these women are superb and set the bar for the future---I'm moved beyond words---seriously--I did not think ( and I was taught) that this was "impossible" via " academia" that women could emulate this. oh BOY were THEY wrong--Oh my LORD IN HEAVEN have mercy on the narrow minds within the university walls ---My graduate school experience ( like that of many others--ahd the philosophy that music was there--and no matter WHO -was performing --the piece should sound EXACTLY the same regardless of individual and ensemble -style x yes--- but the t shirt factory syndrome was oh so abundant and they CHOKED they freaking CHOKED so many people --within their narrow musicology 8 x 1/1 page---and this is tragic and oh so common place apparently --- FORM/ANALYSIS/HOMOGENOUS OUTCOME from professors who would read their view or protion of their ancietn thesis or borrowed phrases from papers of their students attempting to obtain The Master of Music Degree---and not one damn moment given the consideration for the individual --you bowed at the altar of the musicologist becasue they had " all the inside truth " as if they received an appariation from the composer--and they used such words as " architectonic and Beethovonian and Haydenesque and Mozartean and Bachean --using them oh so much to fill th epage and space minus pregant pauses while they read about " tertianary" having the knowledge but NOT the spirit and backbone to perfomr --and many have not NOT performed in years--but they are the first ones to suck the oxygen otu fo the air after a performance---but THIS group Is BEYOND all of that---and thsi THIS IS LIBERATING--------screw the musicologists and so called experts lacking passion and sensuality and life--THIS is BEYOND the scope of the lowered and insercure expecations of snobby musicologists -----I pray to God you are the NOT the snobs I hear speaking int the lobby before and after performance and liturgy---they stink---YOU do NOT---this is AWESOME MUSIC--and again---LIBERATING for the soul-----
Again and again I say this - Best performance of this song on YT. And Clare is so awesome - Best College Choir goin'. I heard them in the 80s - awesome then, awesome now. I bought a tape of theirs - played it so much that the tape broke. Literally.
This is one of the most exquisite pieces of artistry that has even been created. The divinity and magnitude of the sound blended so seamlessly with the anguish and torment of the human condition. The Choir of Clare College do a magnificent job of interpreting a already tremendous (yet humble) score.
This is SO amazing! They totally harmonize with each other!!!!!!!!! I really want to like go up to them and tell them what a great job they are doing!!!!!!
Beautiful Purcell. And wonderfully sang too. Good dynamics and good voices. I sang this last year with the Brussels madrigal Singers at the Canterbury cathedral, and I still feel chills down my spine... Thanks for sharing!
My orgmates and I performed this almost 4 years ago, one week before Good Friday (though, I will admit our performance wasn't as polished. ). The polyphonic beauty of this song makes me feel a bit sad that it was never finished. The first image that hit me when our voices came together was of a crowd gathering at church as individuals, all pleading to God for help one by one, which I think is exactly what this is.
A -and perhaps thé- highlight of Henry Purcell's a capella polyphony. The highly sensitive work requires conscientious and highly disciplinous choral homogeneity in order to make the work come to its full effect and to archieve it. The Clair College Choir succeeds precisely in this way. Perfection !!
One of my favourite pieces of music - has me in tears regularly. I've the Tallis Scholars version on my ipod. They do it a bit slower and you can hear every dissonance like a knife through the heart - just magic... Only sung it once - would love to do it again...
Incredibly therapeutic effect! A remedy for any tormented soul (remember the biblical account of how David appeased the torment in King Saul thro music!) Wish it was longer though...
dgarrick below - omg - Too funny. This made me smile. and Yes - omg - literally! This performance is perfect. I wish Clare would put MORE on the tube! To share with the world.
yeah, I'm in the same boat, I've been (gently) booted out of the youth choir. *weeps* I'm an old fogey at 17! :( madsylver, I dunno how I ended up being a chorister, because I was raised on Vietnam protest songs and Pink Floyd. Funny how things turn out! But my parents can't complain! :)
I absolutely agree with the comments about vibrato and the organist's wife. I think as well that, known that perfection is not reachable, this performance is in the nearest zone to it. I would also like to point out that, to me, one of the markers of excellence in the performance is the optimally well tuned dissonances in the last three bars. In my opinion the achievement of definition of such a clear sound on them is one of the more difficult points within the score. Thanks for posting!
