Praise the Lord for Youtube!! Since the closing of the all classical music store in my area Youtube is the ONLY place I can come to hear wonderous music such as this. Ever gone into an FYE and try to explain to the Goth Techno wannabe clerk who Palestrina is.......not a pretty picture or experience.
I went to see the Westminster Choir live 3 days ago. It was like listening to a choir of angels for 2 hours. Sheer, glorious, effervescent beauty. It has touched me like no other music.
No one can be indifferent to Palestrina's masterpieces. It is amazing how every people who listen to his musics are almost unanimous to say that when it listened for the first time it was like hearing a choir of angels singing. Well, thats exactly what Palestrina aimed when he composed this songs.
This is one of my MOST FAVORITE choral pieces in the WHOLE world! I love Palestrina, and the sound which comes from his music is like hearing heaven itself.
This makes me really want to cry. It incites such a pious feeling, and a heart ache. Perhaps that's why it's talking about David's psalm of the deer panting for the water.
@rcarrillo7 Exactly. Et en plus Palestrina a saisi l'essence de ce Psaume en le composant pour la Liturgie. J'ai lu que vous comtrniez un peu le français lol
@treblechoir99 Thanks. J'ai étudié le français pour deux ans, mais mais j'ai oublié beaucoup. (sorry about the grammatical errors. Thanks for posting this.
@MrMusician88 It won't be a mistake, per se - Westminster Cathedral choir are both too good to do that and to let it slip through on a recording, just choosing to follow the tradition of musica ficta. It's an unusual place to do it, and I think the Bb works much better, but it's not unheard of, especially given that accidentals were not often written in to the scores.
the master at work, Palestrina, I believe he will be Heaven's Soundtrack, no doubt!
The Father of melody, Polyphony, and all things harmonious on this rocky planet.
His music alone is a proof there is a God for me. Among the greats in music, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Telemann, Palestrina, Byrd, Tallis, Mahler, Shostakovich, Copland, Gershwin, Ellington, and of course Monk! How about that progression of musical greatness.
I remember singing this when I was 10 years old and a Treble at Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington, KY. I'm no longer a religious person, but there is so much music like this that simply reaches right through me and touches my heart, regardless of the words.
this is really, really good. but isnt this alittle off pitch? i think the pitch was raisedbecause i cant sing along with this cuz its soo high. anyway awsome preformence!!!^^ hope we could do it as well as you guys!!!
This music is to good to give a thumbs down, the thumbs down should be eliminated from this video, and I'm glad there is 0 dislikes. *rocking my head back and forth to the song*
And now for something a little more directly related...both the music and its subject material put me in mind of a quote by George MacDonald concerning Heaven: "the regions where there is only life, and therefore all that is not music is silence."
As beautiful as music itself is, the silence surrounding it--banished by the first note yet returning once more as the final echoes fade--is just as much a part of the overall aural experience. Good conductors would do well to remember this.
I am an atheist. This is still one of the most beautiful pieces of music to grace my ears, and I proudly say that it has an influence on my own music.
@kelsohammy who was punishing who? A Psalm is a poem. Do you like an incomplete poem? The advise to complete a poem is not to punish but to enjoy the poem.
this is an awesome song, but it sucks if you are a tenor. It's in that kind of awkward range that is almost painful to sing all the way through. But when you know your part, it is truly an awesome song.
@treblechoir99 oh most definitly yes but it i have to say is fairly difficullt :) but well worth it to hit the notes just right and to create music no just noise or sound with rythem but music with feeling and emotions.... that can put u into tears or make you feel just terriffic.
@Eurofrank1 I don't know which confession are you part of... but when I think that such beautiful psalms are composed by people who share my same faith, I'm proud. As the liturgy of baptism says "This is our faith, this is the faith of the Church, and our glory is professing it, in Jesus Christ our lord".(forgive my bad english). ARt is a form of profession of faith. Every place is good to proclaim the faith Act 4:20 for it is impossible49 for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”
@ peterryom i thin you'll find the dissonance comes from the alto (or countertenor) rather than the tenor. As a countertenor myself, it's one of my favourite parts of the piece :)
@peloavila There are four voice PARTS, but this isn't a quartet singing it. I would guess at least an octet (2 per part) and possibly up to 5 per part. As long as the singers are well in-tune, there can be 10 on a part and the only difference to the listener is in volume.
