The King's Singers - Down to the River to Pray (Trad., arr. Philip Lawson)
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2020
- From our homes during isolation, we recorded a song which has been very special to us ever since it was arranged by our former baritone, Philip Lawson, in 2002. It's the 19th century Appalachian song 'Down to the River to Pray', and we've included the score so you can sing along. To purchase copies for your choir, please find them at Hal Leonard: bit.ly/2AdgoZQ
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Patrick Dunachie - countertenor
Edward Button - countertenor
Julian Gregory - tenor
Christopher Bruerton - baritone
Nick Ashby - baritone
Jonathan Howard - bass
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Sound engineering & mixing: Nicholas Girard
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Превосходно. Лучшее исполнение. Перепели русских. Низкий поклон.
It's an interesting mix of old southern spiritual with the British style of choral singing.
Interesting as in it doesn't work. lol
@@EC2019 you are right about that one, i wish they had just tried it in their accents instead of a mix
It’s not British style. It’s just how proper choral vowel sounds like. With the proper technique, it sounds nice. But when it comes to American vowels, must admit, it does sound bad compared to the Latin vowels. Proper choral technique is with tall open mouths while the modern American technique is wide open mouths.
Yeah, interesting in the way that eating fried chicken and drinking Earl Grey tea would be interesting.
@@JazzyAudioz proper choral vowels are whatever vowels fit the genre of the song. A bunch of white guys singing this kind of spiritual strips all the interesting parts of it. It's pretty, but it's not what the song is supposed to sound like.
What a nice arrangement of this song. It makes me miss singing in a choir.
Me too ! I sung for 14 years while we lived in Suffolk in our BENEFICE CHOIR.
We have now moved back to
GERMANY .
I miss it so much !!!
Yes Lord I try hard not to loose my voice.When will this situation end
@@karindickinson7993 willkommen zurück :) geh doch hier in DE in einen Chor? 👍🏻
@@evelynap9728 u mean 🦠?
@@denjua1 was bedeutet das grüne Teil ?🤔
Can we talk about that last guy that legit sounded so beautiful. Holy moly
So impressed!! OMG THE SECOND COUNTERTENOR KILLED IT!! Probably the best in my opinion. I love how his lower register isn’t airy and it sounds like he is using upper mixed voice. Bravissimo!!!
I was just thinking the same! Also first time I’ve heard the new 2nd baritone sing solo. Very rich baritone sound!
Tempo is far too fast for this beautiful old hymn . Not sure why they sang it so "bippity boppity"
Guess its just my Southern USA ears . Sounds so "off" to me.
yup he is *really* good... it’s how a countertenor should sound in my opinion
@@gatozarin Been privileged to sing with Eddie a few times, on the same part. He's such a good singer but very, perhaps excessively, humble about his own talent.
@@paulsmith5752 omggggg that’s awesome that you got to sing with him! I’m also a countertenor myself and I can only dream about something like that hahah and yes he does seem to have a very very humble personality
Absolutely wonderful
BEAUTIFUL!
Yes, Lord, show us the Way. The world really needs Him now.
Thanks for the sing along sheet. :-)
Oh wow, that man lives in his falsetto, that’s incredible, i squeak so terribly up there
this was my chamber chiors first preformence, and it has inspired me to arrange and write my own peices
Beautiful Gift Of Music Gentlemen. Very Much Needed🎵
Such a moving black spiritual - full of divine uplifting inspiration. The King's Singers render it with reverent perfection.
It could just as easily be an Appalachian song or a Southern Gospel song, so not necessarily a negro spiritual.
It's not a Black spiritual. It's originally Appalachian (if I remember correctly). It's found in shape note tradition originally.
Es war einfach phantastisch, habe regelrecht Gaensehaut bekommen und war zu Tränen gerührt.
I posted this on my FB page and offered it as an immediate antidote to the toxic news and commentaries filling our world right now. The response to this great little gem has been far better than I had imagined it would! Very timely!
Brilliant
Beautiful. Just beautiful. How much even more beautiful will it be when we can walk down to the river of life in Heaven! Diane in NC.
Tolle Truppe, macht Spaß zu zuhören.
Please please please do more of this. Beautiful sound as always. Also, LOVE seeing the sheet music on screen with the vocals!
I heard the 2002 version when I was so young. Good times.
i watched these guys in concert last year and i sat with an open mouth the whole evening ^^ wanna go back
Nice job fellas. I'm really enjoying these during these quarantined times. They give me something to look forward to. Keep 'em coming fellas.
That sound just washes over me like a calm shower. Thank you for this.
For all basses trying to sing along:
1:37 "Lord, show me THE way" - bass still singing c, notes show A.
1:45 "don't you wanna go DOWN" - bass singing G, while notes show B (H)
1:50 "TO pray" - like first one, c instead of A.
2:16 "down" missing in the text
(yes, I'm bored and have nothing else to do right now...)
