed a choir performing the piece in a single formation on stage) just does not cut it.
Totally excellent, thank you! Former King's Singer and BBC presenter, Brian Kay, mentioned that he took part in a performance of this piece in his youth when there were only about 37 singers on the platform.
I recall someone explaining that it is possible to do 'Spem' (in the sense of singing every pitch, ignoring duplications) with only 15 singers or so -- I forget the exact number. Of course, that would result in very strange part-hopping, plus it would be impossible to recreate the spatial arrangement.
Un-freaking-believable. Many thanks for all the insights on this piece. I’ve heard about much of this, as an Earl;y Music enthusiast and some-time performer. To see it all put in one place and so well explained helps immensely to understand the piece. I especially appreciated the graphic to go along with the performance at the end!! Again, many thanks.
What a complete and perfect "surround sound" experience that must have been live! Each listener in the center would have had an individual experience of the music coming at him/her. Bravo to all the singers, and adoration to the Creator of Thomas Tallis' skill!! 😇
A simply phantastic video. Kiitos paljon, maestro Mäntyjärvi! Rich on details, very informative - it brought me much closer to this excellent piece of music. Also, I like the graph that goes along with the recording at the end of the video. Surprising how slim the composer arranged most of the parts. Thank you again, an god bless you with health and creativity to create a lof of more of such videos! Kind Regards from Thuringia, Ulrich Matthes
I’ve sung this three times in my life and you certainly have to keep your wits about you! This is a brilliantly written ‘road map’ to this amazing piece, helped by the graphics, especially the octagonal one. It’s very witty, which helps when it could have been a very dry monologue. (I lost count of how many different drinks he had next to him,presumably to stop HIM getting too dry!) I’ll be passing this on to a few people who I know will appreciate it.
Thanks so much for this! The humor and the scholarship compliment each other in a delightful way. The community choir I conduct has been asked to watch this as part of our Zoom discussion of Renaissance choral music. And - I still have a copy of ‘Tentatio’ that you signed for me at an ACDA conference in Cincinnati. Maybe someday my choir will be large enough that we can take a stab at it.
Please make more informational videos, this was brilliant and I love it. I first heard this piece in my Theory I class, when a student asked to hear an example of a polyphonic piece. I was awestruck. I was not prepared to hear the most beautiful song I had ever heard. And I'm not religious.
There has been so much praise already, but anyway: thanks a lot. I have tried to figure out the spatial effect of that piece by the score, but your explanation and also the context of Tallis were very, very helpful! Thank you again!
Brilliant! And you made me roar with laughter! I shall show it to my grandkids during their lockdown from school! So instructive in every way. Hope in garlic indeed and always!
This is so informative and so very comprehensive, and the information is so imaginatively conveyed visually. It adds so much to the enjoyment of the piece. The performance, showing each voice coming in is wonderful. Thank you for all your work on this.
Thank you so much for this explanation and the visual while the piece was performed. It explains the experience we had when we heard it. We were privileged to have the San Francisco Bach Choir under the magnificent direction of David Babbitt until his death in 2006. One season, he included Spem In Alium. It was the first piece of the evening, and the 80 singers (making up 8 double-choirs with 10 voices each) surrounded the audience sitting in the middle of the church. It was the most extraordinary effect. That first lone voice came from the far distance. The sound would slowly swirl in one direction, only to slow and begin swirling the other direction. Choirs would sing across the church in response to each other. Then at those several places that all choirs sing in unison, the sound would sweep powerfully upward into the rafters of the chuch. Mr. Babbitt said that (at least at that time) the piece was so rarely performed, at the end of the evening he had the entire assembly of singers rotate 180 degrees around the audience and the choir sang the piece for a second time! You can imagine the difference of the effect then. I've always called it the "original surround sound", requiring nothing but the human voice to accomplish!
I have never had an opportunity to sing this, but I’ve loved listening to recordings of it for decades. Thank you for the illustration at the end showing the parts entering and leaving. This is truly wonderful.
I enjoyed watching this from beginning to end, and it illuminated music I have loved for a long time. I also appreciated the succession of drinks by your side!