@PiedPuyper What utter rubbish. Look at the UK - a Protestant country with easily the widest range of choirs singing this sort of music daily (look at all the cathedrals and collegiate chapels), and indeed composers still writing in similar styles, or with similar intentions. Stereotypes are ugly.
@edders05 Hi Edders. Agree with you for all authors from anglican, as Purcell, Byrd, Green, Thomkins, Taverner, Tallis and others. I delete the message from PiedPuyper because this channel is close. But you can leave your message, I know he is important for this understanding.
@treblechoir99 I think one should study the history of Byrd and Tallis, as both men were avowed Roman Catholics. This is not to deny that some of their music has been used by the Anglicans nor does it deny that they are honored in the Episcopal calendar nor does it deny that they may have composed for them. In fact, Byrd wrote in his last will and testament "that he may live and dye a true and perfect member of the Holy Catholike Churche withoute which I beleeve there is noe salvacon for me."
@robert0571 Yes Robert I know that. Byrd left to posterity a rich body of music for the catholic church, paradoxically, forms the staple of Anglican repertory today. He is maybe the 'underground' composer at this period. Queen Elizabeth I at him request to imprint any and so many as they will of set songe in partes, either in English, Latine, French, Italian, that may serue for musicke either in Church or chamber.
@treblechoir99 There is no doubt that Anglicans use his music, but to claim he is Anglican is incorrect, which is what I took issue with. Regardless, his music is edifying and on that point many I am sure agree, provided that they have good taste.
@robert0571 Of course Robert, maybe in the past the historians telling that, but today we know exactly he is Catholic. As a good Englishman Byrd did have another side to his creative output that was just as productive. for the Anglican offices of Matins and Evensong, he is also a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
Polyphony is a musical texture of two or more voices equal in importance. Palestrina composes 3 polytextual motets. Multiple texts performed simultaneously. Males & female voices.
This piece by liturgical Music Composer Palestrina. Inspired by psalm 41. The chant evokes two important liturgical situations, Easter Vigil & liturgy of a funeral or anniversary of a death. A liturgical piece is a chant presented in a quasi-theatrical. manner during the service , with individual portrayals of the protagonist.
Never heard the second part which I think is beautiful. Interesting that they sing it in a coz pretty much everyone sings it in g. Perfect singing and I love the unhooty sound of the countertenors especially.
@ericbelify Yes -- or in the incomparable words of the Coverdale Psalter, "Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God."
@ericbelify Please complete the Psalm. Thus: "As the deer longs for running water, so longs my soul for you O LORD MY GOD." Water refreshes all creatures including the deer. God refreshes our soul.
@Nonie46 he didnt complete it because that part alone, without the Lord, could sound like a love song, that's what he's saying, if you put the o lord, you kill the romance :D
@margotlorena1 Please read Psalm 42 and you will enjoy the poem. To ask someone to read a poem is not punishing or insulting him or her. Asking someone to read the Psalm is like inviting him to a feast where food is plentiful. To deny him or her of the food by keeping some from him or her is a mortal sin!
@Nonie46 One may enjoy the poem just as well on its own without any Biblical context whatsoever, should one make the choice to do so. Despite this, it is not your religious beliefs that people are finding offensive as you may have thought--rather your particularly contemptible form of proselytism, which was neither solicited in the first place nor even desired at all. Please leave off haranguing passersby and let us enjoy our individual contemplation of beautiful music in peace.
@Dawnrunner42 And lo, even I have made a mistake. Rather than using the word "contemptible" with its pejorative connotations of subjective judgment, I intended to say "intrusive", which is altogether more factually accurate and less subjectively condemning in a negative fashion toward its assessment of your proselytism.
@Nonie46 In addition, your argument seems to rely on a probable misuse of words by kelsohammy. His likely intent was to say "criticized" in place of "punished", which is altogether more accurate. You have been criticizing someone's highly personal, subjective interpretation and enjoyment of a poem not according to the objective standards of poetic convention, but rather to your own equally personal and subjective interpretation which is no more right or wrong than another of the sort. Bad form.
@margotlorena1 Since you want to put the Psalm in a human perspective, kindly examine the time when Palestrina composed Sicut Cervus. During those time, wives call their husbands "lord", not as god but as the lord of the house. At that level, this song is applicable. However, since the one who composed the Psalm was King David, there is no doubt that he is addressing the Psalm to his God.
