Monteverdi - Beatus Vir (Selva Morale e Spirituale)

[billhiltonbiz]

Fantastic - it needs to go at this speed, because it sounds like cold porridge any slower.

[mephistofleas]

Just saw a wonderful performance of this and others at the National Gallery of Canada. I've bookmarked this NTB YouTube version - so well done!

[davehshs]

Yes, perhaps the loss to music could be considered collateral damage of the Reformation. But just think what we'd have now without the Reformation. Today's pedophile priests are just a pale reflection of the church's corruption at that time, not to mention the devastating effects on Western humanity of the church's political dominance.

[chico00566]

Beati sumus quam nos audire possemus

[TheJbach]

Excellent! Just a little bit more presto and verve and it'd be a bit better girls and boys!  Thank you for posting this lovely rendition.... so beautiful!!

[nicosupersex]

this is similar to CHIOME D'ORO and QUI LE NAPPE VEZZOSE, absolutely gorgeous

[GrlLeastLikelyTo]

I love the guy bobble-heading away at the piano! Heehee, it's always fun to see people really gettin' into it, showin' their cantatas some love.

[ApacheNL1]

stunning... how i love those sopranons. The amen at the end brings us to heaven one more time. Great work people. You have inspired me to motivate the people at my church to sing this and church. But since we are all amateurs and do not have the quality of violin players, i was wondering if you think this piece can be played with other instruments as well (flute for example) and any directions on how to start.

[Brawler210]

great piece and I must say, I have never seen a man conduct with his head before.

[TrainmasterCurt]

Add &fmt=18 for much better quality!

[fistfulofeuros]

Great performance! As good as any I've heard (and I've heard many) :) 

[chorister88]

You can't not like this..whenever i hear it, it brings me my smile back :)

[gknauth]

I just love this piece and this performance.

[vinjoulief]

Prachtig!

[3tristan]

Helemaal mee eens. Ik heb altijd al de wens gehad om ooit nog eens mee te zingen in dit grootse werk.

[tsikitili]

Genio di un Monteverdi! Bellissima esecuzione!

[Rodrigosanfona]

Maravilhosa interpretação de Monteverdi! Gostaria de obter mais informações sobre o grupo. Se há algum site o qual eu possa conhecer melhor o trabalho do grupo.

[copia69]

Meraviglioso Monteverdi!!!!!!

[drtmuir]

Wonderful performance of a lovely piece.

[sisterspure]

I'm hooked on Claudio's audios!

[mmg0091]

wonderful!

[SuperSinger87]

i had to do this song for my senior year high school all region and got 1st chair

[GamingTranceSeer]

OMG we had to do this song for a choir competition and I got 13rd chair whoo hoo!!

[enmujohn]

tears are freely flowing from my face.

one of my favorite songs and wonderfully talented ensemble. wow.

wow.

[Ic3t0r]

Gonna be performing this in Chicago. I can only hope our octet sounds this good when we finish. Amazing performance. Absolutely excellent.

[vicwhalley]

Utterly superbly blisful!

[Sailorstayfree]

I think you must think that bach is a spiritual music outside of the catholic Church, i can call music of bach the voice of the protestant, but be protestant doesmatter be out side of west civilization. julian desde caracas.

[magpie4321]

Great work!!!!

[AnimaMiaPerdona]

I'd love to get music done like this in my church... but the only instrumentalists i have to hand to accompany the choir are the organist and myself on harpsichord.

[lafigliaquipiange]

Congratulations for this excellent performance. Breathtaking and uplifting. This is how Monteverdi should be interpreted.

[musicalmommymichelle]

please list the performers?

[musicalmommymichelle]

FANTASTIC!!!!!

[nickeeboy]

Hi Sir, thanks for the quick reply! The score I'm using is from Novello too. ISBN 0-85360-344-8. I ordered the score online immediately after watching your rendition few months back. It's an inspiring performance! Well done.

[nickeeboy]

I've been listening to this version a number of times. Wow I just got my monitoring headphones and plugged them in for this vid. I can hear the details of the other instruments and the room reverberation. What are the other instruments? Contrabass, cello, lute. Which publication are they using for their scores. Wish I could look at them. Mine only has the Voice, Organ + Continuo Part. The stereo image is nice. I can imagine myself there. The plucked string instrument (lute?) fits nicely.

[newtrinitybaroque]

Monteverdi's original scoring is for 6 voices, 2 violins, and a continuo (usually comprised of a cello, keyboard instrument(s) such as organ and/or harpsichord and plucked instrument(s) such as chitarrone, lute, harp...). The edition we used is Novello.

Best,

Predrag Gosta, NTB artistic director

[grandadpoppyable]

Clearly here the Basso Continuo is Theorbo. Or are my ears decieving me.

[1tbo]

@grandadpoppyable Your ears are deceiving you only in that you're missing the organ and bowed bass instrument that are playing the same part. It's a sign that the continuo group is working well, because you're hearing it as one instrument, a sort of mega-theorbo with a tremendous sustain. As an erstwhile theorbist, I can tell you that in playing with an organ, I've often experienced precisely that feeling: that my instrument was producing all that sound. What an ego boost...