No, I wouldn't extinguish boys for anything! I said "as wonderful as," and that should not have led you to believe I was advocating for women and girls to supplant boys. To paraphrase what you said, ... two kinds of beauty... I would love for my infant grandsons to grow into this choral tradition, and they're already having grandmother-directed ear training. A female soprano myself, (the organist and not the organist's wife) I don't want to be barred from singing polyphonic choral stuff.
I prefer the shape it gives the piece. Slower and you are forced to focus on the dissonance more and you get less overall sweep. The excitement for me comes from the way it bounces in and out of safety.
I have absolutely ALWAYS loved the Clare C Choir. I have a cassette tape of theirs that I love - but it broke - the tape ribbon. Would it be possible for you to get me another copy of the same tape? I would pay of course. Absolutely an incredible performance of Hear My Prayer. Again, inCREDIBLY musical. Just- I could listen to you ALL DAY. And also learn, from watching you sing!!! ( : fgbowen
So much of Purcell's music is penitential and sorrowful (though not all of course; he was a great composer and expressed everything). Still I wonder, did he have a presentiment of his early death at 36? I welcome replies.
He watched his Dad die of the plague and then his home town burn to the ground in the Great Fire. London was a hard place to live back then, he probably saw death all around him...
@ueberwachung No, not everything...it was just a thought that came to my head..Not everyone has to send a reply back to get an argument started? Do THEY??
@zemotheon12987 well, in danger of my own personal condemnation, a verse does come to my remembrance. Judge not lest ye be judged. In the same measure ye meet it out unto others it shall be met out unto thee.
I'm afraid it is there to add substance to the bass line? Instrumental doubling of vocal lines however is not forbidden in music of this epoque. Even the (later) Bach Motets were probably supported by instruments at outdoors graveyard singing.
Exactly, and my gratitude for showing that women can sound as wonderful in this choral tradition as boys!
these women are superb and set the bar for the future---I'm moved beyond words---seriously--I did not think ( and I was taught) that this was "impossible" via " academia" that women could emulate this. oh BOY were THEY wrong--Oh my LORD IN HEAVEN have mercy on the narrow minds within the university walls ---My graduate school experience ( like that of many others--ahd the philosophy that music was there--and no matter WHO -was performing --the piece should sound EXACTLY the same regardless of individual and ensemble -style x yes--- but the t shirt factory syndrome was oh so abundant and they CHOKED they freaking CHOKED so many people --within their narrow musicology 8 x 1/1 page---and this is tragic and oh so common place apparently --- FORM/ANALYSIS/HOMOGENOUS OUTCOME from professors who would read their view or protion of their ancietn thesis or borrowed phrases from papers of their students attempting to obtain The Master of Music Degree---and not one damn moment given the consideration for the individual --you bowed at the altar of the musicologist becasue they had " all the inside truth " as if they received an appariation from the composer--and they used such words as " architectonic and Beethovonian and Haydenesque and Mozartean and Bachean --using them oh so much to fill th epage and space minus pregant pauses while they read about " tertianary" having the knowledge but NOT the spirit and backbone to perfomr --and many have not NOT performed in years--but they are the first ones to suck the oxygen otu fo the air after a performance---but THIS group Is BEYOND all of that---and thsi THIS IS LIBERATING--------screw the musicologists and so called experts lacking passion and sensuality and life--THIS is BEYOND the scope of the lowered and insercure expecations of snobby musicologists -----I pray to God you are the NOT the snobs I hear speaking int the lobby before and after performance and liturgy---they stink---YOU do NOT---this is AWESOME MUSIC--and again---LIBERATING for the soul-----
When I first heard this piece i didn't think that such beauty was possible
Again and again I say this - Best performance of this song on YT.
And Clare is so awesome - Best College Choir goin'.
I heard them in the 80s - awesome then, awesome now.
I bought a tape of theirs - played it so much that the tape broke.
Literally.
This is one of the most exquisite pieces of artistry that has even been created. The divinity and magnitude of the sound blended so seamlessly with the anguish and torment of the human condition. The Choir of Clare College do a magnificent job of interpreting a already tremendous (yet humble) score.
This is SO amazing! They totally harmonize with each other!!!!!!!!! I really want to like go up to them and tell them what a great job they are doing!!!!!!
