John Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- This is the only video we managed to take from our November 2010 Taverner recording sessions. Dum transisset was the first piece by Taverner I ever heard, some 23 years ago while at Christ Church, Oxford, and it's still among my favourites. Recorded on an iPhone 4, but the spirit is still captured!
Stunning, beautiful rich polyphony
A magnificent piece of choral music by J. Taverner, perfectly rendered. The Fitzalan Chapel is a beautiful setting.
Un suono spettacolare!!! Che bello!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perfect!
Great stuff. The clarity of this size of group is wonderful when the voices and musicianship are so fine.
Really lovely. It must have been a pretty cold day and pretty cold church/chapel. David, I so much enjoyed how you set the lines in motion, draw the line through time and space, propel active sections and allow other lines to soar in big curves. Beautiful singing from everyone!
Radiant, astonishing in beauty!
Beautiful!
....and the awesome church acoustics!!! :)
Gorgeous sound!
Fantastic Effort; recording brilliant, even on an iPhone. The Castle Chapel must have been a fabulous place in which to sing.
Sublime
Really nice blend!
@hotshot8917 Only and iPhone 4, believe it or not! It was then loaded into iMovie for the intro and tags, but the sound is all from that little phone....
Nice group. It's as if everyone stepped out of a Renaissance painting with a perfect period-matching voice.
@Briznanoth I shouldn't think they would have sounded anything like this!
Sounds great! How was this recorded? Is that reverb completely natural, or was it post-production? Either way I love it good job.
I’m prepared to believe it’s natural. It’s wonderful to sing in these churches, and it’s finish tells you it’s not the finished product
Arundel seems to be an almost ideal site for recording voices with all the furniture breaking up the sounds and preventing too many echoes. This choir work is exquisite but simply too short and, of course would have been better if professionally recorded.
What do you think they would have sounded like then?
It's a lovely piece and I've sung it many times (alto). I would have preferred it with a slightly faster tempo at the start. It did speed up a little as it progressed, so maybe it eventually found it's own natural rhythm. However, a very nice performance ... until it stopped rather abruptly!
iPhones are good for something then ;-)
Very nice , good voices great acoustics.
Would like to have heard at least one countertenor in the mix. The female Alto's are great, but their tone is too similar to the trebles, and thus that line often dissappears.
Overall it's a beautiful rendition. The blend and intonation are great, but the balance is off. The men overpower the women which is a shame since the top part is the most interesting!