Can you imagine what the effect of hearing this would have been circa 1500, 1600 or 1700? It must have seemed that they were hearing the infinite; touching the veil, transcending existence.
+Sionnach1601 Yes!!!! This feeling, this beauty, this lifting of the soul to higher things; this is what you feel when you know humanity is putting their divinely-bestowed gifts to good use. I tend to think that a great number of the dislikes must have not listened to more than a few minutes in. Well. They don't know what they're missing!
i have been listening to this for years now and i just notice the dislikes (after reading your comment). i never thought something as pure as this could be hated...
This makes my heart ache and my soul joyful. It gives me a longing for a time I have felt and known before. A time when flesh was not needed, a time in the realms of spirit. My heart aches for that peace my soul remembers.
I was shocked the first time I heard this: can this be human? I listened to the CD hundreds of times, and was overjoyed when the Tallis Scholars came to Taipei and sang this. Thank you for posting!
I heard this for the first time about 5 years ago at the start of the Lenten season and it moved me so much that I felt pleading of the words and was literally brought to tears during Holy Mass; exactly where I needed to be during Lent.
Seyi Martins This is not a classical piece. This is a religious music. This is a Plea for mercy towards the Creator when King David committed sin with Bathsheba and he had Bathsheba's husband killed in battle because Bathsheba was carrying his child. You should read this part of the OT how David plotted the killing of Bathsheba's husband.
This wasn't composed by Mozart. It was composed by Gregorio Allegri an Italian composer. It was made strictly for the Vatican church for the Sistine Chapel during special services. At only 14 Mozart transcribed it by memory and reproduced the song. Technically, piracy. =)
Can’t believe I first heard this in the film Maurice. The guy ends up being an atheist and skipping chapel as much as he dare at university. It doesn’t play for long in the film but it’s so beautiful…
I'm not religious in any way, but when you won't agree that this is beautiful you have an issue... sorry, but that is the truth. Every night for almost 1 month I start this video and sleep to this music.
Dear freind have you ever tough about this song how it touch your heart and hear something close what is telling you with kindess to reach you? A voice which wants to hold you who waits by your heart by telling our Lord your problems and fears we can tell him everything what ever or not you are ready its your choice to decide in prayer to answer what do you think?
Weird...I was playing this monumental piece this evening in the kitchen (because I needed 'refilling'), and asked my little four year old what he thought of it, as he seems to have quite an insight for good music of any genre. He actually, and honestly said: "I heard this when I was born. I heard it when I was a baby." The same little chappie, one evening when my sister visited, leaned across the table to her and out of the blue asked: "So what's your baby's name??" She looked stunned, and a bit flustered - 'guilty' flustered. She hadn't told us that she was pregnant. So now! Miserére Mei...music is the language of the spirit. Are angels and such supremely benevolent entities 'real'? I'm fairly sure that they are. :)
God is love. Have mercy on us Lord. Create a clean heart for me O God and renew in me a steadfast spirit ...wash me completely from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin ... I acknowledge my iniquity. There is no mercy without forgiveness. You forgive me Lord for you have shown mercy to me. And you know everything ... You know that I love you.
I saw (heard?) this performed by the Tallis Scholars in Oxford. Before then, I had never appreciated it as much as I do now. Many thanks for posting this.
+RanMouri82 If the moon had been aligned differently would you have had the same focus on an alternative Friday and less or perhaps none on the Friday that you mentioned?
+LaurieWilliams5066 Don't you find more significance to "Happy Birthday" when singing it to someone you love on their birthday? Or do you insist on insulting a stranger's religion by asking silly questions about the moon's alignment?
RanMouri82 Your question nearly answers itself. Which is sillier - my question about the moon's alignment or the widespread practice of regarding a particular day as special based on that alignment?
I love chorale works (inspired by my time in a church choir and school choir) and this is one of the best. It brings goosebumps on my arms every time I hear it. Also a lump to the throat.
Here are 3 beautiful Prayers you can pray every morning maybe at 4 or 5. Psalm 66 May God show us grace and blessing; Psalm 50 Have mercy on me O God, according to Thy great mercy; Canticle of Zachariae, St. Luke 1, 68-79 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel.
The pictures are fitting. Though with our eyes we see as through a glass, you have allowed us through our ears to see Him face-to-Face, and for that I am grateful.
I AM NOW 22 BUT LAST TIME I LISTENED WHEN I AM IN 7 YEARS OLD. THESE YEARS JUST PASSED NOW I AM AGAIN LISTENING FIRST TIME WOW ITS A GREAT EXPERIENCE... WHATEVER THIS IS JUST RECALLING AND ONCE AGAIN REMINDING MY OLD LIFE (I hered this on radio that time) what a Vocal Musical voice this is Mind blowing.And What A Experience This is when I heared At 7 year Old ❤️
This is a quintessentially Roman Catholic music traditionally sung during Tenebrae on Holy Thursday night, and Good Friday during the Seven Last Words of Jesus...it expresses intense humility by a human soul who realizes the sacrifice God made for his soul...he begs mercy and what may he offer in exchange for the hideous pain and suffering the Son of God consented to in order that human souls might be redeemed from Satanic bondage of original and mortal sin...
I say thanks to this choir who sings the song of Miserere mei deus wonderfully. I know this is not only a form of music but also the voices which is combined one to each other to become a good melody like we hear now. Once again thanks to make me tear when hear this song. Because I am a sinner and missing to the God love and the salvation.
heard this on classic FM and had to go to iplayer to find out what it was.. so lovely
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La primera vez que la escuché no sabía que pieza era, fue realmente fascinante oírla. Todavía, después de encontrarla, me impresiona cada vez que la pongo. Gracias por compartir.
