What an absolutely brilliant performance. Why did the performers not get a standing ovation which they totally deserved? The accoustics of the venue are sublime for a modern building.
I go back to my introduction the “Glory of Venice” recording, 1989, E.Power Biggs, The Gregg Smith singers: recorded in San Marcos, Venice! Wonderful to hear a new generation capture this splendorous sound! Thank you for making this available!
Claudio Monteverdi was a great musician, most of his music composed during the first half of the XVII century in the cosmopolitan city of Venice. His music marks the transition between the late Renaissance and the early baroque. The Vespro della Beata Vergine, its religious subject notwithstanding, has a secular, dramatic, almost operatic quality. Monteverdi was renowned in life as creator of the madrigal, a highly polyphonic vocal composition of few singers and of great formal perfection and complexity. He has been later recognized as the father of the dramatic opera. He is, no question, one of the summits of early western music, and one of the glories of Venice, where soon Vivaldi will in full joy inaugurate the baroque musical perfection.
@@rAlleuze Thanks for your answer. I did not know Francesco Cavalli. Following your suggestion I searched him and found that he was especially respected as an opera composer in Venice during the XVII century. I heard parts of two of his better known operas, Heliogábalo and Artemisia. Both are musically and dramatically complex and beautiful. He took opera to great heights, became popular in Venice and his operas are presented even today. He may arguably be considered, to some extent, a predictor of "modern" opera on the psychological subjectivity and musical complexity of his works.
Jorge, your writings on the Baracoco and Montverdi are most erudite and informative! This period was most definitely the most glorious, the flowering of the High Renaissance, leading into the early Baroque, hinting at the musical glories to come. My favorites from this era would include Monteverdi of course, but also Palestrina, Gesualdo and the incomparable Gabriellis, Andrea and his nephew Giovanni, whose music resounding in St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice sound like heaven on earth!
@@jorgeurzuaurzua4011 I'm glad you find this useful and while I'm at it, don't forget Alessandro Scarlatti (the father of Domenico) who wrote some 115 operas while being in Naples and Rome. ot to mention oratorios and sacred music...
I was totally taken by this concert. Great performers, great conducting. It felt authentic. This music was so important for the later development of western music, and it stays wonderful. Thanks !!!
Good comment... as for me, Western music did indeed "develop" after Palestrina, Victoria, Gregorian chant, the Gabrieli's and Monteverdi.. However, it never got even close to getting better. It devolved. This was the pinnacle.
Stellar performance, fine renditions of this repertoire are not easy to find on youtube. Congrats to Mr Helyard and his artists. Thanks PCP for sharing this one.
c'est bien sûr superbe! Mais comme il manque les repères temps sur le post, je vous en donne un. L'allegri commence à 53'50sec!!!! Bonne prière ou recueillement!
Great performance, but, its a shame boys were not used for the chorus. So much effort is put into accurate performance practice these days, which is great, but there seems to be acceptable that using boys is somehow not necessary, to complete that accuracy. Why not a black Steinway, instead of the box organ? Then again there seems to be a fear of vocal training of boys, these days as though there is some shame to it.
Between today's child labor laws and artificial lighting and climate change making people go through puberty earlier, it doesn't pay. Most boys start losing their voices around age ten, which means that by the time they start to gain real skill as musicians, they no longer sing soprano. Listen closely to boy sopranos, and you'll notice that most of the features of their sound that differentiate them from adult female coloratura sopranos are basically malfunctions.
@@BethDiane Although Beth, in the performance below, the boy and the countertenor sing in perfect combination.There is an ambiance here that hardly any female singer, in my opinion, can provide. This performance was recorded in the early 80th, so i guess boys then still did not reach puberty too early. This is one of my favorite duets, if not the most favorite. ruclips.net/video/BbRAWWC0P-A/видео.html
Venice, what a debt we owe it musically. Simply wonderful music. I have long loved Gabrieli and Allegri's Miserere is very famous, but the more I hear of Monteverdi the more I fall in love with his music. His Vespers is a masterpiece that stands up to anything in the Baroque era in my opinion (yes, even Bach's B Minor and his passions). Superb performances here. Thank you so much for this .
@@KokoMcMonkey Hi Daniel. I was only comparing the Vespers to Bach’s B Minor Mass, not the total works of the two composers overall. Few if any could hold a candle to Bach.
