One of Kings best recordings. It was Ledger's first after Sir David Willocks retired. Such verve, passion and dynamism! Pure joy!

We did this piece with our community choir back in the late 70's. Fantastic piece.

I had the pleasure of performing this amazing work in 1976 as part of the State of Georgia All-State Chorus (high school honorees). It was difficult but so enthralling that it remains a favorite of mine. After performing this harmonically intellectual cantata, I was able to better appreciate and understand how to interpret the verse and music of Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs as part of my college senior voice recital a few years later.

"the hand of the artist inimitable"

I sang this with Rugby School Temple Consort last night. An amazing experience. #RugbySchoolMusicDepartment#RichardTanner

This was commissioned for St Matthew’s Northampton in 1943 by the wonderful Walter Hussey, later Dean of Chichester Cathedral. His book, Patron of Art, (Publ 1985) contains fascinating material on the correspondence with Britten (who chose the sections of the poem, by the 18th century writer, Christopher Smart. Hussey also later commissioned Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, as well as superb paintings and tapestries by John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Hans Freibusch and Marc Chagall.

I sang this with the Princeton High School Choir under William Trego at Alexander Hall on the Princeton campus, 1974. I echo John Orban, it blew everyone away, including us! One of my all time favorite pieces of music, from all genres.

A Spine tingling piece.

always breathtaking.

KZread placed an ad halfway through a piece of Choral music! This must be illegal. Unacceptable!!!

@bevaconme

4 жыл бұрын

it's not illegal, just revolting. download adblock to your computer and you should never have this happen again.

@johnmorrisrussell4680

3 жыл бұрын

Hey cheapskate, YH is a free service. Buy the CD

@101francis101

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnmorrisrussell4680 Hey Mr. Patronising! Normally youtube is pretty good at ensuring ads only appear at the beginning or end of music - midway through just ruins it. I’m not actually that bothered, I exaggerated - sorry.

@mckavitt13

2 жыл бұрын

It should be illegal 😤

@Maverick1.

Жыл бұрын

Fair point. Support the artists directly.

I sang this piece as part of the Lincoln Cathedral Choir, and I remember hearing a guest scholar sing the tenor solo which just entirely blew my mind. Absolute... Bliss...

@zhaltia1858

2 жыл бұрын

When did you sing at lincoln! I used to sing there too!

@adamseidel9780

9 ай бұрын

BEE BEE DEE DEE BEE BEE DEE BEE BEE DEE DEE - the mouse is a creaaaturree of GREAT PERRRRRRSONAL VALLLoorrr So good and so weird haha

Really perfect music and performance and there is very interesting details in harmonic sturucture, specialy between right hand static accompainment and bass line in "for the flowers are great blessings"

p1 Rejoice in God, o ye Tongues 0:01 p4 Let Nimrod the mighty hunter 1:24 p11 Hallelujah 2:50 p21 For I am under the same accusation 8:48 p24 For I am in twelve Hardships 10:22 p26 And therefore He is God 12:27 p33 For the Trumpet of God 13:26 p35 For at that time malignity 13:58

I like the separation in this recording between the syllables in "He is besides himself" and "Me nor to my family"

The Copenhagen royal chapel choir (which i am in) should have made a concert with this piece. I was supposed to do the mouse solo. Not anymore, because of corona. 30 evenings and over 100 school lessons spend mastering this piece to the finest detail, just for the concert to be cancelled

@worldnotworld

3 жыл бұрын

I am very sorry to hear of this. You are one of hundreds of millions of disappointed singers and music lovers. Yours is an especially excellent choir too. Maybe you can find a church and an organist to perform and even record the mouse solo at a "safe distance"?

@MattWeisherComposer

3 жыл бұрын

Keep it in your arsenal. The time will come. The hours you’ve worked have done much more good than harm. You’ve learned things about many other pieces unknowingly and that will pay off.

