why is it a great achievement? Well if you are a classical musician or ardent listener it is easier to explain . It basically sums up the total concept of great music, Meaningful words, word painting through notes, compositional greatness with cleverness and detail, feeling, emotion, conveys the meaning of the occasion etc etc.. @@davideg1001dg
"Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall. It was clear to me that sound I had heard in the Archbishop's palace had been no accident. Here again was the very voice of God! I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink-strokes at an absolute beauty."
I had become used to saying simply 'of course' when asked if I 'also like Mozart', as well as my beloved Bach and Beethoven. This Kyrie has brought me to tears, literally, reminding me that Mozart is beyond any question the finest composer for the human voice we will ever have.
I could never use the word Genius to describe him. Mozart was Mozart. I cannot compare him. His music still touches everyone, break us, makes us smile, makes us cry and sit in utter disbelief. He was Mozart ❤️
I often wonder, how many heavenly melodies humanity have missed out because of Mozart's short life. If God gave him just 5 more years, let's say he was able to live until he was 40, instead of 35, how many more great music and opera and songs we would have had today that no one else would be able to produce but him. Alas, these tunes were forever lost.
Yes, that question kind of haunts me. And I figure we could have seen how his music could evolve though the 19th century and romanticism, developing his own style in the new fashions. So sad man
The thought haunts me as well, and yet the man composed 626 original compositions in 35 years of existence. He was composing things at 17 that a polished and experienced composer at 45 would never be able to compose. Shoot, he was 26 when he composed this. What he produced in his short lifetime is embarrassing when compared to nearly any life’s cumulative production. So while it pains me to think of what we may have lost, how grateful I am that he worked so hard and passionately with the time that he had.
Have you thought that perhaps god was envy at Mozart who could create a world more beautiful that god could create himself -and so god had to kill him...
True indeed… And same goes for so many more great composers, such as Mendelssohn, for example. These are people of such talent, with such-and I’m not a religious person, but this next phrase seemed right to me nonetheless-heavenly direction!!! And yet they were plucked from us after what was seemingly an instant, coming to Earth in a flash like a lighting bolt, to dazzle us for a moment before they disappeared🤦🏻♂️But their music still remains, and it’s up to people like us to keep the flame alive in this world of Doja Cats and Chance the Rappers. To do so in order to preserve their genius🤩
I don't know about the conductor, but I have a lump in my throat each time I listen to this ( especially when the soprano's voice soars at she takes her part)
When I hear this music i understand how spot on Benjamin zander is when he says that every single human being loves classical music, but most of them just don't know it yet.
I'm 55 years old i love 90s grunge nirvana stone temple pilots all day every day .... but this beautiful piece of opera of motzart waters my eyes every time I fall to sleep with head phones on...it is miraculous
Btw its no shocking that u enjoy this type of music if you’re into rock and metal! The notes and the speed of the notes are similar as well as the high and low pitch notes. If u convert the instruments with guitar and heavier drums it will instantly change into a legit rock and roll music! Usually who are into pop and such may not be into this type of music as far as i noticed!
It gives me goosebumps to hear how the choir builds up at 3:37 and then to hear the soprano rise above it at 3:45. How easily she catches that high note and how fluently she comes down again few seconds later. World class from Miah Persson! I lost track how many times I've watched this video! Over and over again...
Very beautiful indeed, but my all time greatest from Mozart is the introitus, kyrie and lacrimosa in his unfinished Requiem where the music actually mimics the sobbing of someone crying. unmatched!
Mozart first played this unforgettable masterpiece in front of his family with his new young wife Constanze singing the lead! This was her introduction to the family and a disapproving father Leopold ...talk about a little bit of pressure on that poor young woman!
When I was ten, I sobbed listening to this. By then, I had already considered Mozart my favorite composer but this was the piece where his music really touched me. He is still my favorite composer.
I remember when I was 9-10 years old and my first cassette tape was Mozart’s sinfonia concertante. Nearly wore it out listening to it on repeat. I know exactly what you mean. Stays with you.
2:16-3:38 *the 1min22 sample that you MUST watch* even if in a hurry. A summit in the summit 2:38-5:29 the famous *Christe solo*, a re-use in k427 (which in addition of a promise to Leopold, was a gift to Constanze for their 1st wedding anniversary) of an exercise Wolfgang had written 2 years earlier to train and outline Constanze's voice. The wonderful Kyrie culminates with this famous soprano solo. This is what you get when Love and God, the 2 main inspirations for music, are combined, in the peak of a giant work from the best composer ever, played in an exceptional venue (Nobel Prize Concert 2008, before the prizewinners and the Royal family), by a top soprano, a top conductor (JE Gardiner made a number of remarkable recordings of k427, all with top sopranos, like Sylvia McNair, Barbara Bonney), and 2 top full SATB choirs. Big thanks as well to Azael Hernández uploader and to the teams who made the very careful and sensible audio and video recordings of that marvel. Sat 08 Oct 2016 16:46 GMT
Great comment. Maybe there are 3 main inspirations for this particular music (listen to the words) Love, as you said, and God, as you said: those are two: but there are really three:, love, God, and what God wants us to think when we are trying not to forget God and Love (God knew this music with the first two, Mozart and the people who inspired Mozart - Hello Cecilia - also understood it with the first 2 - but we only understand this music by remembering what God wants us to think when we are trying not to forget God and Love - Cor ad Cor loquitur, Heart speaks to Heart). Or maybe the 2 inspirations you mentioned are enough. But I am simply human and those 2 are not fully in my wheelhouse yet. If they had invented the internet faster we could ask Mozart.
