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Beautiful rendition!

solene e grandiosa

Excelente

Strong, strong lyrics 💙

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A perfectly Brilliantly sung performance !! Thanks for sharing !!! 😇❤️

Beautiful recording - perfectly in style.

Time and Concord-my favorite! So rich and expressive. Bravo! ❤️

Thank you for this. It's the first recording in which I can actually hear the altos :-)

What a ghastly blunder at 0:35...that should be B natural, not B flat.

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Lovely. We are singing these at our next concert March 16th in Beaconsfield. I last sang them in 1967 as a student!

This is very fine singing of difficult music. When the opera was premiered in coronation year 1953 it was a flop. Britten's 'Peter Grimes' had revived British opera in 1945 as WW2 was ending and his 'Billy Budd' was clearly a masterpiece, albeit on a difficult and sensitive subject. The assumption that 'Gloriana' would be somehow celebratory of the new queen's official coronation was misplaced as the storyline was about the late life of Elizabeth l, based on 'Elizabeth and Essex' by Lytton Strachey, interspersed with sensitive and dangerous affairs of state, including a rebellion in 1601 involving her favorite courtier the Earl of Essex. Although the queen hesitated in signing the warrant of execution for treason she had no choice because the monarch must obey the law. Britten and librettist William Plomer inserted references to several threats to the throne from abroad and showed how the queen coped with court intrigues and visiting different parts of England to be seen by the people. Critics saw this as overcrowding the action but in recent years the opera is being seen as the large scale masterpiece it undoubtedly is. The late Queen Elizabeth ll came to admire and enjoy the sensitive portrayal of duty and what is in the heart of a monarch, also becoming patron of the Aldeburgh Festival established by Britten in Suffolk, England.

Oh J. Mark, gone too soon. I miss you.

There are elements of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in these melodies. Auden wrote the libretto for The Rake's Progress, Britten and Auden worked together in the late 30s on 'The Night Mail', which has similar rhythms, so maybe no surprise. I read somewhere that Britten was quite sniffy about The Rake's Progress, 'I like everything about it apart from the music', suggesting there he thought there was a hint of plagiarism about it, but Britten had a fairly fragile ego by all accounts. The Royal Family, in their part, were less than happy with Gloriana. Both this sequence and the Rake's Progress are both beautiful to my ear, thank you for this lovely version.

Bravo!

Gerald, this is brilliant but what about that beautiful psalm '121' that is simply crying out for a beautiful soulful melody like the one you composed for psalm 23?

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rest in peace, dear J. Mark Baker (Holy Week 2023)

J'adore surtout le "kyrie" de la fin. Ça fait couler des larmes

Ameyn❤❤

Magnifique❤ Amen 🙏

Thus will be sung after the Blessing at the conclusion of the Coronation of King Charles III.

Wonderful performance of a wonderful anthem!

I sang this at a high school choir festival held at Mills College, Oakland, CA, in 1974, the year of the Ives centennial. It was the very last thing we did, all the choirs standing together in the auditorium, filling the entire hall, singing as one huge group. It was incredible, and unforgettable!

Rest in peace and rise in glory, J. Mark. April 6, 2023. Good man, great music, dear friend.

Miserere Domine

gorgeous, J. Mark! (Kirin). Those crunches give me a frisson of delight.

First comment! I am conducting this for my audition! Wish me luck, everyone! ❤

How truly beautiful!!

I love the Orlando Gibbons Amen. It needs to be slow - I think they're about right

Tell me where is fancy bred Or in the heart, or in the head? Reply, reply. It is engender’d in the eyes, With gazing fed and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring Ding, dong

That soprano voice, which covers in some moments all the rest with its soft power and sonority is absolutely gorgeous!

This song screams "God is a merciful being and wouldn't unleash his wrath onto us"

Lovely! Although I came here thinking it was fancy “bread” 😂😂😂

Concord,Beautiful,from Brittens choral dances,Gloriana,Bye for now love Alan

I’ll be singing the Requiem in this version in a couple of months; I could not have found a finer example of the work.

this eerie but oddly calming

Godfrey IL

perfecto

Great sound.

I imagine this is what Heaven sounds like.

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Wonderful Blend!

Yeah, this is such a beautiful arrangement, and beautifully sung; but microphone placement could have been better.

An absolute delight! My first encounter with this composer and certainly not my last. Many thanks for the posting.

Quite splendid - clear, in tune, expressive but not heavy. Thanks for posting!

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Wow. Just wow. Thanks for a lovely performance.