J'ai ce motet que j'aime beaucoup et je m'apprétais a le mettre sur mon site , auparavant je vérifie qu'il ne soit pas déja sur youtube.Cela m'a donné la chance de connaitre votre chaine très interressante !
Ah mais non faut le mettre tout de même lol J'ai hâte d'entendre son interprétation. Un chef d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, en fait demeure intemporel pour toutes les époques.
A vrai dire , c'est exactement le même disque que toi , aussi ai-je mis un autre Palestrina pour te remercier , mais je suis sur que tu connais déja !
Incredible, I cant stop listening it.. its the best performance of this wonderful motet. Sicut Cervus and the Credo (Missa Papae Marcelli) are my favourite.
My church choir is learning this beautiful song to sing for a newly ordained priest's first Mass (Solemn High Mass! - very ambitious young man), and I was searching for a version to listen to that would really give me a feel for the beauty of the song. I found it in this version. THANKS!!
Agree with you. If you like this Renaissance's period you can choose 2 Boys Choir for this: Westminster Cathedral in London; and Choir of New College, Oxford.
I like the entire thing. I've sung the Sicut Cervus half a couple different times, and my favorite little exchange is right around 0:30 - 0:50. First there's definite proof that Palestrina knew and loved the add9 chord (where the altos are singing the main idea of that first part while the sopranos are descending), then the beautiful interchange between the altos and tenors (sounds like one line, but it's actually the two parts handing it off to each other). Masterfully done here.
Praise the Lord for Youtube!! Since the closing of the all classical music store in my area Youtube is the ONLY place I can come to hear wonderous music such as this. Ever gone into an FYE and try to explain to the Goth Techno wannabe clerk who Palestrina is.......not a pretty picture or experience.
gramps2matt 6 days ago
@ BlackwindSamurai - and where, do you think, does human ability come from ?
pinklady051 1 week ago
this is not proof of the divine. this is proof of human ability.
BlackwindSamurai 2 months ago
@BlackwindSamurai
Know thyself, Oh divine lineage in mortal guise.
- Marsilio Ficino
DCdabest 1 week ago
This to me is the most satisfying of all the cathedral choirs because the adult male voices don't overwhelm the texture. The blend is perfect. :)
jd7x7jd 2 months ago
this is absolutely heavenly, and absolutely because Westminster takes this piece to a whole new level!
AxisDimension 3 months ago
I went to see the Westminster Choir live 3 days ago. It was like listening to a choir of angels for 2 hours. Sheer, glorious, effervescent beauty. It has touched me like no other music.
scorpioviolinist1 3 months ago 2
@scorpioviolinist1 Ah yes, During their last tour in USA. Thank you appreciat
treblechoir99 3 months ago 2
No one can be indifferent to Palestrina's masterpieces. It is amazing how every people who listen to his musics are almost unanimous to say that when it listened for the first time it was like hearing a choir of angels singing. Well, thats exactly what Palestrina aimed when he composed this songs.
ibisitibere 4 months ago 4
This is one of my MOST FAVORITE choral pieces in the WHOLE world! I love Palestrina, and the sound which comes from his music is like hearing heaven itself.
Beowulf1ca 4 months ago 3
What key is particular rendition written in?
Boredpersons55 4 months ago
@Boredpersons55 A Major.
Crossfire92x 2 months ago
@Crossfire92x
Thanks.
Boredpersons55 2 months ago
If you play it backwards, you'll find yourself wasting a lot of time. :)
This is gorgeous!
recreationalpiano 4 months ago
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t3tsuyaguy1 5 months ago
Oh crap. This is beautiful. Me and the rest of my choir suck. This will not end well.
Rachy2049 5 months ago
This makes me really want to cry. It incites such a pious feeling, and a heart ache. Perhaps that's why it's talking about David's psalm of the deer panting for the water.
rcarrillo7 5 months ago 5
@rcarrillo7 Exactly. Et en plus Palestrina a saisi l'essence de ce Psaume en le composant pour la Liturgie. J'ai lu que vous comtrniez un peu le français lol
treblechoir99 5 months ago
@treblechoir99 Thanks. J'ai étudié le français pour deux ans, mais mais j'ai oublié beaucoup. (sorry about the grammatical errors. Thanks for posting this.
rcarrillo7 5 months ago
@rcarrillo7 'que vous compreniez...'
treblechoir99 5 months ago
@treblechoir99 que vous comprenez
drmgrl11 2 months ago
sounds like a river flowing unceasingly
qihuiqihui 5 months ago
Just wish I could have been in the Sistine Chapel to have heard this sung with the best singers in Europe in the 1500's. -sigh-
barrypotter09 6 months ago
it is a beautiful recording. It's just sad that, at 2.43, the tenors make a mistake, by singing B instead of Bb! makes the whole chord different!
