Chanticleer- O Magnum Mysterium
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2009
- Latin chant- by Chanticleer of San Francisco- Picture from their "Portrait" Album, and they own the copyrights to all of this, I am merely posting so that we may all enjoy their amazing music.
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Things not needed to enjoy this: Music theory, fancy speakers, knowledge of who composed it, understanding of Latin
Things needed to enjoy this: Ears, brain
This piece of music changed my life when my high school choir sang it. As a singer it is so challenging and intricate. To me it contains magic and love and forgiveness and optimism. And sooooo much reverence and praise. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Let's be honest. Your choir tried. And it was probably good but not *this* good.
Rude. No where in his post did he say his choir was better. @@Gennys
Thank you! Best group of guys ever!
I borrowed a Chanticleer Christmas music CD from the library and thoroughly enjoyed it... I really enjoyed this particular song - "O Magnum Mysterium" .
It brought back some very fond memories of singing it in a college choir as
well as hearing it being sung during a Christmas Eve midnight mass at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in Mobile, Alabama.
the ranges of the vocals are enchanting
Chanticleer came to our high school and they were amazing. We also sang this in our choir, and it's one of my favorite choral pieces. Thank you for posting!!
I'm so glad this is the Victoria version. I was able to sing this is the cathedral it was written to be performed in, in Venice. Very beautiful
My chamber choir group sang this song, and I absolutely loved it. Still love this piece. It is absolutely beautiful
I love this, and the meaning of it too:
O great mystery,
and wonderful sacrament,
that animals should see the new-born Lord,
lying in a manger!
Blessed is the Virgin whose womb
was worthy to bear
Christ the Lord.
Alleluia!
I sang this when I was 12 years old (1990) in a children's choir. It sure brings back memories.
I sang this high school and love it to this day. Thanks for posting.
+cinemabon I also sang it in high school. I LOVE it!
I've never heard of this group. This is absolutely breathtaking .Thank you very much for sharing.
pursehappygal really? They are considered one of the best choral groups in the USA
@@captainnemo2176 Indeed they are.
They are from San Francisco and have been around a long time, at least 35 yrs IIRC.
It's one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed. They've done a lot of work to get it right. I like it.
Have been to one of their concerts. Have met several of the cast (of that time). They are awesome!
would listen to this again. Good masterpiece of the choir
I sang this song with my chamber choir in Eruope. Chanticleer is excellent!
Matt Oltman(the tenor in glasses on the left) is our choir director in UC Berkeley this year! He is amazing!!!!
I think I can hear him... If I really concentrate...
this literally brought me to tears
Not for nothing, but this piece of music is a masterwork from the Spanish Renaissance by Tomas Luis de Victoria -- it would be awesome if you (yes, DCanadian3 -- you!) would provide credit to the composer in this posting and and at the same time inform and educate the general public as to the source of this gorgeousness -- Chanticleer sings it (and does so to perfection) but there would be no "O Magnum Mysterium" for them to sing or for you to post or for us to hear here without de Victoria's brilliant creation.
Top notch and sublime. Thanks. :)
I wish they would do the Lauridson version, but i like this victoria one almost as much.
Interesting exchange of views. Obviously one enjoys the music without knowing who composed it, or when, or what the Latin means ... but it's equally obvious that all of that information is important. I am neither a Catholic nor a Spaniard nor a Christian nor a Latin-speaker, but it adds to my - well, my enjoyment, my appreciation of the music to have these details and insights supplied by others who know ...more than I do. And it's definitely not Tallis, but (de/de la) Victoria.
I almost feel like saying that it doesn't matter who wrote this piece and what the proper classification is - sublime music IS sublime, ditto. Thank you for posting this.
@edvntrsone great wonderful voices.......greetings from Austria!!! :-)
How strange is this that the males are singing the soprano and alto lines, and I'm singing the tenor part, as learned to perform this 30 years ago?
Beautiful performance of this piece, it gives me chills.
@edvntrsone Sounds like you have some anger of your own. Best choir in the entire world. I saw them at BYU this year. Amazing.
As a singer and pro conductor stumbled across this. Someone said this was composed by Thomas Tallis? Uhm.. have sung but conducted this gizillion times. Tomás Luis de Victoria...composer, the o magnum performed by the ensemble Tallis Scholars many times over. Let us get that straight please and thank you. AND to DrunkCanadian3...thank you for sharing this most beautiful music!
