If ye love Me, keep My commandments (Tallis)

[Worrell057]

I'd love to run the audio on this through some computerized noise reduction software to eliminate the hiss.

[usenetposts]

@Worrell057 It would be hard to do that without removing something of the music too. Better to try and filter it out wiith the mind.

[jd7x7jd]

lovely video lovely music thank you

[Fungirlbigheart]

i remember singing this last year. favorite! you guys sound sooo good (:

[usenetposts]

@jmwinterblume Thank you for your gracious comments. How delighted Tallis would be to know the wonderful feelings of competitiveness his music has engendered.

[usenetposts]

@jmwinterblume Thanks. We are all waiting for you to post the video of how your choir sings it so that we can humbly learn from you how to take Tallis to the next level.

[usenetposts]

@jmwinterblume This is not a place for you to come and blaspheme. You're banned.

[RebbePiper]

Perhaps a reading of the early church fathers would serve to educate the ignorant: Church Canon XXXVII: "It is not lawful to receive portions sent from the feasts off Jews or heretics, nor to feast together with them."  Masons have no problem with Jewish fellowship in Lodges, apparently some of the Church does. How odd, in the model prayer, Jesus ended it not with his own name, but rather..for thine is the kindgom and the power, and the glory forever and ever

[usenetposts]

@RebbePiper There would be a lot to say about what you just wrote. The comments section is not big enough. I may resort to blogging my answer on huliganov dot tv, if that's all right with you.

[RebbePiper]

@usenetposts / Sure, feel free to use another forum. I have just been on the huliganov site. I did desire to post more on the youtube comment section, but could not due to running out of space.

[RebbePiper]

@usenetposts That would be fine with me..

[usenetposts]

@RebbePiper I've written you 4,500 words. That wouldn't fit here!

[rbghomes]

This video is titled, "IF ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments" The camera person begans to pan the building showing the checker board floor then 2 pillars both are Masonic symbols that tie into the worship of Satan breaking the 1st Commandment then we see the set up image of Christ in the back ground breaking the 2nd Commandment. all this possibly occured on the 1st day of the week breaking the 4th Commandment.

[usenetposts]

@rbghomes OK. So you conclude from this that I'm not a proper Christian, and that it's hypocrisy of me to put up this musical evangelism, yeah? I'm relaxed, buddy. God only knoweth the heart and trieth the reins, but the accuser sends out many to tempt us to anger and doubt. God protect us all from phariseism.

[phantomfn8]

@rbghomes the Masons are not a Satanic group they are simply a group of service men who believe in a higher God and worship him. its not Satan in fact the religious group that is most present in the Masons is Christians so that means you are calling all Masons Satanists which is simply untrue. Second because they are a simple group of religious men, it does not break the second commandment or the first. Finally God rested on the last day, not the first so they didnt break the third commandment.

[usenetposts]

@phantomfn8 You are repeating the phrases which are used to recruit Masons at porch level. Christians who are being seduced into joining the Masons with these arguments need to do some research, as there is more to it than that, and the prince of darkness certainly stands at the head of that secretive organisation. This is not revealed on day 1 - you have to go through the levels in order to be ready to be initiated and by that time the things they ask you to study will have worked on your soul.

[Blu30wnzal]

very beautiful....as a tenor i felt the tenors were weak...but other than that it was gorgeous

[mokiach]

Would you by chance consider activating the download option for this video? I have slow internet connection (18 minutes to buffer) and could listen to it on my i-pod if you would allow it.

[usenetposts]

I believe it is on. On all my publically viewable films I left it on. It maybe YouTube itself is not allowing all the functions it used to, even where the channel owners are cool about it. Not sure.

[Iwillcutyou95]

I love this song! We're singing it in choir.

[joberstadt]

God bless you for posting this moving piece.

[usenetposts]

Many thanks. I have many more blessings than I deserve, but I could always do with a few more.

[thutch2008]

This is one of my favorite choral pieces to sing. I also like hearing how different choirs choose to pronounce the word "spirit." Some use two syllables while others are directed to pronounce it "sprit."

[forlovedones2]

i sang this for choir and i love it

[usenetposts]

Good comment. I would love to be in it, but an auditor's life is not stable enough to be able to attend practices.

[emolyemu89]

I absolutly love this song! I got to sing it last year for UIL in my choir and it was just beautiful! I think this is about the same tempo tht we did and it seems fine to me! I love how it builds at the end... I do think it could stand for bit more dynamic contrast and the alto line could be brought out a little more but it's really amazing the way it is to! I cant stop listening to it! Thank you soo much for posting this!!! JUST PURELY BEAUTIFUL!!!

[ashworth999]

I wish I could find a recording of this wonderful piece on CD, without any female voices. My favourite version is by a small group of five or six singers, saved on an old VHS tape. It was a snippet of a TV programme called Heavenly Voices, part of a series broadcast on a Sunday morning here in the UK. Unfortunately, I have no record of the name of the ensemble, and internet searches have so far proved fruitless.

[devilishmisfit]

The Tallis Scholars have an all male version, it's on their CD "Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis (Disc 1)" I think their director is Peter Philips.