MrMusician88 6 months ago
@MrMusician88 It won't be a mistake, per se - Westminster Cathedral choir are both too good to do that and to let it slip through on a recording, just choosing to follow the tradition of musica ficta. It's an unusual place to do it, and I think the Bb works much better, but it's not unheard of, especially given that accidentals were not often written in to the scores.
edders05 6 months ago
the master at work, Palestrina, I believe he will be Heaven's Soundtrack, no doubt!
The Father of melody, Polyphony, and all things harmonious on this rocky planet.
His music alone is a proof there is a God for me. Among the greats in music, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Telemann, Palestrina, Byrd, Tallis, Mahler, Shostakovich, Copland, Gershwin, Ellington, and of course Monk! How about that progression of musical greatness.
streiff100 7 months ago 9
@streiff100 Absolutly all right.
treblechoir99 7 months ago
Beautiful song! We did this with our choir, awesome!
maschab91 7 months ago
too bad the rapture didn't happen the other week, but nevermind it's happening here
AxisDimension 8 months ago
EU CANTEI !!!!
cathaps 8 months ago
@cathaps Eu tambem!! ;-)
eulero75 6 months ago
I remember singing this when I was 10 years old and a Treble at Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington, KY. I'm no longer a religious person, but there is so much music like this that simply reaches right through me and touches my heart, regardless of the words.
zerocurve 8 months ago
this is really, really good. but isnt this alittle off pitch? i think the pitch was raisedbecause i cant sing along with this cuz its soo high. anyway awsome preformence!!!^^ hope we could do it as well as you guys!!!
awsomekia 9 months ago
This music is to good to give a thumbs down, the thumbs down should be eliminated from this video, and I'm glad there is 0 dislikes. *rocking my head back and forth to the song*
shadowlover290 9 months ago
WOW
mariarita4444 9 months ago
Tel le cerf qui désir la fontaine d'eau vive, mon âme te désir (mon) Dieu.
jeffreyberland 9 months ago
Bellisimo.
hmurrieta 9 months ago
88,281 views. 0 dislikes. Wow. I didn't think that was possible. I guess true beauty stands up to cynicism.
t3tsuyaguy1 10 months ago 25
@t3tsuyaguy1 Not anymore, unfortunately.
rcarrillo7 5 months ago
@rcarrillo7 Let us then in reply to them hit the like-button!
LangeJWT 3 months ago
@t3tsuyaguy1 Too bad my friend... Unfortunately, 3 people cannot recognize true beauty...
Santhiel 1 day ago
This has left me totally speechless.....(luckily I can still type)
LIgirl527 10 months ago
this has left me totally speechless.....thank God I can still type
LIgirl527 10 months ago
And now for something a little more directly related...both the music and its subject material put me in mind of a quote by George MacDonald concerning Heaven: "the regions where there is only life, and therefore all that is not music is silence."
As beautiful as music itself is, the silence surrounding it--banished by the first note yet returning once more as the final echoes fade--is just as much a part of the overall aural experience. Good conductors would do well to remember this.
Dawnrunner42 10 months ago
The last cord made me shit my pants
0oArcAng3lo0 10 months ago
I am an atheist. This is still one of the most beautiful pieces of music to grace my ears, and I proudly say that it has an influence on my own music.
fishsquire 10 months ago
@fishsquire
You are not far from the Kingdom of God.
JohnCarrollCollier 10 months ago
en français. in french
comme gémit une biche
après l'eau vive
ainsi gémit mon âme
vers toi, seigneur
piquedard 11 months ago 3
@piquedard Merci, vraiment apprécié.
treblechoir99 11 months ago
Tel le cerf qui désir la fontaine d'eau vive, mon âme te désir (mon) Dieu.
jeffreyberland 9 months ago
I don't think anyone should be punished for not completing a phrase of a psalm. He was citing a phrase he enjoyed, it's a little rude to correct him.
kelsohammy 11 months ago 2
@kelsohammy who was punishing who? A Psalm is a poem. Do you like an incomplete poem? The advise to complete a poem is not to punish but to enjoy the poem.