♥️Absolutely Adore♥️ This Extraordinary Exquisite Sublime Piece Of🎼 Since I 1st heard in 1980.! This is the Ultimate Definitive Recording😍 & without a doubt, all others pale in comparison. Period.! 😍Thx for the terrific photos, the grain adds to the sobering poignant mood of in ⛪️singing.! ♥️🙏🏻✌🏼
This is indeed a glorious sound, and the accompanying photos are a pleasure to see; very appropriate. You found some great camera angles. Many thanks for the upload.
Mirroring the other comments below, this is just beautiful. It reminds me that beyond the mass media there really are 'truly' talented and skilled people who make our fascinating world full of uplifting experiences. I wish I could bottle the part at 5:05-5:10
+Suyu yang I have to admit to being a bit mystified by the "dislikes" myself. It stands to reason that people have different tastes and that's perfectly understandable. I applaud that. I encourage it. I just can't quite understand why anyone would bother to waste the energy posting something negative when one can simply just move on.
Believe it. There will always be people who will not be receptive to our Lord. Just as there is good there is also evil. But let those of us who believe, pray for those who don't even if we get scoffed at.
not too many pieces of music are able to move me to tears, This piece has been in my life since I was about 7 , and it never fails to put me into a kind of roller-coaster of emotions. I remember once after we listened to this at Grand-parents place and right after we were going out somewhere , all of us, and Grandma, she was going on about the High C part in the song, which is so amazing sounding. And I said something like , :So what? She said , can YOU do that? And I remember that as I was walking out the door to the back deck, I just launched RIGHT INTO that note! With no effort at all! Amazing! I was probably 9 or 10. Now of course that is impossible
Utterly magnificent. Goodness gracious, listen to the beauty of the grougeous sound. The Tallis Scholars performance of this glorious music is and always will be my favorite. ❤
one of my all time fav's so very special wonderful top c' heavenly singing.so sweet ....very tingle factor.makes me shiver.and hair stand on end.thanks for posting. just wish it was the full version.. Aum shanti Hari.
English Translation: Have mercy upon me, O God, after Thy great goodness According to the multitude of Thy mercies do away mine offences. Wash me throughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that Thou mightest be justified in Thy saying, and clear when Thou art judged. Behold, I was shapen in wickedness: and in sin hath my mother conceived me. -more-
I think the dark grainy pictures work really well actually, it gives a brooding ominous mysterious atmosphere. Coupled with the music it makes a really good video!
Belleza absoluta. Es como si los propios ángeles le estuvieran cantando a Dios. Que mente tan prodigiosa la del maestro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Solo el pudo haber recordado esta pieza magistral de memoria. Que belleza. Gracias x compartir!!!!!
There is a wonderful story, but I don't know if it is true. The Miserer was considered so special a property of the Church that no one was allowed to write the music down in manuscript. Young Mozart was said to have heard it once and gone home and written it note for note. I hope it's true!
I've heard that story too. Apparently this song was performed in the Sistine Chapel since 1630 but wasn't heard by the public until 1770, as you said, after a 14 year old Mozart wrote it down after hearing it.
Actually, he heard it twice after having traved to the Vatican with his father, Leopold, who responded to a summons to take a commission to write music for the Vatican. Wolfgang was 14 at the time (1770). Something like six weeks later, after their return to Austria, Wolfgang put it down on paper from memory. Pretty stunning in and of itself until you stop to realize Wolfgang had just invented the 18th century's version of music file sharing.
2standard The story is true. Here is what Wikipedia has." According to the popular story (backed up by family letters), the fourteen-year-old Mozart was visiting Rome, when he first heard the piece during the Wednesday service. Later that day, he wrote it down entirely from memory, returning to the Chapel that Friday to make minor corrections. Some time during his travels, he met the British historian Dr Charles Burney, who obtained the piece from him and took it to London, where it was published in 1771. Once the piece was published, the ban was lifted; Mozart was summoned to Rome by Pope Clement XIV, only instead of excommunicating the boy, the Pope showered praises on him for his feat of musical genius."
Yes, that is a true story. Unfortunately, it was confiscated by the church when they found out what he did and it wasn't released to the public until much later. Aside from a scant few articulation mistakes, it was a perfect hard-copy reproduction of what Mozart heard that day at church. Pretty amazing if you ask me.
It saddens me a bit when I see haters, mockers of Christians and Christianity, but also Christians judging their fellow human being. Both the haters and the Catholic judgers should both desist as both are wrong. This piece ultimately is supposed to be about LOVE. It is about absolute love for whatever great 'thing' it is that you believe in. But also it should be about the *giving over completely* of oneself, absolute surrender because of love, acceptance of one's place in the Universe, and faith that one will always be welcomed, embraced, and loved - never judged. This is what is starkly missing in all these comments. The Christian's Jesus gave himself over amidst much suffering, hoping his sacrifice would help uplift others. We won't worry about the judgement of the others or why he needed to do it for the "sinners". He just did it in a supreme act of self-sacrifice and love for them, and love for his father. No finer thing could be or would ever be done. I'm not a Christian, but the beauty of the act, and the agony he is supposed to have suffered, for love, LOVE, brings me to tears right now. No judgment or conditions. People are missing this in this whole forum. It's sublime, it's sweet, it's so tender and asks nothing in return. Can't you all see? Stop your fighting now. Stay your hard words for each other. Charles Dickens' words, I think, voice Christ's beautiful, ultimate thoughts at the time: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
@Earth Dweller Thank you too ED. Absolutely, I don't think many 'get' that, Christians and non-Christians alike, that he was / is a "Universal God for a Universal humanity". Perfectly put. He could be under any name, under any guise in any religion, but still be perceived as a Supreme being of Good - "Good", something I'm sure that we are ALL pre-programmed to know when we see it. I think Gandhi 'got it' as well: "I am a Hindu, I am a Muslim, I am a Christian, I am a Jew".