Oh, scholar aren't you...
to ZessXX....cannot say i know-it-all like "some" (everyone is a critic.....sheesh) ....but i DO know....what i know. btw...love the music,the singers(although had it not been for the inspiration of the King's Singers....who knows?) regards and all good wishes! :-)
ZessXX whoops...comment posted above.This google+.....REEELY (fill in the blanks)
You realize that there are SEVERAL versions of this correct? This version is indeed written by Sir Thomas Tallis, sung by Chanticleer.
***** This is definitely not the O Magnum composed by Tallis, this is Victoria, as correctly stated by some other posters.
Very nice, but you should hear the kids in the French video. The soprano (only 1!) has a lovely sweet voice, and the blend is excellent. They look to be in high school.
This is wonderful, but I prefer the Oxford Camerata version.
I have sung this piece with my renaissance/baroque choir. We sang it a bit faster, though. This tempo is easier, but my choir director didn't like to be slow :P
chillssssssss.. (:
@ceiligirl0317 I almost went on a long tirade of a comment explaining how chants aren't restricted to time period, until I realized that this song isn't homophonic, so you're correct. I can't believe I just told someone on the internet they were right.
Chanticleer chanted clearly :)
@ceiligirl0317 umm not Tallis. Vittoria
Jeez. This music is simply beautiful and yet some opiniated fastidious perfectionists have to chime in with all the ways they know how better it should be. Take a fucking yoga class and relax.
The music, anyway. The text is a responsorial psalm from the traditional Matins of Christmas Day.
@CrypticC62 ...and a soul.
Not Vittoria, but Victoria. He was Spanish.
@DrunkCanadian3
Actually, this piece was composed by Tomas Luis de la Victoria. You might be thinking of Spem in Alium, which sounds kinda similar to this and actually was composed by Thomas Tallis. Just to let you know. :-)
I'd personally take the Tallis Scholars or The Sixteen over Huelgas, but they're definitely top tier.
@edvntrsone These opinions are refreshing to a discriminating ear. I like to see them, so please don't discourage them.
Who is the guy on the far left? He doesn't seem to be a current member so I've had no luck finding his name online. Thanks.
Best choir I know is Paul van Nevel's Huelgas Ensemble.
Well, a responsory - not a psalm per se.
And, if I may, this work is not a chant, it is a motet; but you did get the language right -- the text is in Latin. :-)
Vartan Aghababian oh. Gee. Thank you for enlightening us all. MY Goodness. wuttza motet again???? (sorry, I don't "mean" to appear...."mean".... but all of these scholarly comments..... silly. Please, I do not wish to offend, but
SATIS ......already.
bravaLiz Such a clever use of Latin!
bravaLiz I can't get no SATIS-(there are too many)-factions! ♫
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This is not Latin chant but simply a "motet."
It is performed very well, but sorry I detest the way it has been modulated.
all of these musicologists...est ridere....and now shall we debate the the difference between "church Latin" and the "regular Latin?" Wait. Let's not go there!
Liz, I haven't heard Chanticleer depuis longuetemps. They are a great group and I will go to You Tube in a moment to hear them. I didn't see the musicologists' comments. It's a laugh? I'll have to see. I remember church latin, also. Strange. But, then again, I'm not Roman.
Theodore Biele smiling.... so many "know"...so much! hahaha... hope you are doing well!
So-so Liz. But, i read what happened to you and I'm quite sorry I really wasn't communicado for awhile. I hope that you're healing well and are "up and around" The pain of fractures can be extremely horrible. It's morphine time. At least, it was morphine time for me one night after mistreating a wrist and having it pinned,. Sorry for all these mishaps in life but, most of the time, they're inevitable. Be well. Regards, Ted
@TheSoulForged08: Capitalize the F. Doesn't my version look better than your TheSoulforged08? You do make a good point. We're all here to discern and learn and grow. And. This singing is some of the best we will ever hear as humans. Of course it's flawed. Listen carefully to the very first syllable, "O" at the very beginning -- it's not in tune. It wavers. But does that bother me? No! Because these dudes are on a plateau vocally with Da Vinci or Einstein or Streep.
tim doesnt like this
ehhh not that impressed with this all too much them being chanticleer of course, I think it might be the lack of acoustic quality. Sixteen is by far the best I've heard at this
@edvntrsone Sounds like you have some anger of your own. Best choir in the entire world. I saw them at BYU this year. Amazing.