Such an outstanding piece of vocal mastery ,indeed the human voice is the best instrument you can play with,and it's divine and original .God bless you all.
what a sensational choir and magnificent performance! I am so impressed, cant believe i havent heard of them before. This choir seriously rivals the big names.
Every performance of this beautiful music I listen to I compare with what I think is the defining rendition - recorded by the BBC, in the late 1980's I think, for an anniversary, the detail of which I have forgotten. The BBC will not release it into the public domain, but I heard a short clip of it on My Music. The soprano on that occasion was right on song, a fabulous performance.
I have that CD. It came with the BBC Music magazine, to which a coworker subscribed. She didn't want the CD so I was very lucky to get it. I agree the soprano was absolutely perfect in the recording.
Do you mean in this recording by The Choir of Gonville and Caius College, or the RCA one? If you click the link of my reply just above, it will take you to the recording that Olive Simpson uploaded. All the performers are listed on the image.
Thanks, Hugh. I meant on Chris's recording but I can't see a link on your reply. I would also like to know who the sop is on the Gonville & Caius, strange there's no credit.
There might be another equally excellent choral work composed by Stanford, but, compared to the music of his students-Frank Bridge, Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan-Williams-most don't belong in the same concert hall.
I also agree. Their O Nata Lux video is also not good - very affected and distracts from the sublimity of the music - and the performance which is quite good. Either get a top-drawer creator of such videos or make it very simple - of an actual performance in one of those Cambridge chapels (or any number of such chapels in England) that are so beautiful.
Your grounds have really excellent acoustics...
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An incredibly pure & beautiful voice - quite extraordinary!
Such an outstanding piece of vocal mastery ,indeed the human voice is the best instrument you can play with,and it's divine and original .God bless you all.
what a sensational choir and magnificent performance! I am so impressed, cant believe i havent heard of them before. This choir seriously rivals the big names.
😃😃😃😃😃THIS is Sooo BEAUTIFUL😊😊😊😊😊😊!!!!!!
Just beautiful!! thankyou.
Beautiful, sounds like music from heaven....
This is one of my favourites and I do not think I have heard a better performance. Well done.
Absolutely beautiful.
Good evening здравствуйте очень хорошее пение мне очень понравилось абсолютно чистые голоса супер thanks very much goodbye
Wonderfully judged performance, in a perfect acoustic for this piece - richly resonant
Lovely! Almost as good as the King’s Singers. Can’t imagine why some conductors put their whole soprano line on the top line when it is so delicate!
The soprano . . . love her sound.
Is this young woman still singing - i hope so - beautiful
Every performance of this beautiful music I listen to I compare with what I think is the defining rendition - recorded by the BBC, in the late 1980's I think, for an anniversary, the detail of which I have forgotten. The BBC will not release it into the public domain, but I heard a short clip of it on My Music. The soprano on that occasion was right on song, a fabulous performance.
I have that CD. It came with the BBC Music magazine, to which a coworker subscribed. She didn't want the CD so I was very lucky to get it. I agree the soprano was absolutely perfect in the recording.
Who was the soprano? And any chance of an upload? That would be great.
Do you mean in this recording by The Choir of Gonville and Caius College, or the RCA one? If you click the link of my reply just above, it will take you to the recording that Olive Simpson uploaded. All the performers are listed on the image.
Thanks, Hugh. I meant on Chris's recording but I can't see a link on your reply. I would also like to know who the sop is on the Gonville & Caius, strange there's no credit.
Favorite version!! I will be sad if you delete...
It's gorgeous singing, but I don't understand the presentation
Always loved this piece, but it clearly was recorded indoors. This must be lip-synching.
I imagine that the riff-raff think this slushy sentimental claptrap "oh so lovely" !!
Just about perfect but did the generally uninspired Stanford really write this?
+peter owen -- Stanford certainly wrote the music; the lyrics were from a Mary Coleridge poem ("L'Oiseau Bleu")
There might be another equally excellent choral work composed by Stanford, but, compared to the music of his students-Frank Bridge, Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan-Williams-most don't belong in the same concert hall.
No, the often inspired Stanford
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Wonderful singling, but toe-curlingly awful video!
Have to agree there
I also agree. Their O Nata Lux video is also not good - very affected and distracts from the sublimity of the music - and the performance which is quite good. Either get a top-drawer creator of such videos or make it very simple - of an actual performance in one of those Cambridge chapels (or any number of such chapels in England) that are so beautiful.