This piece of music by Mr Eric Whitacre Lux Aurumque is amazing, it works very well in Westminster Cathedral sung by the Choir because of the acoustics of the Grand Building and the abilities of such a well trained Choir, lets leave it at that. music in all its shapes and forms are for us all to enjoy. dont fight over it, enjoy it. This is beautiful music.
Personally, I don't believe in God, but, then again, I don't have a problem with those who do. Can we not just agree to disagree? Anyway, one thing we can all agree on is that this piece of music is simply divine and it gives me goosebumps!! xD
I'll admit I'm an atheist, but I truly do feel some connection with the concept of divinity when I listen to this. Like when I listen to it I think of the end of all things, and peacefully leaving this existence, and being in touch with the highest level of understanding and enlightenment. Thank you Eric Whitacre.
@meiguoren - God does not exist. You just want entertainment. You deceive yourself. I have a brilliant life since I dumped this mumbo jumbo religion, all based on fantasy and designed to manipulate.
@SuperCulby Wow. Now you make the assumption that I have a contempt for science?! SMH. I'm a very learned man currently doing my doctoral studies in engineering, aerospace. I'm not shoving religion down your throat. Nor is my goal for you to convert. I'll hope that Eric Whitacre's Lux Aurumque will help you to.
This is such lovely music that I could almost forgive the Benedictines for the abusive and sadisitic treatment that I got at their school for which my parents actually paid for. The Roman Catholic church is a foul institution which should be shut down.
@hotelflamingo Prove to me that God doesn't exist. You mean to tell me that people have created beautiful music down the ages because of chemicals in the brain?!?! I'm sure there is more to this universe than your sad life.
@meiguoren777 God does not exist. You just want entertainment. You deceive yourself. I have a brilliant life since I dumped this mumbo jumbo religion, all based on fantasy and designed to manipulate.
@meiguoren777 it is your responsibility to prove your theory, if the existence of a deity is anything can be regarded as a scientific theory indeed. Science never has the responsibility to prove anything which is not a hypothesis which comes out of observation. And yes, chemicals and inspirations drawn from things around us had inspired us for centuries. Not god.
I don't like the fact that in seemingly every video that has any relevance to God on Youtube there seems to be a debate between Atheists and Theists where both are getting angry at each other. This music is what we are here for, not to get annoyed at someone with different views.
Some people believe that talent is God given, others think there is no God to give, but that doesn't stop the fact that Whitacre has composed this incredible piece, with or without God, and he deserves thanks for that.
Thanks are due where they are due. What an insult it is to credit someone's hard work to something such as a god. This is a piece of music written by Eric Whitacre. It came from his brain, from creative inspiration.
@enterandeject - point is that Polyphony's IS a recording - so they will have had several goes to get it sounding just right. THIS on the other hand is live.
Very nice piece by one of the best choirs in the world. Why didn't BBC broadcast it on there HD chanel? Watched it life on 'normal' BBC and the quality was really bad. Two friends of me were there in mass. Live it was absolutely brilliant! Pity that the organ is helping the basses at the and with the contra C#.
@kropothkin trust me mate, by that time of day on christmas day, you're lucky any of us had anything at all, let alone the poor basses trying to crank out low notes in a building that size with 1000 people milling around taking communion! :-)
All the music used at the Mass was divine and the Choir on top form this year. in fact it's been the best I have heard for years. This work is incredibly haunting if not mysterious . I like the way the composer explores harmony with yeah a top C in the treble line.
Thanks to drwestbury for posting this video. It makes me so happy that my words and Eric's music are performed in such magnificent spaces and in sacred as well as secular contexts. Cheers, Happy New Year and Bravo to the choristers at Westminster
@aspirin2008 What is music?! Why are you not sure that God exist? Of His beloved creatures on this planet, humans are the only beast capable of composing such music. This piece surely exemplifies the edification of man.
@aspirin2008 What is music?! Why are you not sure that God does exist? Of His beloved creatures on this planet, humans are the only beast capable of composing such music. This piece surely exemplifies the edification of man.
@meiguoren777 one can say god does not exist because some people dont understand how they can believe in something they can't see. and because people can damn well believe in and not believe in whatever the heck they want...
@sammy29309 Certainly, it is a person's own individual will/conscious to believe whether God exists or not. I just find it sad that some people nowadays need cold hard "facts" in the existence of the Creator. In my personal judgment, He certainly was visible in the video above, in the Spirit that moved me through song...He is visible in the beauty and splendor of the magnificent architecture of the Cathedral, He is visible in the innocent smile of a child. What more proof do we need?!?!