Just splendid. As several have said below, it is a leaden time with death and uncertainty all around. Only the music can lead us forward. SPLENDID and thank you so much for showing us a way
C'est superbe, à coté d'Antenne 2 avec les misérables tatoués, c'est d'un autre niveau ! Misère de la télévision française à coté de ce chef d’œuvre de Monteverdi, le précurseur des tous les autres. J'aurai toujours plaisir à réécouter cette si belle musique. N'oublions pas la " technique" : prise de son superbe, belles images, sobriété des décors.... Bravo à tous les interprètes Un grand moment de plaisir et de bonheur.
In middelages cathedrals are hospitals....many are in France and U.K....strange energy in this buildings. Today, some cathedrals are very interesting to visit, to be in there for some time. Chartres in France is a very good example. Stunning mental and even physical experiences in there. Open minded people and sensitive people will agree. ..... a must visit. Catharsis.!!!!!
Claudio Monteverdi Vespro della B.V. - Domine ad adjuvandum me festina 00:05 L’Orfeo - Dal mio Permesso amato 02:17 Ecco pur ch’a voi ritorno & In questo prato adorno 08:42 Vespro della B.V. - Ave Maris Stella 14:27 Messa a quattro voci et salmi - Laetatus sum 21:59 Vespro della B.V. - Pulchra es 29:58 Giovanni Gabrieli Symphoniae sacrae II - Sonata con tre violini C214 34:20 In ecclesiis a 14 C78 39:46 Sonata pian’ e forte C175 48:01 Gregorio Allegri Miserere 53:57 Giovanni Gabrieli Symphoniae sacrae II - Canzon primi toni a 8 C170 01:05:47 Jubilate deo a 10 C65 01:09:41
@@AthSamaras The singers and musicians also need to be named. The soprano is the new Zsuzsi Toth. The bass is excellent as is all of them. When is your European tour ?
Merci beaucoup ! Très beau concert avec un très beau programme . Et merci aux chanteurs et musiciens ! Merci de pouvoir profiter de concerts souvent magnifiques (je pense également à des concerts de ma région) ayant exigés beaucoup de travail de préparation et trop ignorés . Les médias préfèrent nous gaver de produits kleenex pas chers à produire et vite oubliés ....
This concert was simply BRILLIANT and I have already listened to it more times than I would care to admit. Bravo, brava, and bravissimo you exceptionally fine musicians. What a joy it must be to make such beautiful music together! Thank you for sharing your talents with us. The Splendour of Venice was GLORIOUS!
I think that it was likely that their concert was followed by a reception in which everyone was able to be delighted in the occasion all over again, which was certainly great!
Soy muy feliz de haber escuchado y presenciado este maravilloso concierto celestial. Enhorabuena a todos los cantantes, músicos y director. Gracias !!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am so enjoying this performance...all of the musicians and singers seem to be just loving making music together. As a professional singer myself, I am longing for the day when it is possible for all of us to sing and play and perform together.
Here on December 16, 2020 I am so thankful you gave this concert and that it is here on YT to enjoy. Blessings to all who had a part. This is beautiful beyond words.
Nothing is perfect in this world, but I am ready to make an exception for this concert. Beautiful music, made with a very high sense of scjholarship and musicianship, great inspired singers and instrumentists; clever use of space The Miserere clearly sits on top of the best interpretations EVER. We should be all so grateful enjoying this in the very sad moment of pandemia.
Is there anything Erin Helyard cannot do? He is amazing. Listen to his playing on RUclips of Handel's Harmonious Blacksmith on harpsichord. It will blow your mind.
Good heavens! What a marvelous production. The Venue. Acoustics. Video quality. Audio quality. Singers. Players. All superb. The Miserere might be the best modern production I've ever heard on RUclips -- as simple as it can get, at one voice per part, and absolutely ethereal.
Esta obra la he escuchado más de 5 veces en los meses recientes. Destaco la extraordinaria resonancia del espacio donde fue registrado. Felicitaciones por este logro musical. Monteverdi creó una música monumental, arquitectónica, grandiosa....
