1991 McCartney Liverpool Oratorio Part 12/13

Precious and impressive BBC documentary on (the making of) the 1991 Liverpool Oratorio, the collaboration between McCartney and Carl Davies. After the 'Yesterdays' and 'Eleanor Rigbies' of decades before, this is Macca's first full blown attempt at classical music.

McCartney finds himself co-operating with choirs (both school boys and adults), the violinist and leading singers such as Sally Burgess, Kiri te Kanawa, Jerry Hadley and Willard Budd. He takes Davies on a Liverpool trip down memory lane

The highlights are frequent but McCartney's instant composing ('Kept in confusion...') at the piano (part 4) and the motherly tears of wife Linda (part 12) when she hears Dame te Kanawa singing (the beautiful birth song) 'The world you're coming into', stand out!

(McCartney's and George Harrison's) School motto: 'Not for ourselves but for the whole world were you born'

Category:

Music

Tags:

• McCartney
• Liverpool
• Oratorio
• Classical
• 1991

[Faithinmeiseasy]

it's so sweet when linda cries!

[4FabBEATLES]

even Paul seems touched- and he wrote it- just shows how amazing this work, and all Paul's stuff is

[CuteMcBeauty]

@1:42 "Damn, I'm good!!"

[Uetti]

That's Mary beside her...

She doesn't seem so moved, too. Eheh! She was young, then.

[lauraneville]

fabulous!!! Thank you for posting this..

Laura from Kansas

[musicyh]

I would cry too, the birth song is so beautiful, and Dame Te Kanawa sings it so well.

[karnak767]

Damn Jerry was fine as hell!

[eureka2001]

Thank you!!!