@Earth Dweller Anyway thanks for your lovely penned comment. Likewise, it's very rare for me too, to find such a wonderful, insightful, Good, comment or response. God bless wherever you are in the World :)
Well it had to be sung by somebody! It just so happens to be sung by someone by the name of Alison Stamp, whoever she is when she's at home. The important point here is "Miserere Mei", not some singer.
I'd be surprised if TS had used a soprano for this piece. At least half their number are trebles (boy sopranos) who can make that high part soar with no trouble at all.
@@elizabethsohler6516 The Tallis Scholars sopranos are women and always have been. The altos are mixed. As for boys being able to make the high notes *at all* (never mind easily): no, they really can't. It's always the same whoever: waiting to hear whether the soprano can make it up there. Very few can do it, and even fewer can do it five times in a row.
TomSuntotheMax I was quoting from the psalms....A lot of Christians believe that our sins were washed away by the blood sacrifice of Christ when He was crucified. The Psalmist is asking the Lord to cleanse him because he believes his sins are too great to be atoned for on his own. Personally, I believe I can't do this on my own but that I need help from the Lord via Jesus' death and resurrection. I don't hold it against people who don't believe this.....but this is my personal belief.
Laura Opper If you feel so burdened by sin that you need cleansing, why do you entrust the process to a God who knowingly and deliberately made you sinful in the first place? To allow 40-50 billion humans over a six millennia time-scale to suffer the consequences of his originally incompetent design flaws, and then demand they seek HIS forgiveness is perverse to say the very least. He should hope we forgive HIM for dragging us into his mess in the first place.
Paul Cooper I'm sorry you are unhappy. Yes, the world is a scary place. We get sick and die, and we are cruel to each other. But, in my opinion, God did not make me sinful. I make myself sinful when I am full of pride about being better than others or I gossip or I withhold charity from someone who needs it or I am unkind to someone. I can be forgiven for my sins by God, but to me personally the real benefit of Christianity is not just the forgiveness but the idea that I can do so much more for others than I am doing now with God's help. So, yes, I need cleansing from my sins. I realize that's not for everyone. I hold no malice toward people who disagree with me. But this is what works for me and my soul's health. This music benefits my soul...and I am thankful for that.
@cyung01 The recording is one of the earliest Tallis Scholars recordings (pre-digital) that was re-released in 2001 under the Gimell UK label. You can get it on Amazon.com. Good luck!
sharp, flat... really! This is a very beautiful recording of a fairly demanding piece (usually performed in two widely separated ensembles, the small one without a director). Let's be thankful for live music and recordings without autotune and editing.
Just listen to the beautiful sound and forget religion if all you can do is insult and disrespect. Its a time to meditate and relax and make of it what will make you a better person. Love, family, friends, beauty x
I totally agree with you Mary. I would like to add though, that both the haters and the Catholic judgers should both desist as both are wrong. This piece ultimately is supposed to be about LOVE. It is about absolute love for whatever great 'thing' it is that you believe in. But also it should be about the *giving over completely* of oneself, absolute surrender because of love, acceptance of one's place in the Universe, and faith that one will be welcomed and embraced, never judged. This is what is starkly missing in all these comments. The Christian's Jesus gave himself over amidst much suffering, hoping his sacrifice would help others. We won't worry about the judgement of the others. He just did it in a supreme act of self-sacrifice and love for them, and love for his father. No finer thing could be or would ever be done. I'm not a Christian, but the beauty of the act, and the pain he is supposed to have suffered, for love, LOVE, brings me to tears right now. People are missing this in this whole forum. Charles Dickens' must have used telepathy to read Christ's beautiful, ultimate thoughts at the time: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Cette divine musique me fait songer à tous ces êtres innombrables qui ont reçu la vie comme une blessure et ont défendu au suicide d’en guérir la cicatrice. Ceux-là veulent que le Créateur en contemple à chaque heure de son éternité la crevasse béante 🔥✨
This is part of Laud prayers at dawn of the monks and nuns. This is also used in the REQUIEM MASS OF THE TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC LATIN MASS OF THE ROMAN RITE on the deceased prayed at the door of the Church by the Priest before the coffin can enter the Church. This is part of the Seven Penitential Psalms prayers you can pray for all the souls in Purgatory on Nov. and earn an indulgence applicable to the Poor Souls in P.
Yes this is and the choir achieves its effect by having a kind of double concerto choir in the distance. It is not rushed and the pure high notes is the purist singing. This is probably the finedst piece of music ever written so simple and yet so deep.
I believe the words are: ""Let us praise God. Oh Lord, oooh you are so big. So absolutely huge. Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here I can tell you. Forgive us, O Lord, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery. But you are so strong and, well, just so super. Fantastic. Amen." It truly is a shame that such gorgeous music has words that express such shame.
If you've murdered your loyal soldier in order to marry his wife and cover up your previous adultery with her, isn't shame precisely what you ought to be feeling and expressing?
this is god's music. it has been for the past 400 years. no music will ever beat this for brilliance and beauty, and the tallis scholars always do it best. in this age they do anyway. the falsetto links with the rest of the group perfectly, whereas with other choirs it just sounds too far apart, and the falsetto make's this song so beautiful i think. and it needs to sound perfect. angels singing god's music don't make mistakes.