Being Dutch, living in France, I love to learn new coloqualisms. One is ; Je viens me couché moins bête que hier. I go to sleep less stupid than yesterday. Well, something like that anyway. You get my drift ? Thanks for your explantion ! Sorry, being left handed doesn't help my spelling.
I think she sings the most beautiful version, honestly. It flows pleasantly and she does not seem to struggle with the piece. I am not fond of many other versions as this one is my favorite.
Natasha Youngblood not even Sylvia Mcnair? Her solo in the Kyrie must be what an angel sounds like. Absolutely effortless singing. Although with Sylvia Mcnair versions, I can never find one with good sound quality and I also dont like the rest of the choir singers. This vid has the best quality and I prefer the choir but Sylvia Mcnair is beautiful
Oh to hear this sublime piece at an actual Mass, said in a baroque church with a decent organ and choir! Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy. Such beauty.
The conductor, John Eliot Gardiner, does (seemingly) so little. Just the tempo with his right hand and swinging on the music with the rest of his body. That's all he needs and it shows how well-tuned the musicians and singers are to what he wants from them. It's a joy to watch.
Wow, the intonation and attack of the sopranos are absolutely superb. And just hear how much more effective the whole thing is when dynamics are scrupulously observed!
Swedish soprano Mia Persson (pronounced "Fashion"). Here she is singing the finale of Mahler's spectacular Resurrection Symphony (this video saved my life when my wife died of cancer): th-cam.com/video/M0Px44IuVKM/w-d-xo.html
@@rhcb1 Why Shakespeare? Because he wrote in English? He was great poet true, but this is statement is grossly overstretched. How many non English poets and their works you know to write something like that? World is not only Anglo-Saxon.
And he wrote this mass when he was 26 !! years old...double fugues...4 to 8 voices...dazzling melodies and counterpoint, lifting your soul to places you have never been before...This music will be heard until the end of time...
It is amazing to listen to. It is even more out of this world to be part of a 212 voice choir backed by a 100 piece orchestra. We performed this incredible piece when I was in Grade 12. How a normal Public Secondary School ended up with over half of the students in the Music Program boggles the mind. Because of this I have sung on stage in both the incredible Massey Music Hall and Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, Ontario.
This truly is the voice of god I love the ending, the violins and choir pulsating eleison... feels so sad but with such peace and acceptance... amazing
Its like...like if something just picks you up from wherever you are, elevating you until all you see is just a stunishing blue sky passing through clouds..and for the length of this opera you are in perfect peace with everything.
Fantastic rendering of what I believe to be the most inspirational Kyrie ever composed. Here there is no grovelling before a fierce and judgmental God - but a CELEBRATION of the essence of the Christian faith - that we are truly LOVED by God. This is the true Gospel!
@frankhillebrand7682, I agree there's no grovelling at all in this Kyrie; ❤️I hear tremendous Joy celebrating the Mercy and boundless love God freely bestows when we ask His Forgiveness ❤️ promising to "sin no more."
@@OceanSwimmer The Kyrie sung by the chorus is plenty doom-laden for me, but when the soprano takes up the Christe the mood changes completely. This is precisely what Mozart intended, and it's got very little to do with religious belief. The story behind it is as compelling as the music itself, IMHO. Wolfgang married Constanze without his father's permission, which in those days was a serious insult. To make amends, he wrote this mass where the Kyrie chorus represents Wolfgang on his knees, beseeching his thundering father Leopold for mercy, followed by Constanze with the beguiling Christe solo. But all for nothing; Leopold never did warm to Constanze.
Just listen to how the choir are bang in the middle of every note, whether they're just moving in semitones, tones, thirds, fifths or even octaves - what precision! And yet they make it sound anything but mechanical or robotic.
I can see moments of triumph in this song, strong elements of a broken heart, mourning, love, death and happiness seem to all reach their crushindo even though I cannot understand what they are saying, other than it beautiful, or I can see this as the your entire life being played to you on a screen with this as the soundtrack right before you take your last breath !!
This music sends my soul on a rollercoaster ride and sparks such a powerful longing in my body. It is both glorious and tragic, beautiful, lonely, simple while incredibly profound. This is the music sung by angels for God in heaven. To play a part, sing the words or just sitting back to absorb every bit of the sound would be a great reward, a magnificent way to spend eternity. The next song would be from Snoop Dogg of course but this really is the opener.