@sammy29309 Great Point Sammy! And the fact you can believe in anything is a testament to the existence of an intelligence - a creative force behind all of this.
I think it's rather insulting to claim God had any part in this. Don't belittle all the hard work the conductor, the composer and the performers put into this peice by saying "Oh wow, isn't god great?" No, they are. Humans. Who made and performed it. This is a testament to our OWN grace, not God's.
@psycholian No God, no composer. No inspiration, for that matter, either. Yes, God plays a part in this. A BIG part. Talent didn't originate with Mr. Whitacre. It came from God as a gift, and Whitacre's gift glorifies God in return -- as is most fitting. Not marginalizing the estimable talent of Mr. Whitacre at all, am merely acknowledging its source. So should you.
"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
Eric Whitacre himself has said that he is not religious. But, if you're just going to say that he was inspired by God anyway and he just doesn't know it then you could extend that logic to say that God determines all our action and there is no free will. So take your pick.
I can't like the music without also accepting the existence of God, who has basically nothing to do with this song, it's not even about him.
@psycholian Yes, I'm saying that he was inspired by God anyway (at least in terms of talent on loan. Also, not being religious doesn't necessarily make him an atheist). Of course, whether he is an atheist or not is completely irrelevant. And no, I won't "extend that logic" to state that God determines all our actions as you mistakenly claim that I would. A non sequitur on your part. I am not a fatalist. By using his talent, he glorifies God --even in spite of himself, if need be.Good day to you.
@psycholian And you mean to tell me that such inspiration of the composer, the performers, the conductor comes from....chemical reactions in the brain?! When you begin to delve past the science of the self, into the super science of the sacred, you will understand that our edification of man reaches towards God.
@meiguoren777 Lets not get into the God debate. It makes those on the pro-side seem simple and easily lead, and besides this beautiful music tugs at the heart regardless of religion.
@pilchard96 Music is but a form of communication. Who else would be sing to ??@ Not to Buddha, Confucius, Zeus or Osiris!!! But the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, the Almighty God, to whom shows us Verum, Bonum, and Pulchrum and in turn, we reply with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
It is excellent - no doubt about it. However, if we assess the singing AND the visual atmosphere, King´s College Cambridge 2008 still takes the biscuit for me personally.
Huh. King's rendition in 2008? I thought that was an especially average rendition. The trebles were sharp and whey sounding! No comparison for me - this choir beats King's hands down. Pin point accuracy, rich passionate sound and even the choral directing is better - note a greater dynamic sense and more freedom and spaciousness in the music, marred only ever so slightly by the VHS quality sound thanks to the BBC!!
Eric Whitacre's work is wonderful, and this performance of the work is the best I've ever heard. Most of the others used adult tenors or women sopranos and lacked the bell-like clarity of the boys' voices. I'm not sure if Whitacre wrote this with boy's voices in mind, but that high C would seem to point in that direction.
3:23, no wait! Don't eat it!
64ftContraBombarde 1 week ago
This piece of music by Mr Eric Whitacre Lux Aurumque is amazing, it works very well in Westminster Cathedral sung by the Choir because of the acoustics of the Grand Building and the abilities of such a well trained Choir, lets leave it at that. music in all its shapes and forms are for us all to enjoy. dont fight over it, enjoy it. This is beautiful music.
Dirtysconesgone1 1 month ago
Personally, I don't believe in God, but, then again, I don't have a problem with those who do. Can we not just agree to disagree? Anyway, one thing we can all agree on is that this piece of music is simply divine and it gives me goosebumps!! xD
toniroxxxxx 1 month ago
I'll admit I'm an atheist, but I truly do feel some connection with the concept of divinity when I listen to this. Like when I listen to it I think of the end of all things, and peacefully leaving this existence, and being in touch with the highest level of understanding and enlightenment. Thank you Eric Whitacre.
H2Zman 1 month ago 3
@meiguoren - God does not exist. You just want entertainment. You deceive yourself. I have a brilliant life since I dumped this mumbo jumbo religion, all based on fantasy and designed to manipulate.
hotelflamingo 1 month ago
Actually, all of you arguing just shut up.
For Absurdley Religious people: Nobody cares about your constant babbling, and you sound ridiculous shoving your religion down everybody's throats.
For Atheists: Stop egging them on. Science should've taught you not to interact with stubborn idiots. They'll just retaliate.
Now let me listen to some fucking Lux Aurumque.
