Faure - Op. 11 - Cantique de Jean Racine

[derbydog07]

TMEA 2012!

[estermazda]

just so moving, mon Dieu que Fauré nous a gâté...

[INGRID8187]

cette chansn nous apprend beaucoup de chose elle est tellement bien faite et elle nous montre que dieu est capable de faire beaucoup de chose pour nous

[artlover163]

Cette musique représente juste la continuité de la vie dans la mort.

C'est absolument extraordinaire.

[samdesaintes]

I love this song especially for what it was sung by the choir of my grandfather at my parents' marriage, I had less than a year at the time

[MrAmbrius]

I prefer Magnificat by John Rutter.

[bassbass99able]

The problem is when people think Eminem and others of his kind is on the level this real music. The difference between classical music and other stuff is that classical uses complexity to bring about complex more sophisticated emotions which is what real art does. Pop music is not art because it is material noise feeding off the most basic of desires/emotions. Peoples ignorance and then judgment of classical music and what it offers is what pisses me off.

[MUREX641]

D'accord avec vous Wishbone, je suis d'un pays où on chante à peine né,avec la musique en nous. Jamais, jamais un morceaux de musique ET de chant ne vous " effondre" comme celui la.

Mais justement, il n'y a aucunes indications et de l'orchestre et de la chorale. Dommage.

[aliosch]

@MUREX641 il s'agit de la version de l'ensemble Accentus, dirigé par Laurence Equilbey. Ils font des choses magnifiques...

[Lauvreede3003]

I'm sure i heard this song in a movie, I just cannot figure out which one it was. I hate that cause I remember liking that movie a lot and this song is so beautifull

[annaka100]

I love it...

[solosoltantoio]

le chanter est un rêve

[chaz76vette]

Spectacular. Also, I wish the moon were really that red all the time

[krisgirl990]

Faure a master of the Romance era. So beautiful.

[davetb2]

@emoore83. You can actually say someone is a better technical composer. You just can. I love eminem, the killers, etc, and some of the music is very cleverly structured etc. But the best way I can put it is this: there are bad classical composers - Philip Ledger, for example, is just nowhere near as good as say, Vaughan Williams. Literally just not technically as good. Whether something is GOOD music or not, whether it is enjoyable, that is up to people's preference. It can be good or bad though

[Choristenimes]

Look at "Maîtrise de Nîmes, Cantique de Jean Racine"

[ppagnol]

Vraiment très beau

[marieclaudenivot1950]

l'émotion d'abord,ensuite et pendant toute l'exécution de ce morceau nous submerge comme si l'on était en plein océan!

[blackyoruna]

its not about like or dislike, but music is determined by quality in the text and in the melody, not just by their ears or taste. Classical music will be always the best quality music whether you like or not, because it does not swayed by the era.. eminem? backstreet boys? they'll just be sweep away in 100 more years later... so learn to listen classics!

[MrGanon00]

Who dislikes this song?  Seriously?

[LambChowder1]

glad to find a real recording of this and not some amateur jr college choir

[bassbass99able]

FINALLY, a recording with the correct tempo, not too fast but not super slow.

[sweetiepie1998100]

I like the 'qui la' parts ;3

[saxyviolist]

I LOVE this song. It's absolutely beautiful. I'm currently playing this in orchestra. It is amazing. <3

[ruthwu09]

Master piece !

[jimsimac]

Five people decided to pooh-pooh this and preferred Schönberg's works instead. Bahaha.

[Memale2009]

Mais quand même... c'est Fauré et pas "Faure" - excusez-moi, mais je ne peux pas renoncer à l'accent... tout en étant toujours profondément émue...

[Memale2009]

Je suis profondément émue

[stringuy1]

I loved playing the piano version as accompanist to our university choir. Faure is my favorite of all French composers. His art songs are equally heavenly.

[cicero1453]

Epic compositional fail.

Just kidding, I liked it:)

[cliffburtonlives]

I listen to Faure. I also listen to Led Zeppelin, Celdweller, Cannibal Corpse, Buddy Rich and Willie Nelson. There is no reason to hate on different kinds of music, just people listen to whatever they enjoy listening to, for whatever reason they might do so.

[oldbaxter]

Divine Savior, accept the prayers we offer to Thy glory.