@@eduardoguerraavila8329it's not really fair is it, when Beetboven studied him for 30 years , learning all his techniques, ideas, etc, while mozart was dead and couldn't get better himself. Mozart was 35 when he died, and Beethoven barely had his 3rd symphony written by age 35. Beethoven simply "sucked" at writing for the human voice. It's just a fact. Maybe he got lucky here and there when he went with his truck load size musical notebook he had. If you want drastic instrumentation, some feeling, irregular beats and harmonies, and mastery of string music, you can feel good about Beethoven. BUT, if you want a glorious, singable , astounding music with melodic content, transcending, effortless transitions, and be In complete awe, you listen to mozarts works for human voice . There is a reason he is #1 or #2 ever for human voice compositions. Beethoven fans have zero mozart respect. Lol Beethoven himself adored the guy. Mozart was living rent free in Beethovens head the rest of his life. A man who helped finish the bridge from classical to Romanticism was still scratching his head studying mozarts dissonance quarter on his death bed 34 years after his death. I think you know my answer on whether this piece is better than any choral work Beethoven wrote. :)
@@beethovenlovedmozartTruly a matter of opinion, I don’t know why that you are going around stating your opinions as fact when they’e entirely subjective
It's a prayer for forgiveness. She's singing, "Christ have mercy on us." It's both tragic and frightening, prompting self reflection on personal sins and failures. Yet the divine beauty of the music, overwhelming our mortal sense and stirring such passion that we're carried high in the clouds with the notes towards Heaven. I imagine a curious angel parting the gates a bit to test the sound, allowing the deep humility of the choir to resonate within paradise itself, setting the frame for the soloist to beg penance in audience with God Almighty, for the whole of humanity. All of us. How could the judge of mankind find fault in this honest attempt at redemption? Finally as her query reaches its climax and the last echos fall silent beneath the supporting framework of voices and music, the conjured mood grips both heaven and earth in poignant understanding. Not a breathe is dared which might alter the moment. Thoughtfully mindful not to place any expectations upon the King of Kings, Mozart completes the magic in a musical form of exhaustion, lest any hint of insincerity break this sentient, lyrical spell. A final tone to silence all else carries us back down to earth, floating, falling, where my very soul trembles at the fervent experience. And our Heavenly Father can wipe away all imperfections with a smile. Tragic indeed, it's our nature. Yet this example transcends all wrongs for an instant, a masterpiece for all times and certain proof that we are children of God.
It really surpasses every piece of music. It is so beautiful. So surprising and so sweet. It is overwhelming at times. Mozart does this. People feel it with Beethoven's 9th but he learned from the Master. Mozart goes to and beyond this level many times. The first three movements of the Requiem are all his and surpass even this. Mozart was a master of music with voice that Beethoven was not.
This is one of the reasons why I consider Mozart superior to Beethoven (and pretty much every other composer): his mastery of lyrical art. The Ode to Joy is all nice and good, but this Kyrie wipes the floor with it. It''s like comparing a Sunday afternoon walk to Hell, Heaven and everything in-between.
@@ludovico6890 As far as composing vocal music goes, I think Mozart trumps Beethoven. He was a gifted technical musician, who liked florid passages, and you can hear that a lot in his music for the voice. It’s very clean, melodic, and, thus, memorable. Granted, Mozart composed far more pieces for the voice than Beethoven ever did, but even the vocal pieces we did get from Beethoven don’t quite reach the level of divinity, purity, and memorability of Mozart’s pieces for the voice. As far as rhythm goes, I think Beethoven beats Mozart. Like, you’d never hear something as booming, dark, and dramatic as Beethoven’s 5th symphony out of Mozart.
@@Schoolgirl325 The last scene of Mozart's Don Giovanni, known as the 'commendatore scene', to me, is more booming and more dark than anything Beethoven wrote.
I'm a Mex-American who grew up in two cultures, Rancheras and heavy metal but over the years, I'm 56, I've grown to live the arts, still listen to thrash by the way, and got to appreciate the beauty in music
Congratulations for such a fantastic performance!. I think there are very few more satisfying sensations than hearing these masterpieces, although it must be even better to be able to sing them.
At the risk of lowering the tone, never have I seen a piece of music so perfectly matched than this was to the storm at sea scene in "The Triplets of Belville" AKA (Belville Rendevous)
i first heard this wonderful piece back when i was 6 years old thanks to that movie, and re-discovered it years later after watching Amadeus, amazing...
Спасибо большое за это видео. Прекрасное выступление, я получила удовольствие. И вспомнила свою молодость, когда дирижировала эту мессу на экзамене по хоровому дирижированию. Здорово!
Mozart…more dramatic than Bach. Who knows what the master would have written had he lived to the age of Beethoven and maybe beyond. So much beauty stolen from us mortals, due to a short life.
Seigneur prends pitié "kyrie eleison " cette messe pour les morts est sublime , c'est le plus bel hommage pour accompagner le defunt vers un repos éternel
what a delight and what a choise professionalism on behalve of the conductor to dirige such a perfectaly skilled musicians,singers ....fabulous ...the soprano is unforgettible ;the director is magninifique;thx to post .After all some of us made this world more beautifull!!!
Back when people even *WENT* to church. Nowadays, only 18% of the public in the USA ever go to church (as taken from actual church records, *NOT* from public opinion polls). In the UK, it's down to less than 1%...
I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at an absolute beauty.
😂👻
Capisco. I know my destiny.
Well played, Maestro Salieri
...the creature
The voice of god.
This is one of the greatest achievements in the history of humankind.
I suppose, Mozart would retort...
