It's amazing how a simple 3 lines can be transformed into something magnificent.

To all the kids singing: You rock!! Your voicemail touches heart and soul like no other can.

One more memorial to the genius of the late Sir Stephen Cleobury...conductor and choir trainer beyond compare.

That low C is great. So great. I can't describe how much I like that.

So in love with this song. Perfectly sung by these young gentlemen :) ..and love the lowest bass voice too!! BRAVO!!

So haunting and stunning. I cry all the time I listen to them or is that the pure beauty of choral music

Extraordinary singing by such young singers .lotti s music is just out of this world.

who disliked this? This was amazing grow up person like you could do better

i am so glad to have had the honour to sing this. not with kings college but radley college chapel choir and is one of my favourite peices

how could one piece be so life-changing? this is epic.

Imagine having this in your city and being able to frequently watch them physically while praying.

they do it so well

The most stunning piece of music for Good Friday. We always have this as the final part of our Solemn Liturgy at All Saints Margaret St at 2.55pm . It won’t be the same this year but being able to listen to this today as we are in Lockdown has been wonderful

It makes me shiver and cry. Absolutely wonderful! 5 stars!

No wonder they are considered one of the world's best choirs.

@simongleaden2864

4 жыл бұрын

I can't think of a better one, but Westminster Abbey are pretty good.

Man, I've always loved this song. They perform it so well here.

This hymn transforms me.

@charliegedge5226

4 жыл бұрын

Hudson Bailey not a hymn my friend

@georgemungai1323

3 жыл бұрын

It is anthem, words from apostle creed.

this work makes me cry....... without words

We sung this my 9th grade year and now I'm a senior... love this song...

the suspensions are just perfect. Wow!

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis

heaven's sound

Magnificent 🎶

oh my god.... they're voice so amazing :')

brilliant performance, great balance and sonority.

Holy moly!!!! LOW C!!!!!!!!

Maravilhoso. Parabens.

Simply tremendous.

Spiritual moment and with King's College...

wonderful!!

Wonderful !

WONDERFUL!!!!!!

Magnifico.

Splendida esecuzione.

beautiful

Bellissimo! Grazie

Anglican Choir is awesome

@oiznas Yip, thats exactly what I did as I'm the only bass in the choir that can hit it, think Lotti would of wanted that anyway but there are so few basses that can hit it reliably, we sung it at the basilique in Trier, Germany which was amazing and I hit the bottom C at the end. suits the piece perfectly ;)

Lovely

In the church: "Crucifixus est..." In home: "Lord i don't know what i'll doooOOOoOOOOoooooo...."

Thankyou! Toelzer are great too!

I'm happy because I'm italian, like Lotti I'm sad because I'm not english, like King's College Choir

Why do male voices choirs sound so perfect as compared with mixed choirs?

@donaldedward4951

9 жыл бұрын

My theory, William, is that male voices blend well together. Some female voices do blend well with male voices but some don't. I love Opera but find that some Divas produce excessive vibrato that I, and many others, find annoying. I hear people say , "I hate Opera" and when you ask them why they often talk about the wobbly high pitched female voices and attempt to illustrate them. Occasionally a boy with a nice treble voice will do this too. I will not name names. If he does it as part of a male voice choir he will spoil whatever they are singing. Occasionally you will find a girl with the tone and timbre of a boy's voice and they are sometimes welcome into boys' choir. The above of course is opinion and not scripture.

@Goodchappy

9 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree with you on that!

@avanterdo

6 жыл бұрын

Male vocal chords produce more powerful and yet still gentle tone....and some i.e. soprano voices tend to get irritating because they 'over do it' and when you hear 20 'overdoers ' all female ....it is a noise....it is not sexists it is just human physiology.

favourite bit 1:50 absolutely gorgeous

This is a fantastic piece to sing as well as to listen to - always looked forward to this at Easter (along with the Tallis piece which the Vaughan-Williams Fantasia is based on). Sends tingles down the spine - love the unresolved suspensions, the musica ficta - just a shame about the tierce de picardie at the end!

Eccellente esecuzione.

i want those robes!

very strong bass!

