The Poznańskie Słowiki (Poznań Nightingales) conducted by professor Stefan Stuligrosz performing Palestrina's «Sicut cervus » Lyrics and a translation from Latin to English below the video. Enjoy :-)
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For Twain. These videos were shot by YouTube user baksteen1yt on June12th, 2011 in a local church building in Newton, NJ, USA. This concert was the Drakensberg Boys' Choir last concert in their Summer 2011 tour to the USA.
Happy Birthday,
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From Kearsney College Choir's Japan 2010 tour. You know a choir is good when their conductor can walk off stage and leave them to get on with it …
If some of them look familiar to you it's probably because many of the boys from the Drakensberg Boys Choir go on to Kearsney College when they leave Drakensberg Boys Choir School. Enjoy :-).
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Video Source: Kearsney College Choir 2010-Music of the Religions - YouTube
For this week's "Saturday Chorale" I've picked Thomas Tallis' "Salvator Mundi" being sung by «Herning Kirkes Drengekor» ('Herning Church Boys' Choir') in Berlin Cathedral . They performed the piece in connection with the filming of a documentary about the choir «En Stemme For Livet» ("The Voice of Life") .
I enjoy this performance whenever I listen to it. I also enjoy contemplating the phenomenon of a Lutheran choir of Danish boys, singing in Latin for a German audience in a German cathedral the music of a centuries dead English composer. A composer moreover who was rightly suspected by Elizabeth I's government of being a crypto-Catholic. Such an unlikely combination of circumstances but oh how marvelous the result. They sing Tallis' music with passion and conviction, and the resulting sound is very beautiful. Play it twice, the first time close your eyes, play it just for the music. The second to listen to the music and watch the audiences' faces as they listen. The video, the lyrics and a translation to English are all below the fold. Enjoy :-)
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You Raise Me Up Started it's life as a slow air with fragments of a familiar Irish tune weaving its way into the melody. We tried to banish the piece but it would not go away. Maybe it wanted a different life-form…and so, we decided to pursue the idea of adding lyrics and asked Irish writer Brendan Graham to listen to it. — Secret Garden
Rolf Løvland and Brendan Graham's song 'You Raise Me Up' has been very popular since it was first released in 2002. Based around the tune of "Danny Boy" it's been covered more than 500 times according to Rolf Løvland. This performance of it was sung by the boys of the French choir «Chœur d'Enfants Amazing Grace» with the solos sung by Etienne at Biscarrosse on July 24th 2011. Lyrics and resources below the video. Enjoy :-)
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