Covent Garden Chorus - Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

Just Music. The Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden performs "Va, pensiero ("Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves") from "Nabucco" by Giuseppe Verdi in this 1989 recording.

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[hollowman742]

@witness124 England has never had a revolution? What about the English civil war? Cromwell? Industrial Revolution?The Reformation? The General Strike? The English may be a pragmatic and empical people but they are not without passion.

[Grangegardener]

I read that when Verdi died and his coffin was carried through the streets of...Milan? Rome? I don't know where, the crowds in the streets spontaneously started singing the chorus from Nabucco as a tribute to the great man. I wish I had been there.

[TheForkhandles]

Verdi's wonderful music is just one more proof, if any more were needed, that the peoples of Europe don't require multiculturalism. We have our own culture which is many times superior to the rubbish which we are expected to ''celebrate'' in the name of diversity.

[Msoolala]

@hollowman74 Two Revolutions in fact HM - the first ending the physical existence of the feudal kings- with beheading of Charles 1 the second in 1688 ( the Glorious Revolution) which was an intellectual and constitutional revolution. The Divine Right of Kings idea was quashed once and for all - by the writings of John Locke - shame the British people -most of them could neither read nor write. However now we can

[PieroQP]

Even being italian and profoundly touched by masterpieces like this I wouldn't say that there's a culture which more poetic or less romantic... poetry and romanticism can be discovered in many places in the world... then it's true that for many centuries we've been growing a tradition in literature and music which is simply fantastic. But if i have learnt something from the culture is to avoid comparing, I had the same pleasure listening to Verdi as reading the Macbeth or Canto general by Neruda

[nonentity9]

@elivansouza - "england has been less poetic" - Blake, Brooke, Browning, Byron, Betjeman, and that's just the B's I can instantly recall - I could go on - Chaucer, Coleridge ... Shakespeare, Wordsworth. 

[AulicExclusiva]

@chelseaces The Normans are French Vikings. With a lot of other things as well.

[chelseaces]

Actually the Normans were vikings, not French

[Damnblastify]

@witness124 What a cock you are!

[keameaney]

@witness124 Seeing and England was "french" since the landing of William the Bastard, it would appear that the French are a lot less poetic too - dont you think?

[carloadc]

For most italians, the true anthem.