The pictures are great. I have never seen St Peter's photographed like this. There is another version by The Choir of New College, Oxford that is also superb.
O give me the comfort of Thy help again: and stablish me with Thy free Spirit. Then shall I teach Thy ways unto the wicked: and sinners shall be converted unto Thee. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, Thou that art the God of my health: and my tongue shall sing of Thy righteousness. Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord: and my mouth shall shew Thy praise. For Thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it Thee: but Thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.
Miserere mei, Deus: secundum magnam misericordiam tuam. Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum, dele iniquitatem meam. Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea: et a peccato meo munda me. Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco: et peccatum meum contra me est semper. Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci: ut justificeris in sermonibus tuis, et vincas cum judicaris. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum: et in peccatis concepit me mater mea. Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti: incerta et occulta sapientiae tuae manifestasti mihi. Asperges me hysopo, et mundabor: lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. Auditui meo dabis gaudium et laetitiam: et exsultabunt ossa humiliata. Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis: et omnes iniquitates meas dele. Cor mundum…
2 points I want to raise for my own amusement : The first is that hearing this music used to cost an insane amount of money, not only in travel, but also in tithes to the church. Be grateful. The second is that this is hauntingly similar to a great deal of ambient electronic music these days, given that the vocals are basically instruments to those unfamiliar with the language. Nothing really changes.
I heard that too.. And the story goes on.. Imagine how the church used it: in a dark church, at night, with only one candle burning.. Imagine how that feels if you are there..
so are we saying that this is the clearest and most perfect recreation of this piece of music to be found, or is there one better somewhere? 80's recording tech was the best so perhaps somewhere there is a perfect version? there are many shortened versions which is annoying. how long is the original version anyone?
from Gimell Records: "Chosen by BBC Music Magazine as one of the 50 Greatest Recordings of all time and widely regarded as the finest recording of Allegri's Miserere, this landmark recording made in Merton College Chapel, Oxford, set new standards for the performance and recording of unaccompanied sacred music and proved an immediate artistic and commercial success..." Whether you want to believe BBC and Gimell is your call, but my guess is that a search for a better recording would be fruitless.
Can you imagine what the effect of hearing this would have been circa 1500, 1600 or 1700? It must have seemed that they were hearing the infinite; touching the veil, transcending existence.
+Nick Wyatt "...they were hearing the infinite; touching the veil, transcending existence." - beautifully put, btw.
It *still* does.
+Sionnach1601 Yes!!!! This feeling, this beauty, this lifting of the soul to higher things; this is what you feel when you know humanity is putting their divinely-bestowed gifts to good use.
I tend to think that a great number of the dislikes must have not listened to more than a few minutes in. Well. They don't know what they're missing!
i have been listening to this for years now and i just notice the dislikes (after reading your comment). i never thought something as pure as this could be hated...
Indeed!
CH: There is no accounting for taste, or lack thereof.
This makes my heart ache and my soul joyful. It gives me a longing for a time I have felt and known before. A time when flesh was not needed, a time in the realms of spirit. My heart aches for that peace my soul remembers.
D. L
Yes, it makes me feel homesick
The first song to ever be pirated.
by the 2nd greatest of all time
Toufic Sarkis Who is number 1?
xGattsu Bach, apparently
Actually, the first to be pirated was Greensleeves, which was composed far earlier than this piece.
And well worth it.
I'm not religious at all, although I can still appreciate this wonderful music.
It is one of the most amazing pieces I have ever heard in my life.
This and "SPEM IN ALIUM" by Taliis are new paragraph. INCEDIBLE
As long as you keep in mind the fact that irreligious people are literally incapable of making anything close to this.
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I was shocked the first time I heard this: can this be human?
I listened to the CD hundreds of times, and was overjoyed when the Tallis Scholars came to Taipei and sang this.
Thank you for posting!
Exactlly. HUMAN?????
One of the most beautiful things I have ever heard!
Joanne Goodwill I love this tune so much it's arguably the best
One cannot express in mere words how beautiful this is
Probably the most sublime piece of music I`ve ever heard.
I heard this for the first time about 5 years ago at the start of the Lenten season and it moved me so much that I felt pleading of the words and was literally brought to tears during Holy Mass; exactly where I needed to be during Lent.
This one of my favorite classical pieces. That give me a feel of the presence of God each time; which proves that God is with us at all time.
i am not religious but i agree 100%, it lightens the soul. this is so beautiful.
Seyi Martins This is not a classical piece. This is a religious music. This is a Plea for mercy towards the Creator when King David committed sin with Bathsheba and he had Bathsheba's husband killed in battle because Bathsheba was carrying his child. You should read this part of the OT how David plotted the killing of Bathsheba's husband.
Amazing, Heavenly, mesmerizing, uplifting, infinite, Angelic, awakening, inspiring 💖
Natasha B. You can pray this as an Act of Contrition the same way as the CONFITEOR morning and nighttime.
This wasn't composed by Mozart. It was composed by Gregorio Allegri an Italian composer. It was made strictly for the Vatican church for the Sistine Chapel during special services. At only 14 Mozart transcribed it by memory and reproduced the song. Technically, piracy. =)
Supposedly, Mozart only heard it twice. Smart kid.
+Bert Jete --- and he was chastised by the Pope for this illegal activity!
the first person to illegally get music
+Bert Jete trueeee!!!!!
+Bert Jete It's not exactly the same version the Choir of the Sistine Chapel sings.
this + fantasy game = 24:7 non stop playing.
This is the best version I have ever heard of this. I've listen to this exact version hundreds of times now. Thank you.
