How Allegri's Miserere should really sound | The Marian Consort

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    Rory McCleery, joined by Ben Byram-Wigfield, gives you inside story on Gregorio Allegri's Miserere, the myths, and the mistakes. From Allegri, to Mozart, to Mendelssohn, get the back story on how the music became so famous, and hear three versions of the work as it might have sounded over the centuries.
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    格雷戈里奥·阿莱格里(Gregorio Allegri)-梅斯(Miserere mei),德乌斯(Deus)
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  • @rexstuff4655
    @rexstuff4655 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +182

    It might be 'wrong', but damn, that top C gives me the shivers Every. Single. Time. One of the most beautiful sequences in all of Music.

    • @CepheusFromTheMoon
      @CepheusFromTheMoon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      That mistake was like god saying let me help you with that 🤣🤣

    • @ludwigvonn9889
      @ludwigvonn9889 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Best musical mistake ever lol

    • @davidlewis3072
      @davidlewis3072 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you're not wrong if that is what it does with your heart

  • @mariusjansevanrensburg2262
    @mariusjansevanrensburg2262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +905

    "There are no mistakes, only happy accidents" - Bob Ross

    • @Wriggs74
      @Wriggs74 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I like your thinking 🤔👍

    • @rushthezeppelin
      @rushthezeppelin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Crap you beat me to it lol

    • @xynthyx
      @xynthyx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i prefer master oogway

    • @JamesWilliams-ki7im
      @JamesWilliams-ki7im 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      RIP Bob Ross... Even my pre-teen children love him...

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @IonIsFalling7217
    @IonIsFalling7217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +586

    Best mistake ever made

    • @class87srule
      @class87srule 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ripping (off) Yarn!

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus ?

    • @sgringo
      @sgringo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ShalomMulenga It's really nice. You had involvement in its creation? You're probably doing the narration, yeah?

    • @ariseaman390
      @ariseaman390 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mistakes happen, but they distort the original idea. In the future that piece of music might be performed by a death metal band and people think it's just some traditional lullaby from the year 1984.

    • @ElCerdoBlanco
      @ElCerdoBlanco ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ​@@ariseaman390 you underestimate (Death) Metal. Especially in Scandinavia many Metal bands are formed by musicians who studied music at the university. There is no modern music that is more complex than Metal (apart from "modern" classical music of course).
      Music is the language of emotions and in this song the high C is nothing else. But how can you express rage, anger or even hatred with a choir? This is the gap harmonic music cannot fill and where Metal has to be.

  • @hollyh8554
    @hollyh8554 2 ปีที่แล้ว +628

    I adore this video for maybe the nerdiest reason… I play the role of cantor at my church, and I’ve always dreamed of singing Allegri’s Miserere during Holy Week, but I just don’t have those highest notes. But the original version is almost identical to what I already sing each week! I’m losing-my-mind excited to finally bring the great Miserere to our little parish ensemble

    • @MarniMorrows
      @MarniMorrows 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Sweetest comment ever. 🙏🏽

    • @elijahcarter2435
      @elijahcarter2435 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I hope it went well!

    • @mrgabes2215
      @mrgabes2215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      May I ask: have you been singing it in Latin?

    • @fr.paulwheeler1112
      @fr.paulwheeler1112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think it sounds much better with the Prerigrinus rather than Mode ij.

    • @plaguedoct0r
      @plaguedoct0r ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Magic doesn't exist. Grow up.

  • @eduardovalentin9416
    @eduardovalentin9416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +490

    I always knew Allegri's Miserere slapped.
    What I didn't know is that it hits so hard that it slaps in an additional 2 versions I was unaware about until now.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @minnystrawb8453
      @minnystrawb8453 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The James Macmillan version is my favorite. Look up the version by the ORA singers. PERFECT blend. Absolutely perfect 😭😭

    • @Frankybeanselevators
      @Frankybeanselevators ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yeah dawg, it slaps da bass!!

    • @asshole94
      @asshole94 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@Frankybeanselevators
      weak.

    • @frisco61
      @frisco61 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Somehow “slaps” comes nowhere close to the majesty of this music.