Nonie46 10 months ago
I loved singing this in high school. The music of the Renaissance era is my favorite!
WestChester2013 11 months ago
I love this song!
pianolover94 11 months ago
Brilliant. Pallestrina was a true artist, God bless him!
NeoVelocity 11 months ago
Sang this as a boy (second soprano). It really does sound better with trained boy sopranos and counter tenors, in my opinion.
BenAliGtor 1 year ago 3
So simple text, and yet so beautiful..
xDGubbixD 1 year ago
Fantastic. Slower than I expected but it really helped me learn the song :)
broadwaygirl19 1 year ago
Eh, I've had worse. Lol. But then again, I sang this 11 years ago in All-State chorus as a tenor... It was a bit easier to hit those back then.
justinczyz 1 year ago
this is an awesome song, but it sucks if you are a tenor. It's in that kind of awkward range that is almost painful to sing all the way through. But when you know your part, it is truly an awesome song.
tdfball910 1 year ago 3
@tdfball910 This is in A-flat. It's much more comfortable for the poor tenors in G.
Dauphin35 1 year ago
Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, Ita desiderat anima mea ad te Deus
mecheverriadiaz 1 year ago
...
toy23machine 1 year ago
o mio dio
Hidalgos81 1 year ago
Looked at the score. That's a really low alto part! Goes down to D. Of course, for men like in thus recording, that's not a big problem.
Nathan1097 1 year ago
Love the intense, soaring lines of the trebles!
Nathan1097 1 year ago
beautifully sung, but unnaturally slow!
haddockpaddock 1 year ago
i love this song our high school symphonic choir sang this at state soprano... 8/ gotta say its beautiful but it keeps you on your toes
runwildnfree 1 year ago 5
@runwildnfree Very representative from this Renaissance's period, Palestrina the Father for all this music.
treblechoir99 1 year ago
@treblechoir99 oh most definitly yes but it i have to say is fairly difficullt :) but well worth it to hit the notes just right and to create music no just noise or sound with rythem but music with feeling and emotions.... that can put u into tears or make you feel just terriffic.
runwildnfree 1 year ago
de veras palestrina es un CRAC
gnosticforest 1 year ago
Sitivit anima mea was our all-state audition piece this year.
Its just so gorgeous, and satisfying.
Oh, how I love polyphony, especially palestrina's, at that.
Tomeres 1 year ago
Divine. Something ethereal.
Just beautiful.
Anormalista89 1 year ago 3
This must be what heaven sounds like.
ceciliamusica4 1 year ago
This must be what heaven sounds like.
ceciliamusica4 1 year ago 2
Proud of being Chrstian and catholic
Frizzolone2009 1 year ago
@Frizzolone2009 Pride is NOT a virtue, and a good Christian does not need to proclaim his pride on a site like this, so think again!
Eurofrank1 1 year ago 2
@Eurofrank1 I don't know which confession are you part of... but when I think that such beautiful psalms are composed by people who share my same faith, I'm proud. As the liturgy of baptism says "This is our faith, this is the faith of the Church, and our glory is professing it, in Jesus Christ our lord".(forgive my bad english). ARt is a form of profession of faith. Every place is good to proclaim the faith Act 4:20 for it is impossible49 for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”
Frizzolone2009 1 year ago
@Eurofrank1 Proper pride can be a virtue...that's what Aristotle says in his Ethics, at least. ;-)
NihilNominis 3 weeks ago
This is one of my favourite motets. It's great to have included the secunda pars as well.
awyliu 1 year ago
A sumptous piece of music.
stevenjackson1958 1 year ago
@ peterryom i thin you'll find the dissonance comes from the alto (or countertenor) rather than the tenor. As a countertenor myself, it's one of my favourite parts of the piece :)
Natofade 1 year ago
Our madrigal choir did this last year! So much fun to listen to and even better to sing!
shortstack3331 1 year ago
my choir is taking this piece on tour with us to Italy this spring. its gonna be awesome. my favorite piece from my favorite composer!!
erric245 1 year ago
Amazing. It's beautiful all the way, and the tenor crescendo reaching it's climax at 2:27 (the dissonance) gives me goosebumps.