It's such a privilege to be born in a time when this kind of quality of information is readily available and on demand. Thank you very much, I have loved this piece since a child as it was introduced to me by my father, who loved it deerly also. I was fascinated from start to finish
This is delightful! We were supposed to go see this piece by the Tallis Scholars in London back in June (later postponed to September) to celebrate our 5th year anniversary, but in the end couldn't go through due to Covid-19. This warms my heart, my husband and I absolutely love this piece and still hope to hear it one day. The end showing how each voice carries through the space is so insightful (and also explains the difference in quality in different choirs, specially for the soprano's since you need 8 equally good ones). Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️
I found this beautiful piece through the BBC detective series Endeavour--I have found many very interesting pieces of music through that show. I am most grateful to have experienced this particular piece, and I truly admire your analysis and presentation of its' history which adds even more to my appreciation and enjoyment.
What a great video! Informative and funny, a real treat to watch! I have loved Tallis and Spem in alium from a young age. My mother had a LP (remember those?) called the Glories of Tudor Church Music which was a collection of works by Tallis. Spem in alium was a crowning jewel of that collection. So sublime and extra special to see how it plays out in an octagonal space. I would love to hear it that way!
Magnificent production making the musicology highly engaging. Great to highlight the Striggio element. Loved the visualisation for the performance. Superb!
Love the beer glass, cocktail, wine, alka seltzer/water and lemonade on the table. Well done, love the humor, but serious scholarship!! Great Italian accent, too!! Brilliant! Fantastic explanation of this complex piece! Thank you, Jaakko, for your tongue-in-cheek super knowledgeable and through explanation! Garlic is fun and tasty! You added both!
Fabulous! Thanks for making sense of this amazing piece and for delving into some of its secrets. I've sung it several times and it now makes a lot more sense. BTW very much enjoyed singing your three Shakespeare settings on a choir tour to Latvia three years ago.
Really excellent and very entertaining too! The use of the "lit" graphic for the final performance was especially interesting and informative. Thanks, a great piece of work!
Kiitos, Jaako, this is great! I directed my choir at Christ Church Arcadia in Pretoria (South Africa) in your Ave Maria several times between 2009 and early 2019 when I left the post. It was a favourite with the choir.
Amazing video! I loved getting to know the background and structure of this great piece that I've been lucky enough to sing a couple of times. Also loved seeing Jaakko on screen- you're a very entertaining presenter. Thanks for the pieces you have composed too- I will never forget performing Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae with my choir this year. It's a stunning piece- thank you for bringing it into the world!
Oh thank you for such an entertaining, informative and light-hearted take on this great piece! The end performance with the colour-coded choir informatics really illustrated the complexity of the composition. Hope you weren’t the worse for wear after all those beverages. Great work!
Dear Jaakko, thank you so much for this deeply insightful video. I just went to see Spem in Alium performed this evening for the first time in my life, and watched your video in preparation. P.S. As a choir singer myself I very much enjoyed your piece, Die Stimme des Kindes - my personal favourite of all the music we did with the chamber choir I have just moved on from.
As a composer myself, long-time polyphonic singer and ireppressible enthusiast of this awe-inspiring cultural achievement of the XVI century - under the name of Spem in Alium -, I am deeply impressed by the competence, insight, sense of mystery, unabashed fun, unmistakenly British understatement and committed technical knowledge, delivered by this exemplary yet largely enjoyable musical analysys. Absolutely gorgeous and wholeheartedly recommendable digital content!
The stark glass of ale miraculously metamorphosed into the goblet of merlot was as shocking as the three fleetingly brief moments of total brash Silence. Magnificently executed, Sir! Muito obrigado! Bravo! Kiitos paljon!
I had no idea you were so funny! The Monty Python-esque presentation is great! Spem is so much fun/(frustrating if your sopranos can't count)/brilliant to sing. Your deconstruction and historical analysis were so entertaining and educational, thank you!
Oh dear, this was not only very educational, but almost pythonesque- love it and thank you ! My favourite version of Spem in alium was sung by the "Dresdner Kreuzchor und Thomanerchor", both choirs are more than 800 years old. There is a wonderful version on youtube from 2001 ;)
Bravo and bravi! Thank you, Jaakko, for all the time and talent put into producing this charming video. Ending with the visual demonstration of Spem is just genius. Well done.
WOW!!! This video is absolutely extraordinarily good and the production value and quality is absolutely stellar! There is almost no way that you don’t know the great work of Jay Foreman, as elements of his style, on location shooting, and sense of humour is all there in this video! As a music student this is truly astoundingly amazing content and I’m shocked I havent seen it before now. I hope this was made for a film festival or something, because as a first UA-cam video this is high budget stuff!