  • @philipclingerman7095
    @philipclingerman7095 3 ปีที่แล้ว +409

    In all versions, the singing is exquisite.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @jackal59
      @jackal59 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except for the soprano's scoop and pitch issues in the third version.

    • @danielhughes441
      @danielhughes441 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The tenor soloist was under pitch on his first two plainchants. I’m also not a fan of the conductor’s gestures/conducting technique

    • @ronm3245
      @ronm3245 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danielhughes441 I think they added the solos from a different take. The 4-part choir would have come in on the lower pitch they had been presented with if the performance was continuous, but they were instantly in tune with each other and matched the previous choir. Also, no conductor is necessary for this.

    • @RobCCTV
      @RobCCTV 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its not as good as it sounds...

  • @willrice1850
    @willrice1850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    The alto at 11.00 is incredible. What a voice!

    • @5691Mark
      @5691Mark 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Absolutely!

    • @junk8746
      @junk8746 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Is she a contralto?

    • @richardrobb9016
      @richardrobb9016 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Helen Charleston it is. Glorious

    • @profMaximvs
      @profMaximvs ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A really warm voice!
      I have a special care about (the almost forgotten) Alto voice.

    • @joesoy9185
      @joesoy9185 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@richardrobb9016 A lovely rendition of hers in a lighter mood, here with Trinity College th-cam.com/video/eeK1xc418S4/w-d-xo.html

  • @Cyrus_II
    @Cyrus_II 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    Well, that mistake may have as well been divine intervention.

    • @torsteinnordstrand170
      @torsteinnordstrand170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Funnily enough, it's more like evolution. A random mutation / fault that proved to be more fit to survive than its ancestors.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @Cyrus_II
      @Cyrus_II 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@torsteinnordstrand170 You're ignoring the selection mechanism. Plenty of random things happen but they don't get selected randomly.

    • @Cyrus_II
      @Cyrus_II 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ShalomMulenga Man, I didn't even realize this song is psalm 50(51). Brings a tear to my eye

    • @torsteinnordstrand170
      @torsteinnordstrand170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Cyrus_II Not sure what you mean, it was clearly selected for. Just as Jeff Buckley's rendition of Hallelujah has made us forget Cohen's original.

  • @KateLove21
    @KateLove21 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Those acoustics! There's just something about the singer standing in the alcove that highlights the fact these stones are amplifying those voices. The talent of it all... the voices, the composer and the architects ... its simply amazing.

  • @kevinm.pfeiffer5037
    @kevinm.pfeiffer5037 2 ปีที่แล้ว +371

    Allegri's original, opening two verses: 6:30
    18th century version, with 2nd voice in opening 5-part choir up 1 octave: 8:12
    Familiar version known today: 10:19

    • @c_era_una_volta
      @c_era_una_volta ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😘

    • @LatestTechinCyberSec
      @LatestTechinCyberSec ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It would be really nice to have a full recording of the 2nd version from beginning to end. That seems the version most suitable for a concert, but what I like about the original version is that it can be sung by ordinary people in an actual liturgy!

    • @guss25100
      @guss25100 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@c_era_una_volta😅😅ii😅ii

  • @shannanolan
    @shannanolan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I love this entire thing. The right, the wrong, the plain. The. Whole. Miserere

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @La_Reinasworld
      @La_Reinasworld 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂❤

  • @AndromedaCripps
    @AndromedaCripps 2 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    The high c is splendid, but I think what really sells it is the sudden key change. It makes you feel so transported each time. It’s so out of place for this type of music, being from the period it was from; and that’s because it actually IS out of place, but nonetheless 😂 And the plainchant in between works really well as a tonality palette cleanser to lead us back to the original key. ✨