Peterryom 1 year ago
I dont understandy were doing this 4 piano lab* but ...
mononoke1332 1 year ago
I dont understandy were doing this 4 piano lad but ...
mononoke1332 1 year ago
the timbre is just unreal.
Sellasella123 1 year ago
Go Piano Lab ^^
davisduong 1 year ago
@treblechoir99 we are only singing starting at 3:33 to the end I sing soprano
RenfroValleyKid 1 year ago
This is lovely we r singing this in honor choir right now
RenfroValleyKid 1 year ago
@RenfroValleyKid Good news, very happy, really.
treblechoir99 1 year ago
i love it
Stefolina89 1 year ago
This is gorgeous!!!! I just love it, simply.....Palestrina made amazing job!
aiivv 1 year ago
Yes this is the way this anthem should be sung !
rudly 1 year ago
just something about that polyphonic period's sound eases my mind esp palestrina and this particular piece-transcends hum-drum life
dalecov 1 year ago
Glorious voices melting into a heavenly sounding choir. Beautiful.
kentuckashee 1 year ago
We sang this for Honor Choir, the Audience LOVED it.
It sounds a lot better Acappella.
Tigerfencer2003 1 year ago
How many voices are singing? Is it just 4, or is it 5 or 6?
CronosPrime1 1 year ago
@CronosPrime1 four voices
peloavila 1 year ago
@peloavila There are four voice PARTS, but this isn't a quartet singing it. I would guess at least an octet (2 per part) and possibly up to 5 per part. As long as the singers are well in-tune, there can be 10 on a part and the only difference to the listener is in volume.
DJLiko81 1 year ago
@PiedPuyper What utter rubbish. Look at the UK - a Protestant country with easily the widest range of choirs singing this sort of music daily (look at all the cathedrals and collegiate chapels), and indeed composers still writing in similar styles, or with similar intentions. Stereotypes are ugly.
edders05 1 year ago
@edders05 Hi Edders. Agree with you for all authors from anglican, as Purcell, Byrd, Green, Thomkins, Taverner, Tallis and others. I delete the message from PiedPuyper because this channel is close. But you can leave your message, I know he is important for this understanding.
treblechoir99 1 year ago
@treblechoir99 I think one should study the history of Byrd and Tallis, as both men were avowed Roman Catholics. This is not to deny that some of their music has been used by the Anglicans nor does it deny that they are honored in the Episcopal calendar nor does it deny that they may have composed for them. In fact, Byrd wrote in his last will and testament "that he may live and dye a true and perfect member of the Holy Catholike Churche withoute which I beleeve there is noe salvacon for me."
robert0571 1 year ago
@robert0571 Yes Robert I know that. Byrd left to posterity a rich body of music for the catholic church, paradoxically, forms the staple of Anglican repertory today. He is maybe the 'underground' composer at this period. Queen Elizabeth I at him request to imprint any and so many as they will of set songe in partes, either in English, Latine, French, Italian, that may serue for musicke either in Church or chamber.
treblechoir99 1 year ago
@treblechoir99 There is no doubt that Anglicans use his music, but to claim he is Anglican is incorrect, which is what I took issue with. Regardless, his music is edifying and on that point many I am sure agree, provided that they have good taste.
robert0571 1 year ago
@robert0571 Of course Robert, maybe in the past the historians telling that, but today we know exactly he is Catholic. As a good Englishman Byrd did have another side to his creative output that was just as productive. for the Anglican offices of Matins and Evensong, he is also a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
treblechoir99 1 year ago
Polyphony is a musical texture of two or more voices equal in importance. Palestrina composes 3 polytextual motets. Multiple texts performed simultaneously. Males & female voices.
Nijeta1 1 year ago
This piece by liturgical Music Composer Palestrina. Inspired by psalm 41. The chant evokes two important liturgical situations, Easter Vigil & liturgy of a funeral or anniversary of a death. A liturgical piece is a chant presented in a quasi-theatrical. manner during the service , with individual portrayals of the protagonist.
Nijeta1 1 year ago
the most spiritual motet ever penned!!
dalecov 1 year ago
Unbeschreiblich schön gesungen! Wunderbar!
enpluskom 1 year ago
Never heard the second part which I think is beautiful. Interesting that they sing it in a coz pretty much everyone sings it in g. Perfect singing and I love the unhooty sound of the countertenors especially.
maxjamesorgans 1 year ago
"As the deer longs for running water, so longs my soul for you"
Beautiful; could almost be a love song.
ericbelify 1 year ago 19
@ericbelify Yes. Or as the Cantique des Cantiques in bible. Thank you for your comment, beautiful.
treblechoir99 1 year ago
@treblechoir99 Not Cantique des Cantiques. It is Psalm 42
Peter1648 1 year ago
@ericbelify It is a love song about the truest and greatest love of all.