Exquisite beyond description. Sublime heartache and ecstasy.
+Gregory Cox I agree. To me, this piece of music oozes pain. It makes me a bit teary.
Beautiful Purcell. And wonderfully sang too. Good dynamics and good voices.
I sang this last year with the Brussels madrigal Singers at the Canterbury cathedral, and I still feel chills down my spine... Thanks for sharing!
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee
Heavenly music,heavenly voices!
O Purcell...far too short was thy life.
🎉
This is a really excellent performance of a most beautiful piece of music.
My orgmates and I performed this almost 4 years ago, one week before Good Friday (though, I will admit our performance wasn't as polished. ). The polyphonic beauty of this song makes me feel a bit sad that it was never finished. The first image that hit me when our voices came together was of a crowd gathering at church as individuals, all pleading to God for help one by one, which I think is exactly what this is.
Just Great Music!!!! Purcell wonderful writer and Clare College Choir.... Just Great!!!
This is just a sublime piece of music. I want this sung at my funeral!!
Superb music superbly composed and performed is nothing but superb music.therein lies its beauty..
This, I think, is the best version of this on CZcams right now. Impeccable intonation in a tough piece to tune.
Utterly sublime.
A -and perhaps thé- highlight of Henry Purcell's a capella polyphony. The highly sensitive work requires conscientious and highly disciplinous choral homogeneity in order to make the work come to its full effect and to archieve it. The Clair College Choir succeeds precisely in this way. Perfection !!
I cry.
Your sound is very terrific indeed: this Purcell music cannot wish for anything better! Well done: very compliments!
Beautiful cross relations and dissonances. Beautiful music that's hovering between being tonal and being modal.
OMG! They are wonderful. They really own that song!
I love this reading: the pacing, the sense of drama and of course the acoustics.
One of my favourite pieces of music - has me in tears regularly. I've the Tallis Scholars version on my ipod. They do it a bit slower and you can hear every dissonance like a knife through the heart - just magic... Only sung it once - would love to do it again...
Absolument sublime ! un grand moment d'émotion musicale et vocale ; merci pour cette vidéo .
Absolutely Flawless! So soothing yet the intesity is the refresher of the piece! Well Done!
beautiful music exquisitely performed
A splendid composition. Thank you for posting. Thank you Purcell for composing.
Incredibly therapeutic effect! A remedy for any tormented soul (remember the biblical account of how David appeased the torment in King Saul thro music!) Wish it was longer though...
*****
If adding weights to your efforts at therapy works for you...well, go for it!
+Toyin Lewis Therapeutic. I've been looking for the right word. That's is what this is, Toyin. A remedy for the soul. Healing.
dgarrick below - omg - Too funny.
This made me smile.
and Yes - omg - literally!
This performance is perfect.
I wish Clare would put MORE
on the tube!
To share with the world.
Beautiful textures, exquisitely sung.
Это божественно.Пробирает до самых глубин.И спето великолепно!
c'est tout simplement sublime!
Mixed choirs are the best, beautiful sound!
Lovely voices - beautifully sung
Even the singers got some tears in their eyes
Great song, great chorus...
Thanks
yes yes yes very well done in deed !! thankyou ....
Loved it!! Especially the girl with the chicklets at the end!!
gorgeous suspensions! such a short piece but "everything on its right place"; so effective and moving...
It's a different kind of beauty. Let both exist, but don't let one extinguish the other.
God I love this song...gives me goosebumps every time.
Divino.
Stunning very moving and atmosphereic. Sung this as an anthem last week, very spooky and nice xx :D
Ah, so this is from 1995! Thanks for that. I have this recording on CD (Brilliant Classics), but there's no date. It's so good :)
yeah, I'm in the same boat, I've been (gently) booted out of the youth choir. *weeps* I'm an old fogey at 17! :( madsylver, I dunno how I ended up being a chorister, because I was raised on Vietnam protest songs and Pink Floyd. Funny how things turn out! But my parents can't complain! :)
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its a beautiful piece with some running notes.. Requires timing & precision to excecute it. I especially love this version done by this choir.
Oh fantastic, I'd forgotten what a land of suspensions and false relations, purcell's is.. good job Clare Coll.
Amazing Choir! Well Done!
I absolutely agree with the comments about vibrato and the organist's wife. I think as well that, known that perfection is not reachable, this performance is in the nearest zone to it.