IT TIS, ISN'T IT?!?
Absolutely
Why
why is it a great achievement? Well if you are a classical musician or ardent listener it is easier to explain .
It basically sums up the total concept of great music, Meaningful words, word painting through notes, compositional greatness with cleverness and detail, feeling, emotion, conveys the meaning of the occasion etc etc.. @@davideg1001dg
Iistening to music on TH-cam?
4:26 "displace one note ...and there would be diminishment "
4:32 ".. displace one phrase ... and the structure would fall.."
Oh God, YES. The closest one can get to an orgasm via music while being "decent"
Sir you have earned my like with that quote
Curious to know why the trombones are standing...did they misbehave in rehearsals?
Too many notes tho ?
@@Max-OCATCBuff please tell me you have seen the movie this quote comes from.
"Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall.
It was clear to me that sound I had heard in the Archbishop's palace had been no accident.
Here again was the very voice of God!
I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink-strokes at an absolute beauty."
Хороший фильм. Роль Антонио Сальери исполнена блестяще.
He was ..... my Idol
Salieri words.
Salieri said this is the movie Amadeus. True words
@@scienceroast9558Touching, but is the statement true?
When you call heaven and they put you on hold, this is the music you hear.
They can put me on hold forever then.
I love it!!
When the doctor says you have 7 minutes 14 seconds left to live
that comment wins the Internet today.
Talk about an approximate comment! Can't beat it, my friend..
Mozart in life & death
I was gonna say someone in this audience knows there time here may end tonight but they made it to the show for this. I like yours
7 m. 14 s. To go.
But ads are now being showed 2x so more likely 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Lol
I had become used to saying simply 'of course' when asked if I 'also like Mozart', as well as my beloved Bach and Beethoven. This Kyrie has brought me to tears, literally, reminding me that Mozart is beyond any question the finest composer for the human voice we will ever have.
Bro
Mozart was God's gift to humanity. 1 time, 1 Mozart and no one else will ever compare to him.
@@jeannemaxwell3173pura verdade !!!
Imagine, if he'd lived twice as long...
he's still alive
Yeah. Holy shit. He's still alive. You didn't know that?
Yeah he is still alive, he is very active on the TH-cam comment section, but I always wonder why he didn't released a diss track since 1791.
@@xJoe90 yeah but does not make new pieces T_T
Elbert John Felipe a wise man once said you die twice, first when your heart stops beating, and second when someone says your name for the last time
I could never use the word Genius to describe him. Mozart was Mozart. I cannot compare him. His music still touches everyone, break us, makes us smile, makes us cry and sit in utter disbelief. He was Mozart ❤️
Only him and Bach were "true" musical geniuses. Everyone else was just average or slightly better. Talent wise.
@@beethovenlovedmozartwhat 💀
@@beethovenlovedmozartYeah, I can confirm that Beethoven, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff were all average, they’re mid ngl
@@chillmemes5865P ok
❤
I often wonder, how many heavenly melodies humanity have missed out because of Mozart's short life. If God gave him just 5 more years, let's say he was able to live until he was 40, instead of 35, how many more great music and opera and songs we would have had today that no one else would be able to produce but him. Alas, these tunes were forever lost.
Yes indeed we missed out on much more extraordinary human talent
Yes, that question kind of haunts me. And I figure we could have seen how his music could evolve though the 19th century and romanticism, developing his own style in the new fashions. So sad man
The thought haunts me as well, and yet the man composed 626 original compositions in 35 years of existence. He was composing things at 17 that a polished and experienced composer at 45 would never be able to compose. Shoot, he was 26 when he composed this. What he produced in his short lifetime is embarrassing when compared to nearly any life’s cumulative production. So while it pains me to think of what we may have lost, how grateful I am that he worked so hard and passionately with the time that he had.
Have you thought that perhaps god was envy at Mozart who could create a world more beautiful that god could create himself -and so god had to kill him...
True indeed… And same goes for so many more great composers, such as Mendelssohn, for example. These are people of such talent, with such-and I’m not a religious person, but this next phrase seemed right to me nonetheless-heavenly direction!!! And yet they were plucked from us after what was seemingly an instant, coming to Earth in a flash like a lighting bolt, to dazzle us for a moment before they disappeared🤦🏻♂️But their music still remains, and it’s up to people like us to keep the flame alive in this world of Doja Cats and Chance the Rappers. To do so in order to preserve their genius🤩
This is the peak of human ingenuity in music
4:54 You know you did a damn good job if the conductor looks like he’s about to cry.
It's a powerful piece for sure.
I don't know about the conductor, but I have a lump in my throat each time I listen to this ( especially when the soprano's voice soars at she takes her part)
2:15 Sublime
When I hear this music i understand how spot on Benjamin zander is when he says that every single human being loves classical music, but most of them just don't know it yet.
4:51 - 5:32 has to be up there with the most beautiful musical phrases
02:46 it shows it’s face as one of the best parts of this song.
4:36 - 5:10 simply astounding
When her singing ends and the orchestra comes in, it's so beautiful. It really made me tear up.
@@cboy-ou2hr
Under-rated comment!
So beautiful
"I was staring thru the cage, at those meticulous ink strokes...at an absolute beauty."