Florentius 1 year ago
@Florentius I agree
ericbelify 1 year ago
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@ericbelify It is a love song about the truest and greatest love of all.
Florentius 1 year ago
@ericbelify - It IS a love song.
darkshadow321 1 year ago
@ericbelify Yes -- or in the incomparable words of the Coverdale Psalter, "Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God."
ScurvyOaks 1 year ago
@ericbelify Please complete the Psalm. Thus: "As the deer longs for running water, so longs my soul for you O LORD MY GOD." Water refreshes all creatures including the deer. God refreshes our soul.
Nonie46 1 year ago 4
@Nonie46 he didnt complete it because that part alone, without the Lord, could sound like a love song, that's what he's saying, if you put the o lord, you kill the romance :D
margotlorena1 10 months ago
@margotlorena1 Please read Psalm 42 and you will enjoy the poem. To ask someone to read a poem is not punishing or insulting him or her. Asking someone to read the Psalm is like inviting him to a feast where food is plentiful. To deny him or her of the food by keeping some from him or her is a mortal sin!
Nonie46 10 months ago
that has nothing to do with what we were saying, just that part along sounds like a love song, without the "o lord"
margotlorena1 10 months ago
@Nonie46 One may enjoy the poem just as well on its own without any Biblical context whatsoever, should one make the choice to do so. Despite this, it is not your religious beliefs that people are finding offensive as you may have thought--rather your particularly contemptible form of proselytism, which was neither solicited in the first place nor even desired at all. Please leave off haranguing passersby and let us enjoy our individual contemplation of beautiful music in peace.
Dawnrunner42 10 months ago
@Dawnrunner42 And lo, even I have made a mistake. Rather than using the word "contemptible" with its pejorative connotations of subjective judgment, I intended to say "intrusive", which is altogether more factually accurate and less subjectively condemning in a negative fashion toward its assessment of your proselytism.
Dawnrunner42 10 months ago
@Nonie46 In addition, your argument seems to rely on a probable misuse of words by kelsohammy. His likely intent was to say "criticized" in place of "punished", which is altogether more accurate. You have been criticizing someone's highly personal, subjective interpretation and enjoyment of a poem not according to the objective standards of poetic convention, but rather to your own equally personal and subjective interpretation which is no more right or wrong than another of the sort. Bad form.
Dawnrunner42 10 months ago
@margotlorena1 Since you want to put the Psalm in a human perspective, kindly examine the time when Palestrina composed Sicut Cervus. During those time, wives call their husbands "lord", not as god but as the lord of the house. At that level, this song is applicable. However, since the one who composed the Psalm was King David, there is no doubt that he is addressing the Psalm to his God.
Nonie46 7 months ago
@ericbelify Yeah. . . or a Psalm
beerstudd76 10 months ago
@ericbelify It is a love song.
yrrol5 9 months ago
@ericbelify could ALMOST be a love song?? If it isn't a love song then what do you think it is?
scalls95 8 months ago
@scalls95 it's the LOVE song for all mankind.......seems to be the music of universe...
digitorr 8 months ago
@ericbelify Actually it is "As the deer longs for running water, so longs my soul for god
AttackingTomato 8 months ago
Awesome! I hope we sound half as good as this next Sunday.
Surt811 1 year ago
I'm a protestant. My church's choir sang this last Sunday.
WishBone79 1 year ago
this is the best song in the world!!!!!!
leonardovieiraleo 1 year ago 3
This is amazing. Do you know what key this is in?
seeAM94 2 years ago
I believe they sing it in A major
gebbytoo 2 years ago
@gebbytoo A-Flat
asf9191 1 year ago
@asf9191 sorry, but I just double checked. its A, not A flat.
gebbytoo 1 year ago
J'ai ce motet que j'aime beaucoup et je m'apprétais a le mettre sur mon site , auparavant je vérifie qu'il ne soit pas déja sur youtube.Cela m'a donné la chance de connaitre votre chaine très interressante !
cezig 2 years ago
Ah mais non faut le mettre tout de même lol J'ai hâte d'entendre son interprétation. Un chef d'oeuvre de la Renaissance, en fait demeure intemporel pour toutes les époques.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
A vrai dire , c'est exactement le même disque que toi , aussi ai-je mis un autre Palestrina pour te remercier , mais je suis sur que tu connais déja !
