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For those interested, the official website of Australian lyric soprano Kiandra Howarth, www.kiandrahowarth.com/audio-... .
There has been some debate on the channel as to whether or not one of the talented choristers at King's could or should have tackled the part sung by Ms. Howarth. We are indeed lucky to have a succinct assessment by one of the choristers himself. "As a king's chorister singing in that recording, I know that none of us were able to sing loud enough" @Abrial Jerram
Some may recognise the haunting strains of this piece which were included in the final Opera and end sequences of the Godfather III • The Godfather III THE...
The Story Behind Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana
It was one of the tragedies of Mascagni’s career that although he wrote and produced 15 other operas, none came close to matching the spectacular success of Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry).
Mascagni (1863-1945), born in Livorno, Italy, composed two operas prior to Cavalleria Rusticana - Pinotta in 1880 and Guglielmo Ratcliff in 1885. After his dismissal from the
Milan Conservatory in 1884 for his lack of application, he endured six years of poverty and obscurity touring as a conductor, then teaching and conducting in Cerignola, Puglia.
Here, in 1889, he heard of a competition sponsored by the music publisher Sonzogno offering a prize for the best one-act opera to be submitted. Mascagni took a story - a passionate love tragedy that takes place on Easter morning - by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga, which the author had already adapted into a play for the actress Eleonora Duse and which Mascagni had admired in Milan.
“I asked my friend and townsman Targioni-Tozzetti [later assisted by Guido Menasci] to write a libretto that was very close to Verga’s action, simply adding occasional lyrical pieces to cover the naked drama of the plot,” Mascagni recalled. “I received the verses a few at a time but I already had all the situation clear in my mind: I identified with the drama to such an extent that I felt it within myself in terms of music.”
It took Mascagni two months to compose. Then, when the time came for him to submit the score, his courage deserted him. Fearing failure he put the music in a drawer, where it might have remained had it not been for his wife who sent it off.
Cavalleria Rusticana, with its stirring melodies, including the famous Easter Hymn, and tightly constructed plot was unanimously voted the competition winner. On May 17, 1890, it had its premiere in Rome where it received no less than 60 curtain calls; in less than a year it had been performed all over Europe.
Medals were struck in Mascagni’s honour; Livorno welcomed him home as a hero; the King of Italy bestowed on him the Order of the Crown of Italy - an honour even Verdi wasn’t given until middle age. On the strength of one masterpiece, the struggling composer became wealthy and famous overnight.
“It is a pity I wrote Cavalleria first,” he said at the end of his life, “for I was crowned before I became king.”
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such a tremendous joy listening to that heavenly piece. the choir is amazing and the lead voice is just amazingly wonderful,
Mascagni was touched by the hand of God when he wrote Regina Coeli
The Queen of Heaven will surely be rejoicing on hearing this music.......the most beautiful church music ever composed...
And Kiandra thank you from the bottom of my heart for wearing Oxford blue.
Complimenti veramente bravi. Mi fa onore da italiano vedere e sentire questa opera del Mascagni. Per me è come una preghiera a Cristo risorto quasi il continuo dell alleluia.
Really good compliments. I am honored as an Italian to see and hear this work by Mascagni. For me it is like a prayer to the risen Christ almost the continuation of the alleluia.
Absolutely beautiful singing a blessing from God to hear this
Ohhh my goodness 🤗🤗🤗 Just... Thank You to you all 🥰
A heavenly experience! Perfection personified.
What a great blessing it is to hear this today, for Easter Sunday! So beautifully done. Thank you for sharing. Our Lord Christ Jesus is risen, indeed!
The Lord is risen indeed. Hallelujah!
Citation required.
This lass did a beautiful job of this especially at the end with that organ shaking the foundations!! A belting job!!
This is some of the most beautiful music I have ever listened to. Queen Of Heaven, Rejoice
Alleluia! :)
I have a recording of Victoria de los Angeles singing this entire opera. This has always brought me to tears. If only she had recorded it with King's College Choir.
Sublime! Soprano was great! A lovely surprise to see a woman singing in this this usually male -dominated event.
Easter hymn procession new hymn with descant new your cathedral
Absolutely magnificent! Thank you ,one and all.
Inspired presentation-what a voice-thank you.
gorgeous indeed. I would imagine that the soprano solo is because this is originally an operatic work, so the soprano makes sense in context? Plus, hearing all that sound at the end, I don't think a single boy could compete with an entire choir plus organ/orchestra at full blast!
...and why not?
Terry Turner Just the size of the ensemble - granted these are very well trained trebles so they know how to project with a minimum of effort, but just by sheer size of the instrument, a full-grown soprano can easily hold her own against a big choir like this where a treble would have to work way too hard. That's just my thought though. In any case, as aforesaid, since this is from an opera, it makes much more sense for an operatic soprano to sing it!
I remember singing this at all-state choir in VT in the 90s. it was my favorite!
This to me is the most inspiring piece of choral music I have heard. Kiandra Hogarth, mezzo soprano plus the best choir in the world , plus the organ ????? Say no more. Praise God we are so blessed
Kiandra Howarth is a soprano.
www.kiandrahowarth.com/
I'm so happy to find this marvelous soprano's name! What a sin to not have it mentioned in the video description. But upon googling this wonderful singer, i find nothing! Is this the correct spelling? Does anyone have a website for her? Other videos, etc...?
@@LaSopRAWna Thank you, we've corrected the oversight and Ms Hogarth linked this recording on her website!