    • @smc3735
      @smc3735 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Druid? Gregorio Allegri was a Roman Catholic Priest. Stop confusing yourself and robbing the Holy Trinity of their Glory! Their aim is to inspire love of God by sending Sanctifying music into the world. Their purpose again is to raise a soul to God! No doubt you are an admirer also of Mozart? Mozart was not the silly wretch they portrayed him as being in the film. Having read his unedited letters, he was revealed to be what would be classed today as a most Conservative Prudish person, a devout Roman Catholic (like Allegri) who served God and led people to God with his inspired music.
      In many letters Mozart speaks of Christ. "Christ willing I'll see you later" "If it is God's Will I will do so" etc...In one letter that Mozart wrote to a friend, he revealed that during the space of time that he sat at Table eating his dinner, he became distracted from his table guests, upon hearing music as though already composed playing in his head. All that was needed was for him to write it down. No doubt you would interpret him as being a warlock, Druid, or heathen - (all known to be Satanic types who are NOT of the pure, just God. Mozart, however, did not despise the virtue and innocence of Christ, and he recognised His virtue and innocence within His gift of Music. He therefore gave full credit to God. He said the music came from Heaven so that he could bring glory to God as souls marvelled at his accomplishments.
      Mozart also once said "I trust NO man who does not love Christ." As a Composer myself I know that what he said was true. Whether the music is dreamed, heard consciously playing outside yourself, or even played in your soul so you are unaware that it is indeed a gift from outside you - the author of ALL Sacred, spiritual beautiful music is Our Lord. Who hopes we will rush to worship Him as we hear it being performed. His aim is realised. MANY souls are brought to Christ listening to the music that He gave the Composers who LOVED Him.
      Other RC Priest Composers are Palestrina, Vivaldi, Tomas Luis de Victoria
      Monteverdi, - other Catholic Composers include, Pergolesi, Elgar, and of course, William Byrd and Thomas Tallis.

    • @AndromedaCripps
      @AndromedaCripps ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@smc3735 “Druid” was a typo! I intended to type “period” and it auto-corrected. Not sure where you got your interpretation of my comment from though. Actuslly personally Mozart is among my least favorite composers. Also, as a composer, I appreciate and tolerate all religions and the music they have inspired, as well as the music they haven’t, and as such, respect that Allegri may have come from a similar spiritual background to yourself!

    • @Lajusa
      @Lajusa 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Damn, you are gorgeous !

  • @rushthezeppelin
    @rushthezeppelin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Wow that mistake with the C is just soul piercing. To quote Bob Ross, no mistakes just happy accidents (it certainly applies here).

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @luisloya1120
      @luisloya1120 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bob Ross, 😆

    • @G.B.P.
      @G.B.P. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah, it’s a terrible mistake. If you want to hear that high C just transpose the original score up a fourth, but don’t mess with the composers work.

  • @cluelessbeekeeping1322
    @cluelessbeekeeping1322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +333

    I'm not terribly bright....it *_JUST_* hit me... all of this, no instruments. Wow, that magnificence is all voices. Wow. So beautiful!

    • @creightonstarbuck2000
      @creightonstarbuck2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      The human voice is the only instrument created by God, not by Man, making it the highest instrument of them all.

    • @highonimmi
      @highonimmi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@creightonstarbuck2000 dude...best comment ever

    • @daphneraven9439
      @daphneraven9439 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    • @drlrwilsings
      @drlrwilsings 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      God's greatest instrument.

    • @torsteinnordstrand170
      @torsteinnordstrand170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@drlrwilsings By your logic, god also made heavenly farting.

  • @LukeSM2024
    @LukeSM2024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +760

    I’m really, really impressed with the original version. There is a noble simplicity to it that was lost in all of the later embellishments. I hope you guys record it for one of your albums one day.

    • @TheMarianConsort
      @TheMarianConsort  3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      it's rather beautiful isn't it. thanks for watching

    • @atlinc.s6525
      @atlinc.s6525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      i think the actual sistine chapel choir had made a recording of the original piece which was recorded in the sistine chapel .

    • @hstanekovic
      @hstanekovic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I wholeheartedly agree.

    • @kateguilfoyle5155
      @kateguilfoyle5155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I hope you do a recording too - your work is beautiful. The original tells more closely to the meaning of the Psalm itself too but all are exquisite.

    • @mwnyc3976
      @mwnyc3976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@atlinc.s6525
      Al though the Sistine Chapel Choir of the late 20th and 21st centuries doesn't bear much resemblance to the one of the 16th and 17th centuries.

