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  • Superbe voix du soliste, merci de ce beau partage.

  • Do you have the rehearsal clip?

  • I would love to be paid much greater than I am, especially when you think who does make a lot of money today. But, we're kind of lucky being paid little or not at all. It helps insure that we're doing this only for the glory of God. There is far too much corruption in the world today, let us choir members and choristers remain as pure as we can.

  • The soloist for this was William Ings

  • I used to live near the cathedral

  • welldone nicolas whom is the descant soloist for this traditional ash wednesday anthem uplifting thankyou notyobs brings back childhood memories

  • This is beautiful, and touches the heart and the soul.

  • I understand what you are coming from with regard to these untalented pop 'stars' making money when real singers like these great choristers aren't paid at all.

    I myself am a chorister and laugh sometimes when guys my age become famous by dancing around and making noise on tv. =/

    Funny world indeed!

  • man this is old!

  • This is probably the hundredth time I watch this video. Can anybody tell me the title of this documentary.?

  • This surely is divine

  • good  vid

  • There are so many times I wish that I were a boy, and this definitely is one!!! Ahhh, to be able to hit those angelic notes...

  • This is such a beautiful piece and so well sung in this recording. Wished there was no talking while it was on.

  • This is beautiful. beautiful, BEAUTIFUL!

  • TI ADORO, MIO DIO! INVOCO OGNI ISTANTE E PER OGNI ISTANTE, la TUA BENEDIZIONE!

    COMPLIMENTI PER IL VIDEO

  • Beautiful...absolutely beautiful, especially during Lent.

  • Epic.

  • My Roman Catholic Mass is more Protestantized than this Anglican Mass :(

    Is it just me, or is the Anglican Mass becoming more Catholic than the actual Catholic Mass itself? (I know about the new Anglican Rite that will come within the Catholic Church; I am not talking about that)

  • It's all according to what mass you attend. Also your parish! Because, your parish could have a progressive Priest, who doesn't properly follow the rules. When the rules are followed correctly, it can be just as beautiful as this. The Traditional Latin Mass (I attend)is very, very, beautiful, reverent, and it is the Mass of the Ages. Solemn. The Divine Liturgy is also very beautiful, and solemn.

  • I'm dep head chorister at all saints and I love this piece 2. It is amazing :) In fact this music is just the definition of heaven x

  • really i am head chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, in indianapolis

  • regardless what version i hear, i can't keep from sobbing when i listen to this

  • Beautiful ! No more said !!

  • could you post the rehearsal bit when you get a chance? Great video though!

  • "Thou art dust and to dust you shall return"

    Genisis 2:7

    I hate the modern version that he is saying

  • The day they modernised the bible was the day religion started to crumble.  It lost its power.

  • Beautiful. Seeing te serivce along with te music makes it that much better. The solosist did an amazing job, and is it just me or does he look like a young Napoleon Bonaparte?

  • absolutely sublime.

  • I very much like this piece, but I've heard other versions sung nicer. This one seems much more forced, as if they are yelling and not concentrating on actually singing it.

  • magnifique

  • This did not need to be sung in English. It's just ugly that way, and it broke the intended legato more than once.

  • The song's Face off - Lazzaro temetése

  • Uh?

  • @notyobs It's in a Movie called Face Off. Funny thing is, I love Classical Music, sang in a choir for 15 years, but in Face Off did I hear that piece of music for the first time. Not famous at all in germany...

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  • ENSEMBLE CANTALON

  • I wish that Catholic services were all so beautiful

  • Yes, but this is an Anglican service. However, some RC cathedrals have very high standards as well. We'll not speak of their suburban parishes.

  • All Anglican services are based on those of the Catholic church. England was Catholic until the Reformation when Henry V111 broke from Rome so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.

  • Wrong. The Anglican Church /is/ the Catholic Church in England. That nasty ultramontanist stuff came later. England had it's own rites.

  • Back to the history books for you.

  • OK. First English prayer-book 1549 mainly a translation of the Sarum usage. Tridentine rite imposed 1570 along with much other centralised control from 'over the mountains'. English rites included Bangor and York, too. Despite the efforts of Edward VI's 'advisors', unlike Scotland, England never became Protestant and the word appears nowhere in any edition of the prayerbook.

  • This is an Anglican service. Concerning finding "Anglican Use" Catholic Masses. There is a parish in Texas that does this - may be the only one in America that does. These are quite unique as these Anglican Use parishes have valid Masses and are in communion with the Pontiff.

  • Now that is guts.

  • Life is wonderful. Music -this music- is a language incomparable. It doesn´t pass by the head, it goes directily into heart. It was made to measure to speak to soul.

  • no way!! thats william ings!! hahahaha, me and his younger brother james were in this choir a couple of years after, i remember doing this solo. omg we were not like this in our free time. ha

  • At the imposition of ashes the priest says, "remember that you are dust, and unto dust you will return. Turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ."