[thefru]

Someone from my Music Business class told me about this song, and I had never heard of it before... I don't know how, since I like classical quite a bit, but I've never really been into the vocal classical. This song is a whole different level to me though. Even for someone who doesn't care for singing in classical music, I LOVE this song! I can't stop listening t it. It's so beautiful

[Davvanto]

Everyone must hear this melody at least one time in his life..

[Stellarka14]

Absolutely lovely, just beautiful! It melts me inside, and at the same time it's so comforting and... ♥

(we're singing this in choir, and it's so awesome to sing this, it really frees you)

[TheJmills39]

I see five tone deaf people missed the like button

This is my favorite choral piece. Even after hearing it hundreds of times, it still moves me. A absolutely beautiful prayer, by an absolutely amazing composer.

Tomorrow is the 86'th year of his death. How amazing would it be to visit the 19'th century for a short while.

[emncaity]

@TheJmills39

I'm with you. It never gets old.

[sfrenchhorn07]

I always prefered the version for organ and choir but this is very beutiful as well.

[Quent1505]

It's the most beautiful music in the world... I love The Cantique *-*

[kitkatkelly88]

Who is this? I'd love to buy it.

[yuabonuga]

@kitkatkelly88 It's Gabriel Urbain Faure =)

[Stellarka14]

@kitkatkelly88 It's the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus - I found it on Amazon just now by accident :D by Yan Pascal Tortelier.

[Dappschaf]

Mein absolutes Lieblingsstück.. zum dahinschmelzen...

[ditantipalpiti]

estasi....

[vanburikwouter]

it's so sad :(

[operarat1127]

I agree!  Excruciatingly beautiful!

[AlgernonsDream]

I can't imagine not having this song in my life forever more to bathe in. After all, logically, we all miss out on something in life that we probably would've loved. So, potential irony aside, this piece of music simply makes a heaven for me while I'm here. An ultimately gentle and calm but sometimes bittersweet mixture of dream, wonder, reassurance and meaning circles in my head from it. Thanx, Faure, Rutter, singers etc. You should always mention it to friends who haven't heard it, I think.

[asuperpower]

:) I'm singing this for choir :)

[EltBerserker]

owowoow

[queerdel]

This was written when Faure was 19. Let that sink in.

[thesonicsnap]

This is amazing. I don't think I have ever sang, let alone heard, something so beautiful

[xskyrangerx]

The Chamber Singers at my University and I are singing this tomorrow night. An amazing piece. :)

[lenin1945]

Anyone who know what choir it is?

[SunnySideUp94]

Awsome

[anglish82]

Is so quiet and full of silence energy! (I hope I have write it well, I'm Italyan)

I'm the middle part too.

[yourforte]

I love this piece of music. Fauré wrote some of the most beautiful melodies in the history of music.

[efarei13]

great relaxing song :D

[CookieSherbert]

I am the middle part of this song, and I'm doing it with two other girls doing the other parts :)

[youngmarwood]

Hello BachnerTrpt

I really like this particular recording - could you tell me which choir please?

Many thanks

[youngmarwood]

After much searching, it appears to be the version by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Yan Pascal Tortelier

[jhvorotin]

Problems of unity in the choir. The basses don't start to pronouce some syllables at the same moment, we hear too much a tenor,

[Africancrab]

Beautiful

[pinkmermaid93]

my choir is doing this on monday the 14th but in english

[condobleN]

beautiful

[Wishbone1977]

In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed.

[Kenador]

@Wishbone1977 and Fauré, who was only 19 at this time, won the first prize of compotsition with this perfect cantique.

[hookedonpahonics]

@Wishbone1977 i couldn't agree with you more. i sang this song in my high school choir as a senior last year and the harmonies are some of the most beautiful that i've ever heard. powerful words, powerful music, sensitive, smooth, and the ending is chilling to the bone. the most perfect choral/orchestral song in my opinion

[JesseRosas01]

yup my high school is singing this i am so glad im in chorus and i will always ALWAYS LOVE THIS SONG! xD

[LrdVnm]

Same here. I love singing this.

[glapenguin]

My college choir is debuting this piece tomorrow and I'm so excited. It's such a gorgeous piece of music.

