Wonderful that there's a woman conducting! And not every chorus can sing split up, rather than with all the sopranos, altos, tenors, basses together. I sang this 63 years ago (!) and it's amazing how much of it still sounded familiar.
Fun fact! The Ave Maria (1st movement) in this piece uses the enigmatic scale! In comparison to the major scale, it has a flat re and sharp fa, sol, and la. It was originally written in 1889 as a response to Adolfo Crescentini’s challenge to use a scale he invented in a piece and use it to harmonize the piece. Verdi was the one who coined the scale’s name as a reaction to the sound of the scale. For additional context, the enigmatic scale was designed to not have a perfect interval connecting to do/tonic. This means that the I chord is augmented and you have tertian harmonies like with the IV chord. It’s really interesting to listen to!
32:22 "Et laudámus nomen tuum in sǽculum, et in sǽculum sǽculi." "And let us praise your name forever and ever." This 165th bar of No. 4 Te Deum was also heard in the early 90s TV commercial of the Family Rosary Crusade in the Philippines. ua-cam.com/video/2Y3szkrPhsA/v-deo.html
Elle est toujours superbe à la direction...! j'espère simplement qu'elle ne porte pas toujours sa queue de cheval quand elle ne dirige pas : quelle beauté !
If only audiences (like this audience here 37:43-38:04) refrained from applauding immediately after the end of a work (whether sacred or secular), at least out of respect for the performers . . .
This is superb! I wish everyone in the world could hear this wondrous, transforming music. God bless the repose of the soul of the dear Maestro Verdi
Wonderful that there's a woman conducting! And not every chorus can sing split up, rather than with all the sopranos, altos, tenors, basses together. I sang this 63 years ago (!) and it's amazing how much of it still sounded familiar.
So beautiful 🙏
Gute Dynamik, gute Phrasierungen, sehr schöne Harmonie und wunderbares Orchester
Very beautiful pieces, done beautifully! The recording and video is so well done, as well.
Thank you to all the performers on a superb job.
Fun fact! The Ave Maria (1st movement) in this piece uses the enigmatic scale! In comparison to the major scale, it has a flat re and sharp fa, sol, and la. It was originally written in 1889 as a response to Adolfo Crescentini’s challenge to use a scale he invented in a piece and use it to harmonize the piece. Verdi was the one who coined the scale’s name as a reaction to the sound of the scale. For additional context, the enigmatic scale was designed to not have a perfect interval connecting to do/tonic. This means that the I chord is augmented and you have tertian harmonies like with the IV chord. It’s really interesting to listen to!
Thanks for uploading this performance of an undeservedly neglected work 🌺🌺🌺
I came to love them by studying Luigi Nono's string quartet "Fragmente - Stille, An Diotima". The "scala enigmatica" plays a fundamental role there.
Golden 4 hard to see how it as been played so badly in the past...
32:22
"Et laudámus nomen tuum in sǽculum, et in sǽculum sǽculi."
"And let us praise your name forever and ever."
This 165th bar of No. 4 Te Deum was also heard in the early 90s TV commercial of the Family Rosary Crusade in the Philippines.
ua-cam.com/video/2Y3szkrPhsA/v-deo.html
The last bars of the Te Deum are really frightening - "In te Domine speravi" but the music ends almost in dark despair. Hope? I don't think so.
Hope has more than a single facet, I believe.
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Elle est toujours superbe à la direction...! j'espère simplement qu'elle ne porte pas toujours sa queue de cheval quand elle ne dirige pas : quelle beauté !
If only audiences (like this audience here 37:43-38:04) refrained from applauding immediately after the end of a work (whether sacred or secular), at least out of respect for the performers . . .
Nonsense, Is 22 seconds of silence, plus a conductor obviously relaxing, not enough for you?