Petits Chanteurs de Paris - Debussy - Noël des enfants qui..

[Joty1280]

debussy is the SHIT!!!

probebly the most beatiful music ever

[Choristenimes]

Vraiment bon!

[Hollu06]

I sang this as a solo in my second or third year at university. Everyone was totally shocked at how fast I was able to get the words out! I picked it because the poem grabbed my attention and it was challenging. Quite the moving piece.

[Hollu06]

@Hollu06 Also, if you like it you should check out Veronique Gens version. It's beautiful. ^_^

[cahruhhh]

I'm singing this with my (women's) chorus! This is by far the best rendition I've found! Their accents, their crescendo, their pronunciation, just everything was PERFECT!

Plus, this is by far the cutest thing I've ever seen, love the outfits! :)

[MarcheseCadmio88]

Perfect intonation!

[AjdSING94]

im singing this with my girls treble choir. sooo challenging but obviously beautiful!

[emmawatsonanna]

We sing this with my choir it's nice to sing and the lyrics are beatufull too

[patcdi]

ce sont les petits chanteurs de paris devenus maitrise de paris. la pianiste pour ce concert est catherine Charles le chef Patrick Marco

[Nehebkachan]

I also sang this with my choir at Carnegie...6 years ago? I've loved it dearly since then. It's a fun piece to show off for sopranos. =P

[asx5252]

soo good...!!

[AzureBluee]

Outstanding performance, well done!! Bravo!!

[morgenshmorgan]

Merveilleux, c'est vrai. Poor France! It suffered thrice of merciless Teutonic aggression and all three times fell in agony. Frenchmen need to hear this jewell of patriotic art more often to refresh their suffering memories so that they will not forget who is who in Europe.

[delamotteh]

You are young I think and too far ....

[kelleypb2008]

They started it--stupidly--in 1870; won in 1918--if you recall--and led the way in preparing for the second world war with their occupation of the Rhineland and outlandish reparation demands, which resulted in the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler. Anyone who actually knows the French knows better than to ever feel sorry for them...

[Artemis110493]

Merveilleux! I sang this a few years ago with my choir at Carnegie Hall, so I love this piece! This is a great rendition!

[IlluminosaImmortalis]

That's so cool! My choir sang Carnegie Hall too!

[Musique3579]

Beautiful! (A new Debussy discovery for myself.)

[Virginielie]

It is not hard to sing Debussy if one feels the words and sing it out naturally with heart...This is the talent of Debussy who knows to use his music to express the sense of words... Pity that many singers interpret Debussy songs by using only their voice and not their sense ...The songs of Debussy do not need big voice but subtil sensibility...

[zioje]

Brividi...

[19881007masato]

Bravo!!!

[shangma2]

where did you find this ?

The pianist was catherine and the choir maister was jean francois

[idle44]

Is this the recording made in 1987/8 when Channel 4 (UK) showed the boys choir 'competition' one christmas? It involved this Les petits.., a Bavarian choir , the Vienna Boys choir and Winchester Cathedral Choir as I remember.

[Tacobelltoby]

i sang this with an SSA choir two years ago! i love this song!

[lalia2001]

I'm so glad this video is here! I sang this in our winter recital! great piece!

[dfgetial]

excelente...

[bloodtearalchemist]

Ah, we're singing this for our Winter Concert.

Incredibly sad, but beautiful.

[kaylarw94]

we are singing this song for choir. XD

[lessagaudier]

Il faudrait adapter les paroles pour les petits Irakiens, les petits Afghans, et même les petits Pakistanais.

[aero23488]

J'adore cette chanson! Ces garcons sont super!

[chopint]

très joli. Belle interprétation des petits chanteurs de Paris...

[Scotty0011]

nice expressions

[ARTEANTICASCIPPA]

BRAVISSIMI!

[9macrina9]

just so beautiful!

[1Hannah730]

it is very beautiful, just a shame that it is all about punishment and unjust treatment and violence to the minoric countries. Look up the translation. Debussy wrote it in an attempt to rebel against the government. One line is "they burned the school and killed our teachers too"...pretty brutal. It was originally written as a solo piece for a person to sing in the streets. It is very beautiful and meaningful tho. I am singing it in chorus.

[donhenri01]

No, its about the destructions that the german army caused in northern france, in poland and in belgium during world war I

[1Hannah730]

i know...thats what i said...just less specific. those 'destructions" you are talking about are the effects i mentioned.=]

[elise9832]

we're singing this song in our Varsity Treble Choir. It's really hard to sing but its really good!

[marlenedussault]

wow quel chanson c vraiment dure a chanter bravo les gars!!!

[letmethinkabouthat]

we are singing this song ugh its so hard to learn

[PetalxLipxKisses]

I am singing this song in my Treble Choir, (in French of course) the lyrics are in English(soprano's part, and it is the modern English translation):

We have neither house nor home!

Enemies took all we owned, all gone, even our own little bed!

[PetalxLipxKisses]

They burned our school, they even burned the teacher too.

They burned the church and statue of the Savior.

And the old begger that could not move very fast!

We have neither house nor home!

