Allegri: Miserere - Choir of St Paul's Cathedral - Jeremy Budd, Soprano

[carolineleiden]

Imagine sitting there, on Ash Wednesday or Good Friday, already an emotional day, after dark, and then hearing this secret piece ornamented by the castrati of those days...

[whatsup7797]

i love this sooo much i just got back from london and paris about a month ago and i went inside of this church on good friday and it was so beautiful words cannot even describe how it was inside of the church it was the best thing about my trip besides the eiffel tower and i really would like to go back oneday it was so powerful when i walked inti the church it gave me the chills it was the most amazing beautiful greatest etc i have ever seen its so beautiful it makes tears come down ur face!!!

[ambodrona1]

il love jeremy budd 's voice .so pure

[ambodrona1]

i love jeremy's voice .it's so pure

[teaman9000]

The text of course stems from Psalm 51.

I think I'm correct in saying "...et a peccato meo munda me." means "...and cleanse me from my sin." This is where the trebles sing the top C.

Thank You Jesus that in the same way David cried out for forgiveness after he coverted his neighbour's wife Bathsheba, we can cry out to You, and You will forgive us through Your Blood. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

[McQuackor]

Absolutely breathtaking...

They couldn't pick a more suitable place to sing such a masterpiece

[84ulisse]

Esecuzione veramente splendida. Perfino la pronuncia del latino è praticamente perfetta. Bravi!

[MrConnor0123]

im on the metro liverpool cathedrall choir and we did mizzerere alegri on a bbc 3 live broadcast

[hiroshi2020]

@MrConnor0123

Is it on the internet anywhere? The Metropolitan Cathedral Choir is stunning!

[danball7777777]

Very clear top C

But you can hear the jump between the two notes. I know it's very difficult to do, but the notes should be clearly separate, whilst still sounding smoothly linked. Don't tell me I'm talking rubbish, because I sing this, and and I know what I am talking about.

[William00048]

Good old Mozart. We all have to be grateful to him for pirating this from the Vatican then downloading it to paper and peer to peer sharing it with his homies. Good egg.

[kingsmen711]

@William00048 Mozart's transcription was not entirely true to Palestrinas original composition. Ever beautiful, it is not what the composer penned himself. The high "C" was an addition to the original. An improvement? Maybe. But this is not Palestrina's composition.

[TheChantProject]

Allegri would have been very surprised by the fact of this simple piece becoming, 350 years after his death, more famous than any single work by the most popular composer of his time, Palestrina. As John Rutter noted, the music as it is performed today includes a copying error from the 1880s. The sudden modulation from G minor to C minor in the solo quartet occurs because the second half of the verse is the same as the first half, but transposed up a fourth, ergo Allegri never wrote the high C.

[StrawberryWhipcream]

@TheChantProject

Maybe it was an error, maybe it was God working in mysterious ways. Whatever it may be, this work is stunning without a shadow of a doubt.

[danball7777777]

@TheChantProject

yeah but it's way better with the C

iv'e heard the closest we've got to the original, and trust me, the C's an improvement.

[pirouette5050]

@TheChantProject

Many thanks for this gift. Many times to look for this music miracle from the choir of st paul. I 'd the privilege of listenning them in London few years ago. We can hear this interpretation in few films and especially in a fabulous scene in the Hunger with Davie Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Surandon..thanks again to you

[genevaprojectfreak]

well just one thing. watch this same arrangement done by the tallis scholars. live video as well.

Palestrina was a genius. his box of creativity unfortunately was limited (thanks to the council of trent) but what he still was able to create musically with what his options were... amazing. brilliant.

[guidolongoni]

Partly agree, Palestrina was a genius. But I don't understand why are we talking about him... this piece is from Gregorio Allegri, composed years after Palestrina's death. Do I miss something?

[kingsmen711]

One can hear Palestrina's DNA in Allegri's "Miserere". He was after all a great admirer of Palestrina And recognized him as the master of sacred music of the 16th century

[guidolongoni]

Oh, you are right! Thank you, I didn't realize that... but it perfectly fits. It is always wonderful recognizing a master's traces in the work of a great disciple. Great comment!

[kingsmen711]

One cane almost "taste" the emotion of the crying out for forgiveness. I sometimes try and let myself go back and feel what the composer was thinking, and most importanty,feeling, at the moment he was putting this exquisite piece to paper. It must have been very emotional for Allegri in order for him to pass this feeling on to you and I.

[zenmonkgenryu]

Nothing can be added or taken away from this.

[zhinshi]

i'm having goosebumps here...IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL i feel like crying....

[ramirezenoc]

stunning!!! wow its soo beautiful!!! such an awesome expression of need towards God.. the huma Voice is such a beautiful instrument.

[fuckingpillock]

@ ramirezenoc. Fully agree brother, no instrument ever created by human hand can ever match the human voice, it's simply ineffable. I play classical guitar, (badly!) but even that just doesn't compare. It's inspiring when we see all the destruction and evil committed by our species, that we're able to do "this". Staggering.

[DjChoci]

simply stunning.xxxxxxxxxxxxx

[yukiiiiiiii]

C'est pour moi la plus belle oeuvre sacrée...en fait il s'agit du Miserere d'Allegri revisité par Mendelssohn qui lui a donné ce contre-ut si envoûtant qui n'existait pas dans la partition originale

[mytubeisapoohead]

Really brings me back to my high C days...

[heeshyboy]

stunning,beautiful ,dare i say divine?

[BettyGreen16]

that is incredible!!

thanks

[pulvaris]

Got some very old, and very new photos in this video. The first shows the scafolding in the north nave during the cleaning, that has to be about 2002-2003...2.20 shows great font under great west doors, that has to be 2005-2006. Love the video and music :)

[orion8352]

Excellent !

[blandinevig]

très beau!!

[benoitmaur]

beatiful

[ElphieCaruso]

Beautiful.

[MrDominor]

Fantastic!