[keep1235]

does anybody know were I can find this piece in english?

[mrultraman86]

its only composed in french, the piece is pretty easy to pronounce though- not like its german or russian

[TheKtbt]

I have the words in English.

O divine Word above, our hope and consolation etc.

Available from Music Dept,

Oxford University Press

[verafloc]

É a mais bela canção que já ouví. Tão triste que nos dói a alma.

[Bodidharma10]

O Christ, sois favorable à ce peuple fidèle

Pour te bénir maintenant rassemblé.

Reçois les chants qu'il offre à ta gloire immortelle,

Et de tes dons qu'il retourne comblé! "

Une merveille ...

[Bodidharma10]

Voici le texte français de cette sublime musique :

" Verbe, égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance, Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux;

De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence, Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux! Répands sur nous le feu de ta grâce puissante,

Que tout l'enfer fuie au son de ta voix;

Dissipe le sommeil d'une âme languissante, Qui la conduit à l'oubli de tes lois!

[Condesa1964]

Esta pieza es una belleza. Espero poder cantarla algun día

[ermoore83]

Why is it up to us to decide who is great and who isn't? Shouldn't music appreciation be personal? If people prefer one composer to another; let it be!

Some people consider not Beethoven nor Rachmaninov to be great, but instead John Lennon or even Eminem. Why is that wrong if they appreciate that music more than Mozart's Requiem?

I love this piece, as I love Brahms and Rachmaninov but I cannot say that these composers are greater than any others because that's my own preference. Not fact.

[jpckrd]

When you advocate such complete relativism then some amateur composition is as great as Bach or another great composer. This can't be. There has to be a way to compare and talk about greatness.

[kitkatkelly88]

I agree; just because greatness is difficult to quantify doesn't mean it's impossible. I've never met a relativist who truly believed the Mona Lisa was aesthetically comparable to a kindergartner's doodles.

[Orlymusicboy]

@ermoore83 lol... ur argument became funny at 'EVEN Eminem'. oh, and I do think that Faure was the best composer ever. I fail to see how anyone can get aesthetic value from performers such as eminem...

[lewars1912]

@ermoore83>>> I like some songs by John Lennon, Beatles, etc, but I also fully realise that there is just no comparison with pop music and great composers like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, etc, and why on earth should music appreciation be a personal thing! People surely have a right to express their views and share their likes and dislikes and if they are civilized enough should be able to do so without getting into an argument about it.

[how2233]

@ermoore83

Well spoken.

[enzoselva888]

@ermoore83

you're inanity incarnate.

[andrewMLhero]

@enzoselva888 Brilliant counter argument, you really convinced me.

[enzoselva888]

@ermoore83 I love how people like you belittle others, and then pretend you are wronged when someone points out the ineptitude of your logic. So let me help:

- Wishbone only expressed "an opinion", did he not?

- "One of the Most beautiful.etc." is not an Exclusive proposition.

- To mangle concepts and paradigms, and mix Eminem with Rachmaninoff is Carthusian and dull to the utmost.

Your comments are haughty and pedantic. THEY did not convince ME.

[RemovdSande11]

@ermoore83 

nobody can tell you what to like or not, but regarding the composers and musicians you named... they cannot even be compared.

[ididete]

@ermoore83 yes, some people overeat, others take pleasure in killing, third ones are pedophiles...why is that wrong? According to you, they all have the right to like those things, it's a matter of personal taste, right?

[Sumannatur]

@ermoore83

" love this piece, as I love Brahms and Rachmaninov but I cannot say that these composers are greater than any others because that's my own preference. Not fact"

clap, clap, clap

[TheKenAmes]

@ermoore83 Beauty may only be of personal preference but complication, relevance, and artistic illustration are measured variables.

[MrGanon00]

@ermoore83 ...of course it's opinion... and you've stated yours as others have stated theirs. I hate how everyone needs to justify their arguments by saying it's their opinion. What else would it be?

[preposterous3637]

@ermoore83 I like both Faure and Eminem...



[71259mark]

@preposterous3637 I like M & M's. They melt in your mouth, not in your hand!

[MrHannibal31]

@ermoore83 You are very right! How could be this mountain more beautiful than another one? Or this ocean more than an other one?Is love deeper here or there?Love is love, A mountain is a mountain and the deepless of each ocean could be the image of the needs of every sensitive human...