Salieri
Lord have Mercy!
Christ have Mercy!
Lord have Mercy!
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison
4:38 - 5:30 Is this the most beautiful melody in the world? Ever?
No, but if you like it it's okay
3DaysAgo bruh!
@@3daysago266 bruh!
It is certainly one of the most beautiful melodies ever created
Transcendental - without question!
The soloist is amazing. I am blown away by her amazing performance.
who is she?
@@supertren Miah Persson.
There were many great composers but Mozart was the greatest.
Pra mim também Mozart foi o maior de todos e jamais haverá outro igual.
I'm 55 years old i love 90s grunge nirvana stone temple pilots all day every day .... but this beautiful piece of opera of motzart waters my eyes every time I fall to sleep with head phones on...it is miraculous
Btw its no shocking that u enjoy this type of music if you’re into rock and metal! The notes and the speed of the notes are similar as well as the high and low pitch notes. If u convert the instruments with guitar and heavier drums it will instantly change into a legit rock and roll music! Usually who are into pop and such may not be into this type of music as far as i noticed!
It's not opera. It's Roman Catholic Liturgy. They're singing, "Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy."
it is.
Same, huge metalhead here but music like this is otherworldly and utterly divine. ❤😊
It's an oratorio. Blessings
Staggering... just incredible. I love this performance so much, it's perfect
Better than replaying rockman 7 on Snes ?
It gives me goosebumps to hear how the choir builds up at 3:37 and then to hear the soprano rise above it at 3:45. How easily she catches that high note and how fluently she comes down again few seconds later.
World class from Miah Persson!
I lost track how many times I've watched this video! Over and over again...
Very beautiful indeed, but my all time greatest from Mozart is the introitus, kyrie and lacrimosa in his unfinished Requiem where the music actually mimics the sobbing of someone crying. unmatched!
I've watched this video a gazillion times and will watch it a gazillion times more in my lifetime
Mozart first played this unforgettable masterpiece in front of his family with his new young wife Constanze singing the lead! This was her introduction to the family and a disapproving father Leopold ...talk about a little bit of pressure on that poor young woman!
When I was ten, I sobbed listening to this. By then, I had already considered Mozart my favorite composer but this was the piece where his music really touched me. He is still my favorite composer.
that wasn't mozart touching you when you were ten
@@AlexTSilver
SMH
Mozart loved Bach.
What do you think of Bach, luluelli6884?
I remember when I was 9-10 years old and my first cassette tape was Mozart’s sinfonia concertante. Nearly wore it out listening to it on repeat. I know exactly what you mean. Stays with you.
2:16-3:38 *the 1min22 sample that you MUST watch* even if in a hurry. A summit in the summit
2:38-5:29 the famous *Christe solo*, a re-use in k427 (which in addition of a promise to Leopold, was a gift to Constanze for their 1st wedding anniversary) of an exercise Wolfgang had written 2 years earlier to train and outline Constanze's voice. The wonderful Kyrie culminates with this famous soprano solo.
This is what you get when Love and God, the 2 main inspirations for music, are combined, in the peak of a giant work from the best composer ever, played in an exceptional venue (Nobel Prize Concert 2008, before the prizewinners and the Royal family), by a top soprano, a top conductor (JE Gardiner made a number of remarkable recordings of k427, all with top sopranos, like Sylvia McNair, Barbara Bonney), and 2 top full SATB choirs.
Big thanks as well to Azael Hernández uploader and to the teams who made the very careful and sensible audio and video recordings of that marvel.
Sat 08 Oct 2016 16:46 GMT
God!!! Thanks for this
Great comment. Maybe there are 3 main inspirations for this particular music (listen to the words) Love, as you said, and God, as you said: those are two: but there are really three:, love, God, and what God wants us to think when we are trying not to forget God and Love (God knew this music with the first two, Mozart and the people who inspired Mozart - Hello Cecilia - also understood it with the first 2 - but we only understand this music by remembering what God wants us to think when we are trying not to forget God and Love - Cor ad Cor loquitur, Heart speaks to Heart). Or maybe the 2 inspirations you mentioned are enough. But I am simply human and those 2 are not fully in my wheelhouse yet. If they had invented the internet faster we could ask Mozart.
Being Dutch, living in France, I love to learn new coloqualisms. One is ; Je viens me couché moins bête que hier. I go to sleep less stupid than yesterday. Well, something like that anyway. You get my drift ? Thanks for your explantion ! Sorry, being left handed doesn't help my spelling.
I think she sings the most beautiful version, honestly. It flows pleasantly and she does not seem to struggle with the piece. I am not fond of many other versions as this one is my favorite.
Natasha Youngblood not even Sylvia Mcnair? Her solo in the Kyrie must be what an angel sounds like. Absolutely effortless singing. Although with Sylvia Mcnair versions, I can never find one with good sound quality and I also dont like the rest of the choir singers. This vid has the best quality and I prefer the choir but Sylvia Mcnair is beautiful
It is said that when God kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden He said "As a consolation I give you music." To which we respond "Thank you."
Interestingly, Satan was the great musician in heaven (Ezekiel 28:14).
Who says it
Carole Esposito
Interestingly, god doesn’t exist.
