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  • Nobody can sing this song like Sara..

  • amazing. just..... beautiful. i study this for choir music memory. besides Symphony 1997 Jubilation by Tan Dun, this is my fave.

  • You may as well retire Sarah. Jackie Evancho has taken your mantle and she is only 11. Here version of this brings tears to your eyes.

  • @jamestulk1 don't be an idiot

  • @jamestulk1 who?. Sara is the only owner, written for her.

  • Here's a song to be used as the Official Soundtrack for the End Of The World, whatever it is... People will die whilst crying silently. In the dawn of a new age -- heh-heh -- or in the dead of the night.

  • @wvfjr i want to take tht as an insult to this beautiful song. listen. those ppl in tht vid? for some ppl, THT IS LIFE!

  • The singing kid looks like he is a Children of the corn..

  • @communistjesus Whats that sound I hear!?

    Beep! Beep!

    Alright! :D Your little bus has arrived! Grab your backpack and snack cake!

  • @SBMPLYMA WHY ARE YOU SO FILLED WITH HATE???... JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE BORN THE WAY YOU WERE, DOES NOT, DOES NOT GIVE YOU CARTE BLANCHE TO ABUSE OTHERS.. YOU YOUTUBE GANGSTA.. THIS IS NOT COOL..

  • @communistjesus Caps lock. Because it makes what you write that much more important.

  • "Angus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem sempiternam."

    "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, grant them eternal rest."

    ("Lamb of God" = "Jesus Christ". See Gospel According to John Chapter 1, verse 29; and The Revelation to John Chapter 7, verse 17, and numerous other references.)

  • woa veri nice voice q linda vos 

  • the boy scares me

  • so beautiful <3

  • Nice song, shame about the video...

    

  • that boy is my school teacher

  • This video was used as a collection series. I wish I could find the collection again...

    \

  • agnus dei

  • This video really is terrible. Beautiful music though.

  • A beautiful song.

  • Chida esta la rola!!

  • The little boy is now my music teacher :D:D

  • relle...!!!!!!???

  • really??? OoO

  • This is from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Requiem", written in loving memory of his father, the organist/composer William Southcombe Lloyd Webber. It is to my knowledge the only "classical" work Andrew has ever written, and may be the only one he ever shall.

  • it's in the eye of the beholder: most songs in phantom are classical, and so are most of his other compositions...

  • I have to sing this infront of my whole school. Not looking forward to it!

  • @frankyfan94 you'll be ok. I had to sing it at our deputy headmasters funeral. He overheard us sing it and wanted to hear it properly, he never got the chance so his wife asked that we sung it at the funeral. Twas the worst performing situation I've ever been in but so glad we managed it holding hands with tears streaming down our faces.

  • im in chours and i love the boys vois im a suprano i wanted to be alto but im suprano but its beter thatn not haveing anything wow i just love this song

  • LIsten to the Pie Jesu on Anna Netrebko's 'Souveniers'. Both soprano and boy alto are far superior.

  • What is this style of singing called? The singers are singing at a very high pitch, but very pleasing to ears. Would like to hear more of this type/genre. Any suggestions?

  • @rama44ster There used to exist a style of singing called "Bel Canto" - it's not exactly like this, as this is a modern piece and Bel Canto was a few hundred years ago, but it's very similar; lots of gentle, very high, flowing singing. Try looking it up; Farinelli is a good place to start!

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote this song too?

    He's a legend

    I've always loved this song but like many songs like this it's had to find out the artist and what not/

  • there was a similar song to this (theme) i think it was a Christmas song but the boy was different, had a more modern sound to it. i remember finding it in the same search as this but i cant remember his name or the title of the song... driving myself crazy over this! he's popular but either in another country or different genre. ARGH!

  • I know the one you mean!

  • do you know the title?

  • Stupid to talk about Mozarts farts, anyone can hear that this is beautiful..

  • Mozart's farts were greater compositions than this melodramatic nonsense.

  • And he also followed an entirely different set of compositional standards. Yes, it's melodramatic, but have you heard Mozart's Ave Verum?

  • @dolofonos You know nothing about the beauty of this kind of music. and by the way; why do you search for this kind of music when u dont even like it?

