Gaudeamus — MEPhI Male Choir / Хор МИФИ — Гаудеамус

[33bazil]

Я каждый раз восхищаюсь пением нашего замечательного хора!!!!

СПАСИБО!!!

[AngileDavis]

Люблю эту песню. Вспоминаю 1 ый курс в институте. Посвящение. Мы так нервничали, боялись забыть слова... такие теплые воспоминания! спасибо за видео!)

[andromeda108]

I never fail to be blown away by the power of Russian choirs!! What strength in those voices. I see why the conductor has to stay in shape. Of course, it helps that there's surely a hundred people on stage, or more lol, but nevertheless the energy is overpowering. Their voices OWN the space completely. I've once listened to a Russian choir of eight in a church and they sounded as if there were 40 of them.

[THausherr]

After I enjoyed the singing, I watched again and then looked for secondary things.

1) The little girl coming forward at 1:25 - cute!

2) the conductor lady in the golden dress (Nadezhda Malyavina) is very athletic! Amazing :-)

[MEPHIchoir]

@THausherr

No wonder, she is. :) She can't help getting stronger and stronger, while managing such an army of siging men for decades. :-)

[pyskute]

Wonderful.

But I missed the part 'vivant omnes virgines', it sounds so amazing when it's sung by men only;)

[MEPHIchoir]

@pyskute

You're perfectly right, "omnes virgines" is indeed a "must sing" verse for a male choir. But since most of people in Russia never knew about this verse and don’t understand Latin, we run the risk of producing no effect on the audience — for them it would be another verse in an unfamiliar language.

But I hope the situation will be rectified some day (may be a Women’s one). The verse about girls and women just needs a promotion of some sort. :)

[MEPHIchoir]

@pyskute

By the way, since you're from Lithuania, I should say that our choir's tradition of singing Gaudeamus as well as its lyrics has come to us from Baltic choirs with which we met and sang together in Soviet times during those great choir festivals in the Baltic republics.

[Jana1889]

vivat academia,vivat profesoooores!

very nice!

[Jigit707]

Vivat academia - 4 куплет

[raksasah]

@Jigit707, традиционное сокращённое исполнение - 1-й и 4-й куплеты. Иногда, как в этом случае, добавляется 6-й.

[AxlenB]

Vivat Academia,

Vivant professores!

[Pozeron]

Впечатляет величественность самого гимна!!!

[rockgor]

Wonderful performance. Sigmund Romberg

used this song in his operetta The Student

Prince.

But he didn't write it. Wikipedia says the

song goes back to the middle ages.

Tnx for the melodious post.

[MEPHIchoir]

Surely, Gaudeamus is a very old student song. That's why it has been used in many pieces and plays having anything to do with student life.

As for Romberg's "The Student Prince", I haven't listened to the whole thing but I know very well the songs, from the operetta, performed by Mario Lanza—what amazing renditions they are!

[rockgor]

Yes, I used to listen to Lanza's recording of

The Student Prince half a century ago, in

my own student days.

Romberg wrote other wonderful operettas. Lanza also recorded his Desert Song.

[MEPHIchoir]

By the way, some years ago there was a Romberg's piece in our choir's repertoire too—an arrangement of "Drink!" (from "The Student Prince"), we often and with gusto sang this cheerful waltz-like chorus.

[mirtolka]

Amazing! Greetings from Poland!

[zloui]

Спасибо!