Hear my prayer - Mendelssohn

First part of Felix Mendelssohn's Hear my prayer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCIKdjVooQ0 - second part

Sung by the Choir of New College, Oxford.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hear my prayer
• mendelssohn
• felix
• choral
• choir
• treble
• solo

[ewokmusic]

i am AMAZED at how a male can sing SOPRANO!!??

isn;t a soparno a LADY?? AMAZING!!

[morphthing1]

@ewokmusic

well male, but still a boy, alot, if not almost all of the music on my channel would have been written for trebles in mind rather than female singers.

[principessadolce22]

@ewokmusic Those men are castrati. They spend they´re life training for this ;)

[morphthing1]

@principessadolce22 Well not so much castrati especially as it was not as popular in Britain as other European countries, but boy trebles who would sing treble up until puberty hits in the teen years. Of course even after voices develop males can still continue sing counter-tenor.

[OHCLOUDSUNFOLD]

How can even ONE person dislike this!?

[fisharrg]

@goldenbender2 i did miserere mei a couple of days ago, i am a chorister at lichfield cathedral choir and i am going to be doing the opening of hear my prayer soon

[goldenbender2]

@josephdezordi - I Would Definately like a Miserere by Alegri video!

[josephdezordi]

Thanks for posting this video, this is so touching, please do more, can you do one for Misere by Alegri ?

[MRlilstephable]

@ewokmusic A male sings treble

[ColdWindyDay]

i love this piece, but i actually prefer the german text...

[chazpres514]

I love it! What record did this came from?

[magpie4321]

@rustic39 Les Françaises!

[sharankabsb143]

i absolutely love this song <3 how ever i dont think the boy singing solo is appropriate for this song....it sounds better when a woman sings it.

[asetsp]

@principessadolce22

Castrati - in theory and practice, is virtually extinct,

The boys you hear singing boy treble, are just that. As a former boy treble myself, my best singing was between the ages of 9-11yrs. The boy in this recording, I would suggest unarguably, would still have his testicles intact, and be around 11-12yrs old.

[asetsp]

I was a successful boy treble in an acclaimed cathedral choir for men's voices (as most are). I started at age 7, voice 'broke' at age 12 + 1/2. My best singing was between 9-11yrs old, and is when I recorded a solo CD, and was lead boy treble soloist on several interstate and european tours.

I then became a counter-tenor and I can still sing counter-tenor which is quite a high register, and I attribute to my early training. I can also sing baritone. It all comes down to training and talent.