Generally a beautiful sound!!! Thank you - could use about another 14 second basses to balance in the fortissimo passages - it tended to lean to the right a bit! :) Nevertheless very enjoyable
@RumoAoSul Whoa there. I know what music is. I compose music, usually choral actually. I've toured Europe singing some of the most beautiful pieces on the planet in some of the most beautiful churches you could imagine. What I stated was my opinion. I didn't say this piece is bad and that no one should or could ever like it. "IT JUST DOESN'T WORK FOR ME."
Two words, vocal orgasm!! The Camarata Singers at my university performed this last year for our annual holiday dinner, hopefully i'll get to sing it with them next year. :D
I sang this in high school chorale...and JUST now was able to find this particular arrangement...if you ask me it's the prettiest version of ave maria out there. Harmonies are just INCREDIBLE!
This is truley amazing and extremley powerful especially 1:07
The best part is the tragic sound at 1: 10 - 1: 40 reflecting the great composers tragic life and his approch towards sacred music - Thank You for this
@ThaSchwab Why don't you think it is a suspension? The E and C in the tenor are held over from the previous bar while the bass moves to D and F. Is it because they aren't tied across the bar? (Suspensions do not have to be tied.)
I see the beginning of the bar as a different chord all together (like the downbeat of the second measure in the beginning). It could be a suspension, but I just don't see it. It would be more obvious if Bruckner included a bass note (ex., a bass note in the second measure of the beginning would make the chords go I-IV-I).
@ThaSchwab Harmony and counterpoint work together. Harmonically, you could claim that the first "chord" in the measure at 0:37 functions in C major as ii (or in a minor as iv). But here I think it's more important how Bruckner accomplishes this contrapuntally, carrying over the double suspension from the previous measure. We may "see" the harmony functioning in a certain tonal way, but we hear it as an old-school Renaissance suspension.
4th species counterpoint creates the "suspension" here. The notes cannot be tied because of the text. Even nicer is the Ab dim7 chord over the pedal C in the previous measure.
Beautiful! If you liked this, you should check out the American Boychoir singing the Ave Maria text in a plainchant setting by Richard Clark.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZOB7FuMA1NU
avemariaclark 1 week ago
Beautiful!
gerardbedecarter 2 weeks ago
Belíssimo. Minha música favorita.
Iesuluxvitae 4 weeks ago
Regardless of religous views this is simply divine. Music for the soul.
stewartvcm 5 months ago
nuostabus atlikimas
kristinacafea 6 months ago
Bruckner MEANT it! Great music indeed, and so uplifting.
harryslide 6 months ago
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cre599 7 months ago
Generally a beautiful sound!!! Thank you - could use about another 14 second basses to balance in the fortissimo passages - it tended to lean to the right a bit! :) Nevertheless very enjoyable
orgelmeister2268 8 months ago
Oh my God. I didn't even hear those tenors....how much flatter could they have gone on that C# in measure 16? It was MINOR.
matt92091 9 months ago
Como pode algo tão extraordinariamente lindo???
JadsonAlvares 1 year ago
Hermosoooooooooooooooooooo
Ana1Sabino 1 year ago
I sang this with my choir unaccompanied in a concert last year and it's my favourite piece. I love it. Thanx for putting this on.
Irvineh01 1 year ago
and i thought his symphonies were great...
wagneristhebest 1 year ago
Man, if you don't like this or his 'Christus Factus Est' you don't have a central nervous system.
mlevitt 1 year ago
oooh i sang this with my choir last week for our christmas concert in the organ loft
ooh i just love this piece
fmaloverinuyasha14 1 year ago
I hate this composition. The choir sounds great, but there's no motion or line. It just doesn't work for me.
matt92091 1 year ago
@matt92091 THERES NO LINE??????????????? You dont know what is music. Drink wine, smoke a joint or take an acid and maybe you can get it.