That was worth it then!
@@latiolaisgradnigo Neither will you in due time
AMADEUS brought me here
Oh to hear this sublime piece at an actual Mass, said in a baroque church with a decent organ and choir! Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy. Such beauty.
I want this to played at my funeral... Then go in absolute peace..
That's what I told my wife 😅
And this performance, it's the best on TH-cam
there are a finite number of women I would describe as Goddesses...... Several of them perform Mozart. This is one of them...
Yes absolutely
She is my favorite, Mozart would be so proud
yes.
He wrote the part for his wife. You can just feel the love in the stanzas. Imagine her singing it wow.
The conductor, John Eliot Gardiner, does (seemingly) so little. Just the tempo with his right hand and swinging on the music with the rest of his body. That's all he needs and it shows how well-tuned the musicians and singers are to what he wants from them. It's a joy to watch.
Clearly you are no musician!!! This "easy look" takes about a month of hard rehearsing for EVERYONE!!!
@olavwilhelm6843 read my post again, and eat humble pie. I am a musician. Conservatory classical vocals.
@olavwilhelm6843 my point is that looks can be deceiving.
04:55 - this part always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and tears fall from my eyes. Bieber can't do that.
You need to listen to a LOT MORE Bieber....THEN...tears will roll down your eyes....
Jamais o faria .
Totally beautiful
Why do people still bring up Justin Bieber on every song they like lol
Rent free
I like that short image of the old lady who actually closes her eyes of pleasure.
Wow, the intonation and attack of the sopranos are absolutely superb. And just hear how much more effective the whole thing is when dynamics are scrupulously observed!
Swedish soprano Mia Persson (pronounced "Fashion"). Here she is singing the finale of Mahler's spectacular Resurrection Symphony (this video saved my life when my wife died of cancer): th-cam.com/video/M0Px44IuVKM/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely divine, Mozart was a genius!!!
Really?
@@antonioscaravilli219 really
Is that so?
Along with Shakespeare, the greatest creative artist the world has ever known.
@@rhcb1 Why Shakespeare? Because he wrote in English? He was great poet true, but this is statement is grossly overstretched. How many non English poets and their works you know to write something like that? World is not only Anglo-Saxon.
And he wrote this mass when he was 26 !! years old...double fugues...4 to 8 voices...dazzling melodies and counterpoint, lifting your soul to places you have never been before...This music will be heard until the end of time...
It is amazing to listen to. It is even more out of this world to be part of a 212 voice choir backed by a 100 piece orchestra. We performed this incredible piece when I was in Grade 12. How a normal Public Secondary School ended up with over half of the students in the Music Program boggles the mind. Because of this I have sung on stage in both the incredible Massey Music Hall and Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, Ontario.
This truly is the voice of god
I love the ending, the violins and choir pulsating eleison... feels so sad but with such peace and acceptance... amazing
Nothing in music is comparable to Mozart
BS
@@shnimmuc only monteverdi and bach.
@@zauber620 Don`t be silly
Silly
You are right. There is better music by many other composers.
The rapt expression on the face of the conductor John Eliot Gardiner perfectly reflects my feelings of this exquisite music by Mozart.
Its like...like if something just picks you up from wherever you are, elevating you until all you see is just a stunishing blue sky passing through clouds..and for the length of this opera you are in perfect peace with everything.
I'm sure they listen to Mozart in heaven.
I have heard that God listens to Bach, but the angels, in their spare time, listen to Mozart....
I wouldn't Presume if I were you. Who did you hear this from?
No, to the music of the spheres.
Maybe they hear the music he would have written on Earth if he had been healthier.
It’s mandatory.
Fantastic rendering of what I believe to be the most inspirational Kyrie ever composed. Here there is no grovelling before a fierce and judgmental God - but a CELEBRATION of the essence of the Christian faith - that we are truly LOVED by God. This is the true Gospel!
@frankhillebrand7682,
I agree there's no grovelling at all in this Kyrie;
❤️I hear tremendous Joy celebrating the Mercy and boundless love God freely bestows when we ask His Forgiveness ❤️ promising to "sin no more."
@@OceanSwimmer The Kyrie sung by the chorus is plenty doom-laden for me, but when the soprano takes up the Christe the mood changes completely.
This is precisely what Mozart intended, and it's got very little to do with religious belief. The story behind it is as compelling as the music itself, IMHO.
Wolfgang married Constanze without his father's permission, which in those days was a serious insult. To make amends, he wrote this mass where the Kyrie chorus represents Wolfgang on his knees, beseeching his thundering father Leopold for mercy, followed by Constanze with the beguiling Christe solo.
But all for nothing; Leopold never did warm to Constanze.
actually this aria asks the "LORD" for merci ( i'm guessing you don't go to church often) . In Germany we learn Kyrie eleison in Sunday school 🙂
Just listen to how the choir are bang in the middle of every note, whether they're just moving in semitones, tones, thirds, fifths or even octaves - what precision! And yet they make it sound anything but mechanical or robotic.
Wonderful choir - and that's Gardiner for you. One of the great choral conductors in living memory.
Que voulez vous dire ,Mozart cet homme hors du commun , qui doit on remercier? et en plus ce coeur et cette voix ,je suis bercé dans l'infini
2:03 and 6:18, these parts make me feel the heavens!