The pinnacle of humanity in music in so many facets......for the eye, for the ear, for the heart , for the soul. Thank you , all splendid musicians for this unique masterpiece !!! 💐
Ok. Why not? Può essere un bellissimo concerto. Pero i titoli non sono giusti. Allegri, romano di mestiere al 100% nello splendore di Venezia? Non bastava Venezia? Lasciamo passare l'Orfeo che non è veneziano ma mantovano, va bene, sempre Monteverdi legato a Venezia. Però, insisto... Allegri... c'era assolutamente bisogno?. Anche così va bene, ma allora il titolo del programma non è giusto. Però oggi giorno chi s'interessa per questi dettagli? In ogni caso, bellissima musica.
A quite exciting anthology, showing that "lab" which was Venice at that time, with San Marco basilica as "catalyst" thanks to the rather unlimited rsources of the Doges, whio had made it their "private" church. Note howa ever that Monteverdi wrote his Magnificat and Orfe,(at the beginning of the record) before coming to Venice, but of course he did not radically change, so ythese pieces can be considered as "in line" with the record project and legitimate here. Note in the opening of the Vespers the simultaneous use of modern strings and r Renaissance brasses "Sakbuts", which in my mind do not raise any problem, but can only help in better balancing the to kinds of tones. The two first pieces are bridged since Moneteverdi reused the opening theme of his "Orfeo" in the opening of his "Vespers". Actually, the opear and the Vespers were written in Mantua, which showad very unfair to the musician wgho after few yers found THE level musicianposition in Venice, and the second one in Italy with the San Pietro di Rome organist, held by Frscobaldi. Not so bad choices !!!! . The voices appeear me as perfectly suited to these musics.
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¡Cae la noche en la tibia España y las lágrimas inundan mis ojos ante tanta belleza!...¡Gracias, Claudio Monteverdi, estés donde estés!...
When I checked out this channel, I couldn’t find this performance anywhere….what’s up with that? Also, the Allegri piece was much better than I anticipated, with parts which were really uplifting. The trick is to maintain that emotion and intention throughout the whole piece, which only singers with incredible stamina and technique can do. I thought the soprano singing the high “C’s” did very well at first, but then started sliding up to the “C,” sometimes with an ornamentation to help her out….this is something I have _literally never_ seen or heard done, in 50 years of professional singing and listening to religious choral works. There were other pieces which were done really well, such as the “Gloria” from the Monteverdi Marian Vespers. Overall, very enjoyable!
I am so pleased that I have found this performance. Apart from the superb performances by wonderful Australian musicians, I thought of two things. 1. Imagine the effect of the opening of the Vespers in St. Mark's when it was first performed - if it was performed first in St. Mark's Venice in 1610? The other thing I thought of was, could Monteverdi have imagined that his music would be performed in a land far from his own (and yet to be discovered by Europeans), and 412 years later?
Who let that prat lose with camera? Still he was unable to spoil such a wonderful performance. Isn’t it windy, no it’s Tuesday, shut gob and put the kettle on. Stop press…he forgot to hit record!
Orfeo!!!! ANNi, AffaNNi ... you have to extend the length of the n (we do not have tat in English) curiously ani's translation is the plural of anus. beware all tenors that ill sing this in the future
Superbe prestation. Je redécouvre le Miserere d’Allegri à l’aune d’une interprétation que j’estime d’un niveau comparable à celle de A sei voci sous la direction de l’immense et regretté Bernard Fabre-Garrus, enregistrée en novembre 1993.
Who let that prat lose with the camera, still he could not ruin such a splendid performance. Isn’t it windy, no it’s Tuesday shut gob and put the kettle on and after that, some William Lawes.
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi baptized 15 May 1567 - 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.
This is real interesting. I've played many Gabrieli pieces in our brass group but this is the first time I've heard many of the same pieced done with mostly traditional instruments and a choir. Neat stuff for sure. Very talented group. All of them..
WOW, Mildly tipsy and while listening to this amalgamation of beautiful voices and superb instrumental acoustics it makes me realize how you miss the good things in life. Sometimes you need to stop and think what is going on around you. Then analyze an produce a thought. One that favorable to your situation. It liberates the mind an awakens a resolution.
Thank you all for bringing in this architecture of supreme beauty. Voices and orchestra simply sublime. If somebody may define what music is. Let´s ask the conductor Erin Helyard.
This damned room resonates as much as a cathedral, it must have been complicated to adjust the sound recording. But what a spelndeur this music is when it is beautifully interpreted like here. Thank you very much, your music is the balm of the soul.