Oh and one last thing, the effort you put in to make it seem like the talking parts were filmed in London is incredible. Im a Londoner born and bred and I didn’t fully catch on until the credits, though I do know Arundel Street and thought it looked greener than I remember!! Top work!
Thank you kindly. This had no budget at all, as it was a lockdown project that spun a bit out of control. I was pleased with the end result, but I also managed to set the bar so high for myself that I've only done a couple of choral music videos since then. I appreciate your London-related comment as well; it is incredibly difficult to find locations in Helsinki that can credibly pass off for London; the architecture is just so different. But if you have a look at my "footnote video" to this one, i.e. "The most dangerous note in Spem in alium", you'll see that I got a shot in the actual Arundel Street when I managed to travel to London again in summer 2021!
@@jaakkomantyjarvi7515 Incredible! I will for sure watch all the other videos on your channel! I also highly highly recommend that you create a channel profile picture and banner, because it makes the channel seem a lot more polished (which the videos definitely are) and should bring more traffic to the channel :)
In your face, Dolby! Thank you sir, for an informative, entertaining presentation of this piece. Sadly, I doubt I can find a performance of this in my local music scene. In my mind I always think of Baroque as the The Great Music.
This is BRILLIANT, and remarkably funny. Having gathered a group of friends to read the Spem (badly) on my 40th birthday a few (quite a few) years ago, I'm delighted to learn so much more about it than I ever knew.
This was absolutely superb. Thank you for taking the time to create such an entertaining and informative video about this amazing piece of art! World without end. Amen!😇
This is performed early summer at Princeton in Richardson Hall, when the Alumni are visiting. In Richardson, which is circular. And the choirs are up in the balcony It is one of life's great joys to sit in the center of Richardson Auditorium when this is performed.
Thank you so much. Your presentation is brilliant. And your humour moments add so much to the connection between the video and the observer. Have done other videos? Brilliant!!!!
As the Bible has it: " such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me: I cannot attain unto it" - but I did try and thanks to all involved in a superb presentation. (...and I once sang 3rd bass in Choir 4 ! - Gabrieli I think)
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Thank you very much for your detailed and quietly humorous discussion of this magnificent piece which has been one of my favourites for many years. I appreciated your visual representation during the performance; it demonstrated the full complexity of Spem to me for the first time.
This is probably the most engaging discussion of Spem in Alium, (in terms of giving us historical context, other background - political and personal etc - a dive into the lyrics and music, in terms of presentation, and including some fun facts, humour and a ton of great research, etc.) ever. Very well done, and thanks for all your hard work, and for uploading this fascinating video about a really great piece of music.
You had me at 'hope in garlic'. A fantastic breakdown of a fantastic piece. I really appreciated the graphic depiction of the different choirs during the full piece; it really helps show the way it's constructed.
A rather better translation would surely have been "Hope among the onions"...!
@@polymath9372Ha ha!
This video is a work of Art. Not only did I learn far more than I had hoped to learn, I am hoarse and have a belly ache from laughing so much. I had to frequently pause the video, because the tears were streaming down my face from laughter, and I couldn’t take in the wonderful information anymore. Thank you so much! This was an experience, and every educational video, I will watch in future, will from now on be judged by this new & high standard. Excellent work. Thank you!
That is high praise indeed for a lockdown project that somehow took on a life of its own. Thank you so much.
The museum I work at is currently displaying Janet Cardiff's 40-part Motet, an art installation consisting of 40 speakers playing Spem in Alium. A friend visited the exhibit and sent this video to me, which I am grateful for. It's informative, funny and had greatly increased my appreciation of the artwork.
the janet cardiff installation has been on display for the past two weeks and i went to visit the place today and i was so impressed by the motet and how well it played with sound. it schocked me to my core and i have never been more grateful for an art installation in my life
I didn't think that I could have been more in awe of this piece of "sonic architecture" than I was already., but your explanation of the layout and structure of the work added a whole other level "OMG". Thank you so much!! I am going to share this with my beloved middle school choir director and some of my former fellow choir members.
Absolutely brilliant; super informative, very interesting, witty and with an amazing performance graphic that brings everything together at the end. Loved your closing credits too. Thanks so much for producing this - it’s an extraordinary amount of work. I’m sharing it with my choir - it deserves to go far and wide!