It's absolutely gorgeous with the, I guess he's a male soprano, just absoutely gorgeous.

Partly because I think the male voice in the soprano range lets the other voices be heard more.

[magpie4321]

We have sung this at our Parish. Beautiful, and with many men's voice.

This is a tad bit too slow

[usenetposts]

Had you actually posted your version, you might have had a chance of convincing me.

[Brookeyp123]

Me too! I really want a cd with this in good quality on it!

[Zonta8888]

too slow ... but very good choir .. fantastic

voice

[usenetposts]

I hope so.

[diatherman]

I think the tempo is perfectly right.

If it is faster than this the tempo is not supportive to the message of the song.

[usenetposts]

I agree with you, but I may edit this and speed up the tempo just to prove us right.

[adverseaffinity]

It may be a little slow not ending the phrase quickly enough, but the secondary dominant at 1:20 is absolutely amazing.

[k3vincant]

wow how u gon say its too fast

its suppose to sound like a beautiful melody u freaken idiots

[organyst]

I sing this type of music week in and out in my Cathedral and also with a male voice choir in competition and still say that this drags.

[usenetposts]

I don't care if you've sung it for the Pope; the tempo here is absolutely right for the meditative character of the music.

[bushyblowfish]

I have to say, I agree. It does drag a bit. It's not that it's too slow per se, it just feels a bit slow or maybe lacking in movement. Sorry for the criticism.

[organyst]

Much too slow. It drags

[usenetposts]

Some people try to treat music like fast food, giving themselves no time to appreciate and delight in the chords. This is not 120 bpm music. This is not for the narcotics induced generation. This is not music that bypasses the mind.

[handymanny9]

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[Michaela4444]

awesome! Chorale is singing this at my school AWESOME!!!!!! very good job!

[cc1221cc]

What amazing acousitics. You guys sure fill up the room, and have a ton of depth. Great job!

[proclassica]

Thank you :)

[alanwm1978]

My parish Choir are learning this - a little change from the usual music I give them. I think this one is a little slow - nice though - but a tad slow.

[QueenWebster]

how uh...professional

[usenetposts]

???

[titans08]

yeah... ???

[margotlorena]

despite the bad sound and the slow tempo, this is a very good performance....

[usenetposts]

If there's one thing I can't get my head around, it's people performing sacred music at breakneck speed for fear of it being a "dirge". Better a "dirge" than a popsong, I say. After all, it was actually intended for worship and meditation, and not so much for entertainment.

[margotlorena]

sorry I do not know what dirge is.. but I love the tempo the cambridge singers use....

[usenetposts]

A "dirge" is a derogative term for a song whose tempo is too slow for the listener's taste.

[RENThead91]

I'm in Baltimore County All-County choir and we're singing this song. :)

[usenetposts]

Great!

[titans08]

i disagree with edders05...

it ought to be slow..

this song isnt meant for any faster tempo

other than the vowels that id watch out for,

it was beautifully done.

[edders05]

Good sound, but faaar too slow!!

[greve]

This is really lovely performed!

[Gman53331]

brilliant, i love this song!!!

[barnaby54]

Beautiful.

[usenetposts]

Glad you liked!

[lordmoggy]

nothing like a good choir

[OneEyePI]

I'd say it has more to do with the genius of Tallis and the talent of the choir, who sung beautifully. An interesting historical point nonetheless.

[Monrealese]

Awsome acoustic this church has! A warm bath of sound.

[usenetposts]

I think it is the very physical presence of Chopin that accounts for it! His heart is entombed in one of the pillars. They took it away and hid it from the rampaging Nazi Germans in the war, and then when they repaired this church after the war, they put it back where it was again.

[ryanwfrederick]

This piece quite literally brings me to tears on a regular basis...a masterwork for the ages...salvation in counterpoint...

[usenetposts]

I know that members of the choir do visit these videos and peruse the comments, and I believe they will be very encourage by what you and others have said.

[mogemoets]

well-----This Tallis work ----is not REALLY contrapuntal, per say-----such as would be an Old Bach motet, but I see your point.

Martin

It is, at least imitative....

[usenetposts]

Okeydoke!

[Cadmium77]

That's a magnificent piece...one of my favorites...

[usenetposts]

They've got a concert coming up, and if I can I'll get along to it and put more pieces up.

[musicistheworld]

thats wow...really wow. is this choir from warsaw or from somewhere else?

[usenetposts]

Warsaw. It is the Choir of the Warsaw New Chamber Orchestra. My Firm is one of their sponsors.

[musicistheworld]

ohhhhhhh i see now. thats really awesome! amazing sound. for any choir, no matter how professional or amateur, it's amazingly difficult to keep a piece like this in tune...but they do it the whole way through-just awesome. good on you for sponsoring them.

[usenetposts]

It is things like this we are living for.

[Cantus67]

Good rendition, nice balance. Did you use my editing? Rick Wheeler - Denver Colorado - USA

[usenetposts]

I don't know I'll have to ask the conductor whether he used your editing, as I am not an expert in that...

[VictoriaWinters]

Really,really beautiful!!

[kenbank]

A lovely and inspiring piece. Thanks for posting it.