Finally. This is a beautiful performance, a perfect gathering of accomplished musicians and singers. If I could sing like Dan Walker for one year I would be really happy. Heck, I would settle for one week. P.S. : What was the venue for this concert? That concert hall interior is wonderful.
I've heard this countless times before because it's so awesome; this group's performance = # 2; # 1 was from Boston 20 some years ago, but only because the Boston group had more instruments, otherwise I'd place both at # 1 it's just unbelievable, awesome music and performance, thank you so much for this
Not simply compelling- on a busy day I can not bring myself to stop watching! The selections are great- the performers wonderful! The antiphonal presentation is a joy to see too! Sorry your cornetto is a bit lost here. Most of all, it makes me grieve that this joyful performance was just a year ago, and at the moment would be totally impossible. I hope you can all begin performing again soon.
Well-performed and well recorded! The space could be in an office building, but the acoustic qualities are excellent for the performance. This is an excellent musical experience for a dreary winter day.
I've seen Orfeo performed. One day, I will see vespers. Or more to the point, hear it live. I've been to sung vespers in 24 cathedrals. One day, Monteverdi. Sorry, 25 . ND-Paris.
Any one knows if the musicians are a group as such, what is the name of the group and and from where they are ? Where was this played, Australia ? Thanks for this very beautiful music !
Beuatiful authentic music...found this by accident omn YT, made my hair on my neck stand up as soon as i heard it.. remarkable!! Bravo!
What an absolutely brilliant performance. Why did the performers not get a standing ovation which they totally deserved? The accoustics of the venue are sublime for a modern building.
They did indeed receive a standing ovation, a long one. Did you not watch to the end?
@@stevesmythe6387 I did correct my ommission.
@@carlivansoelen1638 Sorry Carli, my mistake❤
I go back to my introduction the “Glory of Venice” recording, 1989, E.Power Biggs, The Gregg Smith singers: recorded in San Marcos, Venice! Wonderful to hear a new generation capture this splendorous sound! Thank you for making this available!
Claudio Monteverdi was a great musician, most of his music composed during the first half of the XVII century in the cosmopolitan city of Venice. His music marks the transition between the late Renaissance and the early baroque. The Vespro della Beata Vergine, its religious subject notwithstanding, has a secular, dramatic, almost operatic quality. Monteverdi was renowned in life as creator of the madrigal, a highly polyphonic vocal composition of few singers and of great formal perfection and complexity. He has been later recognized as the father of the dramatic opera. He is, no question, one of the summits of early western music, and one of the glories of Venice, where soon Vivaldi will in full joy inaugurate the baroque musical perfection.
Sure. But don't forget Cavalli between Monteverdi and Vivaldi
@@rAlleuze Thanks for your answer. I did not know Francesco Cavalli. Following your suggestion I searched him and found that he was especially respected as an opera composer in Venice during the XVII century. I heard parts of two of his better known operas, Heliogábalo and Artemisia. Both are musically and dramatically complex and beautiful. He took opera to great heights, became popular in Venice and his operas are presented even today. He may arguably be considered, to some extent, a predictor of "modern" opera on the psychological subjectivity and musical complexity of his works.
Jorge, your writings on the Baracoco and Montverdi are most erudite and informative! This period was most definitely the most glorious, the flowering of the High Renaissance, leading into the early Baroque, hinting at the musical glories to come. My favorites from this era would include Monteverdi of course, but also Palestrina, Gesualdo and the incomparable Gabriellis, Andrea and his nephew Giovanni, whose music resounding in St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice sound like heaven on earth!
@@captebbtide You are right, Giovanni Gabrielli is splendid. Thanks for commenting.
@@jorgeurzuaurzua4011 I'm glad you find this useful and while I'm at it, don't forget Alessandro Scarlatti (the father of Domenico) who wrote some 115 operas while being in Naples and Rome. ot to mention oratorios and sacred music...
thanks from Italy and sincere congratulations for this extraordinary execution, truly exciting ....
The energy and vigour is wonderful. As if this is the first performance ever.
Exact ! the miracle of music......
Davvero bravissimi, tutti.
Grazie ancora
A mesmerising performance. I couldn’t stop. Beautiful!
Beautiful
sublime ... da estasi...
Wunderbar! Danke schön!
Magnífico y sublime! Gracias por regalarnos tanta belleza!
And superbly presented.
