Bach - Magnificat - 11 - Sicut locutus

[dgjiephfurreighR]

it doesn't seem as if people in this choir are really opening their mouths and enunciating. This is great but people need to sing with greater feeling and not just like "oh get this over with"

[Themusique1]

La meilleure de JS!!Vraiment

[beethomozart]

sublime

[evolve749]

Not to be a curmudgeon or anything, but you have 11 minutes to work with on YouTube. You could probably fit the entire Magnificat on two videos. It's something of a pain in the ass to have to jockey between 12 different 1-2 minut videos, and it completely disrupts the flow of the piece. Just a suggestion.

[XxXxMoMoStewxXxX]

@evolve749 Wooow....

Then Get More Time You Whiner..

0____o

That Always Works Too.

It Makes It So People Can Find Individual Movments/Solos

[evolve749]

@XxXxMoMoStewxXxX "It makes it so people can find individual movements/solos" Point taken. I guess it's just a personal preference. If given the choice, I would rather watch two 10 minute videos as opposed to twelve 1-2 minute ones. If only for the sake of continuity. Maybe I'll upload my own.

[laminos13]

i love them.. i love the song.. praise god..!!!

[Gentario]

Stupendo! Nulla da eccepire ad una esecuzione così bella!

[musicman9196]

Love the countertenors, they give the alto section a GREAT sound! I love the speed of this. The dynamics are excellent!

[eriesal]

I am starting to learn how they do it after bach has composed his magnificat.

[googlekopfkind]

why they are singing uuuuhuuuuuhtus thats fucking gay wrong

[requiemaeternam7]

@googlekopfkind you're fuckin gay wrong you homo noob you don't know shit about music or bach go play nintendo bitch pussy

[googlekopfkind]

lol i like it if people freaking out on the internet like you xD

[norcalrobbie2]

@googlekopfkind No, it's not wrong. They're singing from the early version of the Magnificat where the melisma in the theme only includes "locutus" once, rather than twice. 1) Do your homework before you speak. 2) Grow up before embarrassing yourself by calling things "fucking gay wrong." It shows ignorance and serious lack of class. Makes people wonder who raised you.

[googlekopfkind]

koopman :D

[8ILIKE8]

truc kon apprend en musiqe ♥ xd

[rafikHany]

I LOVE IT !

I love the speed, makes it sooo live

I like the subito piano in "Abraham" and I like the change of dynamics in this...Excellent..

[googlekopfkind]

koopman is soo funny

[penkaur]

this is a good recording, I like it but we sang this not so fast!

About the video, I find it annoying when the bass voice starts another theme while the camera is still showing the alto ladies. The camera movements are not in harmony with the melody.

[guinguette07]

The pianissimo subito on "Abraham" (at 0.49) is fantastic but tempo is maybe too fast, to my humble mind.

[lefekir]

no it isn't. not a thing is lost. the rendition is simply divine!

[milvitt]

praticamente perfetto, da brividi

[vivaconaqua]

zu schnell!

[rottdogg62]

Briliant!!

I love how you can feel the pulse so well!!

Amazing job!

[wcbroccoli]

You misunderstand.

Adult male altos (countertenors) sing falsetto and are often baritones.

[wcbroccoli]

Whatever.

Unlike the usual adult mixed SATB choir, this choir deliberately uses a mix of male & female altos as a compromise between authenticity & available resources. If it were truly authentic, there'd be no women at all, as women didn't sing in German church choirs til end of 18th c.

Leipzig churches of Bach's era used choirs made up of boys of various ages from the St. Thomas school. The tradition continues today. Search YouTube for "der Geist hilft" to hear the Thomanerchor.

[wcbroccoli]

And the point of your childish circumlocution is...?

[mlutheri1]

wcbroccoli's are informative and relevant.

Yours are adolescent bullshit.

"Whatever" is an appropriate response to bullshit.

[mlutheri1]

The only point you have is the one on your head.

[jschubart]

shadoh027, fuck off.

[wcbroccoli]

My point was that the ability is not rare.

Your point is that despite your strong falsetto, you are unwilling to sing alto in your macho group because you are mas mucho macho.

