Hear my prayer - Mendelssohn

[fisharrg]

@goldenbender2 i did miserere mei a couple of days ago, i am a chorister at lichfield cathedral choir and i am going to be doing the opening of hear my prayer soon

[josephdezordi]

Thanks for posting this video, this is so touching, please do more, can you do one for Misere by Alegri ?

[goldenbender2]

@josephdezordi - I Would Definately like a Miserere by Alegri video!

[ColdWindyDay]

i love this piece, but i actually prefer the german text...

[chazpres514]

I love it! What record did this came from?

[sharankabsb143]

i absolutely love this song <3 how ever i dont think the boy singing solo is appropriate for this song....it sounds better when a woman sings it.

[Chimpinzee9]

27th March Coventry Cathedral 4pm. Hear My Prayer and O For The Wings being performed

[kingsott]

The best-known rendering of this piece was by Master Ernest Lough in 1927, in the Temple Church, London. Thalben-Ball was the organist. Surprisingly, the recording is still available: It has sold some 6 million copies to date. Unhappily, the rather fine organ was destroyed in the Blitz ( Dec 1940).

Incidentally, Lough was not a castrato. In due course, he sang as a baritone & became a parent.

HK

[rustic39]

How could anyone dislike Mendelssohn?

[magpie4321]

@rustic39 Les Françaises!

[magpie4321]

The text is derived from Psalm 55

[ewokmusic]

i am AMAZED at how a male can sing SOPRANO!!??

isn;t a soparno a LADY?? AMAZING!!

[morphthing1]

@ewokmusic

well male, but still a boy, alot, if not almost all of the music on my channel would have been written for trebles in mind rather than female singers.

[MrMusic1983]

@ewokmusic This is sung by a male boy before their voice has broken. Visit any signiciant church/cathedral in your area and you will see the choir has lots of boy sopranos (the correct term is' treble' - as highlighted by the morphthing1. It's quite a unique sound really - and, as morph said, the further you go back musical, the more likely the chance this kind of thing would have been written for a treble/male voice. :)

[principessadolce22]

@ewokmusic Those men are castrati. They spend they´re life training for this ;)

[morphthing1]

@principessadolce22 Well not so much castrati especially as it was not as popular in Britain as other European countries, but boy trebles who would sing treble up until puberty hits in the teen years. Of course even after voices develop males can still continue sing counter-tenor.

[asetsp]

I was a successful boy treble in an acclaimed cathedral choir for men's voices (as most are). I started at age 7, voice 'broke' at age 12 + 1/2. My best singing was between 9-11yrs old, and is when I recorded a solo CD, and was lead boy treble soloist on several interstate and european tours.

I then became a counter-tenor and I can still sing counter-tenor which is quite a high register, and I attribute to my early training. I can also sing baritone. It all comes down to training and talent.

[asetsp]

@principessadolce22

Castrati - in theory and practice, is virtually extinct,

The boys you hear singing boy treble, are just that. As a former boy treble myself, my best singing was between the ages of 9-11yrs. The boy in this recording, I would suggest unarguably, would still have his testicles intact, and be around 11-12yrs old.

[manders76]

@ewokmusic Also, the opposite can be true, since there are women who can sing in the tenor or even baritone ranges. (Never full blown basso profundo, though--as far as I know.)

[MRlilstephable]

@ewokmusic A male sings treble



[musicguy2793]

The use of male soprano...awesome! Amazing!

[OHCLOUDSUNFOLD]

How can even ONE person dislike this!?

[NewCollegeChoir]

Please also visit the official New College Choir channel!

[sweetchany]

I don't think he wrote that in English..

[Jakobui]

@sweetchany

no he wrote in german but i think its good in english too

[srjdj]

I LIKE!

But the choir's tempo is in the beginning quite slow!

[dmpow56]

This is absoulutely beautiful. I had the honour of performing this at St George's Church in Montreal over 40 years ago. I still sing it to myself. God bless you. Dan

[tonyalmeida80]

A treble with vibrato - oh dear!

[NickAndColin]

you got something wrong with trebles who use vibrato?

[tonyalmeida80]

Yeah - personally I don't like it.

[magpie4321]

@tonyalmeida80 I LOVE IT!!!!

[jensmom604]

I have loved this song since first hearing it in an old movie called "Paranoiac".

[BEPlover32]

This is an absolutely fantastic piece.

I'm singing the first solo at my confirmation. I'm so excited. :]

Thank you so much for putting this up- it helped me a lot.