This is fantastic. Fascinating, very funny and really well made. Thank you so much!
I know nothing about choral music, but as I live close to the site of Nonsuch Palace, I was looking for an introduction to Spem in Alium that I could understand. This video is brilliant in explaining something unfamiliar and rather complex in a way that is both informative and entertaining. No doubt many hours of creative work went into this video presentation, but the result is spectacular: Thank you, Jaakko Mantyjarvi, I now have a much greater appreciation of Spem in Alium and the work of Thomas Tallis. You have also inspired me to buy a number of different performances of Spem in Alium on CD and I'm enjoying hearing the similarities and differences.
I appreciate your comment more than you might realise. Choral music often gets a bad rap because of the mediocre-church-choir stereotype, so I count inspiring anyone to become interested (or more interested) in choral music as a win. It is also fascinating that Nonsuch Palace was the link here!
And to all who will see this reply and to whose comments on the video I have not responded to, I appreciate all your feedback and apologise for not responding individually.
You have been absolutely magnificent: complete, clear, intriguing, entertaining. Tibi gratias.
Possibly the most defining piece in my long musical life. It still excites me. I love the way you show the active layout in the performance, so that even when listening through two speakers my brain could be fooled into hearing the eight choirs all around me.
My initial motivation for this project was to do the graphic representation of the piece, because two-channel stereo (or indeed a choir performing the piece in a single formation on stage) just does not cut it.
This is so great! Thank you for making it and a warm and hearty hope in garlic to you, sir!
Kiitos, Jaakko! A real treat. Iain Chalmers
The Allium genus has two lls
Maybe the text is a coded recipe for Spam in Garlic Sauce.
@@spoffspoffington240 It took me awhile to get this...two alleles!
@@hemiolaguy Spam, spam, spam and eggs ( and garlic)
A wonderful presentation of the origin of this marvellous piece of music! Humour always helps the facts to 'stick'. Bravo!
Highly informative, entertaining, witty, scholarly but not dry. Excellent!!! Thank you for all the work that went into this video.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Stunning investigation into one of the greatest compositions of all time. 🤟🏻
Totally excellent, thank you! Former King's Singer and BBC presenter, Brian Kay, mentioned that he took part in a performance of this piece in his youth when there were only about 37 singers on the platform.
I recall someone explaining that it is possible to do 'Spem' (in the sense of singing every pitch, ignoring duplications) with only 15 singers or so -- I forget the exact number. Of course, that would result in very strange part-hopping, plus it would be impossible to recreate the spatial arrangement.
Un-freaking-believable. Many thanks for all the insights on this piece. I’ve heard about much of this, as an Earl;y Music enthusiast and some-time performer. To see it all put in one place and so well explained helps immensely to understand the piece. I especially appreciated the graphic to go along with the performance at the end!! Again, many thanks.
Fascinating. Thank you so much for explaining this beautiful composition by Thomas Tallis, a true genius. Thank you.
I have long been fascinated by how this beautiful and seemingly impossible piece was organized, thank you so much for this explanation!
What a complete and perfect "surround sound" experience that must have been live! Each listener in the center would have had an individual experience of the music coming at him/her. Bravo to all the singers, and adoration to the Creator of Thomas Tallis' skill!! 😇
This is brilliant. Thank you so much for informing us all.This piece is truly sublime.
Extraordinary octagonal mandala diagram explains all. Thank you.
A simply phantastic video. Kiitos paljon, maestro Mäntyjärvi!
Rich on details, very informative - it brought me much closer to this excellent piece of music. Also, I like the graph that goes along with the recording at the end of the video. Surprising how slim the composer arranged most of the parts. Thank you again, an god bless you with health and creativity to create a lof of more of such videos! Kind Regards from Thuringia, Ulrich Matthes
I’ve sung this three times in my life and you certainly have to keep your wits about you! This is a brilliantly written ‘road map’ to this amazing piece, helped by the graphics, especially the octagonal one. It’s very witty, which helps when it could have been a very dry monologue. (I lost count of how many different drinks he had next to him,presumably to stop HIM getting too dry!) I’ll be passing this on to a few people who I know will appreciate it.
