Charles Villiers Stanford: Magnificat in C, op. 115 | The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2013
- The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
Robert Pecksmith (organ)
David Crown (conductor)
Somerville College Chapel, Oxford
21 April 2013
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Organist's Website: www.robertpecksmith.co.uk
Conductor's Website: www.david-crown.com
Recorded and edited by @stefan.schwarz
lovely ! S Marys Singers Auckland doing this at Evensong this Sunday !
A bit of heaven on earth. Thank you for sharing Charles Stanford ' s gorgeous Magnificat. Beautiful performance.
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Beautifully sung.
Wonderful
Thank you...
On a second listening, it is a trifle slow. Still beautiful and well sung.
No, it is being sung at the right speed. Stanford indicates crotchet = 60 in the vocal score.
@@gregfolland6569 I am sure that you are correct. However, RVW's metronome markings in the English Hymnal are decidedly tedious. I suspect his only church visits were to Westminster Abbey. Modern taste (especially with baroque music) is decidedly zippier! (Compare Cecilia Bartoli to Kathleen Ferrier. I confess to preferring the latter.)
Who is that young & good looking organist?
Robert Pecksmith (currently Assistant Master of the Music at Buckfast Abbey). You can find his solo recordings at ua-cam.com/play/PLMqxY1p-1SR0BwbczeuYk7wOm7F7eHFvW.html.
Nice effort, and I suppose one can't expect the same sound from a small, mixed, college group as one can from a full cathedral choir of boys and men, which is essentially what the piece was written for. But what's going on at 0.50? Why is the vid and sound out of sync several times? And why is the final note cut short?
The syncing issues are due to the fact that the audio and video tracks were recorded in two separate locations. The audio was recorded at St Paul's Cathedral (see the photos at the start and at the end of the video), but on this particular occasion we didn't get permission to film evensong there. I was only allowed to set up my microphones in the quire and in the organ loft. I therefore had to use the video recording of an earlier performance at Somerville College Chapel instead. It's the same group of people singing the same music a few days earlier, but obviously the two venues have a very different acoustic…
@@stefan.schwarz Really? Well under those circumstances you did a really good job then Stefan! And thanks for the reply. :-)
Ouch, women and girls can also sing nicely
@@e.a.coldrickYes - but Stanford wrote it for men & boys. 💪💪
My preference is the mixed choir, regardless of what was originally intended. It also allows a greater range of ages to perform.
Have not sung this setting in 40 yrs and hope never to again. Though the mag in B flat is worse.
Ha ha : )
I'd be interested to know why you don't want to sing it again and in what respect the Bb is "worse". But I don't expect a very intelligent answer, if I get one at all. ;-)
Why did you bother listening to it. Is it a form of masochism? I remember hearing Stanford in A (with orchestra) at S. Alban's Holborn, London in 1974. As you can guess, out of this world.
(Me personally) I think you are being very rude and disrespectful😑😑😒