Really like the blend of voice and organ. Each is emphasized and featured at appropriate times. Beautiful! I hate to reveal my ignorance but what choir is singing?
@chad75ful St Pauls Cathedral, London (if you click show more on the information tab below the video it has some the choir and occasionally more details - this is the same for all my videos -)
@JSC1401 I am certainly not taking anything from either the current Organist (who I know personally) or the Choir Master. By describing it as the 'Choir of St Paul's' I am generalising, but by all means not detracting from, all those who work towards this wonderful recording.
Ignorance wouldn't be not knowing what choir is singing, but not knowing that the "voice and organ are emphasized and featured at different times." Good call! That's one reason why I love hearing this performed "well." It features a variety of dynamics.
@a1vocalcoachdotcom Thanks for providing the word I was trying to find. I am definitely sensitive to the dynamics in a piece of music, particularly choral works. That's why I love Elijah (Elias) so much.The range of e-motion expressed by all the elements, solo, trio, choir et. al., are almost overwhelming. I feel the same about the duet between soprano and contralto in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. The "movement" of the two voices is beautiful.
Every 'goose-bump' I've ever got has been raised by this fabulous piece, which I remember well singing in my youth at Leeds. Thank you for posting!
waldenhouse 5 months ago
epic winning Morph. I love this piece.
Buggaton 5 months ago
Really like the blend of voice and organ. Each is emphasized and featured at appropriate times. Beautiful! I hate to reveal my ignorance but what choir is singing?
chad75ful 5 months ago
@chad75ful St Pauls Cathedral, London (if you click show more on the information tab below the video it has some the choir and occasionally more details - this is the same for all my videos -)
morphthing1 5 months ago
@morphthing1
Another post as if the organist (not named) and the choirmaster (not named) weren't responsable for anything !
JSC1401 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@JSC1401 I am certainly not taking anything from either the current Organist (who I know personally) or the Choir Master. By describing it as the 'Choir of St Paul's' I am generalising, but by all means not detracting from, all those who work towards this wonderful recording.
morphthing1 1 month ago
@chad75ful
Ignorance wouldn't be not knowing what choir is singing, but not knowing that the "voice and organ are emphasized and featured at different times." Good call! That's one reason why I love hearing this performed "well." It features a variety of dynamics.
a1vocalcoachdotcom 5 months ago 2
@a1vocalcoachdotcom Thanks for providing the word I was trying to find. I am definitely sensitive to the dynamics in a piece of music, particularly choral works. That's why I love Elijah (Elias) so much.The range of e-motion expressed by all the elements, solo, trio, choir et. al., are almost overwhelming. I feel the same about the duet between soprano and contralto in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. The "movement" of the two voices is beautiful.
chad75ful 5 months ago
Let me spoil some irony: Talking about evening, this could be a British answer to Rachmaninov's Vespers "si parva licet componere magnis".
There is a similar use of "orchestral" voices. then everything else shouts its patriotism :D
OrbiliusMagister 6 months ago