Hear My Prayer -Part 1 (Mendelssohn) SATB Choir

[PalmerJennie]

The vibrato is absurd.

[OperaBuff1935]

A goodperformance, overall. Probably is much better watching it live. I'd love to sing it with a choral group backing up one of the many sopranos in the Asheville, NC, USA,

My favorite recording of this piece is on a CD with the great Cheryl Studer doing this and many other pieces in the repertoire with religious themes. Good posting! Thanks!

[jblacktree]

Superb. Even a Yank can appreciate this.

[DavidMJordan]

Good performance, Sophie Yelland. The acoustics rather spoil it but that is not your fault.

It's a shame that you've had such silly remarks. When YouTube started we had Americans with a mental age of 10, saying 'this sucks' to everything they didn't understand but now we have so-called experts proving what smart-arses they are at the expense of good efforts like this. I think I prefer the 10yo yanks.

[vernon361970]

they're amateurs lol give them a  chance

[flowerfaerie087]

We did this in choir - Warrington Musical Society. I love this piece <3 xx

[360dabomb1]

who wrote this????

[PuffBall6]

Mendelssohn

[u7alll]

Mendelssohn

[lloydino]

too much vibrato...doesnt work.

good otherwise

[vickerini]

Far too much vibrato - it's not natural, sounds odd, and doesn't work for this piece. It's also too slow and partly because of this, sung with a complete lack of any feeling or passion. Doesn't really sound like iniquity and hatred are being cast upon them!

[sevenmetre]

Well and when I hear the chorus.........everything seems like getting worse= =

More room for resonance, please!

[sevenmetre]

Sound like the solo drews her voice too backward in oral cavity and the retroflex is terribily obvious.....

My opinion. Pardon me if I offend anyone.

[woodsxxii]

Its terrible with a soprano... The solo should always be sung by a treble (in my opinion). We're singing it again on Sunday, and our treble is fantastic... He was the runner up of the chorister of the year competition!

[livandjazz]

i think the recit is done abit quick

[jacquelinart]

the soloist's singing is a little bit too throaty, but it's quite good overall

[georgebur]

My favourite version is Kiri te Kanawa with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

[vintoe]

A bit too much vibrato for my liking from the soloist, and the rubato style singing again isn't to my fancy. Our chapel choir did this in our college a couple years back (I'm a tenor in our choir) and it is a marvelous piece.

[8Ryuk8]

I agree. One of the most beautiful pieces ever written. And I also think that the Soloist has a little too much vibrato, but since I sing base I could not do any better. All in all it is well performed.

On some points our choir sang it a little faster. But it is still good.

[elinorberg]

To be a boy soprano, he is very good. My respect!

[DuckInABowl]

i'm pretty sure it's not a boy soprano... forgive me for being frank but how many boys do you know called Sophie?

[stad97]

Well, the soloist, if you look closely, has 2 ponytails, and no boy has that much vibrato, you'd have to be a man to have that much vibrato, and by then, you wouldn't be a soprano any more...in most cases.

And from 5.34, the solo bit is what I'm doing for my church choir audition in 4 days, on Friday.

[eumhpie]

A shame that here (and on the download from your link) the song isn't recorded untill the finish:(

[musicedworld]

The video is complete; the remainder of it is in part 2 as there is a time limit for videos. However, thanks for alerting me to the mp3 on my site, it does finish a few seconds early. I will fix that soon.

[eumhpie]

awesome!! it's really good both the soloist and the choir! respect!!!

[Langagirl1]

Great we loved it.

[Langagirl1]

Nice solo. My choir did this for my installation as a treble.