  • @slyph63
    @slyph63 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    That is the most beautiful mistake I've ever heard in my life. My heart just soars when I hear it. This is the last thing I want to hear before I close my eyes for ever.

  • @faramund9865
    @faramund9865 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I'm really impressed the singers don't get confused when learning all these different versions!

  • @mariashouse5492
    @mariashouse5492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    All three versions are beautiful, but I just love the high c in the modern version. I also love the purity of the singers voices!

  • @robertjohnson-taylor100
    @robertjohnson-taylor100 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This proves, at least to me, how beautiful an instrument the human voice can be.

  • @TomD67
    @TomD67 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Thank you for this video. This kind of scholarship is extremely important, especially in these days of cultural collapse and general embrace of ignorance.

  • @Dave5400
    @Dave5400 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    At the end of the day, if the "mistaken" high C section wasn't adopted, the piece may not have been quite as well known as it is. The extras that arguably shouldn't be there make it the iconic piece that it is. For something to be recognisable, it needs to stand out and this certainly does that, no matter what the puritans say about changing a piece of music from the composer's intentions.

    • @SpringNotes
      @SpringNotes 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Right ? Such a great mistake !

  • @inu206
    @inu206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    The first version is so soft and nice. Like Angels.

    • @chubbs-thechubbyninja4719
      @chubbs-thechubbyninja4719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That one is called lamentations

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @c_era_una_volta
      @c_era_una_volta ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chubbs-thechubbyninja4719 thanks

  • @smoath
    @smoath 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    This video itself is something to be celebrated. WELL DONE!

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @KeeganConnolly
    @KeeganConnolly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    I'm so glad I found this video! This is fascinating. I obviously love the 'mistake' high C, but that alto solo on "misericordiam" gave me goosebumps.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @craigeverhart4755
      @craigeverhart4755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The singers are uncredited individually, but I think that's Helen Charlston as the contralto (formerly of Trinity College Cambridge). Yes, an awesome talent.

    • @AlexDogwalker1234
      @AlexDogwalker1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      SAME! But i do think the c makes it so very gaudy.

  • @eigengrau7698
    @eigengrau7698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    9:42 that sound was MASSIVE
    also
    6:45 (ori)
    8:27 (2nd alter)
    10:20 (the 'happy little accident')
    12:10 (signature)

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @chrismoule7242
      @chrismoule7242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I *loathe* that 9:42 with a passion, I have to say.

    • @ghastlycandle
      @ghastlycandle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chrismoule7242 maybe I'm uncultured but that whole part from 9:42 to 10:11 (especially at 10:05) just sounded super pitchy and off to me?? I guess it was meant to sound that way but the blond singer sounded off key to me and it threw me off. But maybe I'm just super used to the original lol

    • @polral7287
      @polral7287 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ghastlycandle I love the dissonance in that part. It's not off-key, it's just a chromatic note (or borrowed?) I'm assuming. It darkens it a bit. Love it

    • @robertmbaker8215
      @robertmbaker8215 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Grinch-like, my soul grew three times its size the first time I heard that 12:10 sound (and every time since!)

  • @baronvg
    @baronvg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    Wow, I just randomly had this tune play in my head and so wanted to listen to it and then came across this video. You really do learn something new everyday! Best mistake ever! As opposed to the worst mistake ever which is what my parents have called me for 40 years.

    • @nickkablak8920
      @nickkablak8920 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Now that’s a lot of damage

    • @regrettablestitches
      @regrettablestitches 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Same, my guy -- and yet, here we are, just as magnificent as that "mistake" of a note.

    • @titob.yotokojr.9337
      @titob.yotokojr.9337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Well, you can appreciate heavenly music so you can't be all that bad 😊.

    • @atomariel4849
      @atomariel4849 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They made a mistake they think but all they did was miss the largest opportunity of their life's, raising a child. God makes no mistakes child but humans on the other hand blinded by our ambitions stumble by the second. You are loved but we all have a struggle to face. Hold fast and elevate your struggle for the holy souls of purgatory.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @timbobsm
    @timbobsm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Years ago, I purchased the album of King's College choir first recording of the English version of the Miserere with a boy by the name of Roy Goodman hitting those soaring high Cs. I fell in love with this work. Since then I have found recordings of the original version. I love both of them. Yet, still when listening to the modern version, it is like someone, with those high Cs is trying to reach heaven and taking the listener with him/her.