I think his songs take all the souls there! Mozart is a legend!!
To my side, this Kyrie could fit best in the Requiem mass. It looks as if humans (soprano & alto) are speaking to the heavens and God (tenor & bass)
I can see moments of triumph in this song, strong elements of a broken heart, mourning, love, death and happiness seem to all reach their crushindo even though I cannot understand what they are saying, other than it beautiful, or I can see this as the your entire life being played to you on a screen with this as the soundtrack right before you take your last breath !!
@Boodysaspie Thank you - I knew it was something very deep
the most beautiful music ever
must be hard to sing it without tears
Mine too, this has been my favourite ever
There is also "Dies Irae" wich can contest, but i don't see much other.
Escape from Pretoria... When this song played at the end, I also felt free.
This music sends my soul on a rollercoaster ride and sparks such a powerful longing in my body. It is both glorious and tragic, beautiful, lonely, simple while incredibly profound. This is the music sung by angels for God in heaven. To play a part, sing the words or just sitting back to absorb every bit of the sound would be a great reward, a magnificent way to spend eternity. The next song would be from Snoop Dogg of course but this really is the opener.
Does that mean you like it?
I feel like I'm closer to PARADISE
oh wow.... i have no words, i'm so chills, it reminds me how mutch i love amadeus mozart
Anyone else get absolutely blown away at 4:11? That contrast from low to high is beyond! Heavenly.
The best mass ever written. Mozart you're unrepeatable.
This mass pale by comparison against Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
@@eduardoguerraavila8329it's not really fair is it, when Beetboven studied him for 30 years , learning all his techniques, ideas, etc, while mozart was dead and couldn't get better himself. Mozart was 35 when he died, and Beethoven barely had his 3rd symphony written by age 35. Beethoven simply "sucked" at writing for the human voice. It's just a fact. Maybe he got lucky here and there when he went with his truck load size musical notebook he had. If you want drastic instrumentation, some feeling, irregular beats and harmonies, and mastery of string music, you can feel good about Beethoven. BUT, if you want a glorious, singable , astounding music with melodic content, transcending, effortless transitions, and be In complete awe, you listen to mozarts works for human voice . There is a reason he is #1 or #2 ever for human voice compositions. Beethoven fans have zero mozart respect. Lol Beethoven himself adored the guy. Mozart was living rent free in Beethovens head the rest of his life. A man who helped finish the bridge from classical to Romanticism was still scratching his head studying mozarts dissonance quarter on his death bed 34 years after his death. I think you know my answer on whether this piece is better than any choral work Beethoven wrote. :)
@@beethovenlovedmozartTruly a matter of opinion, I don’t know why that you are going around stating your opinions as fact when they’e entirely subjective
“He had written all of it down! In his head! And music… like no other music has finished before!”
Mozart was so inspired when he composed this and such depth and power!
Spectacularly lovely! Bravo Miah Persson! Bravissimo Herr Mozart! David Alexander Lillis. Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. 15 September 2024
This is my favorite piece written by Mozart. Such a tragic end.
Natasha Youngblood is youngbird your real surname
It's a prayer for forgiveness. She's singing, "Christ have mercy on us." It's both tragic and frightening, prompting self reflection on personal sins and failures. Yet the divine beauty of the music, overwhelming our mortal sense and stirring such passion that we're carried high in the clouds with the notes towards Heaven. I imagine a curious angel parting the gates a bit to test the sound, allowing the deep humility of the choir to resonate within paradise itself, setting the frame for the soloist to beg penance in audience with God Almighty, for the whole of humanity. All of us. How could the judge of mankind find fault in this honest attempt at redemption? Finally as her query reaches its climax and the last echos fall silent beneath the supporting framework of voices and music, the conjured mood grips both heaven and earth in poignant understanding. Not a breathe is dared which might alter the moment. Thoughtfully mindful not to place any expectations upon the King of Kings, Mozart completes the magic in a musical form of exhaustion, lest any hint of insincerity break this sentient, lyrical spell. A final tone to silence all else carries us back down to earth, floating, falling, where my very soul trembles at the fervent experience. And our Heavenly Father can wipe away all imperfections with a smile. Tragic indeed, it's our nature. Yet this example transcends all wrongs for an instant, a masterpiece for all times and certain proof that we are children of God.
Life is Tragic And Beautiful
How I wished that Mozart is alive now and is listening to his own work composed hundreds of years ago performed now by those wonderful beings.
Oh my god, me siento como Salieri extasiado por tan adorable composición.
It really surpasses every piece of music. It is so beautiful. So surprising and so sweet. It is overwhelming at times. Mozart does this. People feel it with Beethoven's 9th but he learned from the Master. Mozart goes to and beyond this level many times. The first three movements of the Requiem are all his and surpass even this. Mozart was a master of music with voice that Beethoven was not.
Beethoven and Mozart had completely different ideas to communicate, largely based on their natural abilities and socioeconomic standing
This is one of the reasons why I consider Mozart superior to Beethoven (and pretty much every other composer): his mastery of lyrical art. The Ode to Joy is all nice and good, but this Kyrie wipes the floor with it. It''s like comparing a Sunday afternoon walk to Hell, Heaven and everything in-between.