This song is a reminder that no human is greater than other human being. God is our creator. We had created so many beautiful things and so did he.
Indeed He did it all first....,🙏
Can’t believe I first heard this in the film Maurice. The guy ends up being an atheist and skipping chapel as much as he dare at university. It doesn’t play for long in the film but it’s so beautiful…
I'm not religious in any way, but when you won't agree that this is beautiful you have an issue... sorry, but that is the truth.
Every night for almost 1 month I start this video and sleep to this music.
You don't have to be a believer to enjoy and admire music crafted for religious purposes!
Dear freind have you ever tough about this song how it touch your heart and hear something close what is telling you with kindess to reach you? A voice which wants to hold you who waits by your heart by telling our Lord your problems and fears we can tell him everything what ever or not you are ready its your choice to decide in prayer to answer what do you think?
I wake up this everyday. It just fascinates me that Brother Mozart memorized this piece. I say Brother n/c he was a Freemason.
Weird...I was playing this monumental piece this evening in the kitchen (because I needed 'refilling'), and asked my little four year old what he thought of it, as he seems to have quite an insight for good music of any genre. He actually, and honestly said:
"I heard this when I was born. I heard it when I was a baby."
The same little chappie, one evening when my sister visited, leaned across the table to her and out of the blue asked:
"So what's your baby's name??"
She looked stunned, and a bit flustered - 'guilty' flustered. She hadn't told us that she was pregnant.
So now!
Miserére Mei...music is the language of the spirit. Are angels and such supremely benevolent entities 'real'? I'm fairly sure that they are. :)
I sung this when I was a young teenager, now I'm 22. How times change, however this piece still remains magical.
God is love. Have mercy on us Lord. Create a clean heart for me O God and renew in me a steadfast spirit ...wash me completely from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin ... I acknowledge my iniquity. There is no mercy without forgiveness. You forgive me Lord for you have shown mercy to me. And you know everything ... You know that I love you.
I saw (heard?) this performed by the Tallis Scholars in Oxford. Before then, I had never appreciated it as much as I do now. Many thanks for posting this.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. It's helping me stay focused on God's mercy this Good Friday.
+RanMouri82 If the moon had been aligned differently would you have had the same focus on an alternative Friday and less or perhaps none on the Friday that you mentioned?
+LaurieWilliams5066 Don't you find more significance to "Happy Birthday" when singing it to someone you love on their birthday? Or do you insist on insulting a stranger's religion by asking silly questions about the moon's alignment?
RanMouri82 Your question nearly answers itself. Which is sillier - my question about the moon's alignment or the widespread practice of regarding a particular day as special based on that alignment?
I love chorale works (inspired by my time in a church choir and school choir) and this is one of the best.
It brings goosebumps on my arms every time I hear it.
Also a lump to the throat.
Here are 3 beautiful Prayers you can pray every morning maybe at 4 or 5.
Psalm 66 May God show us grace and blessing;
Psalm 50 Have mercy on me O God, according to Thy great mercy;
Canticle of Zachariae, St. Luke 1, 68-79 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel.
Ps. 50 is one of the texts used here.The other is the Lord's Prayer. Allegri alternated lines from the two texts in this piece.
The pictures are fitting. Though with our eyes we see as through a glass, you have allowed us through our ears to see Him face-to-Face, and for that I am grateful.
This is the best version, clean, clear and an outrageous soprano!
I AM NOW 22 BUT LAST TIME I LISTENED WHEN I AM IN 7 YEARS OLD. THESE YEARS JUST PASSED NOW I AM AGAIN LISTENING FIRST TIME WOW ITS A GREAT EXPERIENCE... WHATEVER THIS IS JUST RECALLING AND ONCE AGAIN REMINDING MY OLD LIFE
(I hered this on radio that time) what a Vocal Musical voice this is Mind blowing.And What A Experience This is when I heared At 7 year Old ❤️
This is a quintessentially Roman Catholic music traditionally sung during Tenebrae on Holy Thursday night, and Good Friday during the Seven Last Words of Jesus...it expresses intense humility by a human soul who realizes the sacrifice God made for his soul...he begs mercy and what may he offer in exchange for the hideous pain and suffering the Son of God consented to in order that human souls might be redeemed from Satanic bondage of original and mortal sin...
I say thanks to this choir who sings the song of Miserere mei deus wonderfully. I know this is not only a form of music but also the voices which is combined one to each other to become a good melody like we hear now. Once again thanks to make me tear when hear this song. Because I am a sinner and missing to the God love and the salvation.
You are not alone.
Search the deepest depths of the internet to finally find the name of this amazing piece of music by chance. Big thumbs up.
heard this on classic FM and had to go to iplayer to find out what it was.. so lovely
La primera vez que la escuché no sabía que pieza era, fue realmente fascinante oírla. Todavía, después de encontrarla, me impresiona cada vez que la pongo. Gracias por compartir.
Such divine sounds the human voice can make... nor am I religious, but this is beauty that embraces me to the depths of my soul
The finest instrument in the world is the human voice. All others are poor immitations.
Many violinists would argue that point with you!
This is an absolutely fantastic recording ... the soprano is effortless. Beautiful!
It's certainly the best, the most pure... A choir of true angels...
♥️Absolutely Adore♥️
This Extraordinary Exquisite Sublime
Piece Of🎼
Since I 1st heard in 1980.!
This is the Ultimate Definitive Recording😍
& without a doubt,
all others pale in comparison. Period.!
😍Thx for the terrific photos, the grain adds to the sobering poignant mood of in ⛪️singing.!
♥️🙏🏻✌🏼
We listen to this every Maundy Thursday while meditating on Our Lord's sufferings. To me, it's the most perfect religious piece ever written.