[grandadpoppyable]

@1tbo THANKS MATE i NOW SEE WHERE UR COMMING FROM. aS IN ONE SOUND, THE END RESULT IS LIKE THAT BUT ON THE SAMR TOKEN ANY MISTAKE THEREFORE CAOULD NOT BE TOLERATED AS IT WOULD STUFF UP THE GROUP AS ONE. REGARDS

[theredbandit188]

Wonderful piece. Very lively and flowing. Monteverdi certainly knew how to showcase the voice parts with equality. I have performed this piece before, and it is enchanting to listen to, but more so to sing. Truly beautiful.

I agree, culture has turned its collective nose up at the masterpieces of the Baroque period. But does it have anything of equal merit? In my opinion, no.

[sisterspure]

Sensational performance - projecting the true character of Monteverdi's adventuresome music.

[babaloula]

Well performed everyone!

[RichardIIfan]

This is one of those pieces that makes shivers go down my spine. It shows that culture has gone downhill since the baroque times to the dross that now is on offer. It also shows as a very broad generalization what the reformation robbed from us.

[AnimaMiaPerdona]

The Reformation gave us Bach and Purcell though... i must say i cant decide who i prefer, purcell and monteverdi hold joint 1st place.

[RichardIIfan]

No I disagree. Look at the flowering of Catholic music and compare the Calvinist hatred of music and enjoyment adn I suggest that we have Bach and Purcell DESPITE the reformation not because of it. And remember Bach's Magnificat and Mass are both in Latin!

[AnimaMiaPerdona]

You may be right... being 16 i dont know much about music n and the reformation. apart from music, i Think it saved huge numbers of people from being tricked into paying indulgences, let them understand the words of God there were supposed to follow, and also saved vast swathes from the inquisition. course the witch hunts wer'nt much better, but on a much smaller scale...

[RichardIIfan]

No what stopped indulgences payments was the counter-reformation which would have happened anyway. That was the greatness of The Council of Trent. The Catholic vernacular Bible was Douai-Rheims which preceded The Great Bible. There was no inquisistion in England and the Protestants were as guilty as the Catholics for killling people.  The Catholic Faith is so human as well as divine, which is more that protestantism is.

[AnimaMiaPerdona]

I dont want to offend u as u seem a hands down papist (Im C of E), but i cant help thinking that trent helped to stop the spread of protestantism, and would not of happened without the direct threat it posed to the papacy. Anyway, trent banned the playing of instruments aparte de el Organo, which Monteverdi first overturned.

I think we can be settled in saying that Composers are not restricted to religion, and that all sections of christianity have their ups and downs.

[tpno2005]

@RichardIIfan At first I agreed with you, but then I remembered that Bach was, in fact, a staunch Lutheran.

[RichardIIfan]

@tpno2005 yes but I have covered that point in the exchanges above. Bach was/is wonderful and I was brought up on Bach. He composed for the glory of God something that most protestants did not.

[VicTolkien1]

Excellent!

[Prestobongus]

so "operatic"...... as well as Dance, Tony... good comment...

[tonyinvan]

Presto...... Opera came after common song and dance but Claudio M. was clearly one of the inventors of modern day (if you can call it that) opera back in the 16/17thCentury. If I could go to church and tap along or sway with the music as well as hum the tunes afterwards I would be more interested in being there.

[Prestobongus]

Why do we not hear more music like this?????

[manystar]

Brilliant!!!!!!

[natemayfield]

Fantastic!!

[bearphotog]

I know I swept the floors of St. Mark's in a past life when Monteverdi was concertmaster there. This music SPEAKS to me like no other... well, maybe, ...Schutz !

[claerchen1993]

that piece is so wonderful.

i love it.

[tonyinvan]

Many years ago my friends used to laugh at me for loving Monteverdi. This is a superb performance of a superb work. I hear lots of people talking about Monteverdi "songs". Some, like Beatus Vir, are as much dances as songs and this performance is a great illustration of the dance in this music.

[croscream]

Where they middle-class wannabee proletarians?

[guyosborn]

I love this song too...

[jorgealbertobaron]

GRAN OBRA Y GRAN COMPOSITOR

[EWSUnholy]

Oh my god, I love Monteverdi, I love this song as well. Much better suited for individual voices rather than a choir.

[BerniceSummerfield]

This a stunning and very acurate performance of Beatus Vir. Monteverdi could not have done better himself. Bravo.

[territerri1234]

AH!!!!!! I love this sonnnnnnnnnnnng!!!!!

[jorgealbertobaron]

GRAN OBRA DE MONTEVERDI

[genantray91]

Great performance!!!!! I thoroughly enjoyed it!

[3tristan]

Very beautiful! I like this choralpiece as well for big ensemble as in this solistic-form.

Thank you very much for placing this clip.

[huilacolombia]

I feel terrific!!! Gloria in excelsis DEUX...