'Sicut cervus' by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525/26 - 1594)

The Quire of Cheahs © 2009

Given my freaky vocal range of a little over three and half octaves, I have been fooling around with the idea of recording all voice parts of a choral piece and be my very own personal choir. Thus, the Quire of Cheahs was born.

Here, then, are my first few forays into this little personal conceit.

Please note that these 'performances' are by no means professionally recorded nor meant for commercial release. The recordings can get pretty time consuming depending on the length of the piece, for obvious reasons (since I have to record every single voice part), so no editing is involved.

Hope you have fun with these!

Phillip

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• Sicut
• cervus
• Palestrina
• Phillip
• Cheah

[operacrasher]

Very nice performance!! I sang this at St. Peters (The Vatican) about 10 years ago.One of my "all time favorite" Palestrina pieces. Bravi tutti!!

[HieronRemade]

Dude this is fantastic! I have a decent range but I highly doubt I can match you. I just struck the same idea you've had and was messing around with the Victoria Dominum Non Sum Dignus today...it's a lot of fun! Anyway awesome stuff I hope you do more.

[chyndb]

singing this song now but it SAB

[JennaGwenna]

i appreciate your t's being in the right place, but i feel like they are a bit sharp for the piece. But don't get me wrong, this is AWESOME. being female, it would be impossible for me ever to record all parts because i can't sing bass, so i am extremely jealous of your freakish range!! loved listening!

[Gallahaut]

This is so cool! How do you get all that reverb? Is it the room you're recording it in, or do you use a reverb effect? Either way, it's super amazing!

[MusicaAustralis]

I love your work!...

[wheregrape]

I would love to have the alto line isolated to help me learn this.

[AlainNaigeon]

@JRocklin74 audacity is ok, too

[SoccerChick9422]

i love this song!

[romuloVG]

nice