  • It is ironic that you tell me I know nothing of this 'kind of music I have searched for' when the music here shares next to nothing in common with the many other pieces to which its title belongs save for in name. No, it is you who knows nothing of such music or surely you would know that the Pie Jesu is not the creation of Webber, but merely a topic for his musical mockery.

  • @dolofonos I think you're being unfair. I know its highly fashionable to snub Lloyd Webber, but this is truly one of his best works. Of course, it's nothing compared to Mozart's music, but to call it worse than "Mozart's Farts" is incredibly childish.

  • this video is effin hilarious. great song though.

  • what а film??

  • Beautiful.

    The boy looks like Andrew Lloyd Webber, relative of his perhaps?

  • divine , angelic , outstanding !!!

  • is she sarrah brightman when she was younger ?

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  • GREAT!!!!

  • The purity of a boy soprano's voice is a joy to behold.

  • @TightfittingUnderpan I totally agree with that!

  • Beautiful song to the merciful Lord.

  • Merciful?? In what way?

  • Beautiful song...I sang this my Junior Year in high school for my solo in a competition and I got a silver medal for it.

  • I absolutely love this particular version of this song, but the video. . . . I dont even know what to say.. . .

  • The original performance of this peice was re-broadcast on PBS in the US and this video was used behind the end titles/credits.

  • I am 16 yr old guy and proud to say last year at a chorus competion i was granted gold with honors for the high note at the end. GO WFHS!!!!!!!

  • Man, this video is early 90s-tastic.

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  • I've known of this song for 30 years and have always considered it the perfect song. Still do.

  • lol we sung this in our choir. i had to do the high note at the end and everyone sed i was really good \and im only 11

  • perfection in this genre of singing, thanks for letting everyone enjoy it.

  • beautiful hymn..

  • man thsi song is BEAUTIFUL!!

  • I know the girl is a young Sarah Brightman... who is the boy?

  • Paul Miles-Kingstone.

  • I love this song! it's so beautiful and they both have such angelic voices

  • that boy's voice is so perfect!

  • Beautiful song! i had to sing it in coarl

  • haha!

  • I love this song!

    :)

  • Awesome song.

    It always waters my eyes when I hear it.

  • @KLEREMAN urrr g@@yy

  • @KLEREMAN i too.

  • I think Sarah's "angelical" vacant face is creepier than the boy's eyes!

  • Am I the only one who is kinda creeped out by the boy's eyes? I don't know why, but they creep me out!

  • They are both creepy! AAhhhh!

  • Relax! Mightn't he just be of Asian heritage?

  • Beautiful song! i had to sing it in coarl

  • right does anyone else agree that female singers rnt bad but that a boys voice sounds so much purer, women seem to all sing with that bloody vibrato style which is very annoying

  • half n half on that one. but the lad on this scares the hell outa me.

  • I agree. I hate over-the-top soprano vibrato.

  • Too much vibrato in my opinion, way too much actually, but not a bad version altogether. The tempo is quite good. Most of the times it's performed a little on the fast side.

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  • Duela a quién e duela... Podrán haber muchisimas versiones, en las voces de muchísimas cantantes, pero jamás de los jamases podrán superar la voz de esta increíble mujer!! Ella le dió vida a esta hermosísima canción. Es penoso que se le critique porque ya no canta como lo solía hacer... su legado quedará por los siglos de los siglos... AMEN!!!

  • /watch?v=4DVXIRL_VYw

  • Beautiful song! I'm singing this in Germany when my choir tours!!!!

  • beautifull (: i sang this song in a recital once! last year. unfortunately it wasn't quite as beautiful. lol :P

  • Great music. Not too sure about the video...they're pretty obviously mouthing.

  • Brava

  • Mezcla varios versos del Pied Iesu con el Agnus Dei. Para comparar, véase y óigase el de Faúré (Réquiem).

  • Absolutely fabulous piece of music..the vocals sheer electric..thank you for sharing this video with us

  • i wish i had sarah brightmans voice...i mean wow...

  • A heavenly song that gets to me all the time, you can't help but cry thinking of Jesus! A song truly sent by the angels up above!

  • @SurreyGirl2008 Uhhhh? who´s Jesus?

  • i always wondered why this made me tear up, now i know what it means :,)

  • If you do not like the way Sarah sings, you are a habitual complainer. I would rather listen to her singing 'Happy Birthday to you" than any Opera singer.

