Rejoice greatly from Messiah

[iSteven00]

Her voice is clear as crystal....wonderfull!!

[windycitysinger]

she's amazing... but lacks grace in her expression.

[slashess]

she makes it look easy...BEAUTIFUL!

[xxxfairymaryxxx]

This is amazing, by far my favourite version that I've seen - it's not sung too fast, her voice has beautiful purity and clarity that in my opinion isn't rivalled by Renée Fleming or any other dramatic soprano - in my opinion Handel's beautiful, bell-like music requires a pure, lyrical coloratura like Sara Macliver to be truly delivered.

[xiaolong143]

Amen and Amen!

[notabadguy06]

this is outstanding

[doutoreinstein]

lindíssima voz, realmente emocionante de ouvir.

[1978herin]

@ ssclayton100 Why would she sing it any differently than the way Handel wrote it? That's just ignorant.

[ssclayton100]

@1978herin im just saying the way she sings it is a little much

[kudasango]

@ssclayton100 Actually, stylistically she's dead on. The custom of singing baroque melismas is to use an "h" to articulate each note. And she wasn't adding any notes, those are actually the original score. Bach did it too. It was just the custom of the time period. :)

[bf2019]

@ssclayton100 ...please just go LOOK at any piece by Vivica Genaux....someone who is working a LOT more with her mouth and sound...you will probably die laughing,..however after this small death....you will see her capacity is actually significantly beyond this(this which is actually wonderful)..Vivica's capacity for the melismas are simply off the current human scale..I have not heard Vivica do this piece..obviously she has....perhaps it is time....??? I wonder what she would do with this??/

[ssclayton100]

I'm taking music apprecitation and this link is in our notes thats how i found this. Shes a great singer, but because of how melismatic she is when she sings the word rejoice is a little too much. I think that the notes for that should be left to the instruments and make her sing somthing a little more fitting there.

and plus her face is just PRICELESS! lol how can you watch this video for the first time and not laugh!

[nicosupersex]

@ssclayton100

ask your teacher to show you more handel's arias and you'll see, and hear, that all of them are full of melismatic lines..... actually, this aria does not have as many as others......that's why this music is so difficult and beautiful and dazzling.... it's like fireworks

[manthasagittarius]

@ssclayton100 Well, enough other people have said things so you get the idea. Ask your teacher to tell you about aria da capo, in which the repeat of the A section it ornamented. That's the normal procedure. As far as her face is concerned -- I see nothing to laugh at. She is a delight: she's using her face for the best sound at the same time as she's staying right with the character of the text in expressing appropriate emotion. This was damn near perfect.

[evildoom9408]

I'm singing it Christmas Eve. :) (soprano1)

[CarrieBHS]

Tempo change......great!!

[ABCClassics]

Awesome... I'm listening to the Messiah: The Dream Cast now... i love this track!!

[revengejeffrey21]

I'm a tenor.. But I will sing this on december 25, Christmas day on our Church.. :)

[Ilovecoffeex12]

THE BEST OF THE BEST!!! <3

[superaton26]

desde ese min 2:40 la verdad hermosisimo. y una cancion muy dificil de interpretar q en este video parece facil. la verdad lindo. pero de todos modos le pondria unos brackets xD

[superaton26]

mas torcido q los dientes de esta mina jaja! xD

[Zorica12]

I love how her vibrato doesn't get in the way when she's singing the runs. Her voice is so pure, yet she manages to maintain a subtle vibrato that is appropriate and never overbearing!

[patthecatman]

heard this many years ago on BBC. obviously, i've never forgotten it

[leopulga]

1:38

[vcomini1]

the best one!

[DavidEberhardt]

Thank you! This is the first thing that I listen on a newly installed computer . I like to listen to it every day! I know nothing about music, but I even like to try to sing it.

[tttito1]

In my opinion this is the best interpretation on youtube. The joy being sung here is not that of triumph, but of achievement. Macliver delivers the depth hidden in the melody that even great singers such as Damrau somehow miss

[muhdizgleet]

methinks i will faint from pleasure

[classyteacherdiva]

Very nice, clean, and crisp treatment of the melissimas. I see the interpretive quality along the order of her advising the daughter of Zion to rejoice greatly for the obvious reasons as stated in the aria. She is technically flawless although I do not understand her use of liberties. Do you think she negotiated this with the conductor as most artists do? I also see that the orchestra is obliging her as well. I'm just giving my two cents for what it's worth here.

[frm5]

So powerful! Love it!

[Dappschaf]

herrlich temperamentvoll spritzig ausdrucksstark meisterhaft gesungen!

[littlebrabbel]

Wo ist das ausdrucksstark? Technik , nichts anderes. Furchtbar langweilig.

