Gregorio Allegri: Miserere, short video. Patrick Husson, soprano.

***A complete 14:23 version now is available (August, 2010).
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere, 1638 (excerpt). Patrick Husson, 1st soprano, echo choir (in this recording: the high, solo phrase is sung in one breath as a castrato could.) Colmar Boys Choir School, Alsace (with adult males.) W.A. Mozart heard this twice at age 12 at the Vatican and wrote down the work from memory (1769.) (For the complete 14-minute production and for further information about high-male voice, check http://www.malesopranos.com )

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[Juliet0307]

Moreschi had such a voice that everyone who heard him singing(even his collegues) cried of emotion,and admiration.He had the voice of an angel.

To him,take a high C was easy,he could sing much higher without difficulty.

You don't know know anything about Moreschi's voice.

So,do not talk about what you do not know.

It is an insult to his memory.

[sfkcbf]

@Juliet0307 I believe that just about everyone who has posted comments on this video admires Moreschi (no insults intended) and, at the same time, understands Moreschi's voice in the recordings taken at this time in his life. Only on rare occasions one finds thoughtless and inappropriate postings, and those are removed. For those who have not read it, there is a knowledgeable explanation of these recordings placed on the website MaleSopranos com

[Nathan1097]

The high-C version was not arranged until the early 20th century- and although Moreschi was around, no castrato ever sang the high-C line. This version was a combination of two different versions.

[sfkcbf]

@Nathan1097 You are correct. Also, I am quite sure that I would not have liked to have heard Moreschi attempt the high C, regardless. Apparently to sing that sublime, high-C passage all in one breath and without a break, however, it takes either a natural male soprano or a castrato of the quality one would have found during the age of great opera castrati, someone with much great breath capacity than a boy or a woman. There may be such a recording, but I have yet to hear it.

[nxn8690]

Patric Husson's voice drives me crazy. His voice makes me wonder about the Great Farnalli. How wonderful his voice would had been, which none of us can hear. I was born in wrong time.

[sfkcbf]

If you read contemporary accounts from knowledgeable people regarding Farinelli's voice, it was (among other qualities) apparently as pure as Husson's. People today who are used to heavy vibrato and even may prefer it to pure voices misunderstand an important quality of the Barqoue voice. The very best castrati who sang in thre great cathedrals and churches are said to have had the same purity of voice and were described as "angelic, celestial." See Farinelli description on MaleSopranos com

[MehdiCaps]

2:06 to 2:27, 21 seconds in the high spheres, in one breath, like you mentioned, and with a very beautiful timbre. Then 4:45 to 5:06, 21 more seconds of flying with the angels.

[MissMurderer13]

I would give everything to sing in a choir like that. It's absolut.....indescribable

[TheMeleemonkey]

argue on any page but this. feel your spirit fly with the interwoven beauty of it all.

[Iputhebapu]

To believe that something absolute exists belongs to Human's beings, because of that this song feel's so good.

[nonaCbarC]

@2222554

Certainly it seems that this music & video brought you a Grand Impression. :) I'm glad that I invited you, or should I say, "I'm glad that I found you again." If you don't mind, don't I remind you of someone you knew? :)

[2222554]

12 represents the addition of the 'Mother' as where the 10 is representing the Father singularily...

[2222554]

Indicating 10 Apostles instead of 12?