O quam tu pulchra es by Grandi

Third Coast Baroque is one of my favorite early music groups to perform with in Chicago and I'd encourage you to checkout their website:
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Nathalie Colas, soprano
Kaitlin Foley, soprano
Anna Steinhoff, viola da gamba
Sun Chang, organ
Brandon Acker, theorbo
Audio: Yuri Lysoivanov
Video: Aaron Gottl
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[@emanuelecanepa6312]

Bellissimo arioso brano splendidamente eseguito. Bravi!

[@edipdersuniyelioglu8471]

I am impressed, thank you for this great performance, congratulations to you all!

[@davidp7833]

So lovely GOSH. It makes me happy. And Congrats Brandon, I really thought you were gonna bonk your fellow musician in the head with that thing😂

[@thewalrus2787]

Roman rule #146[c]: no bonging nor bonking fellow(ette) singers with one's theorbo.

[@kanius]

Needs a wide load sign on it

[@terryshrives8322]

Absolutely beautiful, this is a great piece. Thank you and happy thanksgiving

[@skeletor4634]

Great performance, Brandon.

[@eaterdrinker000]

Yeah! Make infrastructure great again! Let's go BIDEN!

[@CatsPajamas23]

I appreciate the effort. These beautiful scriptures have been inspiring musicians for centuries. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Me...speechless!

[@ahmedmadkour]

Nice voice and music 👌🎶

[@elchanchito1262]

Sublime!

[@Theavctv]

Glad I'm not the only one who compliments girls by telling their teeth look like sheep.
Beautiful piece!

[@РуменДойчев]

Excellet performane, Brandon

[@Nylon_and_Gut-MatteoLaurenzi]

Paradisiaco👍🏻

[@opusrosae8560]

Magnifique ❤

[@user-qp4yn8mb3n]

0:07 Recitative style
1:46 aria style

[@artcamp7]

that is a voice

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[@theblishknovk]

🤘😍

[@MystearicaClaws]

She started singing right at the onion ninjas attacked 😭😭😭😭

[@min9dee]

1:50 aria style

[@10.000]

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[@nextlifeonearth]

Yeah, really don't like vibrato. She sings great, just not my jam.
And stellar playing as always, Brandon.

[@brandonacker]

Thanks! In this style you need vibrato as an expressive tool but as an ornament and not as a constant. How much you use that ornament is a question of taste. Early music sources has a great video on the topic.

[@stephennettles2309]

There’s plenty of debate regarding vibrato use in early music but she certainly doesn’t overuse it. She has a lovely voice

[@brandonacker]

@@stephennettles2309 Agreed!

[@nextlifeonearth]

@@brandonacker yeah, I know of Elam's video. It very much depended on the composer and individual performers, much like it is today. Just my preference.

[@quidocetbenediscit]

Excellent voice and instrumental performance, but the singer's performance should have been more restrained and pious, considering that this is from the Canticle of Canticles and is meant to refer to the Blessed Virgin.

[@brandonacker]

Thanks! And you bring up an interesting question about how sacred music should be performed. I would argue that in this style (seconda prattica) the main point is text and rhetoric. It requires the singer to act out the words convincingly and move the passions of the listeners.
This text here praises a beautiful woman for her eyes, hair, and teeth.
He begs her to come to him to be his bride because he "languishes in love." So for me, how she sang it is stylistic for early Baroque music.

[@quidocetbenediscit]

@@brandonacker Thanks for the reply! I left out an all important "in my opinion," after "performance" in my original comment. I can see both views, but I might add that, the trigger for my comment was not AT ALL a criticism of the performers or vocalists but rather the fact that this text has parallels to a large number of sacred songs. That parallel seemed lost to me because of the drama. For example, for an ancient hearer the "Veni de Libano" would have been a clear reference to the temple, as with the eyes, teeth, and hair to the land of Israel, all of which were taken as types of Marian devotion. I feel a more restrained performance might have communicated this aspect more. That said, the same text can speak to many people in many different ways, and the performance here beautifully communicated the text as it exists to you.

[@rashakor]

I agree with you Brandon on the principle, but I also understand the sentiment from quidocet. I often feel that medieval and baroque pieces are played far too fast and exuberant. The piece sound divine played at 0.75 speed.
A last thing; the subtitles in english are great but please also include the original text.