Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Purcell)

[MissDeniseHewitt]

Wonderful Recording! And I think the tempo is perfect for the Funeral of Queen Mary 2:0 Warm Wishes - Denise

[ThoughtTraveler]

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts. . Shut not thy merciful ears unto our prayers; . But spare us, Lord most holy. . O God most mighty . O holy and most merciful Father . Thou most worthy Judge eternal . Suffer us not at our last hour . For any pains of death to fall from Thee. . Amen.

[areyouquitemad]

I don't know what it is about this song, but i love it too much! It touches the deepest recesses of my soul! Its both deeply mournful but joyous at the same time. He was truely a soulful and talented composer.

[chartres14]

Absolutely love this peice but can't say I agree with the tempo of this performance. Needs to be quicker, in my humble opinion.

[usenetposts]

Should all funeral compositions be set to dance beats, or just this particular one?

[ThoughtTraveler]

@usenetposts

Ouch! Good comeback. I thought this performance was beautiful. It deserved to be recorded in a High Quality Digital format. I wish I could have seen it live.

[pulvaris]

I love this anthem, and this tempo is perfectly funerial, absolutely magnificent IMHO Spot On!

[munoyung]

Excellent!

[valu777]

praise his mighty name the KING of KINGS the saviour of the world

the LORD of LORDS

[sagahammer]

Considering that God is a completely imaginary entity, there have been some absolute masterpieces written in his name. Mozart's Requiem, Bach's Mass in B minor and, above all else, this. Purcell is the dog's and ranks with the greatest.

[usenetposts]

You're just imagining that God is an imaginary entity. Music is also imaginary of course. Any animal devoid of imagination hears nothing but a random string of sounds. Considering that music is imaginary, they have made a reasonable job of making songs to praise a very real God!

[sagahammer]

God is totally imaginary and there is no need for one in an enlightened populace.

Now stop being silly and pack it in :-)

[Biber0315]

Wonderful job! One of the better performances of this pieces I've heard

[jacob63kim]

Thanks alot!! Just Amazing and praise the Lord.

[InsurrectionaryAct]

Oh wow, you uploaded this? How's it hangin', Huliganov.

[usenetposts]

Vertically, mainly, my friend.

[Sminizzle]

Oh my god ! I was singing this song last year... It's so impressive and really beautiful ! Thanks for upload such mythic song !

[aelfricbetera]

vocal beauty;wonderful performance;purcell at his best;many thanks to everyone..

[samada3us]

Sehr schöne Aufnahme. Wunderbare klare Sopräne. Ausdrucksstarke Interpretation.

Leider ist der Alt oft sehr unrein.

[usenetposts]

Vielen Dank fuer diese sehr freundliche und durchdachte Bemerkung. Es wird dem Chor bestimmt gefallen, dass Sie es so genussvoll entnommen haben.

[alhicya]

en cuanto grabe algo lo cuelgo para que lo veas!!! a mi tambien me gusta ver como quedan estas piezas cantadas por otra gente!

[usenetposts]

Muchas gracias!

[alhicya]

que pieza mas bonita.yo tambien la cante en el coro y disfrute muxisimo

[usenetposts]

Gracias. Seria muy interesante para mi mirar algunas piezas de tu coro, una vez. Si es posible.

[jibberjabber]

this is fantastic! really well done, and i could never have guessed you were polish!

[usenetposts]

Many thanks. I'm a Polish resident and a Polish taxpayer, but other than that I'm British. But I also have a theory (which might make a good video actually - hey I think you've given me Huliganov's monthly rant for September) that learning any language actually makes you a part of that nation, in a sense.

[AlsatianCousin]

No, it doesn't.

[usenetposts]

Care to elaborate? I should say that learning a language influences thought, and that once you start to think in the instrument of a people you become bound to them in a way more meaningful than simply holding the legal document of a nation, but never thinking in their language. If not, why not?

[lordmoggy]

oh more choir.......keep this up and i shall become pope!

[jmontgomery7577]

I don't know how widely English is spoken in Poland, but their pronunciation is perfect. I could understand every word. This is a very sensitive and beautiful performance.

[usenetposts]

They will be happy to read that. Richard Berkeley does a great job over their accents - he also gives voice training to actors.

[digitalis77]

Starwars style letters is a nice touch ;)

[hecker0001]

wonderful choir, fantastic acoustic, amazingly good recording technology and outstanding music, all well presented. Thanks a ton!

[usenetposts]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[djman6666]

Ah,lovely music to my ears, heard this song for the first time in clockwork orange.

[Faerie75]

beautiful... absolutely beautiful... love the way you put the lyrics... sometimes i find it a bit hard to understand what choirs sing... thank you so much!!! ;)

[usenetposts]

Pleasure. There is a resource within Wikimedia which helps me a lot with doing that.

[kenbank]

Very nice. The church is quite live, acoustically, inspiring reverence.

[usenetposts]

It certainly is very well built acoustically. They knew how to do that in bygone days.

[GiullarediDio]

Ah, Purcell's anthems, of which even we godless materialists are in awe. Didn't any of the Poles object to a performance of Anglican music in a Catholic church?

[usenetposts]

Heh heh. No, that is not the century we are living in.

I'm also very happy to sing "Angularis fundamentum lapis Christus missus est". ;-)

[jmontgomery7577]

I'm not sure that was completely true in any century. Three of the founders of Anglican choral tradition (Byrd, Tallis and Tomkins) were Catholic. Heinrich Schuetz studied with the Gabrielis in Venice. Bach wrote many of his Masses to be used in both Catholic and Lutheran services. I could go on and on, but you get the idea.

[makochan200]

A performance to perfection! Awesome!!!

[usenetposts]

The choir will be pleased to hear that. I know they sometimes come and see the comments, and I know they will be happy to read that one.