I have sung choirs 1, 3 and 7 live but managed to record all 8 soprano parts online with Choir of the Earth 🙂
Gosh what an incredible piece of work! (Tallis' and yours :-)
Thanks so much for this! The humor and the scholarship compliment each other in a delightful way. The community choir I conduct has been asked to watch this as part of our Zoom discussion of Renaissance choral music. And - I still have a copy of ‘Tentatio’ that you signed for me at an ACDA conference in Cincinnati. Maybe someday my choir will be large enough that we can take a stab at it.
Please make more informational videos, this was brilliant and I love it. I first heard this piece in my Theory I class, when a student asked to hear an example of a polyphonic piece. I was awestruck. I was not prepared to hear the most beautiful song I had ever heard. And I'm not religious.
There has been so much praise already, but anyway: thanks a lot. I have tried to figure out the spatial effect of that piece by the score, but your explanation and also the context of Tallis were very, very helpful! Thank you again!
Brilliant! And you made me roar with laughter! I shall show it to my grandkids during their lockdown from school! So instructive in every way. Hope in garlic indeed and always!
This is fun. I think you enjoyed making this video, it's certainly enjoyable to watch. Thanks!
This is so informative and so very comprehensive, and the information is so imaginatively conveyed visually. It adds so much to the enjoyment of the piece. The performance, showing each voice coming in is wonderful. Thank you for all your work on this.
Thank you so much for this explanation and the visual while the piece was performed. It explains the experience we had when we heard it. We were privileged to have the San Francisco Bach Choir under the magnificent direction of David Babbitt until his death in 2006. One season, he included Spem In Alium. It was the first piece of the evening, and the 80 singers (making up 8 double-choirs with 10 voices each) surrounded the audience sitting in the middle of the church. It was the most extraordinary effect. That first lone voice came from the far distance. The sound would slowly swirl in one direction, only to slow and begin swirling the other direction. Choirs would sing across the church in response to each other. Then at those several places that all choirs sing in unison, the sound would sweep powerfully upward into the rafters of the chuch. Mr. Babbitt said that (at least at that time) the piece was so rarely performed, at the end of the evening he had the entire assembly of singers rotate 180 degrees around the audience and the choir sang the piece for a second time! You can imagine the difference of the effect then. I've always called it the "original surround sound", requiring nothing but the human voice to accomplish!
Amazing. Makes me want to know more, if I just knew what to ask more.
Be careful what you wish for... :-)
I have never had an opportunity to sing this, but I’ve loved listening to recordings of it for decades. Thank you for the illustration at the end showing the parts entering and leaving. This is truly wonderful.
I enjoyed watching this from beginning to end, and it illuminated music I have loved for a long time. I also appreciated the succession of drinks by your side!
Grateful Thanks, enlightening explanation and cogent description. Enthralling music!
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It's such a privilege to be born in a time when this kind of quality of information is readily available and on demand. Thank you very much, I have loved this piece since a child as it was introduced to me by my father, who loved it deerly also. I was fascinated from start to finish
An astounding presentation and explanation of an astounding piece. Thank you!
Thank you very much for making this short video. It has been very enjoyable to watch and learn more about Tallis and his work.
I have had the challenge and pleasure of singing "Spem" once, and have listened many times. Thank you for this fascinating introduction!
This is delightful! We were supposed to go see this piece by the Tallis Scholars in London back in June (later postponed to September) to celebrate our 5th year anniversary, but in the end couldn't go through due to Covid-19.
This warms my heart, my husband and I absolutely love this piece and still hope to hear it one day. The end showing how each voice carries through the space is so insightful (and also explains the difference in quality in different choirs, specially for the soprano's since you need 8 equally good ones).
Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️
Also, every time I cook with garlic I will yell Spem in Allium now 🤣
An utterly incredible and wonderful addition to the scholarship on this unique work - many thanks!
This video alone is a work of art. Very fascinating! And I don't even have a clue what your saying most of the time
Brilliant! Thank you, you explained so well I always had wonder how this was composed such a beautiful work of art.
I found this beautiful piece through the BBC detective series Endeavour--I have found many very interesting pieces of music through that show. I am most grateful to have experienced this particular piece, and I truly admire your analysis and presentation of its' history which adds even more to my appreciation and enjoyment.
What a great video! Informative and funny, a real treat to watch! I have loved Tallis and Spem in alium from a young age. My mother had a LP (remember those?) called the Glories of Tudor Church Music which was a collection of works by Tallis. Spem in alium was a crowning jewel of that collection. So sublime and extra special to see how it plays out in an octagonal space. I would love to hear it that way!