    • @paulsmith5752
      @paulsmith5752 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Roy Goodman became an excellent violinist, especially in Baroque and early Classical music.

  • @1515327E
    @1515327E ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I actually prefer the female soprano version to the boy treble one. The way her voice expands from the rising point of that top C is breathtaking. God bless you.

  • @brads2041
    @brads2041 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The top c is so beautiful it gives me chills and nearly always brings me to tears to hear it

  • @janefaceinthewind6260
    @janefaceinthewind6260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    God, that soprano is just glorious! I love that there is so much resonance and warmth in her voice, even in the higher notes. Fantastic technique! Thank you for sharing your talent and the beauty of music.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

    • @Vermontist1
      @Vermontist1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Quit spamming our page

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior ปีที่แล้ว

      For another, try the one in Nigel Short's Tenebrea Choir. The one I'm speaking of specifically is in the antiphonal choir, I put you in about 10 seconds before that stratospheric note. It's the same piece, BTW.
      th-cam.com/video/H3v9unphfi0/w-d-xo.html

  • @richards4395
    @richards4395 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The “mistake” must have been divinely guided.

  • @Ben-kv7wr
    @Ben-kv7wr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    all the ornamentation on the second version is just so hypnotising, especially near the end

    • @aetheldan
      @aetheldan หลายเดือนก่อน

      real. a full 15 min version of it would be incredible

  • @marydonohoe8200
    @marydonohoe8200 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    That contralto in versions one and two here is stunning. I’d love to hear more of her work!

  • @Jo1066milton
    @Jo1066milton ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was babysitting for my music teacher around 1975/6 and had the radio on. This music played. I didn't catch either the name or the composer but that high note grabbed me. I wanted that music. It wasn't until some time in the 1990s when I bought a CD of "church music" and there it was. I didn't know its history until I saw this video. I do prefer the "wrong" version. It was and still is that very high note that I love, and it literally bring sudden tears to my eyes.

  • @Portubed
    @Portubed 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Each version, straight from the start:
    1) 6:46
    2) 8:28
    3) 10:35

  • @cheytacpraetoriancomposite3413
    @cheytacpraetoriancomposite3413 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    So one of the most beautiful things i've ever heard in my life was made by mistake...cool

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus

  • @lindaj5492
    @lindaj5492 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wonderful. Where was this filmed please? The stonework is extraordinary.

  • @robert9ish
    @robert9ish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    What a beautiful 'mistake'. Easily one of the most touching pieces of music for me. I'll take that high C any day. It's one of the parts I most look forward to in what is now a modern arrangement of the original piece through the centuries.

    • @fredgarv79
      @fredgarv79 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      to me, the high C is what makes it, I just saw it a few days ago and let me tell you, it was an experience

    • @aquamayne8168
      @aquamayne8168 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fredgarv79 thats me right now having an experience. The Hi C version just blows me away

  • @annstrahlendorf2879
    @annstrahlendorf2879 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All Magnificent 🙏♥️🙏

  • @jamesmartello1
    @jamesmartello1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    It is hauntingly beautiful and reflective. It has always been one of my favourite pieces.

    • @m.campbell650
      @m.campbell650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You hit the nail on the head..." hauntingly beautiful and reflective". I can definitely picture it during Tenebrae Services.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @guguigugu
    @guguigugu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    in art, there are no mistakes, only happy accidents

  • @APolat-tz8tl
    @APolat-tz8tl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Either it’s the first “simple” version or the last one with the top C, it’s amazing! Just purely beautiful. ❤ No words can describe the feeling that overcomes me each time I listen to it. Tears rolling down my cheeks with a smile on my face. ❤

  • @Atomsoppen95
    @Atomsoppen95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This just goes to show that any piece takes on an indepenence from its composer, and becomes a common cultural heritage, always in the process of being reinvented each time it's recreated. Even a written form, with a long history of documentation, such as the classical music tradition, takes on certain folkloric aspects, much like oral tradition in folk music. Any piece of art becomes public, collective property as the piece itself, and its entire history, becomes the basis for its own interpretation.