But in the world of early music, pop music, rock music and barber shop quartet, adult male altos are not especially rare birds.

And the male altos in this early music ensemble are not volunteers, but paid professionsals who likely specialize in singing early music.

[mlutheri1]

Seems that you're the one beating a dead horse.

Wcbroccoli didn't put words into your mouth. He took them out.

You said, "I've got the strongest falsetto among the males in my group and in no way could I do this".

This could easily be taken to mean you're are "unwilling".

It might also mean your falsetto isn't strong enough.

Either interpretation is reasonable.

Any misunderstanding is YOUR fault.

[vdgplayer]

It was ambiguous to me, as well.

"In no way could I do this" means "in no way is this possible for me", but it doesn't explain WHY it's not possible.

You added, "I've got the strongest falsetto in my group." Does this mean you CAN sing alto?

You left it to the reader to decide whether the impossibility of singing alto is

due to lack of willingness or lack of ability.

Let it go!

This is a tempest in a teapot.

[JoseCarlosCristiano]

@wcbroccoli I'm a tenore leggero but I quit that voice to became a countertenor and I sing Soprano II in a choir.

[deterrese]

@wcbroccoli thats bullshit



[ianuus]

WOAH the "Abraham" entrance was pp...wut?

[carloslopezluna]

Orquesta y coro bien equilibrados. De nuevo estamos ante una interpretación iluminada. Brillante.

[contagiousx4]

Really well done, I like it a lot.

My guitar ensemble at school is covering an arrangement of this, it's a beautiful piece.

[krakeness]

I'm doing this in my school. As bass.

[COLONDsuperb]

same :)

[Petaroo]

Hell yeah!

I love singing the bass part of this song

[kawaiinie]

whoaaaaaaaa

[141407078989]

love these basses!!! (the voices)

the continuo is terrific too!

[Thedarkside02]

I have to sing this song for honor choir auditions. SUCH AN AWESOME SONG! I'm a bass btw. I love this song.

[okibum14]

whoa me too, where do you live?

[Thedarkside02]

Okinawa.. xP

[tallicAgrl9051]

i'm auditioning for my county chorus in a couple of weeks. we have to sing this song so i'm wondering, where can i find this song where only the sopranos sing? I'm a sop that's all...

[gabrielepsycho]

My high school choir performed this for our spring concert.

[michaelmusicus]

The chorus does this effortlessly here. The swift tempo helps delineate the entrances. I like the shock value of the piano "Abraham" instead of the usual blasting one hears with choruses.

[moskva40]

Koopman does seem to like that sort of thing, doesn't he? In this piece, for example, we see the same thing in "Fecit potentiam" when the choir sings the fluid "mente cordis sui," and especially in "Omnes generationes" after the stretto. To my knowledge no one else has done that and it's a nice, unifying symbol of Koopman's work with Bach's Magnificat.

[Netta305]

OMG we song this song iin our honors choir It wasnt so difficult to us we actually enjoyed it

[delgadoatenas]

aa our choir sing this!!!!

jeje

is not too difficult

saludos

[ArmedDragonLV7]

Jbapllow, im doin this and im 11! Difficlut, REALLY DIFFICULT!

[firebreathone]

I am not doing this and I am 21.

[fightthespoons]

No one's voice is ready for this at the age of 11.

I don't doubt that you can, it's your voice isn't mature enough yet.

Try doing it in about 4 years.

[wcbroccoli]

Search YouTube for "der Geist hilft" to hear the St. Thomas boys choir singing Bach's double chorus motet "Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf." (For better sound, append "&fmt=18" to the resulting URL)

[jbapllow]

That is awsome, I am doing this in my recidal:) Im 16 and I am going to try to have it recorded so if I do Ill put it up. But I love this. LATIN RULES :)

[firebreathone]

cool stuff man

[damildlyshreddah]

This is too good to be true!

[modriorel]

Uf, teli so pa profiji. Sam sem si dal duška in tudi sam malo zraven zapel. Andrej

[Contrapvnctvs]

permutation fugues RULZ