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Let's have a sing song. In foreign.

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 Thrudge 03 Oct 2017
It may not be cheery, but it's deeply moving stuff. Here's a few that make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck:

Bach - Mass in B minor
youtube.com/watch?v=vw9eEIfohj4&

Mozart - Requiem in D minor
youtube.com/watch?v=JS9hS-PW8Rg&

Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
youtube.com/watch?v=A-1SishN_bc&

Anyone else got any favourites they'd like to share?
In reply to Thrudge:
Mein tannenbaum, mein tannenbaum...

Edit:

Oh, and Neunundneunzig luftballons.
Post edited at 11:55
OP Thrudge 03 Oct 2017
In reply to Boris\'s Johnson:

Well, if you're going to be frivolous...

youtube.com/watch?v=BP16ZvkOkXo&

OP Thrudge 03 Oct 2017
In reply to ChrisBrooke:

I prefer the original:

youtube.com/watch?v=ujb4Mcme18s&
 ChrisBrooke 03 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:
> Well, if you're going to be frivolous...


>

Oddly enchanting...

On a more serious note, I love Liu's death scene from Turandot: youtube.com/watch?v=g-1MjfmixrI&
Post edited at 12:57
 Doug 03 Oct 2017
OP Thrudge 03 Oct 2017
In reply to ChrisBrooke:
That's hair-raising stuff - almost painful to listen to. In a slightly different vein, here's some more Puccini:

youtube.com/watch?v=hxdiJ74AL5Y&

It's desperately sad, but it lifts me like the tide.
 Tom Valentine 03 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

Pity that when UKC posters comment on their favourite classical music, opera hardly gets a look in. Their loss.
OP Thrudge 03 Oct 2017
In reply to Tom Valentine:

A bit of Offenbach, just for you, sir:

youtube.com/watch?v=0u0M4CMq7uI&

I like to listen to this one while I'm driving my Ferrari gently across the wet cobblestones of the piazza at dawn.
 Bobling 03 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

I'll see your Pavarotti and raise you to Italia 90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sffX9Wrbw9w, transcends mere language
 Tom Valentine 03 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

Very nice. on a scale of one to three.......
 Big Ger 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

My favourite recording;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tc7RQ5beVQ&index=1&list=PLV25D1X9s...

Seen them do this live, not ashamed to say I was in tears.
cb294 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

The Mozart recording is excellent, but Karl Richter` for the Mass in b minor????

I had that recording as a student, but the Herreweghe ( youtube.com/watch?v=VY1w3EhXqwo& ) and especially the van Veldhoven recordings ( youtube.com/watch?v=dNlhsFSfwsQ& )
are much better IMO.

Also, I can only recommend the Opera platform. The productions of Arminio and Alessandro are my current favourite baroque operas.

http://www.theoperaplatform.eu/de/opera/haendel-arminio

CB
Rigid Raider 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:
Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis. He wrote this in 1570 and like his Renaissance contemporaries he knew how to raise the hairs on the back of the neck with the bittersweet sound; here forty voices in eight choirs. I think we underestimate the spiritual power of this music when heard in church by congregations who had no recorded music and would only hear sacred music in a church or occasionally traditional music at home.

youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ&
Post edited at 09:31
OP Thrudge 04 Oct 2017
In reply to cb294:

Fair point about the Richter. I was looking for the Furtwangler recording, but couldn't find it on Youtube.
cb294 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Big Ger:

What is the mystery recording? (Youtube link seems not to work).

CB
cb294 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

Same here, I was about to suggest the 2010 Harnoncourt recording of the Brahms requiem (with the Arnold Schönberg choir), but could not find it on youtube, at least not with the same soloists as on the CD.

CB
OP Thrudge 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Rigid Raider:
> Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis.

It's a great piece, one of my favourites

>I think we underestimate the spiritual power of this music when heard in church by congregations who had no recorded music and would only hear sacred music in a church or occasionally traditional music at home.

Thoroughly agree. This must have been seriously mind-blowing stuff in its original context. It's not hard to see how people could listen to a performance like that and feel they'd had a genuine religious experience, perhaps even a glimpse of what Heaven would feel like.