Wonderful - beyond description
Maravillosa!!!!🌿
Magnífico!!!!
WOW, goosebumps at the end. Brilliantly done. Our choir (ChorusUK) will be singing this in our next concert on the 20th April. at The Plaza, Stockport. Hope we do it justice.
Let us know how it went, better yet link us to the recording.
Fantastic!
Good to see Cambridge doing something right.
breathtaking
I remember this opera from Godfather 3.
Blimey that was good.
Is it how the choral parts are arranged or did the choir just do a really fantastic job of Italian/operatic choral performance practice? This was magnificent
Cedric Phillip I think it's partially how it's written, but they do sing it magnificently!
See the wonderful Opera Choruses edited by John Rutter (published by Oxford University Press) for this, and many other, arrangements of opera choruses for choirs.
Al credente trascende alle più alte commozioni, ai campi dell'infinito
Cudny sopran!
Alleluja!
Quia quem meruisti portare.
Alleluja!
Resurrexit sicut dixit.
Alleluja!
Santuzza, Lucia e Coro esterno
Inneggiamo,
Il Signor non è morto,
Ei fulgente
Ha dischiuso l’avel,
Inneggiam
Al Signore risorto
Oggi asceso
Alla gloria del Ciel!
INNEGGIAMO, IL SIGNOR
NON E MORTO
English translation
Chorus
Queen of Heaven, rejoice!
Alleluja!
Your son has risen
Alleluja!
from the dead as he said.
Alleluja!
Santuzza, Lucia e Coro esterno
Let us offer praise,
the Lord is not dead!
And in shining glory
the tomb has opened.
Let us praise
the risen lord, ascended today
to the glory of Heaven!
Wondeeeful
💜💜💜
PARA ACOMPAÑAR A LOS PASOS DE JEREZ EN SEMANA SANTA.........SERIA SUBLIME........
Happy Easter every one .
Does anyone happen to know where I could find an arrangement of these two pieces together in this way (if indeed one exists?). Thanks!
Yes. But links are often suppressed in notifications, so I’m replying separately with just the link.
www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/c/cb/Mascagni_-_Easter_Hymn.pdf
Kiandra, you can sing.
Ineggiamo.al Signor
il Signor non é morto
il Signor e risorto
Oggi e acceso alla Gloria
Alla Gloria del.Ciel
e la musica immortale di pietro mascagni italiano siciliano
Appearing in dark blue. Oxford always wins.
He H this part is always sung by a woman with the choir.
What religion are they?
Anglican (Church of England.) King's College, Cambridge, England. The BBC also broadcasts Carols From Kings every Christmas Eve. It's wonderful.
Does it matter.
The actual opera is a choir of male and female voices plus a mezzo soprano
However good the choir of KCC might be as a liturgical ensemble, they are a pretty average operatic chorus.
It's an interesting take on the piece. In an operatic production in a large house, you'd have at least a hundred adult voices singing this, so it gets a little thin in the loud bits because the boys and countertenors just can't make a big enough sound and the organ (which is making at least as much noise as the orchestra would) wipes them out. There is nothing *wrong* with it, and I love hearing the piece done in church, but it's certainly different!
On the stage it is sung with much more energy, not with iron discipline of the singers at King's.
@@omniryx1 I don't think the KC choristers lack energy; but they don't have quite the beef that an Italian-Romantic-style opera chorus of sopranos would, just because of the type of voices they are. The trebles are wonderful but this isn't their usual territory.
Undoubtedly well done. Idolatry and superstition are spot on for Cambridge.
Don't know what happened on this one. Sounds like the standard fell from the Anglicans to the Catholics. This was not up to par for Kings by any measure. Sorry everyone else, but logic is needed in addition to emotion. Honestly, the usual cohesion and quality performance was just not there to make it work well this time.
quickfoxxes Couldn’t agree more. It’s dull as ditchwater. Not too often I say that about Kings, and certainly my fist time saying that of the Easter Hymn!
Fallen to the Catholics ? You mean risen to more than a degree.
Why Mascagni in the first place?? A college chapel is no place for opera.
I must respectfully disagree. I think many people would say that the opera house is no place for an Easter Hymn (including the Latin "Regina Cœli") and that this setting brings the piece back home. I love it in either location!
@@ThomasDawkins88 with sound like that, location matters..?
Bit of a racket to be honest......
Why did they bring a soprano in as the soloist, when one of the boys could have done it equally well. Her soprano warble was somewhat in conflict with the purity of the boys´ voices.
You must be joking!!! It's not for boys but operatic soprano! It's an opera, not a church hymn.
It was sung in church and it is a celebration of the resurrected Christ
A boy soprano would have never been able to sing over a double choir and an organ...
Not in any way to detract from the magnificence of this piece, but the style and sheer volume required for these operatic pieces needs a deal of maturity in the voice; not just purity, but in addition presence and worldly experience
As a king's chorister singing in that recording, I know that none of us were able to sing loud enough.
Awful. The soprano is meant to soar above the orchestra. It gets drowned by the organist who's playing waay too loud. I'm an organist myself and I alongside most other organists wouldn't drown out the soloists
Well that key board players for you. .
I'm sorry but the women spoiled this!
You must be nuts, or maybe you need some..
@@donaldrobertson5779 You like nuts do you? I bet you do...
The keyboard player spoiled it.
I'm sorry but the women spoiled this!
The Soloist was the best thing about this particular arrangement.