If only you weren't completely wasting your time. But the piece is fantastic.
Thanks i hope your skeletal fedora is tipped to me. I try.
This is indeed a glorious sound, and the accompanying photos are a pleasure to see; very appropriate. You found some great camera angles. Many thanks for the upload.
Mirroring the other comments below, this is just beautiful. It reminds me that beyond the mass media there really are 'truly' talented and skilled people who make our fascinating world full of uplifting experiences. I wish I could bottle the part at 5:05-5:10
like that this part 00:30 - 00:50, I'm getting down to myself and It's like I'm talking to the inner me.
I'm not religious at all.....But still.....WOW. What a group of talented singers creating some beautiful sounds!!
same
Absolutely agree
Gracias por tan hermosas voces! Dios los bendiga. Amen.
I can't believe 35 people disliked this godly music. God bless x
Cannot people have different tastes?
+Suyu yang I have to admit to being a bit mystified by the "dislikes" myself. It
stands to reason that people have different tastes and that's perfectly
understandable. I applaud that. I encourage it. I just can't quite understand why
anyone would bother to waste the energy posting something negative when
one can simply just move on.
Believe it. There will always be people who will not be receptive to our Lord. Just as there is good there is also evil. But let those of us who believe, pray for those who don't even if we get scoffed at.
Now there aare 47 dislikes1
Now there are 49. Can't imagine why those people just don't move on. Perhaps they are mentally defective.
not too many pieces of music are able to move me to tears, This piece has been in my life since I was about 7 , and it never fails to put me into a kind of roller-coaster of emotions. I remember once after we listened to this at Grand-parents place and right after we were going out somewhere , all of us, and Grandma, she was going on about the High C part in the song, which is so amazing sounding. And I said something like , :So what? She said , can YOU do that? And I remember that as I was walking out the door to the back deck, I just launched RIGHT INTO that note! With no effort at all! Amazing! I was probably 9 or 10. Now of course that is impossible
Utterly magnificent. Goodness gracious, listen to the beauty of the grougeous sound. The Tallis Scholars performance of this glorious music is and always will be my favorite. ❤
this is a truly beautiful musical piece............it moves me every time i hear it
The Allegri Miserere, of course, is incomparable, and this is a wonderful performance. Your photographs add a great deal. Thank you.
this is so beautiful, and the lovely story that accompanies it makes it one of my favourite choral pieces ever
one of my all time fav's so very special wonderful top c' heavenly singing.so sweet ....very tingle factor.makes me shiver.and hair stand on end.thanks for posting. just wish it was the full version.. Aum shanti Hari.
English Translation:
Have mercy upon me, O God, after Thy great goodness According to the multitude of Thy mercies do away mine offences. Wash me throughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that Thou mightest be justified in Thy saying, and clear when Thou art judged. Behold, I was shapen in wickedness: and in sin hath my mother conceived me. -more-
Thank you for uploading this, I do love the Tallis Scholars!
Perfect music to play while drifting through the cosmos or at any dramatic time :D
Brilliant music. Magnificently performed here...
I think the dark grainy pictures work really well actually, it gives a brooding ominous mysterious atmosphere. Coupled with the music it makes a really good video!
Thank you for this music in are lives. Rome
Que fotografías, maravillosas.Es un hermoso vídeo. Gracias Saludos
1:49 OMG :O That C !!!!
Rendons grâce à la beauté, elle nous rapproche de toi, Seigneur. Le Beau, le Vrai, le Bien...
"La beauté sauvera le Monde " - Dostoïevsky......espérons-le.
Stunning as indeed the Tallis Scholars are , I marvel particularly at the awesome clarity and amazing balance and intonation .Exquisite .
it's so beautiful, it gives me chills
Just gives me Goose bumps all over...
Purest Joy to my ears.
Belleza absoluta. Es como si los propios ángeles le estuvieran cantando a Dios. Que mente tan prodigiosa la del maestro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Solo el pudo haber recordado esta pieza magistral de memoria. Que belleza. Gracias x compartir!!!!!
This music is too beautiful for any words of mine. I just love to let it wash over me
Welcome to the fellowship!
What can I say? Beautiful!!!
Excellent, thanks for posting this
There is a wonderful story, but I don't know if it is true. The Miserer was considered so special a property of the Church that no one was allowed to write the music down in manuscript. Young Mozart was said to have heard it once and gone home and written it note for note. I hope it's true!
I've heard that story too. Apparently this song was performed in the Sistine Chapel since 1630 but wasn't heard by the public until 1770, as you said, after a 14 year old Mozart wrote it down after hearing it.
Actually, he heard it twice after having traved to the Vatican with his father, Leopold, who responded to a summons to take a commission to write music for the Vatican. Wolfgang was 14 at the time (1770). Something like six weeks later, after their return to Austria, Wolfgang put it down on paper from memory. Pretty stunning in and of itself until you stop to realize Wolfgang had just invented the 18th century's version of music file sharing.
2standard The story is true. Here is what Wikipedia has." According to the popular story (backed up by family letters), the fourteen-year-old Mozart was visiting Rome, when he first heard the piece during the Wednesday service. Later that day, he wrote it down entirely from memory, returning to the Chapel that Friday to make minor corrections. Some time during his travels, he met the British historian Dr Charles Burney, who obtained the piece from him and took it to London, where it was published in 1771. Once the piece was published, the ban was lifted; Mozart was summoned to Rome by Pope Clement XIV, only instead of excommunicating the boy, the Pope showered praises on him for his feat of musical genius."