OP Thrudge 04 Oct 2017
In reply to cb294:

I've got the Chicago Symphony Orchestra recording of the Brahms, it's a stormer.

youtube.com/watch?v=og7QA7CBVmo&

This is the album that years ago changed me from "I don't need a turntable, CD is better" to "I'm going out next week to buy a turntable"
 Ramblin dave 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:
The last movement, Der Abschied, from Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde:
youtube.com/watch?v=RtV7TSRLs5Y&
Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walther and the Vienna Philharmonic, from 1952.

Edit: balls, it's split into parts. Here's a slightly crackly LP rip (or you can follow through sections 2 and 3 from the previous version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqZgMnBkvU&t=116s
Post edited at 10:44
Rigid Raider 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:
Allegri's Miserere, performed with a mystical ceremony at dusk in the Sistine Chapel, was considered so intoxicating that the manuscripts were kept under close guard by the Vatican. It remained the Vatican's secret weapon until a young man named Mozart heard it and wrote it down from memory and the first transcription was published.

Unfortunately nowadays we hear it in less mystical surroundings and it is overplayed so has lost its impact.
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OP Thrudge 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Rigid Raider:

I didn't know that, cheers for the info.
cb294 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Rigid Raider:

Even worse for Tallis' Spem in Alium mentioned above.

For quite a while I could not figure out why people would suddenly become interested in Renaissance vocal music, until I heard that the piece was part of the Shades of Grey soundtrack....

CB
cb294 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Tom Valentine:

You want opera, here is some opera:

youtube.com/watch?v=6aMZ2sFyqso&

Assuming that Spinosi got the interpretation roughly correct, I cannot imagine how much Vivaldi must have shocked his audience back in 1720

I particularly like the alto aria at 22.58

CB
 Heike 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Boris\'s Johnson:

> Mein tannenbaum, mein tannenbaum...

> Edit:

> Oh, and Neunundneunzig luftballons.

It's Oh Tannenbaum
 Big Ger 04 Oct 2017
In reply to Rigid Raider:

> Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis.

Saw that performed at Sydney opera house, blew my socks off...

Tears again....

 Big Ger 04 Oct 2017
In reply to cb294:
> What is the mystery recording? (Youtube link seems not to work).

Thanks for the tip off, it's this;

https://www.allmusic.com/album/ockeghem-requiem-missa-fors-seulement-mw0001...

youtube.com/watch?v=2Tc7RQ5beVQ&

I'm a massive fan of early polyphony, nice to see there's others here of that bent.

(How many came to it via Dead Can Dance?)
Post edited at 23:26
cb294 05 Oct 2017
In reply to Big Ger:

Yes, Ockeghem is great. I heard that piece many years ago in a small Romanesque in Regensburg church, lit only by candles, maybe twenty people in the audience. Pure magic!

And no, I came to that kind of music through my school choir. Dead can Dance came later.

CB
OP Thrudge 05 Oct 2017
In reply to Big Ger:
> I'm a massive fan of early polyphony

In which case, allow me to recommend one of my favourites:

https://www.allmusic.com/album/gregorian-chant-christmas-mw0001860750


In reply to Thrudge:

A sing-song in foreign? Right you are then,,,

Een muis woonde in een windmolen in het oude Amsterdam
Een windmolen met een muis in en hij was niet grousin '
Hij zong elke ochtend: 'Hoe gelukkig ben ik,
Wonen in een windmolen in het oude Amsterdam! "

Ik zag een muis!
Waar?
Daar op de trap!
Waar op de trap?
Precies daar!
Een kleine muis met klompen aan
Nou verklaar ik dat!
Klem-clippety-clop op de trap

(At least, that's what Google translate makes of it).

T.
 mountainbagger 05 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

Pergolesi - Stabat Mater
youtube.com/watch?v=QYsjwKuC-Wg&
(with Emma Kirby)
 mountainbagger 05 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

Thanks for the thread btw, I can't wait to get home and listen to all the links people have been posting!
 Big Ger 05 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

Many thanks.
 Big Ger 05 Oct 2017
In reply to Thrudge:

youtube.com/watch?v=fJKpYnMMKKM&

Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez: aria from "La Wally" from "Diva"

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