SuperCulby 1 month ago
@SuperCulby Wow. Now you make the assumption that I have a contempt for science?! SMH. I'm a very learned man currently doing my doctoral studies in engineering, aerospace. I'm not shoving religion down your throat. Nor is my goal for you to convert. I'll hope that Eric Whitacre's Lux Aurumque will help you to.
meiguoren777 1 month ago
@meiguoren777 Did I specifically say for YOU to stop shoving religion down people's throats? No. I didn't.
I asked for everyone to just stop and listen to the music, but if you want to ASSUME that I'm taking jabs at you, then that's your own fault.
How ignorant and rude of you to hope for a song to make me convert. I'm sorry you think music works that way.
SuperCulby 1 month ago
@SuperCulby - pea brained fool you are ..
hotelflamingo 1 month ago
@hotelflamingo who, me?
SuperCulby 1 month ago
Regardless of religious beliefs, cathedrals are incredible places to make music in. Don't hate; just enjoy the sound that is unlike any other.
supershift8 1 month ago
This is such lovely music that I could almost forgive the Benedictines for the abusive and sadisitic treatment that I got at their school for which my parents actually paid for. The Roman Catholic church is a foul institution which should be shut down.
hotelflamingo 1 month ago
@hotelflamingo Why?
meiguoren777 1 month ago
@meiguoren - god doesn't exist except in your imagination - this is just exceptional music
hotelflamingo 1 month ago
@hotelflamingo Prove to me that God doesn't exist. You mean to tell me that people have created beautiful music down the ages because of chemicals in the brain?!?! I'm sure there is more to this universe than your sad life.
meiguoren777 1 month ago
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@meiguoren777 God does not exist. You just want entertainment. You deceive yourself. I have a brilliant life since I dumped this mumbo jumbo religion, all based on fantasy and designed to manipulate.
hotelflamingo 1 month ago
@meiguoren777 it is your responsibility to prove your theory, if the existence of a deity is anything can be regarded as a scientific theory indeed. Science never has the responsibility to prove anything which is not a hypothesis which comes out of observation. And yes, chemicals and inspirations drawn from things around us had inspired us for centuries. Not god.
thewhatever379only 1 month ago
Esta sí es música verdadera. No las tonterías que se han venido a vender como "arte".
Fierrovick 2 months ago
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Can I ask a question??
Is there any member in Westminster Cathedral Choir named Eoghan McCarthy?
Please answer me back..
The2mysterygirls 2 months ago
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@The2mysterygirls
Perhaps two years ago, when this was filmed. But of the boys now, no.
MrSinnical 2 months ago
At 1:40, that's the exact same face I make when singing second in that section.
BrandythePanda 3 months ago 2
I don't like the fact that in seemingly every video that has any relevance to God on Youtube there seems to be a debate between Atheists and Theists where both are getting angry at each other. This music is what we are here for, not to get annoyed at someone with different views.
Some people believe that talent is God given, others think there is no God to give, but that doesn't stop the fact that Whitacre has composed this incredible piece, with or without God, and he deserves thanks for that.
MrDominicMark 3 months ago 11
WOW
Minecastlol 3 months ago
too beautiful for words!!!!! My ears are on fire!
skylilly1 3 months ago
made me cry :]
MBair9109 3 months ago
Wonderful interpretation of the piece; a sacred setting of secular text.
EarlOfEs 4 months ago
I will forever love this particular rendition. Nothing better than a cathedral.
yargmas99 4 months ago
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Thanks are due where they are due. What an insult it is to credit someone's hard work to something such as a god. This is a piece of music written by Eric Whitacre. It came from his brain, from creative inspiration.
nicholson112358 4 months ago
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nicholson112358 4 months ago
0 Dislikes :) That's what I like to see :D
TheYoungphotographer 4 months ago 2
hautingly instead of hauntingly?
wower3432 4 months ago
@Paxdominivobiscum you have westminster abbey and westminster cathedral , the abbey is anglican and westerminster cathedral in this video is catholic
livandjazz 4 months ago
@Paxdominivobiscum ah yes of course you are correct. I was on pain meds when I wrote that. Sorry!
ehsevan 4 months ago
pure and clear distinct vocals, this genre is where a lot of inspiriation for electronic vocal trance music came from -
mrbeanandrew2 6 months ago
0 dislikes? duh.
mes179 8 months ago
@mes179 lol thats the way it should be .. XD
iloveredsox7020 8 months ago
wow! breath taking...
edipangerapan 9 months ago
Questa musica è arrivata da un uomo, dal cuore di un uomo, e Dio è li..