  • @KayAteChef
    @KayAteChef ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would sit in a vaulted stone building every Sunday for this.

  • @francesmilne4411
    @francesmilne4411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Sublime singing and so interesting to hear the history of this piece. Thank you.

    • @jameshardie4760
      @jameshardie4760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Frances!

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @Squisky
    @Squisky 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This channel needs millions of followers.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus ?

  • @pricklypear7497
    @pricklypear7497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Each version has its own inherent value and beauty. Although I would always know the final version as my favourite choral piece.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @Xanaseb
    @Xanaseb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The tonus peregrinus plain chant segment is much nicer!
    Very helpful and beautiful video, thanks

    • @jameshardie4760
      @jameshardie4760 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you enjoyed!

    • @SempreGumby
      @SempreGumby 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And very familiar. We use it among others.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus

  • @NasserShakaa
    @NasserShakaa ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Remarkable how a mistake changes this historic piece, only to make it be a signature identity. And this isn't a mistake in the negative sense of the word at all, but rather a happy one. And yet I find myself loving all three versions equally.

  • @MF-es2jw
    @MF-es2jw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s almost so beautiful it hurts your soul I can’t hardly handle the beauty

  • @marcschiavone2788
    @marcschiavone2788 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As an author, I can imagine that Allegri himself knew that high C as a detail that an author almost writes but forgets in a "knock at the door" moment of distraction.....

  • @famsteer
    @famsteer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Each version brings tears to my eyes. God sings through music like this.

    • @eloisem3214
      @eloisem3214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Indeed. I only hope this is the song I hear as I enter heaven. Glorious!

    • @luisloya1120
      @luisloya1120 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Amen

  • @francoisewhite2541
    @francoisewhite2541 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The 'mistake' fills me with gratitude and wonder. Weeping from the beauty of it

  • @melodyjennings7782
    @melodyjennings7782 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was an honor to attend St. James in Vancouver WA. where Scott Powell directed the choir and he played the organ. The level of music was excellent. His choristers sang the Misrere during Holy Week with perfection.

  • @Liessssssssssss
    @Liessssssssssss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I have had no musical training, so I don't always know what you are talking about. But I am trying my best to understand everything and go back and compare each version. I find it fascinating I am learning so much

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus

  • @hezakayametekingi2607
    @hezakayametekingi2607 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    All three different versions are beautiful and unique in their own way. And have their different interpretation.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus

  • @user-fq9lc2ch7r
    @user-fq9lc2ch7r 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The setting that this prayer is sung adds to its brilliance.

  • @frankbowman9493
    @frankbowman9493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Helen Charlston's voice is captivating. When she starts on "misericordiam" in the second version her tone is amazing.
    I loved this. I read Ben Byram-Wigfield's essay a few years ago, and of course I have heard The Sixteen do their versions (or what is available of them on TH-cam).
    This was perfect. I much prefer the original tonus peregrinus. I would like to see a version very much like the 18th Century version but with embellishments simplified for a less proficient church choir.
    On the other hand, the simplicity of the original is amazing.

  • @maureentuohy8672
    @maureentuohy8672 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is one of the most beautiful works of music in the world. The fact that it is the text of one of the most powerful Psalms in scripture only adds to it's beauty.

    • @jlouis4407
      @jlouis4407 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep Psalm 51 is the “big” one

  • @Garnog404
    @Garnog404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    God heard this, and was pleased. Then He thought "Well, it could be better." Now we have the 'best' version. CHANGE MY MIND®

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus ?

  • @barbaragunter9413
    @barbaragunter9413 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Fascinating! Really love how you took us through the various approaches with the historical context. More of this kind of thing please!

    • @TheMarianConsort
      @TheMarianConsort  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks for the feedback Barbara! Noted!