  • Yeah, I think I'd go with the Opera singer over Happy Birthday any day. I mean Paul Potts vs. Happy birthday. Weigh them out and get back to me if you can. Tell me what you'd rather have. I like this version just fine, but other people are entitled to their opinions >:C

  • Bravo!!!!

  • jag har försökt att sjönga den låten den är skitsvår!

    Det var våran sångpedagog som skulle lära oss den...

  • Amazing! But so sad!

  • This song is really beautiful but sad, it almos makes me cry

  • really the words "Merciful Jesus, that takes away the sin of the world, grant them (the dead) eternal rest forever" isnt 'sad', its enlightening and meaningful.

  • it can be either way. death's never gonna be as simple as one type of emotion.

  • This is for all the people living through war, and who are losing people through war.

  • This was one of my Mums fav songs n we played it at her funeral, it akways makes me cry!!!

  • From the LP sleeve: "Two events set the _Requiem_ in motion. The first was the death of Andrew Lloyd Webber's father in 1982 and the second was a story about Cambodia in an obscure corner of the _New York Times_, concerning a boy who was faced with the choice of killing his mutilated sister or being killed himself. Cambodia has no musical influence on the score, but it did give Lloyd Webber the idea of scoring the _Requiem_ for a boy, a girl and a man..."

  • I picked up this LP at a Goodwill about 2 years ago and just fell in love with this Pie Jesu. I didn't know there was a vid, but thanks. Whatever you may think of the rest of the Requiem (and I'm not sure yet what my opinion on it is), I think it's pretty hard to hate this particular part of it.

  • Why do you people act out so rudely?

    I would like to see every single one of you people who hate Andrew Llyod Webbers music/composing Get up on stage and compose a piece of music!

    I bet you wouldnt like the stuff people said about the way you composed music.

    I love Andrew Llyod Webber expessially the Phantom Of the Opera he directed <33

    I also sang this song in school choir lol.

    Dont even watch it if you dont like it.

  • No disrespect intended, but I just am not a big fan of sarah brightman. Just my own personal preference though. I loved the boy soprano in this however.

  • i love her voice! Its so pure and angelic.

  • TO be honest as a composer andrew Lloyd webber is terrible. his music is brimming with badly written overly sentimetial music

  • Composed your own opera, then feel free to criticize the work of others.

  • I'm sorry, but Webber has never written an opera. He has written operettas such as Phantom and Cats. But an opera is a bit different. Verdi wrote opera...you can't deny the difference. Speaking of differences, I'm sick of people thinking Sarah B. is an opera singer. She is NOT. Her voice is MUCH too weak to perform an entire opera. Listen to Fleming, Price, Battle, even Netrebko, if you want to hear a REAL opera singer.

  • I SO agree. In Norway almost everybody think of Sissel as an opera-singer. I doubt she (or Sarah for that matter) could make it through " La Boheme" or " La Traviata" for example.Not to mention Wagner.

    Pardon my english, I`m a little drunk. (GIN) :)

  • also, she has a weird sound to her voice when she tries to sing opera - i think it sounds as if her throat is tight and her nose is closed?

  • well, its not a verdi but its never ment to be like a verdi....Webber has his own style, for sarah, she has a voice like an angel but she is not a opera singer....she does not have to be one or?

  • Andrew Lloyd webber's music is of a different time, but just as accomplished if not more-so, Cambiano i suonatori ma la musica è sempre quella, many opera singers would be found wanting in a lloyd webber musical

  • Beautiful!! Music from heaven!

  • idiot!

  • What movie are the scenes from?

  • It's not a movie x

  • Thanks.

  • ahh im singing this for my gcse duet i think

    :D:D

    it's a beautiful song!

    xxxxxxxxxxx

  • forgive my ignorance-did webber write this?

  • The music, not the words methinks.

  • Webber wrote the music, the text is from the bible. Translated the text says."oh merciful Jesus, grant them eternal rest"

  • Actually, the text is adapted from the Latin "Messa da requiem" - the mass for the dead.

  • The text appears nowhere in scripture; rather it is part of the Latin Requiem Mass, falling at the end of the Dies Irae, but only these words: Pie Jesu Domine,

    dona eis requiem. Amen. (the Vatican II Council removed the Dies Irae from the Mass in the late 1960s)

    Weber added the Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi, which is from the Agnus Dei section of the Mass

  • I stand corrected. Thanks for the information.