Yes, that is a true story. Unfortunately, it was confiscated by the church when they found out what he did and it wasn't released to the public until much later. Aside from a scant few articulation mistakes, it was a perfect hard-copy reproduction of what Mozart heard that day at church. Pretty amazing if you ask me.
Bruce Goldberg it's true
Beautiful. Thank you.
With pure voice, like crystal sound..... exquisite.
It saddens me a bit when I see haters, mockers of Christians and Christianity, but also Christians judging their fellow human being. Both the haters and the Catholic judgers should both desist as both are wrong.
This piece ultimately is supposed to be about LOVE. It is about absolute love for whatever great 'thing' it is that you believe in. But also it should be about the *giving over completely* of oneself, absolute surrender because of love, acceptance of one's place in the Universe, and faith that one will always be welcomed, embraced, and loved - never judged.
This is what is starkly missing in all these comments. The Christian's Jesus gave himself over amidst much suffering, hoping his sacrifice would help uplift others. We won't worry about the judgement of the others or why he needed to do it for the "sinners".
He just did it in a supreme act of self-sacrifice and love for them, and love for his father. No finer thing could be or would ever be done. I'm not a Christian, but the beauty of the act, and the agony he is supposed to have suffered, for love, LOVE, brings me to tears right now. No judgment or conditions. People are missing this in this whole forum. It's sublime, it's sweet, it's so tender and asks nothing in return. Can't you all see? Stop your fighting now. Stay your hard words for each other.
Charles Dickens' words, I think, voice Christ's beautiful, ultimate thoughts at the time:
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Sionnah1601: Beautifully expressed. I concur.
@@RiaLake Thank you, God bless
@Earth Dweller Thank you too ED. Absolutely, I don't think many 'get' that, Christians and non-Christians alike, that he was / is a "Universal God for a Universal humanity". Perfectly put.
He could be under any name, under any guise in any religion, but still be perceived as a Supreme being of Good - "Good", something I'm sure that we are ALL pre-programmed to know when we see it.
I think Gandhi 'got it' as well:
"I am a Hindu, I am a Muslim, I am a Christian, I am a Jew".
@Earth Dweller Anyway thanks for your lovely penned comment. Likewise, it's very rare for me too, to find such a wonderful, insightful, Good, comment or response.
God bless wherever you are in the World :)
Surprised no one has mentioned this: the high treble part is sung by Alison Stamp.
Well it had to be sung by somebody! It just so happens to be sung by someone by the name of Alison Stamp, whoever she is when she's at home. The important point here is "Miserere Mei", not some singer.
+Sionnach1601
Am among many who thank 'subvert47' for giving us the name of the impeccable musicality of one who by no means should remain anonymous.
I'd be surprised if TS had used a soprano for this piece. At least half their number are trebles (boy sopranos) who can make that high part soar with no trouble at all.
@@elizabethsohler6516 The Tallis Scholars sopranos are women and always have been. The altos are mixed. As for boys being able to make the high notes *at all* (never mind easily): no, they really can't. It's always the same whoever: waiting to hear whether the soprano can make it up there. Very few can do it, and even fewer can do it five times in a row.
Create in me a clean heart O God....wash me and I will be whiter than snow.....
Why don't you just do all that yourself?
TomSuntotheMax I was quoting from the psalms....A lot of Christians believe that our sins were washed away by the blood sacrifice of Christ when He was crucified. The Psalmist is asking the Lord to cleanse him because he believes his sins are too great to be atoned for on his own. Personally, I believe I can't do this on my own but that I need help from the Lord via Jesus' death and resurrection. I don't hold it against people who don't believe this.....but this is my personal belief.
Laura Opper If you feel so burdened by sin that you need cleansing, why do you entrust the process to a God who knowingly and deliberately made you sinful in the first place? To allow 40-50 billion humans over a six millennia time-scale to suffer the consequences of his originally incompetent design flaws, and then demand they seek HIS forgiveness is perverse to say the very least. He should hope we forgive HIM for dragging us into his mess in the first place.
Paul Cooper I'm sorry you are unhappy. Yes, the world is a scary place. We get sick and die, and we are cruel to each other. But, in my opinion, God did not make me sinful. I make myself sinful when I am full of pride about being better than others or I gossip or I withhold charity from someone who needs it or I am unkind to someone. I can be forgiven for my sins by God, but to me personally the real benefit of Christianity is not just the forgiveness but the idea that I can do so much more for others than I am doing now with God's help. So, yes, I need cleansing from my sins. I realize that's not for everyone. I hold no malice toward people who disagree with me. But this is what works for me and my soul's health. This music benefits my soul...and I am thankful for that.
Laura Opper if you believe you're a sinner, you clearly do not understand this music. And yes, music is also a matter of understanding.
@cyung01
The recording is one of the earliest Tallis Scholars recordings (pre-digital) that was re-released in 2001 under the Gimell UK label. You can get it on Amazon.com.
Good luck!
sharp, flat... really! This is a very beautiful recording of a fairly demanding piece (usually performed in two widely separated ensembles, the small one without a director). Let's be thankful for live music and recordings without autotune and editing.
C'est beau, tout simplement.
Just listen to the beautiful sound and forget religion if all you can do is insult and disrespect. Its a time to meditate and relax and make of it what will make you a better person. Love, family, friends, beauty x
I totally agree with you Mary. I would like to add though, that both the haters and the Catholic judgers should both desist as both are wrong.
This piece ultimately is supposed to be about LOVE. It is about absolute love for whatever great 'thing' it is that you believe in. But also it should be about the *giving over completely* of oneself, absolute surrender because of love, acceptance of one's place in the Universe, and faith that one will be welcomed and embraced, never judged.
