Dear colleague, I'm the director of the Handel and Haydn Society in Madrid, Spain. I've conducted myself and heard many interpretations of this pice, including quite a few by professional ensambles and I must say that this is one of the most moving and deeply expressive ones I've heard, and it is so inspiring that it is performed by an univerity group. So I'd like to express my humblest, sincerest and warmest congratulations to you and your groups. All the best, R. Banerjee
The clarinet's Concert F at 4:27 is magical for fusing the way it does to the leading tone in the strings. At first, I thought he played a wrong note. I thought he played the D. I've never heard it that way before. The orchestration is miraculous in this piece.
Nonet: Yes. The cellos have the leading tone there and, since it's in the lower register, it makes the clarinet's note sound like a harmonic of the bass note, so this tricks us into hearing the natural octave harmonic of the cellos as a clarinet note. The timbre of that harmonic is probably more similar to that of a clarinet than that of a string instrument. Fascinating!
June: It gets even deeper: The 19th harmonic is indeed a "minor 3rd" separated from the fundamental by 4 octaves, so there is a further connection between the clarinet's note and that cello harmonic. It's like "Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven",
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Eight cellos! Four cellos for each of the two cello parts. What a rich orchestral sound! The singing is absolutely beautiful.
A beautiful and moving performance of a timeless classic. Thank you.
The best.
Danke für diese zauberhafte Aufführung, verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich. Give peace a chance.
Freundliche Gedanken, thank you, merci, obrigada
Dear colleague, I'm the director of the Handel and Haydn Society in Madrid, Spain. I've conducted myself and heard many interpretations of this pice, including quite a few by professional ensambles and I must say that this is one of the most moving and deeply expressive ones I've heard, and it is so inspiring that it is performed by an univerity group. So I'd like to express my humblest, sincerest and warmest congratulations to you and your groups. All the best, R. Banerjee
The clarinet's Concert F at 4:27 is magical for fusing the way it does to the leading tone in the strings. At first, I thought he played a wrong note. I thought he played the D. I've never heard it that way before. The orchestration is miraculous in this piece.
Nonet: Yes. The cellos have the leading tone there and, since it's in the lower register, it makes the clarinet's note sound like a harmonic of the bass note, so this tricks us into hearing the natural octave harmonic of the cellos as a clarinet note. The timbre of that harmonic is probably more similar to that of a clarinet than that of a string instrument. Fascinating!
June: It gets even deeper: The 19th harmonic is indeed a "minor 3rd" separated from the fundamental by 4 octaves, so there is a further connection between the clarinet's note and that cello harmonic. It's like "Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven",
Danke für die wunderbare Musik!
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful! Reminds me of my late father, one of his favorites. Thank you NU for doing this so well😢😢
Beautiful rendition of a deeply moving piece. Remarkably well done!
my favorite choral piece of all time
Soooo schön ❤
Great performance!
Precioso!
The choir was behind the first 1 minute. Bless their hearts!
Well done
Wow thy are good.
wow cool
Jammer de zang word overmand door de instrumenten