I forgot one thing: I love "your" Zurchers too,,,

WOWWWWWWWWW !!!!!!!!!:))))))))))

Why is the organ playing? To add even more beauty.

@Wehwalt89

9 жыл бұрын

... basso continuo ...

@oiznas They probably tuned lower in his times so it may have been a lot harder to hit the equivalent of a low C then.

i have to audition for district chorus with this song and i sing soprano 1

@davidtinker2143

5 жыл бұрын

Were you successful?

I agree with you. I have shame because of our political situation. I'd like to be english or german like you, in particouolar in this moment ! Anyway I'm happy we have the common passion of trebles choirs Greetings!

It is quite fast! But it's a matter of training, not nature, whether the boys have vibrato (and access to sufficiently musical boys to understand the concept. Of course the top colleges and cathedrals have this. Provincial cathedrals in the main don't as they have to take all comers.) Listen to New College, Oxford for an example of boys with varied and sensitive vibrato.

Sang it at jc

its i have sung it before its hard

@TheLestat94 It's not because they are in 'their early days' that they have straight tones - just look at the St. John's boys. Straight tones is just another way of singing that some people, including me, prefer.

200th like :D

Is it a noise or someone among them is singing a minor third in the final chord?

@JLongTom

8 жыл бұрын

Sounds like it to me too. Is that the organ playing the low bass note in that same final chord, or have they signed a Russian octabass at King's?

@lipsbach You are right , it's very subtle but was it necessary??

re this performance...Just a little slower please. Given King's generous acoustic and the choir's undoubted ability to sustain the flow of the music a slightly slower tempo would have taken us nearer the heart of the piece. IMHO

@TheLestat94 What can you sing as a boy if not soprano? You mean alto is something different?

Amen .Russ2020

Come si fa a non amare la musica sacra della cristianità che è anche l'unica al mondo. Le altre religioni non hanno prodotto niente di lontanamente paragonabile. Siamo fieri dell'Italia ha dato Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Cimarosa, Benedetto Marcello, Allegri, Lotti, Palestrina, Perosi, ecc, ecc,

vibrato is good for some pieces, but in order to have really nice chords that shimmer and sparkle you're going to have to use a straight tone.

@simongleaden2864

4 жыл бұрын

I loathe vibrato with a passion!

The word madrigal comes from "mother" as in "mother tongue". Madrigals are sung in italian, german, french, etc. not latin.

@Narriz He probably means he prefers female sopranos.

Adjective, 1. Of or relating to robots. 2. (of a person) Mechanical, stiff, or unemotional.

so... robotic means...

Greetings by me as a fan of the Toelzers and "owner" of altogether 17 channels at YT - zskfan100 included...:)

It's a madrigal, I think you mean "measured".

Why is the organ playing? Or am I hearing things?

@igok9466

10 жыл бұрын

Yep it is playing.. The choir requires an accompaniment to sound better

@lizbyu

10 жыл бұрын

It isn't supposed to be sung with an organ.....and I just listened to it closely. You're hearing things. There is no organ.

@edcassells

10 жыл бұрын

lizbyu There totally is an organ doubling the low bass line.

@nigeldapain

10 жыл бұрын

There is an optional organ continuo part. It's down to the MD's personal preference.

@igok9466

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah but this version is recorded With an organ.

No, I mean robotic.

You won't I'm afraid. You need an English choir for the correct delivery, and in the case of King's, a professional choir backed up by 600 years of continuous history. You can't buy class, and you can't buy time.

Robotic.

Poor Italians with such a "clown" in the Government...:( I myself like to be a German and to be a fan of several boys´choirs as "my" Zurchers.for example....:) The choir from Cambridge in the last years also was in Germany !

It's the English tradition to perform with an all-male set-up. Since we've been doing this for over a thousand years, I suggest you go listen to something else.

@sudhirchopde3334

3 жыл бұрын

The English plainsong The English long bow The fine English wool cloth. The latter 2 are long gone,only this remains.

So sad that sacred polyphony such as this was so despised by Cranmer and his henchmen as they destroyed England's religious link to the rest of Europe.

There's no such thing as a male soprano! The correct term is 'Treble' - and this would have originally been sung by boys.