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @gloriahancock998
    @gloriahancock998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Wow! It is absolutely beautiful, any of those versions. I take them all.
    Is like being in heaven listening to the angels sing to our Lord. ✝️🙏Amén.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @guidobosson3332
    @guidobosson3332 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As someone who's born in a non-Christian family this piece of music as well as this type of (church) music in general speaks straight to my heart and soul 🙌 ❤️ for me heaven exists in music and how it can heal a soul and mind. But i could listen to this piece in a church all day, sang by the ones who poses the knowhow of singing this song so heavenly. To be honest I've never spent more then a few hours in one for the loss of family or close friends... My thoughts go out for all my loved ones present or above. And thank you Allegri from the past, for this wonderfull peace of my soul from the warmth of your music. Which will last another hundreds of years thanks to our current technology of preservation and so on.... thank you thank you thank you☺️

    • @G.B.P.
      @G.B.P. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You’re welcome to come to the Catholic church any time

  • @horrgakx
    @horrgakx ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I found the 8:12 original version to be amazing, but the high-C is just so compelling and fits so well into the piece.
    It's just the most incredible piece of music, whichever version you like.

  • @sugar4522
    @sugar4522 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the song I’ve been looking for for a long long time, I’m glad I accidentally found it.

  • @sarastroposa5198
    @sarastroposa5198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Each version is wonderful in its own way... I could imagine each one sung on successive services. Thanks for such an insightful presentation and sterlng performance values.

  • @user-sc9xj4tj7z
    @user-sc9xj4tj7z 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Perhaps Allegri made the ""mistake"", and The Holy Spirit got it ""corrected"" in later years. Both versions are heavenly. Thank you very much for the historical analysiis.

    • @vortex_master
      @vortex_master 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I genuinely believe the Holy Spirit gave us this masterpiece. I hear His voice every time I listen.

  • @esdraskuhn8896
    @esdraskuhn8896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Maybe it's because Tonus Peregrinus is my all time favourite chant line, but I really like Allegri's original version the best for its simplicity.

    • @16semiquavers
      @16semiquavers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree! It befits Holy Week. And the tonus peregrinus is haunting.

  • @jlouis4407
    @jlouis4407 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Even the original is sublimely beautiful

  • @vcatmusic
    @vcatmusic 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All are beautiful, but I think the "mistakes" made in the modern version make this piece particularly more moving.

  • @agurtzanemallona
    @agurtzanemallona 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    So impressed by the three versions.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus

  • @mjremy2605
    @mjremy2605 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow! I heard the wrong version all these years! Thank god for your painstaking research and collaboration and the hard work of the Marian Consort. We finally have the right version which is much easier to sing too!
    The original version by Allegri was more layered, melodious, and more simple than later versions, without the high change in pitch. I liked it better, especially for singing. The later version is what I use when I want to release a flood of tears and my pain flows like a swollen river. Both version are beautiful, but I am very, very grateful to have the original Miserere that you have recorded here. I must buy this song if you have it. Thank you for restoring authenticity to this beautiful piece. It is everlasting.

  • @creativebobbo
    @creativebobbo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Either version is a sweet piece of music. I'm actually partial to the original. The separation of the lower opening lines sound more dramatic to me. Those 9? voices produce a very big sound. The acoustics are awesome. Bravo!

  • @equusasinus
    @equusasinus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I read somewhere on Facebook that there was no Sistine Chapel: it all happened in a cellar beneath a pizza restaurant in Rome.

  • @moaahlgren5193
    @moaahlgren5193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was a great lesson in music history. Thanx!

  • @jordimartinez6296
    @jordimartinez6296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent video. Thanks very much

  • @johnhagen31
    @johnhagen31 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jaw-droppingly beautiful in all its versions.

  • @hjkaye
    @hjkaye 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What an interesting history. I first heard it performed by the Tallis Scholars in the mid 80s. I have been blessed to hear them perform it live twice.
    To this day, after enjoying it hundreds of times, the opening ten notes still give me goosebumps.
    I am wondering what church is hosting these wonderful variations? Bravo Brava.