RumoAoSul 1 year ago
@RumoAoSul Whoa there. I know what music is. I compose music, usually choral actually. I've toured Europe singing some of the most beautiful pieces on the planet in some of the most beautiful churches you could imagine. What I stated was my opinion. I didn't say this piece is bad and that no one should or could ever like it. "IT JUST DOESN'T WORK FOR ME."
matt92091 5 months ago
@matt92091 I think I agree!
64ftContraBombarde 9 months ago
Two words, vocal orgasm!! The Camarata Singers at my university performed this last year for our annual holiday dinner, hopefully i'll get to sing it with them next year. :D
chubbymuzicman77 1 year ago
bello, muy bello
DasKindespiel 1 year ago 7
Vibrato, sorry, shouldn't be here.
adaybefore 1 year ago
I found this by accident, but I'm so glad I did!
aseretkavon 1 year ago
I sang this in high school chorale...and JUST now was able to find this particular arrangement...if you ask me it's the prettiest version of ave maria out there. Harmonies are just INCREDIBLE!
EricChrisman 1 year ago
great great harmonization!
EmperorMato 1 year ago
greeaaaaat greaaaaaat !!!!! just greaaaaaaattt *___*
THUMBS UP GUYS !!!!
20JuL08 1 year ago
cant wait to hear the angels sing this....
jpa0722 1 year ago
This is truley amazing and extremley powerful especially 1:07
The best part is the tragic sound at 1: 10 - 1: 40 reflecting the great composers tragic life and his approch towards sacred music - Thank You for this
3530JC 1 year ago
Very lovely and dynamically really powerful!
LeBob25 1 year ago
Gotta love the suspension at 0:37 !
ecp2014 1 year ago 16
@ecp2014
I agree, it´s really beautiful!!!!!!!
ibk1980 1 year ago
@ecp2014 It's not a suspension. It's just a B fully diminished 7 chord over a pedal C in the bass.
ProGamblerCauthon 8 months ago
@ProGamblerCauthon Yes, but I was talking about the following measure, on the word "fructus."
ecp2014 8 months ago
@ecp2014 Ohhhh my mistake! Rock on.
ProGamblerCauthon 8 months ago
@ecp2014
Not a suspension, but still cool.
ThaSchwab 5 months ago
@ThaSchwab Why don't you think it is a suspension? The E and C in the tenor are held over from the previous bar while the bass moves to D and F. Is it because they aren't tied across the bar? (Suspensions do not have to be tied.)
ecp2014 5 months ago
@ecp2014
I see the beginning of the bar as a different chord all together (like the downbeat of the second measure in the beginning). It could be a suspension, but I just don't see it. It would be more obvious if Bruckner included a bass note (ex., a bass note in the second measure of the beginning would make the chords go I-IV-I).
ThaSchwab 5 months ago
@ThaSchwab Harmony and counterpoint work together. Harmonically, you could claim that the first "chord" in the measure at 0:37 functions in C major as ii (or in a minor as iv). But here I think it's more important how Bruckner accomplishes this contrapuntally, carrying over the double suspension from the previous measure. We may "see" the harmony functioning in a certain tonal way, but we hear it as an old-school Renaissance suspension.
ecp2014 5 months ago 2
I'm mistaken; the progression I mentioned would be I-VI-I, not I-IV-I.
ThaSchwab 5 months ago
4th species counterpoint creates the "suspension" here. The notes cannot be tied because of the text. Even nicer is the Ab dim7 chord over the pedal C in the previous measure.
orvilleschmengy 1 month ago 2
@orvilleschmengy You're in music Theory huh?
Ronnie2839 1 month ago
@orvilleschmengy You're in music Theory huh?
Ronnie2839 1 month ago
Sehr schön. Gruß aus Deutschland.
georgsburger 2 years ago
my favorite rendition of this song! glad i finally found it so i can bask in the sound of beauty :)
amloosa 2 years ago
Very beautiful!
95292727 2 years ago
Fantastica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!nn ci sono parole per descriverla!!!!1
direttrice90 2 years ago
this is sooooooo beautiful...
Impromptulee 2 years ago
Wonderful!!!
maestrogil 2 years ago
Lovely!
wbp265 2 years ago