BTW. The song is GREAT! :)
Thanks, I'm a bass lol
You are really bored why dont you get a group of people and start working on singing in a distance at least you have ears for this ;) and next time try to listen at the distance first before looking in a score you'll get totally different perception of what you hear
Yeah I noticed that too, but I easily figured the correct notes out. However, musically, (I have a music education degree) its not inaccurate. This is called a counter-harmony, and the bass holds that note to add just a color to it that SEEMS off. They ARE singing about going to pray about repentance from sin, so adding the mixed harmonies kind of gives it a slightly off feeling (kinda like sin?) so to me, this was an intentional scoring by the arranger. Well done ya'll!
It doesn't make sense to me to include the score if they're not gonna ng to follow it. If you just want it for effect, why not at least change it to match what you actually sang?
@@ZipplyZane artistic liberty!!
This is probably my favorite arrangement of this song.
Amazing, I love this song and once wrote a Christmas version for my UK class. Fantastic!
Yet another cracking performance chaps.. Wonderful as always.. *sighs*
So beautiful all voices!!
Thank's for this precious moment!!
God bless you, Guys!
I love them. I've always loved them. They are fabulous!
PERFECT HARMONY
This is so valuable! I've always been a choir boy and I've been stuck at home for 4mo now. Singing along to this is the closest thing to choir practice I can get! I love you King's Singers!
fantastico !
Indeed, love the notes being added to your singing so that I can try baritone and bass parts! Very enjoyable!
Thank you a lot! It's so amazing - to see and hear, how you awaken the music and how it begins to breathe and live in all your voices!
Beautiful, thank you!
Thanks God indeed... Because
I thought no young Christian singer is in UK anymore.
Beautiful spiritual song with great harmony. Very impressed.
I love them! I love them! I love them!
Absolutely beautiful. I got to come see you guys in person a couple of years ago, and I was absolutely astounded. I’ve been in many singing ensembles and done some vocal recording and production, but never had I heard an ensemble that was so amazingly locked together. All the entrances and exits were perfectly timed, every note was exactly in tune, and all the timbres blended perfectly. I could not believe that any ensemble could produce such music live. Thank you for sharing this during these extraordinary times, and I look forward to hearing more!
Beautiful - I love this song
Thank you. Just... thanks! I needed this.
WOW!! that was magnificent
Absolutely beautiful.
Love it!
Youre the best, guys. Simply beautiful
Loving your rendition of this spiritual
Beautiful!!
Beautiful voices!
brilliant absolut brilliant! love ur voices ... brilliant done!
What an absolute delight! You guys look and sound great!
How sweet and gentle 😍
I love your performence of this song
So beautiful! I love watching you sing and being able to follow the score. Please continue to put these out!
fantastic!
What a fantastic rendition! Just fantastic!
So incredibly beautiful 😭😊
Beautiful ❣❣❣
just beautiful! Amen to that performance 🙏
Beautiful, just beautiful!
My God Nick is amazing on these solos!
INCREDIBLE!! This is a must share.
Thank you, gentlemen, for sharing this. It got me through a tough time, last year.
Amazing...Awesome...incredibly unbelievable voices!
Impeccable harmony, fine arrangement.
Beautiful song, performed very lively!👍🏼
Thank you , Very beautiful harmony!
Fantastic voices
Fabulous! What I wouldn’t give to have their tenor section in my men’s Barbershop chorus!
Such a great performance. Thanks King's Singers for giving us this in this time when we all need something great to believe in. So very nice...
Beautiful Arrangement, Beautifully Performed As Always By 'The King's Singers' 🎵
Wonderful. It’s great to listen to guys that can really sing
Aww my heart ❤️ gotta love counter tenors
Beautiful
Love you guys!!
Congratulations guys! Beautiful arrangement done as only you can do.
really enjoyable and loved having the music . great singalong material!
Love it!!!!
Love your Swinging, guys!!
With the sheet showed above is so great 👍 that I like, thanks!
Love the lambardic rhythms in this piece.
Wonderful! Congratulations from Brazil
Fine lyric bel canto delivery of a sacred hymn very beautiful delivery
Wonderful
lovely
Balsam für die Seele. Danke für dieses schöne Video.
Thanks for a couple of moments of middle and low voices that I really enjoy and really always miss the middle in choir. I love Andreas Scholl singing, for example, and men's high voices rare and beautiful, but in choir I like to hear every part and especially distinguish the middle.
Descobri vocês a pouco tempo, contudo é maravilhoso ouví-los. Amei, assim posso acompanhar. Com a letra é super legal! Bravo, bravíssimo 👏👏👏
The third's is an angel..
I just loved this! I so love musicans that can play and singers that can sing (no auto-tune required!). sounds ridiculous and obvious, but these days, everything is enhanced and manipulated. Such a glorious breath of fresh air to let these beautiful, talented men sing and let it just wash over me. ahhhhhhh
👍👍👍Greetings from Germany!
You are great ! Thanks 😙
me encanto que voces tan lindas
Very nice!
UN ÉMERVEILLEMENT ❤️😍👏😍❤️😍👏🙏🏻🙏🏻🕊👏😍❤️💓💗🤗👍❤️😍👏🕊🙏🏻
Thank you!
Mighty spiritual men of God, very impressive brothers.
GREAT! Thanks XXX
Well done!
Ok the baritone in the blue shirt is just having too much fun. I've noticed it in several videos. Too much fun! lol
Very touching
My college choir director would be in his glory.
Thank you!!!