  • @00muinamir
    @00muinamir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oh, this is fascinating! Hearing them side by side the last one really does sound anachronistic by comparison. But they're all beautiful in their own way.

  • @LucynaNorment
    @LucynaNorment ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What an extraordinary lesson in beautiful music. Thank you for this.

  • @tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai
    @tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mistakes are one of the keyfactors for creativity ...
    This is a great story.
    The high C helped me loving the whole song. The first few times of listening to it, I was unable to memorise anything at all but this single note. Months later parts of the whole song appeared in my steady flow of imagination and I had to find it again, and I melt down by the beauty of Miserere mei and the amount of feelings of decency and the urge for love, that many excellent singers are giving.

  • @malcolmfrance337
    @malcolmfrance337 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating. All versions are beautiful. Thank you to all involved in this production!

  • @Wriggs74
    @Wriggs74 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    It's just like the accidental discovery of penicillin. Only once in a lifetime something is discovered by accident. For me the most recent is just one of the most beautifulist pieces of music I have ever heard.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus

  • @mbg484
    @mbg484 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    amazing how much sound so few singers can create! and so so beautifully . . .

  • @cantab345
    @cantab345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "post-Mahler" - Love it! And what a sweet guy.

  • @Cyberzab57
    @Cyberzab57 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing work! Thanks a lot.

  • @Rockland45
    @Rockland45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Extremely well done documentary. I prefer the modern version, mainly because that soaring high note IS the Miserere for me.

  • @heidi1640
    @heidi1640 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the first version the most. 💖 When I first learned about the piece Miserere, I was always listening to the latest version until my brother made me listen to the original version of the piece and it's far more beautiful and fitting to the liturgy. So for me, it's how it is always supposed to be sung.

  • @yippee8570
    @yippee8570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was spellbound by all three versions. Thank you so much for this.

  • @chrishoo2
    @chrishoo2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many thanks for making this video, wonderful music & voices- congratulations to you all.

  • @andrewrussell1458
    @andrewrussell1458 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is it just me or is the highest note actually hit in the original version? At 7:50 there was a wonderfully delicate hight note carried in the background. AMAZING!

  • @adastra5214
    @adastra5214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Like angels singing, beautiful. The 18th-century version is sublime, exquisite.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version of Miserere mei Deus

  • @zxbn4566
    @zxbn4566 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thankyou so much! I love all three variants, and your engaging and authoritative explanation of the piece's historical evolution.

  • @jimfowler5930
    @jimfowler5930 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brings tears.......simply beautiful, the soul sings with this performance.

  • @vcaylor77
    @vcaylor77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    What an education you've provided about the versions of this piece. Thank you so much!
    I randomly ran across Tenebrae performing the "mistake" version as my first exposure to it. When I would look for other performers doing it, I noticed I kept seeing various composers' names, dates, and that some sounded different. I kept thinking to myself that I just didn't remember the name of the piece and wouldn't ever figure it out again, so I'd just be happy with what I *thought* I heard one time. (I did eventually find Tenebrae's performance again.)
    Now it all makes so much more sense. I look forward to listening to other versions with this knowledge.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version

  • @lightandtheheat
    @lightandtheheat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    11:03 I recognize the soprano on the left from Tenebrae's 2018 rendition of this same piece, also on TH-cam. She must be intimately familiar with it by now.
    Also the alto at 10:57 is spectacular.

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior ปีที่แล้ว

      Another favorite of mine, and Voces 8, among others.

  • @Cre8tvMG
    @Cre8tvMG 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh man. That's stunning. Well done.

  • @OmisileKehindeOlugbenga
    @OmisileKehindeOlugbenga 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesomely beautiful... Makes me love the song and singing all the more

  • @Skiptondesigns
    @Skiptondesigns 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They were doing remix versions back then! Impressive.

  • @VarietasCantandi
    @VarietasCantandi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you very much for this very interesting explanation and story! The format you chose was perfect to quickly grasp the differences and the similarities between the versions. Combined with the great production quality this makes for an outstanding video about a stunning piece.

    • @ShalomMulenga
      @ShalomMulenga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/GVPjxXNz2ec/w-d-xo.html what do you think about this version