Magnificent production making the musicology highly engaging. Great to highlight the Striggio element. Loved the visualisation for the performance. Superb!
Splendid!...thank you so much. This certainly made my day.
Thank you so much, Jaako! Tallis has always struck me as quite a dude and you have helped me to understand a little of how!
His dudishness is indeed terrific.
Your dry wit was a treat. The different drinks you placed on the table next to you were my favourite!
Thank you for this magical mystery tour. wonderful
A wonderful insight into this awe inspiring masterpiece - and rarer still a production of true wit at every level. Thank you.
Thank you so much! I have loved this piece for decades and was delighted to find out so much more about it, presented in such an interesting way!
Love the beer glass, cocktail, wine, alka seltzer/water and lemonade on the table. Well done, love the humor, but serious scholarship!! Great Italian accent, too!! Brilliant! Fantastic explanation of this complex piece! Thank you, Jaakko, for your tongue-in-cheek super knowledgeable and through explanation! Garlic is fun and tasty! You added both!
This is a masterpiece of a documentary about a masterpiece in music!
Fabulous! Thanks for making sense of this amazing piece and for delving into some of its secrets. I've sung it several times and it now makes a lot more sense. BTW very much enjoyed singing your three Shakespeare settings on a choir tour to Latvia three years ago.
Much appreciated. :-)
Awesome! Thank you so much for putting this together!
Really excellent and very entertaining too! The use of the "lit" graphic for the final performance was especially interesting and informative. Thanks, a great piece of work!
Thank you kindly. The graphic representation was the original idea and inspiration for this documentary. And a pain to animate.
Excellent, couldn’t stop giggling at “Hope in Garlic”. First heard the music 50 years ago, still play the dozens of performances I have regularly.
Brilliant exposition! So impressive! THank you for all the work you did on this.
Kiitos, Jaako, this is great! I directed my choir at Christ Church Arcadia in Pretoria (South Africa) in your Ave Maria several times between 2009 and early 2019 when I left the post. It was a favourite with the choir.
Amazing video! I loved getting to know the background and structure of this great piece that I've been lucky enough to sing a couple of times. Also loved seeing Jaakko on screen- you're a very entertaining presenter. Thanks for the pieces you have composed too- I will never forget performing Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae with my choir this year. It's a stunning piece- thank you for bringing it into the world!
Well, that was amazing!! Thanks so much. And don't worry about not getting to London, Helsinki is a lovely city.
My wife and I used to Tallis a lot when we were younger, numerologically speaking.
Oh thank you for such an entertaining, informative and light-hearted take on this great piece! The end performance with the colour-coded choir informatics really illustrated the complexity of the composition. Hope you weren’t the worse for wear after all those beverages. Great work!
Brilliant video! And how nice to see your opening shot in one of Helsinki’s loveliest parks.
Dear Jaakko, thank you so much for this deeply insightful video. I just went to see Spem in Alium performed this evening for the first time in my life, and watched your video in preparation.
P.S. As a choir singer myself I very much enjoyed your piece, Die Stimme des Kindes - my personal favourite of all the music we did with the chamber choir I have just moved on from.
Pure musical bliss! Tallis is my favorite Renaissance choral composer.
Wow Wow. The Algorithm brought this amazing video to my feed 2 years after it was made. _Jaakko, jatkakaa ihmeessä videoiden tekemistä kiitos!_
As a composer myself, long-time polyphonic singer and ireppressible enthusiast of this awe-inspiring cultural achievement of the XVI century - under the name of Spem in Alium -, I am deeply impressed by the competence, insight, sense of mystery, unabashed fun, unmistakenly British understatement and committed technical knowledge, delivered by this exemplary yet largely enjoyable musical analysys. Absolutely gorgeous and wholeheartedly recommendable digital content!
Mille grazie per i complimenti!
Thank you for this presentation. It really is wonderful, and I enjoy coming back to watch it in its entirety.
This is awesome! Thank you so much Jaakko for doing this wonderful video! May I present it to my students? :)
Thanks, of course you may. The UA-cam link is there to be shared.
This is a beautiful video, Jaakko! Well done.
Fabulous! Thank u for all your hard work and research.
Thank you for this accessible and thorough explanation of this beautiful and complex piece.