Bien amicalement !..........
cezig 2 years ago
Ah super. Avec la Westminster Cathedral Choir de Londres?
Dans ce cas je vais subito presto entendre cette pièce de Palestrina. Merci.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
This is a fine choir. What is the date of this recording. Who was the conductor? (likely a Hyperion recordng)
michaels7 2 years ago
James O'Donnell, cond. 1991 and yes It's Hyperion label.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
Wonderful quality for 1991!! Absolutely astounding!
hiroshi2020 1 year ago
@treblechoir99
Where can i find it on amazon my friend? what's the title of this album?
TempleMagistrate 1 year ago
@TempleMagistrate Your request in amazon: Westminster Cathedral Choir Title: Missa aeterna Christi Munera
treblechoir99 1 year ago
@treblechoir99 Thanks my friend...!
TempleMagistrate 1 year ago
Excellent recording!
aboliston 2 years ago
Such a beautiful sound, the human voice....
PillarsOfValhalla 2 years ago 3
Amen!
requiemaeturnum 2 years ago 3
Magnifique tout simplement! Merci ta vidéo
loupblanc26 2 years ago
lol lol Loupblanc regarde dans le 1e message qui date de 18 mois, c'était toi. Toujours au 1e rang et fidèle. Merci.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
non seulement 8 mois comme toujours tu me réponds!
loupblanc26 2 years ago
Joli....
Soirdeseptembre 2 years ago
this is probably the most beautiful piece i've sung in a choir ever before. I love it so much.
alexxanonymous 2 years ago 2
OH my gosh thats really amazing <3
muella16 2 years ago
What a blessing.
rumpranger65 2 years ago
This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I sang this with my choir when we toured Europe. I listen to it sometimes to help me sleep :)
ohmyjdm22 2 years ago
Incredible, I cant stop listening it.. its the best performance of this wonderful motet. Sicut Cervus and the Credo (Missa Papae Marcelli) are my favourite.
peloavila 2 years ago
Agree with you, rewarding moment.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
Ps. 41 Vulgata
Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes acquarum
Ita desiderat anima mea ad Te, Deus.
Psalm 42 modern translations:
As the deer longs for running waters,
so my soul longs for you, my God.
dies1domini 2 years ago
Rewarding words for God and all Humanity. Thank you.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
What a beautiful perfomance of this piece. Cannot help but get chills when I hear or sing this.
"Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus."
Cali4Obama 2 years ago
Sublime! It's good to have the second part of this motet. Thanks for posting this masterpiece of European polyphony.
allwasforanapple 2 years ago
Absolutly. i love this period.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
My church choir is learning this beautiful song to sing for a newly ordained priest's first Mass (Solemn High Mass! - very ambitious young man), and I was searching for a version to listen to that would really give me a feel for the beauty of the song. I found it in this version. THANKS!!
beckerat 2 years ago
Agree with you. If you like this Renaissance's period you can choose 2 Boys Choir for this: Westminster Cathedral in London; and Choir of New College, Oxford.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum,
ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.
wonderful
peloavila 2 years ago 5
i really like this part ---> since 2:20 to 3:31 .
I have watched the video a lot of times and i still love it.
peloavila 2 years ago 5
Absolutly, It's rewarding.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
I like the entire thing. I've sung the Sicut Cervus half a couple different times, and my favorite little exchange is right around 0:30 - 0:50. First there's definite proof that Palestrina knew and loved the add9 chord (where the altos are singing the main idea of that first part while the sopranos are descending), then the beautiful interchange between the altos and tenors (sounds like one line, but it's actually the two parts handing it off to each other). Masterfully done here.
DJLiko81 2 years ago 5
This is absolutly divine!!!!!! It just absolutly divine!!!!!!! No words can describe it, thank you for posting it!!! Thank you again and again!!
hermione838 2 years ago 14
Very, very rewarding. Thank you.
treblechoir99 2 years ago
Magnifique ! Merci !
titussenlair 2 years ago 6
my heart is longing for you o lord my god.
dermie12 2 years ago 18
@dermie12 ditto.
christoperfect 1 year ago