The same choir can be sing this "miserere" in a better way!! They need just to listen each other and understand what they are singing. Try again with the same passion! :)
As someone who has participated in various choirs concentrating in Gregorian Chant and polyphony, THANK YOU for exposing your choir to this music. Too many Catholic churches will not even allow this as an option.
Amateurs in general are great and give themselves and others the joy and love for music. But they should rather perform what is accessible to their given performing skills and is in pair with them. This divine angelic music of Palestrina certainly requires the most trained and dedicated professional voices available on this earth ... To decide to sing this music within the given conditions is not the right and wise choice and to publish it is even less thoughtful and shows rather unrefined taste
Honestly, the singing is not even that bad. All the parts are distinguishable, and it is still pleasing to listen to. I agree with the "had you gone into average Renaissance homes," and I like that thought.
So the singing is horrible? I challenge you to try a piece like this with any amateur choir... most of them don't even sing 4 voiced harmony, let alone polyphony. I find it admirable that amateurs would dedicate their time to such an intellectual endevour.
thankyou lichtbroeder. They say more about their idle commentators than they do anything else.If only more people had enough sense to realize this when they post comm on ut. hehehe.
The tempo is a little frantic for the period, and each choir member is so concentrating on their part that there is little attention left for ensemble. The mic is also rather unsympathetic. A valiant effort on Ego Sum, and a welcome offfering in the YouTube collection.
These are amateurs doing the best they can, and doing it out of love. Had you gone into average churches or homes during the Renaissance, you would have heard the same, I am sure. Finding a better choir on YouTube is as easy as clicking a button. Why make rude, superior and unkind comments? They say more about their makers than they do about this choir.
From the land where the cultural highlight is the Nullarbor? Land of the farting didgeridoos? Listenig to parish choirs is not exactly a highlight when visiting Australia. Give them a break.
The same choir can be sing this "miserere" in a better way!! They need just to listen each other and understand what they are singing. Try again with the same passion! :)
giopiano2 1 month ago
the dead acoustic of the building they are singing in makes this twice as hard.
newgeorge 2 months ago
Very nice effort. May God richly bless you!
Herdewelle 2 months ago
beauthyful and wonderfull polifonic music all the modern music depend and start from classic sacred music xikiki54
vincenzocivetta 5 months ago
As someone who has participated in various choirs concentrating in Gregorian Chant and polyphony, THANK YOU for exposing your choir to this music. Too many Catholic churches will not even allow this as an option.
TaraLynn2011 11 months ago
Amateurs in general are great and give themselves and others the joy and love for music. But they should rather perform what is accessible to their given performing skills and is in pair with them. This divine angelic music of Palestrina certainly requires the most trained and dedicated professional voices available on this earth ... To decide to sing this music within the given conditions is not the right and wise choice and to publish it is even less thoughtful and shows rather unrefined taste
violinoamore 1 year ago
@violinoamore get real
Gostega 3 months ago
soprani... :-(
outsider950 1 year ago
These voices sound like the amteurs singers of the 70's. A solid work on the voices sound is very needed !!! All is not ready to publish on the web !
Apo20v10 1 year ago
@Apo20v10 because publishing on the web is very serious. why did i pay money for this?!
yodiepants 1 year ago
Honestly, the singing is not even that bad. All the parts are distinguishable, and it is still pleasing to listen to. I agree with the "had you gone into average Renaissance homes," and I like that thought.
b0ttomzone 1 year ago
Wow, everyone is a professional early music critic on youtube! I hope one day I am qualified to be on the youtube jury too.
That said, this is so awesome for sight reading practice and I hope to see more of them!
yodiepants 1 year ago
So the singing is horrible? I challenge you to try a piece like this with any amateur choir... most of them don't even sing 4 voiced harmony, let alone polyphony. I find it admirable that amateurs would dedicate their time to such an intellectual endevour.
shaerens 1 year ago
thankyou lichtbroeder. They say more about their idle commentators than they do anything else.If only more people had enough sense to realize this when they post comm on ut. hehehe.
lovesGenet 1 year ago
i am studying palstrina methods in counterpoint and this is my first time seeing a piece for him that uses a tempo which is strange for his era .
5619762 2 years ago
The tempo is a little frantic for the period, and each choir member is so concentrating on their part that there is little attention left for ensemble. The mic is also rather unsympathetic. A valiant effort on Ego Sum, and a welcome offfering in the YouTube collection.
Gordauch 2 years ago
Horrible, horrible singing...
aahj85 2 years ago
Kudos to this choir for taking on such beautiful and difficult music, and doing it with such love.
Chrisiant 2 years ago 8
I think you 'd improve quite a lot if you'd work on interpretation, dynamics, maybe change the tempo a little bit at certain times...
margotlorena 2 years ago
These are amateurs doing the best they can, and doing it out of love. Had you gone into average churches or homes during the Renaissance, you would have heard the same, I am sure. Finding a better choir on YouTube is as easy as clicking a button. Why make rude, superior and unkind comments? They say more about their makers than they do about this choir.
lichtbroeder 2 years ago 51
@lichtbroeder Well said.
zogher22 1 year ago
i luv palestrina, but this choir is terrible...
with this people in youtube we dont foment this beautiful music... cmon guys!
informantis 2 years ago
HELLO? Since WHEN is AUCKLAND in AUSTRALIA??!! Geography, people!!!!! Learn some!!
brojer 2 years ago
Poor people, don't be so hard.
Let them bark.
amlokadion 3 years ago
qué malo que sos!
margotlorena 2 years ago
A bunch of old people tryig to sing Renaisance music is a horrible experience... I would rather listen to a washing machine...
selgeaus 3 years ago
From the land where the cultural highlight is the Nullarbor? Land of the farting didgeridoos? Listenig to parish choirs is not exactly a highlight when visiting Australia. Give them a break.
pfchtxs 3 years ago
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Have you heard parish choirs in Australia!? Look up the choir of Christ Church St Laurence, and St James King Street, Sydney....
BTW, go shag some sheep ;)
TFT83 3 years ago
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its mostly cause their frigid guilty and old catholics
eatmeout6999 2 years ago
tragedy!!!
Amorosso88 3 years ago
Terribe singing. Too much vibroto.
julianfaranda 3 years ago
A worthy performance to Our Lord.
endeavourer 3 years ago 3