Outstanding! Thank you for this performance. 👏👏
I was totally taken by this concert. Great performers, great conducting. It felt authentic. This music was so important for the later development of western music, and it stays wonderful. Thanks !!!
Good comment... as for me, Western music did indeed "develop" after Palestrina, Victoria, Gregorian chant, the Gabrieli's and Monteverdi.. However, it never got even close to getting better. It devolved. This was the pinnacle.
I had chills for like the first two minutes straight. Amazing!
an absolutely fabulous concert
This music composition something is between a renaissance and baroque.early transistion to baroque music.
Stellar performance, fine renditions of this repertoire are not easy to find on youtube. Congrats to Mr Helyard and his artists. Thanks PCP for sharing this one.
Compelling performance!
beautifully done, and what a marvellous venue.
BRAVISSSSIMO!!!! MUCHAS GRACIAS!!
21:54 "Laetatus sum" from Monteverdi's "Messa a quattro voci et salmi" is my favourite part
c'est bien sûr superbe! Mais comme il manque les repères temps sur le post, je vous en donne un. L'allegri commence à 53'50sec!!!! Bonne prière ou recueillement!
The director should have put his organ on a little platform so that he doesn't have to stoop down all the time.
Gabrieli had a better view of the universe. We should strive to recapture this view. It is constantly misunderstood by what has come since.
please identify performers
There are credits at the end of the video and in the description.
Great performance, but, its a shame boys were not used for the chorus. So much effort is put into accurate performance practice these days, which is great, but there seems to be acceptable that using boys is somehow not necessary, to complete that accuracy. Why not a black Steinway, instead of the box organ? Then again there seems to be a fear of vocal training of boys, these days as though there is some shame to it.
Stephen Kunst How about creating a few new Castrati. If you want true accuracy!?
Between today's child labor laws and artificial lighting and climate change making people go through puberty earlier, it doesn't pay. Most boys start losing their voices around age ten, which means that by the time they start to gain real skill as musicians, they no longer sing soprano. Listen closely to boy sopranos, and you'll notice that most of the features of their sound that differentiate them from adult female coloratura sopranos are basically malfunctions.
@@BethDiane
a very informative comment, thank you.
@@BethDiane Although Beth, in the performance below, the boy and the countertenor sing in perfect combination.There is an ambiance here that hardly any female singer, in my opinion, can provide. This performance was recorded in the early 80th, so i guess boys then still did not reach puberty too early.
This is one of my favorite duets, if not the most favorite.
ruclips.net/video/BbRAWWC0P-A/видео.html
Still no excuse for women with wide vibrato.
Venice, what a debt we owe it musically. Simply wonderful music. I have long loved Gabrieli and Allegri's Miserere is very famous, but the more I hear of Monteverdi the more I fall in love with his music. His Vespers is a masterpiece that stands up to anything in the Baroque era in my opinion (yes, even Bach's B Minor and his passions). Superb performances here. Thank you so much for this .
Monteverdi was a genius, and his music is amazing, but not in the same class as Bach.
@@KokoMcMonkey Hi Daniel. I was only comparing the Vespers to Bach’s B Minor Mass, not the total works of the two composers overall. Few if any could hold a candle to Bach.
@@KokoMcMonkey Vespri della Beata Vergine 1610 Bach's birth ...
@@KokoMcMonkey In comparing you have to acknowledge that this was written 70 years before Bach's birth.
Very great music, wonderful music, but just absolutely not in the same class as Bach.
Just splendid. As several have said below, it is a leaden time with death and uncertainty all around. Only the music can lead us forward. SPLENDID and thank you so much for showing us a way
C'est superbe, à coté d'Antenne 2 avec les misérables tatoués, c'est d'un autre niveau ! Misère de la télévision française à coté de ce chef d’œuvre de Monteverdi, le précurseur des tous les autres. J'aurai toujours plaisir à réécouter cette si belle musique. N'oublions pas la " technique" : prise de son superbe, belles images, sobriété des décors.... Bravo à tous les interprètes Un grand moment de plaisir et de bonheur.
Sitting in hospital on a grey morning I stumbled across this. What a delight and deeply movong
sitting in hospital, know the feeling
I hope that you made a quick and complete recovery.Good luck to you.