è dentro ognuno di noi, non fuori. Dio c'è perchè ci siamo noi.
mausa73 9 months ago
I have chills. Simply amazing
lorrswim34 10 months ago
Lux, calida et gravisque pura velut aurum
et canunt angeli molliter modo natum.
margotlorena1 11 months ago
Magnificient
Susseditout 1 year ago
I sang this, here. I really miss it now
MrPippy1996 1 year ago
Catholic Cathedral?
mecheverriadiaz 1 year ago
@mecheverriadiaz Yes, Westminster Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral.
Paxdominivobiscum 1 year ago
@Paxdominivobiscum Nice! :D Thanks!
mecheverriadiaz 1 year ago
@Paxdominivobiscum Westminster is Anglican, not Roman Catholic.
ehsevan 4 months ago
@ehsevan I'm sure Westminster Cathedral is Roman Catholic. Westminster Abbey is Anglican.
Paxdominivobiscum 4 months ago
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@Paxdominivobiscum Westminster is Anglican, not Roman Catholic.
ehsevan 4 months ago
everything is heavenly except the earthly quality of the video and sound D:
enea0629 1 year ago 2
Stunning. Simply marvelous.
VocalMusicFreak 1 year ago
I went to High School with the composer. He always had nice hair.
hkdharmon 1 year ago 68
@hkdharmon omg.. u luckyy lucky lucky person.. lol in the pictures i see now.. his hair always looks awsome too.. ahah.. its funny u say that.. XD
iloveredsox7020 8 months ago
gorgeous
luke82092 1 year ago
Well I think Polyphony's recording of this is much better :-)
enterandeject 1 year ago
@enterandeject - point is that Polyphony's IS a recording - so they will have had several goes to get it sounding just right. THIS on the other hand is live.
Altivelzian 1 year ago
Very nice piece by one of the best choirs in the world. Why didn't BBC broadcast it on there HD chanel? Watched it life on 'normal' BBC and the quality was really bad. Two friends of me were there in mass. Live it was absolutely brilliant! Pity that the organ is helping the basses at the and with the contra C#.
kropothkin 2 years ago
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@kropothkin trust me mate, by that time of day on christmas day, you're lucky any of us had anything at all, let alone the poor basses trying to crank out low notes in a building that size with 1000 people milling around taking communion! :-)
jonbungard 1 year ago
the guy at 1:25 is the head chorister
CountKinsky 2 years ago
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The singers looked like they were faking it, for the purpose of the video. And it was rather recorded in a studio. Just what I think...
Sepharite 2 years ago
@Sepharite You´re crazy!
Eurofrank1 2 years ago
All the music used at the Mass was divine and the Choir on top form this year. in fact it's been the best I have heard for years. This work is incredibly haunting if not mysterious . I like the way the composer explores harmony with yeah a top C in the treble line.
lustful2 2 years ago 5
Well, top G-sharp really.
eoinsac 2 years ago
Thanks to drwestbury for posting this video. It makes me so happy that my words and Eric's music are performed in such magnificent spaces and in sacred as well as secular contexts. Cheers, Happy New Year and Bravo to the choristers at Westminster
anthonysilvestri 2 years ago 3
How can one say that God does not exists? This piece tugs at the heart. What a beautiful way of approaching the Eucharist! Venite Adoremus, Dominum!
meiguoren777 2 years ago 41
Because Whitacre wrote it, unless Mr. Whitacre is God.
Sepharite 2 years ago
@meiguoren777
MUSIC exists!
GOD ? - I´m not sure...
aspirin2008 1 year ago
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meiguoren777 1 year ago
@aspirin2008 What is music?! Why are you not sure that God exist? Of His beloved creatures on this planet, humans are the only beast capable of composing such music. This piece surely exemplifies the edification of man.
meiguoren777 1 year ago
@aspirin2008 What is music?! Why are you not sure that God does exist? Of His beloved creatures on this planet, humans are the only beast capable of composing such music. This piece surely exemplifies the edification of man.
meiguoren777 1 year ago
@meiguoren777 one can say god does not exist because some people dont understand how they can believe in something they can't see. and because people can damn well believe in and not believe in whatever the heck they want...
sammy29309 1 year ago
@sammy29309 Certainly, it is a person's own individual will/conscious to believe whether God exists or not. I just find it sad that some people nowadays need cold hard "facts" in the existence of the Creator. In my personal judgment, He certainly was visible in the video above, in the Spirit that moved me through song...He is visible in the beauty and splendor of the magnificent architecture of the Cathedral, He is visible in the innocent smile of a child. What more proof do we need?!?!