[CaptainQueue]

A SPECTACULAR performance. I played this at a large wedding years ago on trumpet accompanied only by a pianist. Except for the endurance required it is technically not that difficult for even Bb trumpet. But the chord theory going on is incredibly subtle, requiring exact pitch.

This singer's rendition is brilliant, wonderful. Sigh, to be backed by a full orchestra...

[rovogouea]

wow!

fantastic coloratura! who is she?

good orchesta

[mairanya1]

She's from Western Australia. I love her voice.

[Sajjist57]

Its so scary the way the cantor sings Rejoice without even smiling. Not that I'm saying the song isn't good though - Its OK when I just listen to it.

[CountertenorJ]

Sadly smiling is not always a technically effectual way of singing difficult passages. One should catch most emotion from the eyes -- which I think she pulls off effectively.

[HoD3]

très beau soprano à écouter aussi l'interprétation de joan sutherland.

[linket88]

great!! ...i love the conductor as well!

[paprika713]

totally love this.

[donstefano77]

great! Best version of this piece on youtube

[FaustinaBordoni]

It's a technically great version, but I wouldn't call it the best. For example, Lynne Dawson's version is just as technically brilliant, yet Dawson sings, I think, with more feeling for the text and vocal coloring. Her melismas are also more liquid.

[girlwithcurls90]

I completely agree. Something about her fixed gaze and lack of jubilation.... I mean this is about rejoice! This controlled, technically accurate but... boring.

[CountertenorJ]

Sadly these melismatic passages are not supposed to be "liquid." The are supposed to be very precisely articulated.  Which is why the strings are bowed as detache/spicatto and are not slurred. They are supposed to emulate what the voice is supposed to do -- very quick and precise passages.

[soprankarin]

Greate voice..but I do think it is a bit to fast tempo for my taste. But it may suit this kind of voice more than a bigger one.

[joanna4659]

I am to sing this...when I hear her I'm just sad...how to do it? She's great!

[Aniretak205]

I love her tone, but she doesn't look very joyful... more scared.

[lovedebussy]

I don't agree. I don't think she looks scared at all. And I think she sings like an angel--a baroque angel!

[picardythirds]

I don't think she looks scared, even though she has a great deal to be scared about. This is one TOUGH aria!

[SsteinwayS]

Well, I think she just looks serene, not really scared. She's so amazing! Those lengthy melismas would kill me...

[arngrei]

She's obviously fabulous, but her playfulness really gets me! I love it!

[klickenpod]

uh........ any criticism to this would be mere differentiation to taste, which really isn't even criticism. this is incredible, perfection. I love it!

[parsonstreet]

Perfect interpretation of this peice. It real captures the spirit of it.

[MuSiCisLiFe177]

I am going to play this song at a fine arts fest! instead of singing it'll be on my flute.. n e body have n e advice?

[andrewoconnorblue]

don't get it wrong!!

Haha. no. I'd simply say keep it light and beatiful. Try to mimic the human voice when you play - it is after all an aria not a flute sonata. I hope that helps a bit!

[andrewoconnorblue]

don't get it wrong!!

Haha. no. I'd simply say keep it light and beatiful. Try to mimic the human voice when you play - it is after all an aria not a flute sonata. I hope that helps a bit!

[nessie96]

Great..this is one of the better efforts I've heard...for me the best performance of this piece is the 1961 recording of the Messiah conducted by Colin Davis with the great Heather Harper as the soprano soloist.

[lizzn]

Speechless...

[katesinger]

i loooooooooooooooove her. fantastic. very nice singing at last.

[ShoshanaYisraela]

Huhh, simply perfect!

[geocham]

Fabulous. What a wonderful clear tone. Encore!

[foxdruidz]

Really love it! I always love baroque virtuosoic melismas .... I hope i could hear more from her!

[msubiras]

Magnífica versió del Rejoice.

[FairLady107]

Very nice!

[schnittersd]

OMG i really love her baroque tone, clean, pure...very well veesion

(one more time...mechulina please!!)

[oboistCONDUCTOR]

Bravo!!Fantastic voice and baroque tone.Fantastic tempo as well! (mechulina..please!)

[gregsulisz]

I don't think she's awful either! She has a nice pure baroque sound.

[JennyN71]

She's not awful. I really enjoyed this performance.

[mechulina006]

she's awful!!!!!!!!!! but sings pretty well...

[gracesnotes]

Wow...YOU think she's awful...But sings pretty well! I don't get it. I am very interested in the singers that you are impressed with. As I am seeking enlightenment on this critique of yours. Looking forward to hearing from you.

[mechulina006]

I'm from Argentina and i think i was misunderstood. When I said "awful" i've meant to say that she is not pretty as a woman, I was talking about her phisical aspect. Sorry for my english, it's really bad.