Byrd Ensemble sings Thomas Tallis's 40-part "Spem in alium"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2019
- Our performance of Thomas Tallis's 40-part "Spem in alium" on Sat Oct 12, 2019. Many thanks to all the singers that sang this epic piece on this special occasion!
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Spem in alium nunquam habui
Praeter in te, Deus Israel
Qui irasceris et propitius eris
et omnia peccata hominum
in tribulatione dimittis
Domine Deus
Creator caeli et terrae
respice humilitatem nostram
I have never put my hope in any other
but in Thee, God of Israel
who canst show both wrath and graciousness,
and who absolves all the sins
of man in suffering
Lord God,
Creator of Heaven and Earth
Regard our humility
I wonder if the Byrd Ensemble would ever perform this incredible work at Canterbury Cathedral, the spiritual home of Tallis. They are absolutely wonderful and the sound they would produce in the great mediaeval cathedral would be as of another World.
We would absolutely love to! A few of us visited Canterbury a few years ago and were given a special tour of the archives. We were also able to track a Seattle local composer Peter Hallock, who studied at Canterbury many years ago (and interacted with Howells!).
Is there anything more profound, than being lost for words in the digital world, when you come across something like this? Thank you… SOR
Thank you!
I suspect this is probably the greatest choral work of all time.
I was there for that performance and it was even more amazing in person.
You will get to hear it again this Oct 2023 :) Announcing soon...
You were blessed 🙏
And THIS is how it's done. Exactly how it was written to be performed. EXCELLENT!
Thank you Michael!
Wouldn't it have been sung by Boys in place of Women's voices 440 years ago. Incredibly difficult piece to conduct I should think. Very enjoyable.
Tallis was a genius
i belive MR Byrd had just lost his head to Queen Eliza so Thomas was lifted to produce and invoked gods assistance. It appears he did help....
Tallis' great work performed as it was originally done - 40 "soloists" ! A lot of counting going on. There have been many great performances and this up there with the best. Dolby40.1 sound!!
I first heard this piece only a month ago as an audio exhibit in the amazing Cardiff-Miller Art Warehouse in Enderby, BC. I was transfixed. This performance is incredible! I'm so glad it was recorded!
Another up-vote for this sublime work.
Thank you Ray!
My kind of music. Lovely.
Beautiful performance
I just sit here and wonder if we will ever get back to where we can enjoy this sort of concert live again. How the world has changed in one year.
Yes, Bob D - there is hope. I traveled 2,000+ miles to Phoenix, AZ in May 2022 specifically to hear the Phoenix Chorale perform this piece live in concert. It was exquisite & done in the same "surround sound" manner as this ensemble. I thought I had been transported to heaven....
@@Hardia882 I wish I had been there!
Well, I just saw this a few days ago in the exact same place in St James Cathedral in Seattle. This was the final part and it was wonderful. The sound surrounds you and it feels like a shared experience. Really something spiritual. Quite amazing
It never should have came to that. We were lied to about the pandemic. The silliness of the performers wearing masks. Some did, some next to them did not. It made no sense. We saw performers separated by glass screens, just ridiculous. They cancelled whole concerts, made people stay home over a 1 in a 10,000 chance they could get sick. A singer not wearing a mask, next to a violin player wearing one.
Yes we did get back to there!
The Princeton Glee Club performs this with their friends and former singers each year in Richardson Auditorium. Which is round and therefore breathtaking to hear. And experience. Last year it was difficult to get a seat. This is sublime music.
I write this as a very big fan of J. S. Bach: they should have put this on the voyager golden record and therefor left one of the three pieces by Bach.
This is so beautiful
Outstanding
Thank you!
Perfect!!! Thank you very much!
Magnificient
Thank you!
Magical first heard on Radio 4 was absolutely amazed by the sound produced just with voices; so emotional and the skill of the choir plus the composer a piece of music that is both stirring and yet tranquil and inspiring - one day must hear live not just on CD or via the medium of recordings
Another favorite version!
Thank you!
So meaningful and profound. Thank you!
Amazing work loved it
Excellent performance
Thank you!
That’s so beautiful, I can’t wait to see y’all live at InMedio in October!!!!
Unless I got the wrong ensemble 💀
Thanks! We are really looking forward to this!
Look up the video of a perf of this work in a Coventry shopping mall - the sacred intersects with the secular.
The mic favours sop choir 1 rather, and I’d lay a fiver that it’s down a semitone. Makes it so much easier! But I’m such a Spem junkie, I just loved it!
"Belief in any other"
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