Enemies took all we owned, all gone, even our own little bed!

[PetalxLipxKisses]

Pa-pa has gone off to war, Poor Mother dear is in heaven!

she did not fore-see all this.

Oh, what shall become of us?

Jesus, O little child, don't go to their house, never go to them again,

Punish them all!

Avenge the children of France!

The little Belgians, and the little polish children too!

[PetalxLipxKisses]

But if we should forget, please pardon us.

Jesus, Jesus above all we want no toys!

But may we please have once again our daily bread!

For the little Belgians, for the little Serbians,too!

We have neither house nor home!

Enemies took all we owned, all gone, even our own little bed!

[PetalxLipxKisses]

They burned our school, they even burned the teacher too.

They burned the church and statue of the Savior.

And the old begger that could not move very fast!

Jesus! hear now our plea, we no longer have our wooden shoes.

Give victory to the children of France!

[PetalxLipxKisses]

I am singing this song in my Treble Choir, (in French of course) the lyrics are in English(soprano's part, and it is the modern English translation):

We have neither house nor home!

Enemies took all we owned, all gone, even our own little bed!

They burned our school, they even burned the teacher too.

They burned the church and statue of the Savior.

And the old begger that could not move very fast!

[fooljulie]

I sing that in my "maitrise du cnr" in paris (my english is horrible xD)

i love sing that <3

[citogym00]

Geez, those kids look very tired in that concert. Look how one of them can't open his eyes on one moment. That's hard job, well done.

[Auroster]

We don't have houses anymore

The enemies have taken it all, taken it all, taken it all

Even our small bed

They've burned the school and our master also

They've burned the church and Lord Jesus Christ

And the old man who couldn't go [to the church]

[MACHAEID]

Does anyone have sheet music of this piece? Or at least have some kind of idea where to get it? I'm searching it for a week now, but have failed to find it!!!

I simply love it!

[ursulabpenharvel]

Hello,

I got a copy from my teacher.

It's from Durand and Cie., France, Number D. and F. 9418.

Good luck !

[Auroster]

We don't have houses anymore

The enemies have taken it all, taken it all, taken it all

Even our little bed

Of course, dad is in the war

Poor mom is dead

Before have seen all that

What are we going to do?

[Auroster]

Noel ["noel" is the same Santa Claus"], little Noel, do not go to their houses, do not go to their houses anymore, punish them all!!

Avenge the children of France

And small Belgians, the small [Serbes], and the small Pole too!

If we forget some, forgive us.

Noel! Noel! especially, no more toys

Try to give us again the daily bread.

[Auroster]

We don't have houses anymore

The enemies have taken it all, taken it all, taken it all

Even our small bed

They've burned the school and our master also

They've burned the church and Lord Jesus Christ

And the old man who couldn't go [to the church]

Noel! Listen to us, we do not have more small shoes!

But give the victory to the children of France!!!

--- if someone has a better translation, go ahead!!-----

[mewrain]

My choir is now performing this, and I do believe it the favorite piece of everyone, apart from "The Snow". It is truely... beyond words to sing.

"Punish them all!" ((English translation there of a part or something...))

[bass2guy2008]

Wonderful.

[MargoLaFrancaise]

j'adoore ! nos ptits chanteurs nationaux ne sont-ils pas mignons ??? siiii !

[narcissusdying]

That was great to watch. Thank you for posting.

[Ladybuguboo]

<y choir is doing this song, adn going to a competition with it... but i'm having a really hard time with the french... I'm worried. But this was beautiful!

[zors99]

Absolutely fantastic. It makes your heart break for one has been done to our youth by liberal politics.

[hannahjocelyn]

Excuse me, but this piece was, I believe, a reference to the First World War... hardly "liberal" politics.

[zors99]

Sorry, I gave the wrong impression of what I was saying. I meant: this is so beautiful if makes me weep for the millions of young people, in Britain especially, who have been ruined by liberal politics in education, in social policy and in law and order. This video shows the true potential of youth.

[julienbencze]

Well, this is great to see good fellows again 20 years later! Thanks a lot to give me the opportunity to see and hear the work we achieved in this choir, which unfortunatly doesn't existe anymore...Nostalgie...!

[Cissy6]

tan increibles! voces encantadoras y angelicales :)

[Gevanga]

gives me goosebumps!

[bestpi]

Wonderful Piece. Thank you for the post.

[insaneantics]

My Womens' Chorus did this song and another at a state competition and we were the only chorus there that recieved the highest rating possible from all three judges on both of our songs. It's a wonderful song and I never get tired of hearing it.

[maestrovoci]

Sad is it that this choir doesn't exist anymore! The world seems not capable of supporting excellence from childen. This choral selection belies the notion that French boys cannot be trained to excellence.

[laughne]

Douglas, I never heard really about that choir. I read about Patrick Marco, Didier Bouture and even Scott Allan-Prouty as directors...

[maestrovoci]

I think AB in Munich knows more than I do. BTW, who is Douglas?

[Nightscape2]

Nice recording! And not a lousy song at all.

[Sandalboy]

Beautiful voices, lousy song.

[ngkaiki]

very great video! thanks for sharing!