steve-bbb Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 [b] [url="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/nyregion/moved-to-tears-at-the-cloisters-by-a-ghostly-tapestry-of-music.html"][size=4]Moved to Tears at the Cloisters by a Ghostly Tapestry of Music[/size][/url][/b] Spem in Alium [url="http://youtu.be/w2pv8BkpFgY"]http://youtu.be/w2pv8BkpFgY[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I love this. My dad's favourite music ever, as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Also, I didn't know Julian Assange was so talented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Sublime. My "go to" piece of music for the last 30 years, along with (strangely enough) the "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis" by Vaughan Williams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Rotten Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 (edited) I absolutely love this piece of music. A couple of years ago I was visiting my wife's parents in Nottingham and we spent the day in Highfields park (the main Notts Uni Campus). In the Djianogly Centre (don't even ask how you are s'posed to pronounce that) they often have art exhibitions and displays. We went in there on this one occasion and the room had a circle of 25 speakers all facing into the middle. Apparently Spem in Alium was written for five choirs of five people singing the different parts. So the 'artist' had individually mic'd up each singer separately and isolated from the others so you could walk round the circle and either hear one person singing on their own by standing right up against a speaker or stand close to one of the groups of 5 to hear their combined sound or just sit on the seat in the centre of the whole circle and I can only describe it as 'soak' in the whole amazing sound. It sounded simply incredible and without doubt the best sonic experience I have ever err..experienced. If everyone in the world could hear the beauty of that - this world might be a better place. *Edit - now I have bothered to watch the bloomin' video it is wot I woz talking about! Doh! Edited September 24, 2013 by Jonnyboy Rotten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thank you! After a day of GTA V this was truely refreshing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 [quote name='Shaggy' timestamp='1380040894' post='2219983'] Sublime. My "go to" piece of music for the last 30 years, along with (strangely enough) the "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis" by Vaughan Williams [/quote] And that was the music Dad wanted for his funeral. Strangely enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gust0o Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Superb, thanks for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rock Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 (edited) [quote name='Jonnyboy Rotten' timestamp='1380042571' post='2220034'] Djianogly Centre (don't even ask how you are s'posed to pronounce that) [/quote] Jan OGG lee :-) Edited September 24, 2013 by Roland Rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted September 25, 2013 Author Share Posted September 25, 2013 the 40 speaker art installation thingy is a great idea only just recently stumbled across it i remember this from uni days when was in the 'big choir' and we did this - didnt appreciate it then at the time as much as i do now which is a shame as its not very often that any singer is fortunate enough to be in a choir large enough to do this - i do seem to remember though that this piece (and other similar plainsong style stuff) is actually more difficult to sing than one would at first imagine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 [quote name='Shaggy' timestamp='1380040894' post='2219983'] "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis" by Vaughan Williams [/quote] This is amazing, as is a lot of Vaughan Williams writing. Always loved the OP video, great post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 At the risk of starting a sub-forum, try Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" too, and anything by Mysterie de voix Bulgares......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 I like the music, the idea is excellent & I'm sure it's a great experience, but that video was boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottomfeed Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 A great piece... Interesting idea. I love this kind of music. Tallis particularly.. Also Palestrina, Allegri, Byrd... The power of voice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratman Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 (edited) The one that gives me goose bumps is Miserere Mei, by Allegri. The version by The Sixteen gets me every time. Feast your lugs on this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcWo1hKHu40 I was fortunate enough to see the Tallis Scholars in Tewkesbury Abbey this summer. They were performing a lot of Byrd, Allregri etc along with a couple of modern compositions in the same style, and they were stunning. Such pure voices and no vibrato in sight Edited September 27, 2013 by ratman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetaFunk Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Beautiful music indeed and up there with this which is a favourite of mine. Just goes to show that the devil doesn't have all the good music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYpVGBSS65o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratman Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 [quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1380282242' post='2223191'] Just goes to show that the devil doesn't have all the good music. [/quote] Agreed, he has most of it, but not quite all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilkyBarKid Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I've always been puzzled by the conventional music lessons we had at school which pushed German and other European composers at you, they seemed obsessed with Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Bach etc. I personally can't see how any of them are in any way comparable to any of the music mentioned here. I'd be interested in hearing if any one has any ideas how and why this might be? Is it regarded as inferior to more modern classical music in music circles? I love this music but I find it quite intense and find it quite difficult to listen to for any length of time (unless live). I absolutely love the bass, but find it doesn't move me in the way this music does. There is something magical about the voice which other instruments don't have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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