  • I left my Christian faith once I reached the age of enlightenment (at about 15)and am an atheist. My Christian teaching has remained but I have long discarded the supernatural aspects of Joshua's story (Jesus is his Greek name). As a former choir boy I adore the music and art of the Christian religion and will always. If one did not persist in teaching the dogma associated with Christ and myths about His birth and death, many Christians would remain with the faith until the end.

  • You seem still to be quite young. I hope and believe you will return to the Christian faith and life. Bless you, son.

  • But the nessecity of it is important. You dont sing anymore do you? What choir?

  • Necessity? Yes. If religion did not exist, we would have had to invent it. In fact we did.

    I was a chorister at St James, Muswell Hill. I must have had a pretty decent voice since I was picked to sing solos at the Christmas Carol Service. I sang the second verse of The holly and the Ivy.

  • No, we didn't invent it. Anyway, your'e SO LUCKY to have been a chorister!

  • I know a lot of choristers

    I was one.

  • I'm not sure what you mean by that, but I think you're wrong. Religious art is aesthetically pleasing as well as spiritually uplifting for the believers. They feel it brings them closer to God precisely because it is so beautiful.

  • Religious art is aesthetically pleasing as well as spiritually uplifting for the believers. They feel it brings them closer to God precisely because it is so beautiful. - True

  • Molto bella...ma in Latino rende meglio!

  • Én meg szövetséget kértem tőlük...

  • Kis buzi, hogy kitátja a száját!!! XDXD

    De gagyi !!!!

  • well done him

  • kURVA SZAR ATTIKA KLÁNOS GECIK

  • mi ez a szar??

  • What do you mean, jigoku66?

  • I mean, posting profanity on this page seems to fit someone whose pagan ancestors came to Europe on horseback.

  • Vikings?

  • very good version.... amazing...

  • thank you for all the comments... i was in that. singing the high part. it was recorded for a t.v program called light a candle for somone or somthing. it was a good day.

  • You're joking??? If that really is you, that makes you something of a celebrity visitor! People will be asking for your autograph next! :-)

  • Really?

  • Miserere mei Deus is truly inspirational and soul-purifying, one of the greatest sacred works of all time.

    Do you know who is the high-C treble in this video?

  • No I don't, sorry... hopefully someone who was there might see this some time and might be able to answer.

  • William Ings was the soloist - I saw the BBC documentary back in the mid-90's.

  • If i remember right, this was shown in India as a part of a BBC series called Everyman, in 1994-95. I have never forgotten this! I still get goosebumps when I hear the treble solo.

  • This was also shown in Australia in the late 90s. It was on a show called "Compass" who show religious based stories and documentaries. I also managed to record it and it was interesting to see the history of the choir and their adaptation of the modern day with introduction of the girls' choir.

    This piece is amazing! Thanks for posting :)

  • Wow this is completely amazing. I've always enjoyed this particular song and these choristers do it wonderfully!

  • If you guys want the best version yet, the one that The Choir of New College Oxford did is just INCREDIBLE. It goes slow and... just download it. I got it off limewire :p.

  • thanks for the videos of miserere and fot there words: "Virtually anonymous chroristers all over the country perform to this standard week in, week out, with little recognition, all in the course of a day's unpaid work, while untalented pop 'stars' make millions. Funny old world!"

  • What beauty. This would be a place that I would long to worship at before I die.

  • Nothing can compare!

  • wow.

  • Winchester Cathedral does a super version of this...with Andrew Lumsden as director.

  • this was my favorite solo... ever.

  • I didn't even realise until the end - they are singing the verses to the psalm in English, rather than Latin!

  • i've sung the solo before. its really hard!

  • In terms of pitch I suppose it could be - it never was an issue for me when I sang it, but the notes aren't...

  • I agree with you. I have song the solo before also. But it was fun. I was young then.

  • Wonderful. Truly wonderful.

  • god or no god,church music is some of the most fascinating.

  • khbgkh, you are missing the whole point.

  • what do you mean?

  • The whole point of church music is to honor God.

  • well see the thing about that is that im acknowledging the great emotion put forth in this music in god's honor, im just making a statement that nobody can argue with. This music is magnificent.

  • Ok, cool!

  • i know

  • How is it possible for mere mortals to honor God , the Supreme Being?This music is for supplication not for honoring.

  • Whenever I doubt the beauty of the Western Church, I just have to look at this video.

    Most Beautiful!

  • "Faith is to believe what we can not see, and the reward of our Faith is to see what we believe" Saint Augustine, it is up to u if want to believe, but God is there,And he shall judge us all.

    God bless

  • Wise old bird was St. Augustine. Some people can see the Virgin Mary in the cracks in the plaster in an old house in rural Ontario.

    She wasn't actually crying although that is not an unusual phenomenon when she appears as a plaster statue in places like Italy & Spain. I love the Miserere.