@choralevensong

3 жыл бұрын

I am so sorry. It is a wonderful piece to sing, as I have done many times. I sang Jeoffry once. I spent ages practicing it, so I can imagine how you must feel. Perhaps you can record it? Your choir is wonderful. I have a recording a Danish friend gave me when they visited us in Liverpool to hear a concert we were singing. My husband sings in Liverpool Cathedral Choir, and this piece is one of the first we sang together when I was still at school! We are really missing our singing. On line rehearsals don't really do it for us. Hope you get to sing this wonderful piece soon.

@julietsolomon2444

3 жыл бұрын

bad luck, Maybe another chance will come and then you will find the mouse is in your voice.

@mckavitt13

Жыл бұрын

I feel for you. Hang in there... until another occasion presents itself. Love your choir. Best of luck!

I remember singing this piece in a M&B Choir many years ago. When the director handed out the music I thought, this is impossible. It was the most difficult piece of music I'd ever seen. Yet, a couple of months later we performed it in church and blew everyone away - including me! It brings tears to my eyes as I think that experience.

@auratone9303

6 жыл бұрын

I had to sing it with winchester cathedral choir! (I was a boy chorister) and it was always my favourite anthem to sing.

Lovely performance, making it sound perfectly natural and not as fiendishly difficult as it is!

@samiramarley

5 жыл бұрын

I second this comment! It is a truly difficult piece, yet this choir made it sound effortless. It is an example of true musical mastery.

@OccyDaBoss

5 жыл бұрын

not that hard love

@choralevensong

3 жыл бұрын

Not that difficult. Some of the solos can be hard to keep in tune.

The percussion in this is amazing

9:03 is where my favorite part starts

@sublollipop5840

4 жыл бұрын

That's where you can hear that the man who wrote the text was at an asylum because he was not healthy in his brain

I sang in this years ago, when I was at university. Still remember it though.

9:03 rehearsal square 18

7:10

I don’t remember percussion in the score...

@phillipgearing6365

4 жыл бұрын

There is a timpani part which can be (and usually is) omitted.

@Grabyrdy

3 жыл бұрын

@@phillipgearing6365 That could be because it's neither given nor mentioned anywhere in the score. Weird. I suppose Boosey will rent it to you ?

Horrible audio quality. But great performance.

@OccyDaBoss

5 жыл бұрын

thasts not very nice love

rejoice in the lambs. he looks like that's exactly what he's about to do. sorry, i couldn't resist.

@armchairbard4272

3 жыл бұрын

Naughty, naughty [wags queeny finger]...

@ZephaniahL

2 жыл бұрын

@@armchairbard4272 The photo suggests pederasty, not "queeniness." You find this amusing?

@armchairbard4272

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZephaniahL Yes it does and no I don't. Why? My Auden-esque ticking-off & finger-wag quite evidently concern only bevaconme's sly remark. Nothing to do with the photo. Do please concentrate at the back [wags queeny finger again]. Mother is not pleased.

Really? Thank you for warning me about the adverts. The appropriate response is to recite the formula from "The King's Speech": fuck fuck fuckity fuckity fuckity fuck fuck shit shitshitshitshit and like that until the howwid commercial is over. Of particular import is that you will never hear the name of the advertiser nor the name of the howwid property that the commercial is shilling for. Before you know it, life goes back to normal. Everybody try that next time. . .

You've got some real stones ripping off this recording AND putting three ads in the middle of the piece. Shameless.

@Muzikay

4 жыл бұрын

I have no control over the ads and I don't profit from them. KZread inserts them automatically and the proceeds go - presumably - to the copyright owners, not to me. I strongly suggest an ad-blocking app or add-on.

@MattWeisherComposer

3 жыл бұрын

I understand uploading for sharing. Especially a recording as old as this. Joshua doesn’t really understand how this works. Thank you for the upload.

Just think when the wokelings cancel sheet music this piece will not longer be possible to perform!

Hope the children were accompanied by a responsible adult!

Smart who wrote the poem this is set to was actually in a mental asylum nevertheless a magnificent poem.