Loved it, makes it simple understandable. Thank you. Oh, liked all the drinks.......
The stark glass of ale miraculously metamorphosed into the goblet of merlot was as shocking as the three fleetingly brief moments of total brash Silence. Magnificently executed, Sir! Muito obrigado! Bravo!
Kiitos paljon!
Thabk you so much Jaakko! I hope to one day be able to hear this piece in an octagonal room!
totally brilliant presentation-Thank you for solving the mysteries of this piece.
I had no idea you were so funny! The Monty Python-esque presentation is great! Spem is so much fun/(frustrating if your sopranos can't count)/brilliant to sing. Your deconstruction and historical analysis were so entertaining and educational, thank you!
Oh dear, this was not only very educational, but almost pythonesque- love it and thank you !
My favourite version of Spem in alium was sung by the "Dresdner Kreuzchor und Thomanerchor", both choirs are more than 800 years old.
There is a wonderful version on youtube from 2001 ;)
So really old singers...
@@parzenbua When they invite their alumni to sing along, it really raises the spirits. :-)
I've only just discovered your channel. Please keep making videos like this.
Bravo and bravi! Thank you, Jaakko, for all the time and talent put into producing this charming video. Ending with the visual demonstration of Spem is just genius. Well done.
WOW!!! This video is absolutely extraordinarily good and the production value and quality is absolutely stellar! There is almost no way that you don’t know the great work of Jay Foreman, as elements of his style, on location shooting, and sense of humour is all there in this video! As a music student this is truly astoundingly amazing content and I’m shocked I havent seen it before now. I hope this was made for a film festival or something, because as a first UA-cam video this is high budget stuff!
The music choices throughout are stunning too!
Oh and one last thing, the effort you put in to make it seem like the talking parts were filmed in London is incredible. Im a Londoner born and bred and I didn’t fully catch on until the credits, though I do know Arundel Street and thought it looked greener than I remember!! Top work!
Thank you kindly. This had no budget at all, as it was a lockdown project that spun a bit out of control. I was pleased with the end result, but I also managed to set the bar so high for myself that I've only done a couple of choral music videos since then. I appreciate your London-related comment as well; it is incredibly difficult to find locations in Helsinki that can credibly pass off for London; the architecture is just so different. But if you have a look at my "footnote video" to this one, i.e. "The most dangerous note in Spem in alium", you'll see that I got a shot in the actual Arundel Street when I managed to travel to London again in summer 2021!
@@jaakkomantyjarvi7515 Incredible! I will for sure watch all the other videos on your channel!
I also highly highly recommend that you create a channel profile picture and banner, because it makes the channel seem a lot more polished (which the videos definitely are) and should bring more traffic to the channel :)
In your face, Dolby! Thank you sir, for an informative, entertaining presentation of this piece. Sadly, I doubt I can find a performance of this in my local music scene. In my mind I always think of Baroque as the The Great Music.
the chaotic energy of this video. chefs kiss
It is the opposite of chaotic. It is superbly and beautifully researched and highly intelligent.
Thank you so much for your presentation .Beautifully done,thorough ,humorous (lemonade ?? )and so very informative.A delight !
Excellent presentation. Thank you!
Fantastic and inspiring video essay. Thank you!
Superb analysis. Such fun. Bravo.
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating. Tack tack.
What a superb sense of humour, he must be a wonderful choir director!
This is BRILLIANT, and remarkably funny. Having gathered a group of friends to read the Spem (badly) on my 40th birthday a few (quite a few) years ago, I'm delighted to learn so much more about it than I ever knew.
What a clever and fun educational video. Very well done!
This was absolutely superb. Thank you for taking the time to create such an entertaining and informative video about this amazing piece of art! World without end. Amen!😇
This is performed early summer at Princeton in Richardson Hall, when the Alumni are visiting. In Richardson, which is circular. And the choirs are up in the balcony It is one of life's great joys to sit in the center of Richardson Auditorium when this is performed.
Thank you for making this. So good.
Thank you so much. Your presentation is brilliant. And your humour moments add so much to the connection between the video and the observer. Have done other videos? Brilliant!!!!
As the Bible has it: " such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me: I cannot attain unto it" - but I did try and thanks to all involved in a superb presentation. (...and I once sang 3rd bass in Choir 4 ! - Gabrieli I think)
I loved this - thank you.