Comfort Ye My People, Every Valley Shall Be Exalted feat. Levy Sekgapane - Handel's Messiah
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- "Comfort Ye My People", "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
Tenor: Levy Sekpgapane
Cape Town Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover (Dirigent: Prof Klaus-Jürgen Etzold).
Live performance on 24 March 2018 at the Sarah Baartman Hall, UCT, Cape Town.
Soloists: Levy Sekgapane (Tenor), Magdalene Minnaar (Soprano), Minette du Toit-Pearce (Alto), Bongani Kubheka (Bass).
Treble: Lorena Marais
CTYC Festival Orchestra. Leader: Suzanne Martens
Harpsichord: Erik Dippenaar
Trumpet: Mike Blake
Conductor: Leon Starker
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Lyrics:
Isaiah 40:1-3 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness; Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 40:4 Ev’ry valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight and the rough places plain.
Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Coverdale Psalter, the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.
Handel's reputation in England, where he had lived since 1712, had been established through his compositions of Italian opera. He turned to English oratorio in the 1730s in response to changes in public taste; Messiah was his sixth work in this genre. Although its structure resembles that of opera, it is not in dramatic form; there are no impersonations of characters and no direct speech. Instead, Jennens's text is an extended reflection on Jesus as the Messiah called Christ. The text begins in Part I with prophecies by Isaiah and others, and moves to the annunciation to the shepherds, the only "scene" taken from the Gospels. In Part II, Handel concentrates on the Passion and ends with the "Hallelujah" chorus. In Part III he covers the resurrection of the dead and Christ's glorification in heaven.
Handel wrote Messiah for modest vocal and instrumental forces, with optional settings for many of the individual numbers. In the years after his death, the work was adapted for performance on a much larger scale, with giant orchestras and choirs. In other efforts to update it, its orchestration was revised and amplified by (among others) Mozart (Der Messias). In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the trend has been towards reproducing a greater fidelity to Handel's original intentions, although "big Messiah" productions continue to be mounted. A near-complete version was issued on 78 rpm discs in 1928; since then the work has been recorded many times. - Wikipedia
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This performance of Levy singing Comfort Ye is an absolutely masterclass of how to sing and how to tell the history to the audience💪♥️✌ BRAVO🔥👏👏
Confident that Levy Sekgapane's excellent tenor voice will bring him international fame!!!
Harpsichordist is simply on another level
I wish there were more of Levy Sekgapane's singing available online. What a voice!
My goodness! Can that man sing!!! Thank you so much for posting this.
Excellent thanks
One of the few tenors I’ve heard that actually sing the melismas correctly. Impressive.
Superb voice, dazzling musicianship. A real treat!
This is the absolute best tenor voice I've heard singing this aria. I am so moved...almost to tears. What an instrument, what artistry!
Absolutely true!!!!!!
Try the ohone captured Michael Spyres version :)
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This is the standard I want to follow in singing this piece.
Beyond stunning. Wow! I am so glad I found this!
An astonishing singer! Thank you.
Amazing performance...great breathe control 👌 👏
I’m not surprised he smashed this. South Africans are naturally gifted with vocal ability.
This was one of the best interpretations I heard of this aria.
Einfach wunderbar. Was für eine wunderbare Stimme, weiter viel Erfolg!
Great Performance
Beautifully sung. The ornaments are not quite "echt," but this talented young man can learn them, assimilate them, and make them his own.
Wow!!
Oh how Angelic his voice sounds😇
Beautiful voice.
Awesome!
Sounds beautifully. Bravo
Stunning.
This was a privilege to listen to!
Love this 👍🙏
Amazing
BRAVI!
🎉What a joy !! Awesome 🌹
White and black together making Gods music ❤
Bellísima voz e interpretación!!
Me encanto hermosa voz
Does he sing at the Cape Town Opera? He should
The best tenor I've heard, bar Pavarotti maybe 🤔
Wow... where have you been?
ok.
Comfort Ye My People went pretty well...but things broke down with "Ev'ry Valley".
how so??
@@cbd228theawsome7 some mistakes
I agree. Rather unfortunate. But he's got such a fine voice talent.
Please share with us a tenor or tenors, you discovered, you determined to be perfect. Thank you and the rest of us will wait!! :)
@@Jake-nk4wg Not entertaining your BS.