Miserere Mei Deus - Kings College Chapel Choir

Allegri's setting of Psalm 51. Introduced by Barry Rose, from a 1987 programme which includes Barry Rose talking to the Choir's director, Stephen Cleobury about how he trains his choristers (that will follow seperately).

I have had to edit out one verse I'm afraid to make it fit on Youtube. I took out one where the cameras spent most time gazing at the stained glass windows.

You can download this video here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nyj9mx

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• petits
• chanteurs
• cathedral
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• cambridge

[OrogDeMalfur]

i have always hated church music with the horrible singing couple playing the guitar in every church, but if i could ever choose a song to last for eternity or represent the human race to extra-terrestrials i would show this song... my god... i never cry and im 24 yr old male who listens to rap metal and techno... but song... makes me want to quit everything and live off tree branches and twigs, and begin writing a memoir on a leather manuscript... and i mean a HUGE TOME MANUSCRIPT!

[oipolloi1]

Unashamedly beautiful.

[MADAdeCosworth]

I remember singing this wonderful anthem as a choir boy at St Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol UK circa 1976 under the fantastic Choir Master Bryan Anderson (FRCO CHM LRAM). The solo was performed by Michael Trembath. Brings a tear to my eye even after all these years. Twelve years old then, now fourty eight - where has the time gone:(

[Ben8199]

I would have change the uniform to assassin's creed clothes

[ErrorUncertainty]

@OrogDeMalfur I've had the privilege to perform this piece in 3 of europe's finest cathedrals including Amiens, with wonderful soloists making me melt every time that high note is cast up there... breathtakingly wonderful from my place among the Basses, a few metres from the soloists. Up there with the finest musical experiences of my life. And I'm a former metalhead too :p. I'd recommend you to make every effort to experience this live.

[garner832]

@OrogDeMalfur Respect..

[theboymaestro]

indeed the boy treble is Timothy Beasley-Murray who is now Dr Timothy Beasley-Murray and a senior lecturer at University College London

[jonilson45]

Miserere mei Deus

secundum magnam misericordiam tuam

Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum

dele iniquitatem meam

Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea

et a peccato meo munda me

(...)

[coolsdon]

That's the largest fan-vaulted ceiling in the world !!..

[abbibie12]

You 15 people who have disliked this, need to get your ears tested.

[rocketgirl196]

that boy has a really beautiful voice, and i think i'm in love... <3

[PhsycedelicPhish]

They played this at my Aunts Funeral. I cry every time I listen, and only listen when I miss her, and on the day she died... It's always the high note that gets me...