Magnificat by Pergolesi

[mhud2]

This is my favorite choral piece ever. The choir performed it very well. Please, post all the movements here!

[paytoplaynj]

Very nice performance. Ignore the negative comments. You guys did a very good job, and I enjoyed your performance.

[johnmblack]

I have both some criticism and some applause.

1. It is now widely believed that the actual composer of this piece is Francesco Durante, not Pergolesi, and 5 minutes on any musicology site would reveal this. The fact that the director of this group did not know this (since it was put in the program as Pergolesi) is our first hint at a lack of attention to detail or scholarship.

2. I applaud any effort to get children singing serious classical music, so thank you for posting this.

[Monomakh]

Terrific second violin!

[gioperuzzi]

concordo con quello detto da mich52586

esecuzine a dir poco oscena...i tenori sono perennemente calanti..i bassi e contralti inesistenti

[vittorioscheni]

Concordo con mich52586 esiste un cd che lo conferma oltre a Durante con il suo Magnificat in B-dur c'è lo Stabat Mater di Emanuele d'Astorga e il Confitebor di Pergolesi.

[mich52586]

Il povero Pergolesi si è visto aumentare il suo catalgo di un'opera...questo magnificat è di Francesco Durante!!!!compositore barocco di scuola napoletana(come Pergolesi per altro).Inoltre qui è stato eseguito solo l'incipit dell'opera..non si capisce il perchè..mah..tenori scadenti..i violoncelli sono troppo pesanti..è musica barocca non romantica!esecuzione dozzinale...

[pockyluv]

Our choir sang this last weekend, it was so hard to figure out the right tempo - my teacher kept changing it. :U So irritating.

The whole Magnificat is absolutely splendid though. :)

[Singingsal17]

We (Richmond Chorale Society , Staten Island) also did this in our winter concert 2008...slower also ...but they did very well. Uplifting piece.

[carinissima81]

horrible kitsch ,it is offensive for pergolesi shame you

[BernardProfitendieu]

are you an imbecile, or merely a moron?

[Dragonerosso07]

Well done! We also sing this wonderful piece (slower...). I like especially the other movements (Suscepit Israel!!!). BUT: is it really a Pergolesi's piece?! On my ORIGINAL (not copied) partiture there is Francesco Durante, a composer from Napoli, and I was always convinced that he composed this magnificent piece... Who can help me?

[Paddy260991]

Doing this song in my chamber choir at the moment.

I'm a bass, and that seems to be the toughest part :(

[italwines]

OTTIMA interpretazione del Divino Pergolesi.

[Socialhuman13]

youersrock. Hey hey. Grossmont choir girl. :]] We sound totally legit on this. -dances-

[bekart04]

like everyone else, our concert choir is singing this. i love this song!

i am a tenor. the song sounds amazing, and thats just in rehearsal.

you sound great!

[youersrock]

We're singing this at Grossmont this year and I absolutely love it!!! Difficult but wonderful!

[Socialhuman13]

We're singing this this year in my choir. We've only learned the first two pages. But I LOVE it.

[billobach]

No,la tastiera proprio no....vergogneve.

[mudbooger1979]

i really like this! i know from experience that this is a very difficult piece to sing. i think they did very well!!

[trombalazanas]

it goes well with Anarchy in UK, by Sex Pistols, in my humble oppinion...

[aznfreak73]

that's really fast..

[guy1938]

trop vite et pas de phrasé

[tidytama]

its a little bit fast? :P

[PuPiTTa]

esta descuadrado o son cosas mías?¿ yo lo he cantado y es fantástico...

[zofran007]

Acc.. una splendida esecuzione, rovinata dal cameramen che non sa che cosa guardare...:-))

[jaspa32]

Not bad.

Get those girls in the front row to put their arms down! Show them this video and point it out.

[00ceroalaizquierda00]

Waaaaaaa pero si lo llevan a toda polla, fatal...además el coro/cantantes son una virria

[icinessck]

woahh, we're doing the whole 5 movements for the winter concert, we're practicing them right now, but yea, you guys did it beautifully, thank you =)

[xblueangel18x]

hahaha i go to the same school as you!!!

hahahah

hi CB!!!

[MrTaterTots]

my middle school madrigal choir is singing this with the highschool at carnegie hall.

[xblueangel18x]

hahaha i go to the same school as you!!!

hahahah

hi CB!!!

[OSUfirebird18]

they seem a little young for a difficult piece like this

at least when I did this as a sophomore, I had like experienced juniors and seniors with me

[mcouzijn]

Ah, I didn't know that only appreciative comments were allowed here. Your idea appears to be that when something is free, it must be positively appreciated, right?

[pianorgano]

I don't see your constructive criticism here .... Read your comment statement and you could had said differently than what you have said. Camera was set up before hand and it was zoomed in/out to film orchestra and the choir while still trying to listen to music. I did not have time to just focus on the camera alone for you to have such negative words.

[mcouzijn]

The tenors scream, the soprano's don't focus, the orchestra is too loud and muddled, and the camera focuses on people who don't sing. I find it hard to find any reasons on why to compliment you. Compliments go out to the compositor of the piece, who died too young. If ever it was Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.

[pianorgano]

Thank you but why leaving your comment here ??? You seems to not appreciate the effort of others while it is still free watching....

[stevtomato]

lol dont listen to this bitter person. It's great, though not the best performance, but it's still pleasant to hear!

[liddybird]

This piece was in fact written by Francesco Durante, Pergolesi's teacher. Pergolesi *gasp* plagiarized it.

[escaelis]

Plagiarism is a common feature of Baroque music. Even Pergolesi's Stabat Mater is based on Scarlatti's setting.

[ConstanzeWeber]

From the POV of someone who's performed this piece myself, a) the choir can't be held to account for the deficiencies of the camera work; b) it's likely that the orchestra only seem too loud because that's the nature of camcorder audio capture and "live" it would've be fine; and c) for a young choir singing without copy (not easy as some of the entries are really tricky with this one) I think they acquitted themselves admirably. Orchestra's great by the way, you lucky people!!

[mydeathnotes]

This is a beautiful song, my choir sang this in orchestra hall earlier this year at orchestra hall in chicago. You guys really did a fantastic job on it. ^_^

[cellorocker14]

This is beautiful! My school did this earlier this spring. I played cello in the orchestra.

[harmo105]

Great job guys!!!

check out the Chapman Symphony Orchestra playing Dvorak 8th.

Chapman University is a private 4 year university in Orange County, CA

The Chapman School of Music has on its faculty many of the top players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Pacific Symphony.

[GabriellaKrystal]

Pergelosi is fantastic :)

[bigposaune]

Still a beautiful surprise! You are really a formidable talent!

[wheidelberg]

I hope you will continue posting video to Youtube. I particularly enjoy your organ videos. It would be my wish that for you, as a young organist, you be able to play on some of the major instruments, particularly in Europe.

Not that there is anything wrong with the instruments you use, but to hear such performances on some of the historic insturments would be truly awsome. May your talent and ambition be a blessing throughout your life. Best wishes.

[wheidelberg]

How many instruments do you play? You have so great a talent.