Warsaw Boys Choir - Cesar Franck - Dextera Domini

[vincenzocivetta]

hallelujah hallelujah

[wesleyrocks1738]

I just love this.................it's like Franck doesn't know how to stop...........and how can you stop praising God!

[bobcat081754]

My church choir did this, and it was wonderful. But I think it needs the full, fat sound of a large ensemble. Also, I think it's better with adult male and female voices. Altos rule ... and that's coming from a baritone!

[priest008]

@bobcat081754 Female voices?? No young boys are the best, they are literally Angelic voices.

[elekenek]

we are going to sing it next week... I am so nervous...

[gerardbedecarter]

3:52 ... is definitely not a Franck organ sonority !

[gerardbedecarter]

People will forgive me.  There is a tiny hint of "Auld lang syne".

[gerardbedecarter]

It is beautiful music and a beautiful performance. Wonderful counterpoint - but it is, after, all by Cesar Franck, the great master of harmonic polyphony. There again, I'm a rusted on Franckian !!

[gerardbedecarter]

... with lorbo77.

[mattprssmn4]

im in vocal ensemble at school and i wish we did that song this year. we only did it for regular chorus last year

[lorbo77]

wonderful music.. but in the organ part I would like to hear some typical Franck type of registrations!! fond8+hautbois, fonds 16,8+reeds 8,4.. and the organ is important!! too soft here.. needs more fire!! romantic passion..

[gerardbedecarter]

I agree.

[sherwinjtb]

The hall itself looks stunning.

[sperryism]

Beautiful music. Like to listen to this choir as it's found on YouTube!

[ElisabethLepidi]

La prestation est loin d'être à la hauteur d'une interprétation classique, des voix de femmes sont absolument nécessaires à la place des choeurs d'enfants. Par ailleurs il y a un manque de dynamisme et de conviction intime qui nuisent à la parfaite interprétation de ce splendide morceau de la part des quatre voix, le pire étant qu'à plusieurs reprises les voix ne sont pas en mesure et que le ton baisse légèrement... Dommage. N'y a-t-il pas d'autres enregistrements que celui-ci ?

[INLOVEOFBACH]

entièrement d'accord avec vous sauf que ce sont les grands offertoires en trio et une alternance entre trios de solistes et choeur à trois voix

[Missalitrebys]

I taught this song to my students at marianistas school. Great memories

[rumpranger75]

btw does anybody know what this piece comes from? did Cesar Franck write it by itself or in a bigger piece, like an oratorio or something?

[PaulVictor87]

These verses come from psalm 118 (117). They predict the Christ rising and they are used on Easter Sunday, at offertory.

[rumpranger75]

I understand this part. I know where the text comes from, and I am Catholic so I understand where it is used in the liturgy too. But I'm not sure where this piece of actual music comes from? Was it part of Franck's setting to the mass? Or an oratorio? Or something of that nature?

Thanks.

[contediperetola]

The piece was written by itself and it's the number 65 in the Franck's catalogue. It's like a mottetto.

[eastmsgr]

This is the proper Offertory for the Third Sunday after Epiphany and the following Sundays until Septugesima in the Tridentine Rite. The Offertory for Easter Day is "Terra Tremuit" (Ps. 75).

[rumpranger75]

Dextera Domini fecit virtutem;

dextera Domini exaltavit me:

dextera Domini fecit virtutem.

Alleluia! Non moriar, sed vivam,

et narrabo opera Domini.

The right hand of God makes me live. The right hand of God exalts me. The right hand of God makes me live. Alleluia! I will not die, but live, and tell of the works of God.

[eastmsgr]

The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength.

[manu357000]

je vais chanter ça pour mon concert !!

[johanna33560]

moi je l'ai chanté il y a 2 ans, c'est vraiment magnifique avec d'autres oeuvres du même compositeur...

[manu357000]

magnifique !!

[brunatny23]

What do you think about conductor?

[frakemus]

the choir doesn't follow him !

he seems to try to make the piece a bit faster and more joyfull but fails

its a bit sad

[beorgiaboy0]

Franck's original score is (apparently) for sop, tenor & bass chorus, with sop, tenor & bass soli. One source also indicates a string bass in addition to the organ, but I've not seen this. Some published editions have added an alto chorus part. An American edition was published some years ago by FitzSimons.

[rustypolymath]

I sang this (tenor part) one Sunday a couple months ago for Mass in Paris with the Chorale Fra'Angelico. So many great songs. Comment la France me manque fort !

[Gspijkenisse]

then I have a question for you. This song has 3 voices or 4?

Because I heard the song during a Tridentine mass of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in Paris.

I only could hear 3 parts...

I looked everywhere on the internet for the score. But it seemed impossible to find a free one...

[rustypolymath]

It should have four parts, unless I'm seriously amnesiac. You'd have heard it last March or April, right? That was us... horror of horrors if you only heard three!

[Gspijkenisse]

No, on youtube... Tridentine Mass pentecôte.

I have found the score!!

And I really onlye see: ténor, basse and soprano.

But in this video I think I hear 4?

Je ne sais pas :S

But, do you have the organ score?

I really can't find that!

[priest008]

I agrre, when can we get the score for this? any one patient enough to write it please??

[Gspijkenisse]

The score for the choir you can find if you google it. The organpartiture I could not find yet

[priest008]

Ok, please try and find it for me!!

[DoremuPL]

Najlepsze xD

SuPeR Wyszło :)

[penitent23m]

Here's the lyrics of the song:

"Dextera Domini fecit virtutem. Dextera Domini exaltavit me. Alleluja! Non moriar sed vivam et narrabo opera Domini."

And do pardon my off-the-cuff translation:

The right hand of the Lord strengthens me. The right hand of the Lord exalts me. I shall not die but live and I shall speak of the works of the Lord.

[defacto1]

Great composition, but I heardmuch better interpretation.