Palestrina - Miserere nostri

'Miserere nostri, Domine', by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1528-1594). Animated score to accompany singing by the Auckland Catholic Music Schola ( http://www.schola.org.nz ).

Miserere nostri Domine,
quia multum repleti sumus despectione,
Quia multum repleta est anima nostra,
opprobrium abundantibus
et despectio superbis. (Psalm 122:3-4)

Pity us, Lord,
for we have had more than our share of scorn,
for our soul has had more than its share
of jeers from the complacent
and of scorn from the proud.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• religious
• choral
• score
• renaissance
• motet
• Palestrina

[lichtbroeder]

These are amateurs doing the best they can, and doing it out of love. Had you gone into average churches or homes during the Renaissance, you would have heard the same, I am sure. Finding a better choir on YouTube is as easy as clicking a button. Why make rude, superior and unkind comments? They say more about their makers than they do about this choir.

[Chrisiant]

Kudos to this choir for taking on such beautiful and difficult music, and doing it with such love.

[giopiano2]

The same choir can be sing this "miserere" in a better way!! They need just to listen each other and understand what they are singing. Try again with the same passion! :)

[newgeorge]

the dead acoustic of the building they are singing in makes this twice as hard.

[Herdewelle]

Very nice effort. May God richly bless you!

[Gostega]

@violinoamore get real

[vincenzocivetta]

beauthyful and wonderfull polifonic music all the modern music depend and start from classic sacred music xikiki54

[TaraLynn2011]

As someone who has participated in various choirs concentrating in Gregorian Chant and polyphony, THANK YOU for exposing your choir to this music. Too many Catholic churches will not even allow this as an option.

[violinoamore]

Amateurs in general are great and give themselves and others the joy and love for music. But they should rather perform what is accessible to their given performing skills and is in pair with them. This divine angelic music of Palestrina certainly requires the most trained and dedicated professional voices available on this earth ... To decide to sing this music within the given conditions is not the right and wise choice and to publish it is even less thoughtful and shows rather unrefined taste

[outsider950]

soprani... :-(

[yodiepants]

@Apo20v10 because publishing on the web is very serious. why did i pay money for this?!

[Apo20v10]

These voices sound like the amteurs singers of the 70's. A solid work on the voices sound is very needed !!! All is not ready to publish on the web !