I'm sorry for my bad English,I'm just a poor "Froggy" français!

[assmanistan]

@ermoore83 Let's see whose music is remembered and performed 100+ years from now. There were plenty of hacks even in Mozart's day whose music is lost to us today --possibly for a good reason.

[annaclar]

Even though it is ridiculous to try and compare, contrast and list composers by greatness how has no-one mentioned Schubert, Richard Strauss, Mahler?! Re the whole Mozart argument, I don't think there is anyone who was so able to convey human emotion as well as him, even as a young man. Anyone failed to be moved by Dove Sono should have a personality check.

[bboymasochist]

Let us finish this.

Top 5:

Bach

Mozart

Beethoven

Brahms

Rachmaninov

I know people won't agree completely, but the big 3 in there (Bach Mozart and Beethoven) are just out of Faure's league. Faure was a wonderful composer, but he is not nearly as inspirational or culturally permeating as Mozart is.

[sosamuera]

Please, get Rachmaninov out of the list!!!! For me, Mozart is the number one without any doubt.

[bboymasochist]

Sorry. I'm quite stalwart. :)

But 4 our of 5 is pretty good. And to me, those top three (Bach Mozart Beethoven) are moot. They're all tied for first in my opinion. I prefer Bach's music to all of them, but I see the worth in the other two. Who doesn't? Haha.

[Robzie123]

I think Mozart was more of a natural composer. Mozart's music just flowed out of him.

People like Faure and Beethoven especially had to work at there talents.

Not that that takes anything away from any of them.

Mozart was a fine musician, as with Faure. They all have their fortes!

Love this piece!

Heavenly

[TheJmills39]

Really?

99% of Mozart's work was written because someone payed him to write it. ie uninspired and unmusical. Granted, he did some technically impressive things for his time, his music was in effect whorish to his talent.

For that matter, most composers wrote for money... it's how they survived... but Mozart's music was mostly lame in my opinion.

I love this piece though. One of my favorites.

[Robzie123]

Mozart could simply sit down with a quil and manuscript and write.

The music "flowed" out of him.

Others, as I said, like Beethoven, had to work at their compositions.

Obviously, they were paid for it, less than they deserved in most cases, but I still agree that Mozart was the natural composer.

Read the letters sent to Constanze about how he wrote.

[Jenedwardo]

Mostly lame? Uninspired? Unmusical? The man was a complete and utter musical genius. I think you will find that he was actually more of the opposite of what you think, he was a bit of a pain at demonstrating the commitment he should have to employees and was far too busy wanting to travel to explore musical boundaries and push them. I wouldn't believe everything you saw in 'Amadeus' - i'm assuming that with such a narrow minded opinion of him you haven't explored much further!!!!!!

[TheJmills39]

I haven't seen Amadeus. I was a performing arts major, and am a violinist.

I'm not that rare of a person... alot of musicians don't care for him. Most of his music is boring to listen to, and even more boring to play.

It's just my opinion, and plenty of other people's opinion.

Nickleback is incredibly famous... it doesn't mean their "music" is worth anything.

[svenlepolo]

gabriel faurever

[Calamaistr]

I think bach fauré and brahms are the three best classical composers the world has known, for now. (in that order, and yes ive considered rachmaninov)

[biho3n]

one of the besties

[Goblin767]

We did this in our senior choir and it was great. I prefer it to Ave Verum Corpus which we also did.

[ultrasions]

Mozart was the world's greatest musician but not the world's greatest composer however I would say that his requim would take some beating but then again Faure's is the same. It's never ending!!! :)

[TheFowlyetti]

Bach = greatest musician

[ultrasions]

seriously though any good musician can see that most of mozart's peices were musically simple compared to people like Bach and Faure. This doesn't mean he wasn't an amazing musician just not the greatest composer that's all

[sosamuera]

You are not musician

[ultrasions]

who's Mozart... make way for Gabriel Faure greatest composer who ever lived his music is the voice of the angels :)

[xxxeternityxxx]

Nooo Mozart is someone, definitely! Faure is brilliant, I admit, but holds nothing against Mozart.