This is what is starkly missing in all these comments. The Christian's Jesus gave himself over amidst much suffering, hoping his sacrifice would help others. We won't worry about the judgement of the others. He just did it in a supreme act of self-sacrifice and love for them, and love for his father. No finer thing could be or would ever be done. I'm not a Christian, but the beauty of the act, and the pain he is supposed to have suffered, for love, LOVE, brings me to tears right now. People are missing this in this whole forum. Charles Dickens' must have used telepathy to read Christ's beautiful, ultimate thoughts at the time:
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
@@Sionnach1601 This piece is about repentance for sinning against God. Learn to read.
I simply love it touches my very soul
Those voices WOW!
Cette divine musique me fait songer à tous ces êtres innombrables qui ont reçu la vie comme une
blessure et ont défendu au suicide d’en guérir la cicatrice. Ceux-là veulent que le Créateur en contemple à chaque heure de son éternité la crevasse béante 🔥✨
magnifica esecuzione. Grazie
This is truly angelic!
The Tallis Scholars sing this so amazingly. This song makes my heart leap
I love the pictures, they give a nice visual, but this is a beautiful song that requires you to listen the first time through with your eyes closed.
This is part of Laud prayers at dawn of the monks and nuns. This is also used in the REQUIEM MASS OF THE TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC LATIN MASS OF THE ROMAN RITE on the deceased prayed at the door of the Church by the Priest before the coffin can enter the Church.
This is part of the Seven Penitential Psalms prayers you can pray for all the souls in Purgatory on Nov. and earn an indulgence applicable to the Poor Souls in P.
Yes this is and the choir achieves its effect by having a kind of double concerto choir in the distance. It is not rushed and the pure high notes is the purist singing. This is probably the finedst piece of music ever written so simple and yet so deep.
I prefer the version by the Tenebre choir
i have searched for years for this thank u
Just. Awesome.
@Dish951
The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips
They are British
I believe the words are: ""Let us praise God. Oh Lord, oooh you are so big. So absolutely huge. Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here I can tell you. Forgive us, O Lord, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery. But you are so strong and, well, just so super. Fantastic. Amen."
It truly is a shame that such gorgeous music has words that express such shame.
This is good stuff to listen to while drunk during Lent. I may be an atheist but I'm still technically Catholic to "keep up appearances".
If you've murdered your loyal soldier in order to marry his wife and cover up your previous adultery with her, isn't shame precisely what you ought to be feeling and expressing?
this is 51 psalm you silly man, wrote 2000 odd years ago. People had different views
this is god's music. it has been for the past 400 years. no music will ever beat this for brilliance and beauty, and the tallis scholars always do it best. in this age they do anyway. the falsetto links with the rest of the group perfectly, whereas with other choirs it just sounds too far apart, and the falsetto make's this song so beautiful i think. and it needs to sound perfect. angels singing god's music don't make mistakes.
oliver doyle search for
Salil al sawarim
GOT TOSA نظام الله
@@01FNG, I see that you have memetic tastes.
Cripes! I am staggering here!! That was SOOOOOO WELL SAID!!!
I salute you so highly!! :)
wirklich sehr anspruchsvolle Photos, welche die passende Stimmung zur Miserere schaffen
The pictures are great. I have never seen St Peter's photographed like this. There is another version by The Choir of New College, Oxford that is also superb.
Beautiful, truly beautiful.
wonderful ~ thank you!
Voice from heaven,beautiful
O give me the comfort of Thy help again: and stablish me with Thy free Spirit. Then shall I teach Thy ways unto the wicked: and sinners shall be converted unto Thee. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, Thou that art the God of my health: and my tongue shall sing of Thy righteousness. Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord: and my mouth shall shew Thy praise. For Thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it Thee: but Thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.
Thank you. An evening prayer to put all daily tribulations to rest.
Miserere mei, Deus: secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.
Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum, dele iniquitatem meam.
Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea: et a peccato meo munda me.
Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco: et peccatum meum contra me est semper.
Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci: ut justificeris in sermonibus tuis, et vincas cum judicaris.
Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum: et in peccatis concepit me mater mea.
Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti: incerta et occulta sapientiae tuae manifestasti mihi.
Asperges me hysopo, et mundabor: lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.
Auditui meo dabis gaudium et laetitiam: et exsultabunt ossa humiliata.
Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis: et omnes iniquitates meas dele.
Cor mundum…
The father is here as well as grandpa of the three whom sing in their barn,yes .
2 points I want to raise for my own amusement :
The first is that hearing this music used to cost an insane amount of money, not only in travel, but also in tithes to the church. Be grateful.
The second is that this is hauntingly similar to a great deal of ambient electronic music these days, given that the vocals are basically instruments to those unfamiliar with the language. Nothing really changes.
I heard that too.. And the story goes on.. Imagine how the church used it: in a dark church, at night, with only one candle burning.. Imagine how that feels if you are there..
so are we saying that this is the clearest and most perfect recreation of this piece of music to be found, or is there one better somewhere? 80's recording tech was the best so perhaps somewhere there is a perfect version? there are many shortened versions which is annoying. how long is the original version anyone?
from Gimell Records: "Chosen by BBC Music Magazine as one of the 50 Greatest Recordings of all time and widely regarded as the finest recording of Allegri's Miserere, this landmark recording made in Merton College Chapel, Oxford, set new standards for the performance and recording of unaccompanied sacred music and proved an immediate artistic and commercial success..." Whether you want to believe BBC and Gimell is your call, but my guess is that a search for a better recording would be fruitless.
There is no better version. I've searched for years.