@@ludovico6890 As far as composing vocal music goes, I think Mozart trumps Beethoven. He was a gifted technical musician, who liked florid passages, and you can hear that a lot in his music for the voice. It’s very clean, melodic, and, thus, memorable. Granted, Mozart composed far more pieces for the voice than Beethoven ever did, but even the vocal pieces we did get from Beethoven don’t quite reach the level of divinity, purity, and memorability of Mozart’s pieces for the voice.
As far as rhythm goes, I think Beethoven beats Mozart. Like, you’d never hear something as booming, dark, and dramatic as Beethoven’s 5th symphony out of Mozart.
@@Schoolgirl325 The last scene of Mozart's Don Giovanni, known as the 'commendatore scene', to me, is more booming and more dark than anything Beethoven wrote.
Sweden produces this kind of good lyric sopranos every year. And they all sound the same too. Fantastic!
Sweden? Do any of them even believe in God, let alone attend Mass?
we're all children of God regardless of Masses or whatnot
You don't need to believe in God to enjoy Mozart.
Thomas Hogan 😂😂😂
@@thomashogan16 So what? For me music is something divine... i never felt closer to peace then when listening to heavenly music....
This is an incredible piece of music which captures so well the pleading by ordinary mortals for mercy and pity. Appropriate for a requiem.
This is pure Mozart!
His music is my hobby!!
Se me enchina la piel. Llevo 24 años escuchandola y no me canso de escuchar tan magnánime obra.
Este Kyrie es mi obra favorita de Mozart. Simplemente me eleva.
Not of this world
I wonder if heaven with all its angels can be this heavenly! 💖💖💖
Well, you've done it. You have just reached the height of musical potential.
First time listener and it fcuking blew my mind 😣😭
I've listen to it so many times, and it still blows my mind. Power of Mozart.
I'm a Mex-American who grew up in two cultures, Rancheras and heavy metal but over the years, I'm 56, I've grown to live the arts, still listen to thrash by the way, and got to appreciate the beauty in music
Congratulations for such a fantastic performance!.
I think there are very few more satisfying sensations than hearing these masterpieces, although it must be even better to be able to sing them.
Gives me goosebumps and shivers down my spine every time. What a masterpiece!
Miah Persson, amazing, angelical, wonderful.
3:26 Stairway to heaven... so incredibly beautiful.
This video is good for my theology, geometry, and my pyloric valve.
At the risk of lowering the tone, never have I seen a piece of music so perfectly matched than this was to the storm at sea scene in "The Triplets of Belville" AKA (Belville Rendevous)
Woo someone mentioned it!
i first heard this wonderful piece back when i was 6 years old thanks to that movie, and re-discovered it years later after watching Amadeus, amazing...
the soprano singer is a beauty and angel
Спасибо большое за это видео. Прекрасное выступление, я получила удовольствие. И вспомнила свою молодость, когда дирижировала эту мессу на экзамене по хоровому дирижированию. Здорово!
My heart melts when I hear this beautiful music
Art can not be more profound and moving than this.
5:02 I was staring through a cage, at those meticulous ink strokes, at an absolute beauty
The most beautiful melody ever!!!!
Mozart…more dramatic than Bach. Who knows what the master would have written had he lived to the age of Beethoven and maybe beyond. So much beauty stolen from us mortals, due to a short life.
Mozart deberia ser un adjetivo de la excelencia elevada a la perfección.
Também concordo !!!
2:15
Mozart is truly a genius , his absolute dominance over this part is incredible.
He is a true virtuoso
Exhausted.. From this amount of beauty
Jeff milton
And the soprano’s pretty hot too!
Mozart was really a genius! Divenely inspired!
Never fails to move to tears every time. Absolutely sublime!
It feels like heaven
especially 4:54
Лучше Моцарта, может быть только - Моцарт! Спасибо музыкантам, которые смогли передать музыку жизни!
5:27 I dropped my ipad
haha You watched the movie!
madscout96 was it original?
I dropped my jaw by laughing at your comment. Thank you!!!
It’s miraculous!
Haha, i really had to think hard... which movie did he mean besides "Amadeus"? (Since there werent any ipads...).
Seigneur prends pitié "kyrie eleison " cette messe pour les morts est sublime , c'est le plus bel hommage pour accompagner le defunt vers un repos éternel
Tears and laughter. Mind-blowing.
each time I listen this kyrie I feel deeply moved....I am speechless....
One of the greatest mozart pieces.
what a delight and what a choise professionalism on behalve of the conductor to dirige such a perfectaly skilled musicians,singers ....fabulous ...the soprano is unforgettible ;the director is magninifique;thx to post .After all some of us made this world more beautifull!!!
Profoundly beautiful. This is supernal love translated into music.
A speaker from heaven to the human race
ok darling. you got me. I'm crying....
The highlight is the Conductor's Facial expressions
back when church was fun
Back when people even *WENT* to church. Nowadays, only 18% of the public in the USA ever go to church (as taken from actual church records, *NOT* from public opinion polls). In the UK, it's down to less than 1%...
God help me. I must stop listening to this...but dont want to.