Ave Verum Corpus

[jennascoachlove3]

asians are good at everything!!

[MandyJMaddison]

Thank you for this lovely rendition of Byrd!

[AlainNaigeon]

For me this is approximatively the right tempo. Too slow makes the melodu break down, unless you are very good.

I often use to say : to play/sing slowly you must be very good !

(have to install a subtle hierachy of accents, etc)

[pitapataraindrops]

Exact, sensitive, musicale. Great!

[Marech1984]

Where is the audience? What a loss of joy with hearing Ave Verum.

[irishchic799]

My choir sings it at about this pace and I think that if you take it too much slower that most people would think that it is boring. The right audience might not, but on average, I think that most people don't enjoy songs that are really slow.

[happymiller]

i dont know why, but asian people can sing classical music great! i mean, listen to lilium! My choir sang this in our towns courthouse and the whole town came to listen to us! I SHAT BRICKS

[MariannNicole]

If its not done right it will be boring. You have to know how to work the dynamics of the song.

[AlainNaigeon]

Agreed.

In this time music wasn't just made of sounds, it was made of musical sentences - which beark down when sung to slowly.

[AlainNaigeon]

which break down..., sorry

[ghettoboyn5]

lol the conductors funny

[larafans]

It was in rehearsal.

[donnypsmugm]

Very nice voice !!!

[BMANZZS]

wonderful job

[alecheva]

much too fast but nice to see it sung in Taipei

[JustinKelsey]

I agree, it was taken very fast. but is still very beautiful!

[mogemoets]

I LOVE your blend----and the ABSENCE of vibrato!

The colors your achieve are glorious

Keep posting !

thank you!!!

you're marvelous!

[larafans]

I have added some clips of annual concert in this year recently. Hope you will like them!

[keval1993]

yer the flase relations of the miserere mei arent clear but some nice sounds! good job guys thats not an easy piece :D

[apodyterion]

Very nice performance! Although I prefer this piece sung a little slower, there are a lot of choirs who sing this piece at this faster tempo. It think it works well at this speed, and I had no trouble hearing the false relations.

[Swifteye5]

Very Beautiful!

[larafans]

Thanks!

[booduh1181]

toooooo faaaasssttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eoin1082]

i agree. You can't really hear the false relations of the Miserere mei! Also the harmonic content lacks clarity when done this quick.

[AlainNaigeon]

No it's not; don't think long note values written in this time meant slow tempo;

our modern whole note was called semibreve, which was twice shorter than the breve which is the square note (two whole notes)... and it was called breve, meaning short !!

Admittedly this story was a way before Byrd, I've just exagerated somewhat to explain the general idea.

[booduh1181]

it's still too fast....i don't think God would understand the Latin they are singing. I've sang this song before with other chorales. Trust me slower is the way to go. Besides this song was written for resonance within church walls not raceways

[AlainNaigeon]

Do you mean their pronounciation is poor, or do you mean it's not understandable because of the tempo ?

I think everyone of us can speak and understand much quicker than that (and Italian people twice as fast) :-)

[booduh1181]

Just the speed throws off everything. I would slap this conductor in the face!!!

[AlainNaigeon]

Not quite a musical argument ;-)

[booduh1181]

My musical terminology might not be the greatest but my argument still remains