  • Its often done with the Agnus Dei section, so thats nothing new.

  • This is one of my favorite songs, but forgive my ignorance, does anyone know how this translates?

  • nevermind, I googled it...sahme I'm an athiest lol!

  • hahah i no right

    me too

  • omg was that little boy singin andrew loyd webber?

  • No sweety, Andrew Lloyd Webber is a grown up man, this little one is from a choir, i think..

  • thanks :)

  • yw:)

  • u seem to be out of the loop?

  • what CD Can I find this on?

    It such a great song!

  • Ryu7710 I have Pie Jesu on the Phantom of the Opera compilation CD

  • The recording "Requiem" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with Plácido Domingo & Sarah Brightman.

  • the whole requiem is on its own cd. the whole thing is pretty stinking sweet. i found a copy at the library and never wanted to return it!

  • It's odd to think Sarah was only 25 ish then. She's so awesome =D

  • wow amazing. beautiful song

  • no, she's a singer, i guess

  • For a while, this was my least favorite song on the "Premier Collection" album, but I've eventually discovered what a very sublime and beautiful song it is, and it has since become among my favorite.

    The video is great too, though not as dream-like as what appears in my mind when I hear it.

    Thanks for uploading!

  • WOW!

  • Just listen to what the human animal is capable of!! This music is sublimely perfect

  • human animal is capable of in another human animals eyes and ears

  • SO NICE

  • The audio is sublime. The visual is interesting, but I think detracts from the audio rather than working with it.

  • For Johanna Sällström.

  • it was onlike 3 seconds or less of the clip that i saw as a montage during the overture of the video/cd "sara brightman live at the royal albert hall"....

  • no offese to the cute little boy who was an awesome singer,

    but when i first saw the video clip, with the sound muted, i thought it was sara and the boy in another phantom or spooky type musical.. i didn't know what they were singing cuz the sound was muted,, i thought maybe she was like the mother of a devil boy or something and they were singing a scary song... kind of like that movie "carrie" or something...

  • I agree that A.L.W. was inspired when he wrote this. Its absolutely sublime.

  • does anyone else think that the boy in this looks wierd?

    no offence to him though

  • I think the little boy looks a bit like Andrew Lloyd Webber personally! :)

  • yes yes yes! finally someone who agrees..

  • HAHA! ...seems like we may be the only ones though!! :) x

  • oh i totally see it. No really, CCH can't compare to SBrightman, Sarah sings effortlessly, unlike Church.

  • so in love with this song. though 80's sarah looks so intersting to me :)

  • Neh neh, pretty song, but its just not me lol, is that a movie? If so I wanna see it :P Lol yup im obbsesed with movies like that, like stuff from teh jewish and hitler thingy lol not that i like hitler just the movies based on what he did and blah ect

  • Andrew LLoyd Webber was divinely inspired when he wrote this. Of this I have no doubts. These two singers are also great especially the purity of the boy soprano.

  • this is great. lovely boy soprano voice. I thought it was a duet between two women the first time I heared it.

  • it's too sublime to be true, i'm a glam kind of guy , but this song is too heavenly to leave it behind, i'm obsessed by it, i listen to it every day, the only thing i don't like at it is sarah's nasaly voice, i went to a requiem concert in Romania where i live, and the soprano's voice was diferent, maybe live it sounded mucj better than in this recording

  • The best version I heard was by Aled Jones alas you can't seem to find it anywhere. By far superior to anything in the last 10-20 years. Aled is most famous for the "Walking in the Air" song from the Snowman.

  • I love singing this song! Whenever I'm home alone, i always end up singing some soprano song like this (because my family can't stand this kind of music, or sopranos) (which is sad, cuz I'm a soprano...)

  • Sounds so beautiful, but the video would be much better if Sarah Brightman would quit flirting with the camera.

  • "would be much better if Sarah Brightman would quit flirting with the camera."

    ask a psych major what "projection" is

  • This is a late response...I actually am a psych major so I get the insult-it's funny.

    However, I was more referring to the quality of the video. So...ask a film major to review it and give you his opinion, I promise 9 out of ten would agree with me.

  • i feel very sorry for you.