Beautiful Savior by the Concordia Choir

[D29418]

Go to maestroz25's channel for more videos of the Concordia choir.

[bcgd1000]

I got to sing with them today.

[yankeejohn58]

My older Brother, Mark, and father Hobart Skilbred both sang in the Concordia Choir under the Direction of Paul J. Christensen......and my sister Becky and brother Dan also sang in Choirs directed by Paul J.!!

[flyboy911132121]

Um Ya Ya

[Allinfun6789]

Nice job. I would say GREAT but it is the recording that is bothering me. I know that is frustrating to hear. But so many great sounding choirs sound fair due to a poor recording. From what I am able to hear through the bad recording is absolutely amassing..thank you!

[cobberalex]

If you want to hear a better youtube recording of this song by The Concordia Choir, search The Concordia Choir (Moorhead, MN) - Beautiful Savior. It is from our Minneapolis concert at Orchestra Hall this past March.

[liqicen]

It's one of my dreams to sing in a choir like this!

@twojsmi- I disagree. They sound beautiful!

My father sang in the Concordia choir, and he said it was a wonderful experince.

[twojsmi]

Ok. But seriously. Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like robots singing? Or on the keyboard pianos, when you play the "Ahs" or the "Ohs"...so sharp and precise. I feel like they have no connection to the piece! Can't they just make music for once? I mean, they attack it perfectly, but they literally ATTACK the song.

[wolfj03]

yes you probably are the only one that thinks that. And it is only a recording.

[shutyoudown]

You're speaking of a recording from a video camera, some cameras tend to make the sound sound higher in the recording than it was originally

[sparbj]

@twojsmi

No connection to the song? I sang that song, with that choir, particularly the one in the video above. What you don't see or hear in the song is the emotion of the singers, especially the seniors who are singing it for one of the last of the times as a member of the choir. I understand why you might think what you do, but that's because you weren't in the choir, therefore find it easy to judge. But what do I know, I only sang that song with the choir for three straight years.

[Evangeline220]

@twojsmi Ya. You are the only one who thinks

this sounds like robots. A scrap of mental

can't worship God like this.

[rbensonmtp]

I have heard this beautiful song sung by the Concordia Choir with Rene Clausen (three times) and the St Olaf Choir with both Ken Jennings (once) and Anton Armstrong (twice). I have even had the privilege of singing it with Rene Clausen when he was at West Texas State University. Maybe it is personal bias but I think that the Concordia/Clausen interpretation is the best.

It doesnt matter if I am singing or hearing the song I want it to last forever.

[tiernan87]

intonation suffers during the solo. particularly the soloist. i dont' know. concordia has done this LOADS better. maybe an off night. there's just something about the vowel shapes on the brighter vowels. they aren't consistent. and no one brings the end home like St. Olaf. but, this is kind of THEIR song.....

[southernsceptic]

This is an INCREDIBLY difficult piece to tune. The octave doublings and tight harmonies just beg choirs to get into trouble. I haven't heard a version of this on youtube that successfully navigates these difficulties, and this choir does better than the others I've heard on youtube, including the St. Olaf choir, and this version also benefits by its refusal to honor that ridiculous and unmusical Christiansen convention of elongating the note value on "SORRRRRRR-owing" (and parallel passages).

[keithsmd]

@southernsceptic

Stretching "sorrowing" out goes all the way back to Christiansen? Father or son?

I thought it was more of an Armstrong thing; at least it sounds more elongated to me under his baton than it did under Jennings's.

[hawkinman18]

I agree with you completely... I think this group sounded nice, but personally I did not care for the phrasing...It was kind of weird.

[rfuggi21]

wow... very beautiful... how ever i think that you should look at the nordic choir from luther college. much better.

[jamison850]

Doesn't even matter if your daughter is in the choir or if you're just a music love like myself. The Concordia Choir is simply stunning.

[platero55]

Darn fine choral singing - but then I'm biased - that's my daughter in the front row there. :-)