In middelages cathedrals are hospitals....many are in France and U.K....strange energy in this buildings. Today, some cathedrals are very interesting to visit, to be in there for some time. Chartres in France is a very good example. Stunning mental and even physical experiences in there. Open minded people and sensitive people will agree. ..... a must visit. Catharsis.!!!!!
@@sigurdm Absolutely!
Super!
Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della B.V. - Domine ad adjuvandum me festina 00:05
L’Orfeo - Dal mio Permesso amato 02:17
Ecco pur ch’a voi ritorno & In questo prato adorno 08:42
Vespro della B.V. - Ave Maris Stella 14:27
Messa a quattro voci et salmi - Laetatus sum 21:59
Vespro della B.V. - Pulchra es 29:58
Giovanni Gabrieli
Symphoniae sacrae II - Sonata con tre violini C214 34:20
In ecclesiis a 14 C78 39:46
Sonata pian’ e forte C175 48:01
Gregorio Allegri
Miserere 53:57
Giovanni Gabrieli
Symphoniae sacrae II - Canzon primi toni a 8 C170 01:05:47
Jubilate deo a 10 C65 01:09:41
Thank you for the timelist..!
@@AthSamaras
The singers and musicians also need to be named.
The soprano is the new Zsuzsi Toth. The bass is excellent as is all of them. When is your European tour ?
This really should have been included in the description. Thank You !!
Yes, thank you Luca, I have added times to the description.
@@jamesgibson2179 There are credits both in the description and at the end of the performance.
I'm so happy to find a beautifully performed, quality production of some of the most rapturous music ever written.
Merci beaucoup ! Très beau concert avec un très beau programme . Et merci aux chanteurs et musiciens ! Merci de pouvoir profiter de concerts souvent magnifiques (je pense également à des concerts de ma région) ayant exigés beaucoup de travail de préparation et trop ignorés . Les médias préfèrent nous gaver de produits kleenex pas chers à produire et vite oubliés ....
This concert was simply BRILLIANT and I have already listened to it more times than I would care to admit. Bravo, brava, and bravissimo you exceptionally fine musicians. What a joy it must be to make such beautiful music together! Thank you for sharing your talents with us. The Splendour of Venice was GLORIOUS!
I think that it was likely that their concert was followed by a reception in which everyone was able to be delighted in the occasion all over again, which was certainly great!
Soy muy feliz de haber escuchado y presenciado este maravilloso concierto celestial. Enhorabuena a todos los cantantes, músicos y director. Gracias !!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Veramente bravi. Esecuzione godibilissima. Non ho parole per esprimere il piacere provato nell'ascolto. Grazie dall'Italia.
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I am so enjoying this performance...all of the musicians and singers seem to be just loving making music together. As a professional singer myself, I am longing for the day when it is possible for all of us to sing and play and perform together.
I have today discovered a pearl of great price! Such a magnificent captivating performance by all. Thank you soooo much.
Ihr seid meine Rettung!! In einsamen Tagen Claudio Monteverdi`s Marienvesper zu hören. Für mich ein Meilenstein in der Geschichte der Musik.
Sie haben recht. Zu Hause habe ich die Aufnahme von Martin Perlman aus Boston.
Beautiful, splendid, breathtaking.....and so good for my morale in this miserable time. Much thanks!
I wish I was there, it was so beautiful
So very true!
Piękne dzięki za tą „ucztę”
Here on December 16, 2020 I am so thankful you gave this concert and that it is here on YT to enjoy. Blessings to all who had a part. This is beautiful beyond words.
Nothing is perfect in this world, but I am ready to make an exception for this concert. Beautiful music, made with a very high sense of scjholarship and musicianship, great inspired singers and instrumentists; clever use of space The Miserere clearly sits on top of the best interpretations EVER. We should be all so grateful enjoying this in the very sad moment of pandemia.
Is there anything Erin Helyard cannot do? He is amazing. Listen to his playing on RUclips of Handel's Harmonious Blacksmith on harpsichord. It will blow your mind.
Traumhafte Klänge und eine wundervolle Akkustik. Danke dafür!
Good heavens! What a marvelous production. The Venue. Acoustics. Video quality. Audio quality. Singers. Players. All superb. The Miserere might be the best modern production I've ever heard on RUclips -- as simple as it can get, at one voice per part, and absolutely ethereal.
Some churches are better for acoustics. And will give even a more dimension to this music. !!!
The sound engineering and recording is as brilliant a success as the music! Very many thanks.
