P5 Retreat - Bogoroditsye Dyevo

UC Berkeley Choral Ensemble Perfect Fifth sings Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Bogoroditsye Dyevo" (Ave Maria) in a sonorous wine cave at their fall retreat 2007.

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Music

Tags:

• classical
• UC
• Berkeley
• Perfect
• Fifth
• Rachmaninoff

[qw3rtydud3]

The alto line did stand out a bit, but it worked very well at the part before the tenors and sopranos sing in unison.

Overall a very good performance, a great top G for the tenors good job :D

[SeSwimbabe09]

i have to sing this for my winter concert at my highschool, except its in latin, its a beautiful song and i really like singing it

[ChibiMar]

This is so absolutely beautiful!

[RuebenPaul]

Nice effort guys...but you might want to refer to the Philippine Madrigal Singers' VErsion if you want to polish your performance.

Keep up the good work!

[Dwrght007]

Nice sound overall. But there are times when individual voices are sticking out in the alto line. Listen to each other, and listen to native choirs sing this, in order to really hear the natural stresses in the language. Be sensitive to the dynamics, even if you think you're already doing them. Example: From 1:20 to 1:50, it should be so pianissimo that by the time the men come back in at 1:50, it's an eruption of sound. That should be the biggest part of the whole piece, and it kind of wasn't.

[lukrister]

i sing this song with my choir too, and it´s very hard but it sounds so nice, its all worth learning it

[powrpuff]

Which is kinda disappointing knowing how meaty and warm the alto line is composed in the piece.

[powrpuff]

The tenors are fine, it's an unplaced, uncultured - POP - alto voice that's sticking out.

[zippyninny]

the tenors are a little too loud...they are th basses...

[Melodique]

A lovely acoustic I must say, though I think you could now be more expressive in your singing as a choir, with a little more attention to its dynamics to give it a real glow and sense of warmth. Otherwise, some nice things going on, well done.