I would also like to point out that, to me, one of the markers of excellence in the performance is the optimally well tuned dissonances in the last three bars. In my opinion the achievement of definition of such a clear sound on them is one of the more difficult points within the score. Thanks for posting!
Beautiful
beautiful. it really is. I still wonder how many of them sing this to God's glory or to their own.
T he musicdfenies the intention,chum. They'reentitledtofeel prideat howwellthey homorthe Lord!
Splendid !
realmente este coro es lo maximo sobre todo el miserere de allegri es impresionante como lo cantan
The blonde girl, Im in love with her.
DonJuan DeMarco Which one? 😆
goose bumps!
No, I wouldn't extinguish boys for anything! I said "as wonderful as," and that should not have led you to believe I was advocating for women and girls to supplant boys. To paraphrase what you said, ... two kinds of beauty... I would love for my infant grandsons to grow into this choral tradition, and they're already having grandmother-directed ear training. A female soprano myself, (the organist and not the organist's wife) I don't want to be barred from singing polyphonic choral stuff.
I prefer the shape it gives the piece. Slower and you are forced to focus on the dissonance more and you get less overall sweep. The excitement for me comes from the way it bounces in and out of safety.
AMAZING!
Exactly!!
I want to give you a hug!
Oh fantastic, I'd forgotten what aland of suspensions and false relations, purcell's is.. good job Clare Coll.
the best...
This must have been what... 97, 98? I've got a dutch DVD done about that time with all the same singers.
Wonder what you've all become.
Cambridge is such a good diving board.
Bellissimo.
I have absolutely ALWAYS loved the Clare C
Choir.
I have a cassette tape of theirs
that I love - but it broke - the tape ribbon.
Would it be possible for you to get me
another copy of the same tape?
I would pay of course.
Absolutely an incredible performance of
Hear My Prayer. Again, inCREDIBLY
musical.
Just- I could listen to you ALL DAY.
And also learn, from watching you sing!!! ( :
fgbowen
First class, very fine version indeed.
So much of Purcell's music is penitential and sorrowful (though not all of course; he was a great composer and expressed everything). Still I wonder, did he have a presentiment of his early death at 36? I welcome replies.
He watched his Dad die of the plague and then his home town burn to the ground in the Great Fire. London was a hard place to live back then, he probably saw death all around him...
I'm watching this on EWTN, when was this done?
Also makes my jaw hurt...
I guess, being a stuffy Episcopalian myself, this performance did not come across to me that way. Rather, it was very moving and heartfelt. :)
lovely dissonant intervals
definitely dissonant!
muito bom...
Wonderful composer, died WAY too young. It makes me wonder of the music he could have composed if he had lived longer.
omg
DAT bass growl at the end
bravo~!
@ueberwachung No, not everything...it was just a thought that came to my head..Not everyone has to send a reply back to get an argument started? Do THEY??
My bad!...After all these years - it's Jeremey Summerly and the Oxford Camerata, not the TS - just uploading, have a listen...
Holy crap, those basses sound like an organ when they get down low. Or is there an organ playing?
Could you tell me which one you are?
Either I was hallucinating or magic happened because I remember writing that comment on a sheet music video.
@smitschagen The 'Scholars did this song?? How did I miss that one?!
@zemotheon12987 this music may be to god's glory, but all of them sing to the glory of music, the glory of man.
Mmmm. This is SOMETHING !
It's just the way some people associate it. I'm not sure why but I tend to do the same thing. It is really nicely done though. :)
What is the name of the young boy soloist?
Six Stars, if I could....
0:46
What a pity my computer cannot give me all the quality of the sound...
The guy on 1:47 is not typing a letter on that thing.
By the way, beautiful performance.
Thats Haven!!!
GRAN COMPOSITOR
Great right :)
@zemotheon12987 well, in danger of my own personal condemnation, a verse does come to my remembrance. Judge not lest ye be judged. In the same measure ye meet it out unto others it shall be met out unto thee.
"takes down underwear and passes it" - here use these, I was given them by the duke of buckley.
I'm afraid it is there to add substance to the bass line?
Instrumental doubling of vocal lines however is not forbidden in music of this epoque.
Even the (later) Bach Motets were probably supported by instruments at outdoors graveyard singing.
LOL!!!