And this on my birthday may 16, I am listening to this all week!
Great, GREAT performance!! And I love Allegri... The high voice is magnificent!
Unbelievable music, unbelievable performance...Vielen Dank für so viel schönes, es bewegt mich mehr als ich hier sagen kann...
Esta obra la he escuchado más de 5 veces en los meses recientes. Destaco la extraordinaria resonancia del espacio donde fue registrado. Felicitaciones por este logro musical. Monteverdi creó una música monumental, arquitectónica, grandiosa....
What tenderness, what serenity, Monteverdi as i have never heard. Magnificent.
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Like the ladies of the court at Mantua I wept at L'Orfeo. Thank You
Das ist heute - ein Trost für mich !!
8.12.2020
This severe and ugly hall has a gorgeus reverberating time. It needs a big baroque organ!
The pinnacle of humanity in music in so many facets......for the eye, for the ear, for the heart , for the soul. Thank you , all splendid musicians for this unique masterpiece !!! 💐
DIVIN : Miséréré Allegri is more and must than child singers !
Aside from being a magnificent performance I have to say this is the best quality You Tube sound recording I've ever heard.
Correction, the group DID get their well-deserved standing ovation. I keep on listening/watching this perfomance. Can't get enough.
Ok. Why not? Può essere un bellissimo concerto. Pero i titoli non sono giusti. Allegri, romano di mestiere al 100% nello splendore di Venezia? Non bastava Venezia? Lasciamo passare l'Orfeo che non è veneziano ma mantovano, va bene, sempre Monteverdi legato a Venezia. Però, insisto... Allegri... c'era assolutamente bisogno?. Anche così va bene, ma allora il titolo del programma non è giusto. Però oggi giorno chi s'interessa per questi dettagli? In ogni caso, bellissima musica.
BEAUTIFUL......out of this world....Have had Orpheus on my mind for days....! This a discovery....many thanks from Athens, Greece.
Our pleasure!
Fantastic production! Well done indeed! Greetings from Germany
A quite exciting anthology, showing that "lab" which was Venice at that time, with San Marco basilica as "catalyst" thanks to the rather unlimited rsources of the Doges, whio had made it their "private" church. Note howa ever that Monteverdi wrote his Magnificat and Orfe,(at the beginning of the record) before coming to Venice, but of course he did not radically change, so ythese pieces can be considered as "in line" with the record project and legitimate here. Note in the opening of the Vespers the simultaneous use of modern strings and r Renaissance brasses "Sakbuts", which in my mind do not raise any problem, but can only help in better balancing the to kinds of tones. The two first pieces are bridged since Moneteverdi reused the opening theme of his "Orfeo" in the opening of his "Vespers". Actually, the opear and the Vespers were written in Mantua, which showad very unfair to the musician wgho after few yers found THE level musicianposition in Venice, and the second one in Italy with the San Pietro di Rome organist, held by Frscobaldi. Not so bad choices !!!! . The voices appeear me as perfectly suited to these musics.
¡Cae la noche en la tibia España y las lágrimas inundan mis ojos ante tanta belleza!...¡Gracias, Claudio Monteverdi, estés donde estés!...
No parece un buen sitio para grabar. El registro no es bueno y el resultado, tampoco. El primer violín suena como un gato.
When I checked out this channel, I couldn’t find this performance anywhere….what’s up with that? Also, the Allegri piece was much better than I anticipated, with parts which were really uplifting. The trick is to maintain that emotion and intention throughout the whole piece, which only singers with incredible stamina and technique can do. I thought the soprano singing the high “C’s” did very well at first, but then started sliding up to the “C,” sometimes with an ornamentation to help her out….this is something I have _literally never_ seen or heard done, in 50 years of professional singing and listening to religious choral works. There were other pieces which were done really well, such as the “Gloria” from the Monteverdi Marian Vespers. Overall, very enjoyable!
Wowie Zowie, a beautiful heartfelt Monteverdi. Thank you so much for this!
unbelievable amazing!!! so beautiful!
Bravi! Splendidi!!
I am so pleased that I have found this performance. Apart from the superb performances by wonderful Australian musicians, I thought of two things. 1. Imagine the effect of the opening of the Vespers in St. Mark's when it was first performed - if it was performed first in St. Mark's Venice in 1610? The other thing I thought of was, could Monteverdi have imagined that his music would be performed in a land far from his own (and yet to be discovered by Europeans), and 412 years later?