[lorriegtqy]

I have to agree. His music puts me in a wonderful place. Have to say though in defence of Mozart, I adore Ave Verum Corpus. Fond memories of singing it at school many years ago!

[0716151700]

Des Lied haben wir im Oberstufenchor auch gesungen

[jeffy5482]

Might be one of the best choral tenor lines ever written. So smooth. Love this song. Thanks for posting.

[tritus67]

I agree with you...and I too, love this song !

[HarmAllShip]

O Racine, vous parlez pour moi....

Nicely done!

[incifinci69]

masterpiece!

[stevmaio]

Just right.

[coelhofsp]

too slow.

[cousinjk]

Too fast.

[GCLtubes]

amazing

[looy64]

Really sentimental ! great. Fauré had influence on Pierre Vellones, a famous composer of his time. Go see Pierre Vellones's vids on my vids and tell me what you think about him ! Thanks

[xXcookersXx]

tenor 2 ftw! you guys have the easy parts! we have the weird stuff on every song. yay weirdness

[elliegrim]

Sang it with national girls choir of scotland :)

[reenactorgal]

It is amazing to me the way the lyrics translate. It is a very deep, poetical piece that is a nearly perfect union between Racine's lyrics and Faure's music. I love the I love the way it praises the Lord of the Heaven and Earth and the fervor with which it describes deliverance. Faure's music is a beautiful match for the lyrics and helps to convey the idea.

[ollie110]

I get to sing this in Chorus for my school! :D Oh my goshhh, it's gorgeousss. It sounds so pretty when we sing it!

Yay sopranos! =D

[MAFIA5642003]

Hey wat school. Cuz i had to sing it for our festivel in virginia :] we got 1s i love this song!!!! tenors!!!!!

[shadeoflight123]

Singing it in my choir at the moment. Second bass ftw! :D

[diccapilly]

and where is the first bass?;-)

i recogn theres just bass, tenor, alt, sopran?=)

[brassection]

it's the song that i like most sing in my chorus

[pakamen]

Outstanding choral quality. Wish that we could see them

[OrcSlayer07]

this must be rutter's arrangement of the accompaniment? Very nice!

[Prawninator]

Actually, I believe it is Faure's.

[OrcSlayer07]

Hmm, I thought Rutter did an arrangement for strings. Could be wrong though. Either way it's excellent!

[pacoenigmatic]

faure was a great composer

thanks

[elliegrim]

sang this with national girls choir of scotland. Unfortunately as we're girls we have no bass and tenor and all that, so it lacked that, which this provides with excellence..will perhaps upload the national girls choir singing it sometime soon :)

[jenbum08]

i sing this with my choir! It is such a touching song! x

[rdsexton1950]

sublime....gorgeous....almost divine

[reenactorgal]

The words to this peace are powerful, and Faure was a genius in setting the text of this french piece to music.

[ANBProduction]

sublime, ce cantique est sublime...

[rehen0ren]

amazing

[mvdbvd]

Wat heerlijk deze muziek.. tranen..

laat anderen dit meemaken !!

groet Jos Belgie

[taprates]

I LOVEEEE this song... It touch my soul...

[Glagolitus]

Personally, I like this piece better with the Swedish lyrics... Well, it's a beuatiful song and the words play a most important part.

[VerucaSaltines]

My choir sang this, and it's nice to hear it done so well, and with an orchestra. We didn't have an orchestra accompaniment.

[Mini123Moo]

SAME

lol :)

i adore this piece.

my friend hates it! i really cannot understand how!

it is so beautiful

xx

[yourforte]

This is beautiful. I do think Fauré is an underrated composer. Very few composers have been able to write such natural sounding and beautiful melodies. I love this recording too; it's the best I've heard on YouTube.

[CILDAD]

Esta cancíon me trae muchas buenas cosas.

shalom

[eustazio]

there is one tenor in this choir whose voice is just lovely.

[ourfc12]

perfect

[Chariset]

It's lovely. The dynamics are so subtle and surefooted, and the balance is magnificent

[pavs3737]

Best recording I've heard of this on youtube. BELLISIMO!

[ella7311]

BEAUTIFUL GLORY

[ella7311]

FOR YOU DIVINE ANGEL

[mountblow]

Divine