  • mooooooooooooleeeeeeee

  • i truly agree with wad de person hu posted dis video said!

  • Das gr8. thxs

  • Agree with the comment about pop "stars". If you watch the video "stars and planets in scale with music" you can imagine Britney Spears, Take That etc being Mercury but we know of them because we are so close to them. However if you look far enough you will see "W Cephei" and Mercury just pales into insignificants.

  • Cool singing that kid sure can carry a note and looks sweet to boot! but thought some parts of the vid looked like outtakes from The Excorcist! Who's that creepy religious guy mumbling about? weirdo!

  • It's Ash Wednesday service; I didn't know the Anglicans did that, myself.

  • Well, it is arguably the most solemn and one of the most important days in the Church! Maybe happy-clappy evangelicals don't observe it, but anywhere like a cathedral/collegiate chapel would be certain to.

  • The Orthodox haven't got Ash Wednesday (and have two more days of Lent!), so it is (to my mind) quite possible for a high church denomination to forego the feast altogether. Thanks for the clarification, tho!

  • fair enough! and no probs ;)

  • I was amused by your copyright notice... Would you consider Allegri too? Yes? No? Thank you for posting - fantastic.

  • :-)

    I don't understand the question though.

  • Is King David the sole author of this piece?

    Would you consider the composer (Allegri) an author as well?

  • Oooooohhhhhh... now I get it! :-) The music, yes.

  • I like to joke - hope this is OK....

  • Of course! :-)

  • very moving. was this a Roman Catholic Mass or an Anglican service. it seems RC, but the forms are a bit different...

  • Salisbury would be Anglican.

  • oh yes, of course. i didn't even think about that. thank you.

  • The art of singing isnt even to sing loud

  • great singing

    sang this last year with my church choir

    very moving

  • Excellent and touching performance but it should be sung in Latin!!!!!!

  • Sarum supremum!

  • what verse are they singing?

  • Besides the music itself, and its performance by the choir, the emotion of the people is quite moving. Does anyone know the name of the featured chorister?

  • Well... "notenoughfunk" knows as it's his brother! I wonder if he'd be kind enough to tell us?

  • I remember that programme. They interviewed him in it - I seem to recall his name was William Ings. I have a CD from around the same time that credits him.

  • Who's the person (William Ings) you're referring to who was interviewed?

  • William is the featured Miserere soloist in this video.

    I much prefer it sung in Latin too... The congregation should follow in the Book of Psalms rather than having it dumbed down into English!

  • Thanks. Are you referring to the choristsers whose voices can be heard under the end credits on this clip? If there was more of an interview then I wonder whether maybe this filming was used in more than one programme?

  • No, he was sat individually in front of the camera and asked some questions. The programme was about 50mins long and also featured the girls choir.

  • the program was called 'heavenly voices'.. i'm the tall one at 1.03. will really was an amazing soloist. great to watch this again.

  • Wow! Do you mean the one that comes into the centre of the screen at 1'06? It's like having a celebrity visit... can we have your autograph? :-) I can't imagine what it must have been like being part of that environment, I'm quite jealous.

  • Thanks for posting! Please post more. The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge has an amazing recording of this as all of theirs are.

  • Have you seen my Kings College Cambridge version?

  • the boy treble soloist is my older brother! He's now 25 (13 in the clip).

  • Wow!!! That's amazing. Have you told him this is on here (although I expect he's got a copy of the video anyway.) Anyway... tell him from me, he was excellent!

  • ALWAYS made SURE I understood every word, phraise, and the contextual meaning of LATIN;--after all the MASS IS considered one of the STANDARD FORMS of music!!... ...George...

  • My 'home' Cathedral - quite literally, as I was a chorister there until 2005...I prefer it at my present school however, where we sing it in Latin...nothing quite like that!

  • Ahhh, but do you understand it? :-)

  • yes - I've been studying Latin for 7 years now...(since I was 7)

  • Thank you so much! I did that solo this ash Wednesday in English, just like this!

  • By the way, you ask where I'm getting them... out of the cupboards and shelves they've sat on since the day I recorded them. I've never watched any of them, so I'm suite enjoying this. I can't find some of the ones I'm really looking for!

  • Oh, glad you all like them. Plenty more to come.

  • Wonderful. Salisbury is my "local" cathedral. I must give St Philip's, Norbury a miss one Sunday and go there instead. Many thanks for posting.

  • Make sure you check which choir is singing first!

  • Virtually anonymous chroristers all over the country perform to this standard week in, week out, with little recognition, all in the course of a day's unpaid work, while untalented pop 'stars' make millions. Funny old world!" Thank you ever so much for saying this, I find it a real compliment :) :)

  • so true, so true!

  • Well, in all fairness, for most of the cathedral choirs the boys do get a world class education practically for free, and they do get a small stipend of money.

  • Incredible. Thanks for this work of art.

  • Wow! Where are you getting your videos? I'm seeing lots I've never seen before.

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