Who let that prat lose with camera? Still he was unable to spoil such a wonderful performance.
Isn’t it windy, no it’s Tuesday, shut gob and put the kettle on.
Stop press…he forgot to hit record!
Orfeo!!!! ANNi, AffaNNi ... you have to extend the length of the n (we do not have tat in English) curiously ani's translation is the plural of anus. beware all tenors that ill sing this in the future
Superbe prestation. Je redécouvre le Miserere d’Allegri à l’aune d’une interprétation que j’estime d’un niveau comparable à celle de A sei voci sous la direction de l’immense et regretté Bernard Fabre-Garrus, enregistrée en novembre 1993.
Who let that prat lose with the camera, still he could not ruin such a splendid performance. Isn’t it windy, no it’s Tuesday shut gob and put the kettle on and after that, some William Lawes.
A discovery indeed !
Harmony at c,14.40 sonorous, lovely !
An outstanding performance.
O céu é mais perto do que imaginamos. Música esplendorosa
Che bella musica! Grazie da condividerla.
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi baptized 15 May 1567 - 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.
Beautiful and so well performed! Thank you!
This is real interesting. I've played many Gabrieli pieces in our brass group but this is the first time I've heard many of the same pieced done with mostly traditional instruments and a choir. Neat stuff for sure. Very talented group. All of them..
Glad you enjoyed it!
WOW, Mildly tipsy and while listening to this amalgamation of beautiful voices and superb instrumental acoustics it makes me realize how you miss the good things in life. Sometimes you need to stop and think what is going on around you. Then analyze an produce a thought. One that favorable to your situation. It liberates the mind an awakens a resolution.
And did it?
slay
Thank you all for bringing in this architecture of supreme beauty. Voices and orchestra simply sublime. If somebody may define what music is. Let´s ask the conductor Erin Helyard.
This damned room resonates as much as a cathedral, it must have been complicated to adjust the sound recording. But what a spelndeur this music is when it is beautifully interpreted like here. Thank you very much, your music is the balm of the soul.
This music was composed with ‘damned room resonance' in mind.
@@dissilymordentroge5818 Ok, ok (^_^) In any case, well done to all the artists. It is a great pleasure to listen.
@@dissilymordentroge5818 Well said!
Finally. This is a beautiful performance, a perfect gathering of accomplished musicians and singers.
If I could sing like Dan Walker for one year I would be really happy. Heck, I would settle for one week.
P.S. : What was the venue for this concert? That concert hall interior is wonderful.
That's the Great Hall at Dangrove in Sydney.
bel écho, super son, rayonnement solaire !
Stunningly beautiful performance. What a gift.
Worldclass performance of superb music !
what a shame.. the beginning of the Ave Maria Stella cold have been staggered more..
I've heard this countless times before because it's so awesome; this group's performance = # 2; # 1 was from Boston 20 some years ago, but only because the Boston group had more instruments, otherwise I'd place both at # 1 it's just unbelievable, awesome music and performance, thank you so much for this
25:40 enters Rosenmüller's Laetatus sum "abundancia-abundancia-abundacia..." in my mind in the sweetest possible mode ever composed!
Really remarkable. Kisses from Europe!
Omg! Amazing performance! I love it! 🩵🙏👍
Not simply compelling- on a busy day I can not bring myself to stop watching! The selections are great- the performers wonderful! The antiphonal presentation is a joy to see too! Sorry your cornetto is a bit lost here. Most of all, it makes me grieve that this joyful performance was just a year ago, and at the moment would be totally impossible. I hope you can all begin performing again soon.
Well-performed and well recorded! The space could be in an office building, but the acoustic qualities are excellent for the performance. This is an excellent musical experience for a dreary winter day.
I've seen Orfeo performed. One day, I will see vespers. Or more to the point, hear it live. I've been to sung vespers in 24 cathedrals. One day, Monteverdi. Sorry, 25 . ND-Paris.
This is such a great performance. (So few likes and no comments. So sad)
The music is wonderful, the location is awful.
Any one knows if the musicians are a group as such, what is the name of the group and and from where they are ? Where was this played, Australia ? Thanks for this very beautiful music !
Lopez Linda Walker Linda Robinson Donna
Absolut brilliante Performance!
love-love-lOVE this !