meiguoren777 1 year ago 2
@sammy29309 Great Point Sammy! And the fact you can believe in anything is a testament to the existence of an intelligence - a creative force behind all of this.
gerardo523 10 months ago
@meiguoren777 God didn't write this -.-'
keegan94820 10 months ago
@keegan94820 Perhaps not, but I'm sure He was very generous in granting Eric Whitacre such great talent.
jjqnario 5 months ago
@meiguoren777
Probably the nonbeliever have listened to my choir in the Midnight Mass...
that would make the Pope doubt too!
nastirh6684 10 months ago
@meiguoren777 Aeterni Parentis splendorem aeternum
Stingercam21 5 months ago
@meiguoren777
I think it's rather insulting to claim God had any part in this. Don't belittle all the hard work the conductor, the composer and the performers put into this peice by saying "Oh wow, isn't god great?" No, they are. Humans. Who made and performed it. This is a testament to our OWN grace, not God's.
psycholian 4 months ago
@psycholian No God, no composer. No inspiration, for that matter, either. Yes, God plays a part in this. A BIG part. Talent didn't originate with Mr. Whitacre. It came from God as a gift, and Whitacre's gift glorifies God in return -- as is most fitting. Not marginalizing the estimable talent of Mr. Whitacre at all, am merely acknowledging its source. So should you.
"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
-- G. K. Chesterton
MrLjgroove 4 months ago in playlist Sacred Polyphony mix
@MrLjgroove
Eric Whitacre himself has said that he is not religious. But, if you're just going to say that he was inspired by God anyway and he just doesn't know it then you could extend that logic to say that God determines all our action and there is no free will. So take your pick.
I can't like the music without also accepting the existence of God, who has basically nothing to do with this song, it's not even about him.
psycholian 4 months ago
@psycholian Yes, I'm saying that he was inspired by God anyway (at least in terms of talent on loan. Also, not being religious doesn't necessarily make him an atheist). Of course, whether he is an atheist or not is completely irrelevant. And no, I won't "extend that logic" to state that God determines all our actions as you mistakenly claim that I would. A non sequitur on your part. I am not a fatalist. By using his talent, he glorifies God --even in spite of himself, if need be.Good day to you.
MrLjgroove 4 months ago
@psycholian And you mean to tell me that such inspiration of the composer, the performers, the conductor comes from....chemical reactions in the brain?! When you begin to delve past the science of the self, into the super science of the sacred, you will understand that our edification of man reaches towards God.
meiguoren777 4 months ago
@meiguoren777 Eric Whitacre wrote it not god......
TheConturo 4 months ago 3
@TheConturo Nobody said that either of them wrote it or didn't write it....
BandGeek6241 4 months ago
@meiguoren777 Lets not get into the God debate. It makes those on the pro-side seem simple and easily lead, and besides this beautiful music tugs at the heart regardless of religion.
pilchard96 2 months ago
@pilchard96 Music is but a form of communication. Who else would be sing to ??@ Not to Buddha, Confucius, Zeus or Osiris!!! But the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, the Almighty God, to whom shows us Verum, Bonum, and Pulchrum and in turn, we reply with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
meiguoren777 2 months ago
@meiguoren777 You're singing this to energy and matter? oh.
You have fun believing this, I'm just gunna enjoy the music.
pilchard96 2 months ago
@meiguoren777 Shut up, I'm listening to Eric Whitacre.
SuperCulby 1 month ago
Fantastic thank you!
jpstenino 2 years ago
Best Lux Aurumque on Youtube!
paracletelux 2 years ago 2
It is excellent - no doubt about it. However, if we assess the singing AND the visual atmosphere, King´s College Cambridge 2008 still takes the biscuit for me personally.
Eurofrank1 2 years ago
Huh. King's rendition in 2008? I thought that was an especially average rendition. The trebles were sharp and whey sounding! No comparison for me - this choir beats King's hands down. Pin point accuracy, rich passionate sound and even the choral directing is better - note a greater dynamic sense and more freedom and spaciousness in the music, marred only ever so slightly by the VHS quality sound thanks to the BBC!!
330048 2 years ago
Also, pleased to see that restorations of the Cathedral are at last finished!
donhenri01 2 years ago
thanks for that, it is marvellous!
Merry Christmas!
donhenri01 2 years ago
Eric Whitacre's work is wonderful, and this performance of the work is the best I've ever heard. Most of the others used adult tenors or women sopranos and lacked the bell-like clarity of the boys' voices. I'm not sure if Whitacre wrote this with boy's voices in mind, but that high C would seem to point in that direction.
ProFriend 2 years ago 2