For being as beautiful and as wealthy as it is, the Vatican has some pretty awful music. Their organs are puny at most and their choral repertoire is dull and poorly executed. The cantors are poorly trained, lack diction, and are impossible to follow.
Organs and instruments generally did not play a role in the religious music in the early Catholic Church, and certainly not in the Sistine Chapel. In the Sistine Chapel there was always, and is still today, a tradition of singing without instruments. The music performed here in the Sistine Chapel, in the Renaissance and ever since is in A Capella style. The organs may seem "puny" - granted, they are not always the biggest in the world - but the number of pipes that you cannot see makes them larger than you may think. The choral repertoire is made of of Gregorian Chant and that just may not appeal to you. I will admit that, in this particular video, the cantor from the boy's choir could be better. But as far as pitch, he's spot-on. Diction is often very difficult to determine because of the echoes in the chapel and cathedrals.
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For being as beautiful and as wealthy as it is, the Vatican has some pretty awful music. Their organs are puny at most and their choral repertoire is dull and poorly executed. The cantors are poorly trained, lack diction, and are impossible to follow.
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Organs and instruments generally did not play a role in the religious music in the early Catholic Church, and certainly not in the Sistine Chapel. In the Sistine Chapel there was always, and is still today, a tradition of singing without instruments. The music performed here in the Sistine Chapel, in the Renaissance and ever since is in A Capella style. The organs may seem "puny" - granted, they are not always the biggest in the world - but the number of pipes that you cannot see makes them larger than you may think. The choral repertoire is made of of Gregorian Chant and that just may not appeal to you. I will admit that, in this particular video, the cantor from the boy's choir could be better. But as far as pitch, he's spot-on. Diction is often very difficult to determine because of the echoes in the chapel and cathedrals.