"Cantique de Jean Racine" Gabriel Fauré | Choir of King's College, Cambridge (Stephen Cleobury)

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Leitung: Stephen Cleobury
"Cantique de Jean Racine" Gabriel Fauré
Ausschnitt aus der Übertragung "Prom 03: Mozart, Haydn and Faure" der BBC aus der Royal Albert Hall London vom 17.07.2016
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Verbe égal au Très-Haut, notre unique espérance,
Jour éternel de la terre et des cieux;
De la paisible nuit nous rompons le silence,
Divin Sauveur, jette sur nous les yeux!
Répands sur nous le feu de ta grâce puissante,
Que tout l'enfer fuie au son de ta voix;
Dissipe le sommeil d'une âme languissante,
Qui la conduit à l'oubli de tes lois!
O Christ, sois favorable à ce peuple fidèle
Pour te bénir maintenant assemblé.
Reçois les chants qu'il offre à ta gloire immortelle,
Et de tes dons qu'il retourne comblé!
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[@d.o.7784]

What would Europe be without Christianity! A body with no spirit!

[@adriennebooth2038]

thank you Lord for giving us Gabriel Faure in our lifetime!

[@stephenvanas4580]

I thoroughly enjoyed this excellent rendering of the Faure Cantique. How fortunate and privileged we are to have such a choir.

[@whaleswolex]

Dr. Stephen Cleobury... May your soul continue to rest in Paradise

[@francoisemenot2229]

Encore plus sublime par des vois de jeunes merci pour ce bonheur

[@leemerritt3537]

RIP Stephen Cleobury. Taken from this world too soon.

[@rodicatenea7988]

Thank you dear God for this music🎶🙏

[@janesmith9024]

One of our best English choirs. I love singing this - particularly the part from about 2.49 in when it builds and builds.

[@thomasromano9321]

Faure was a student when he composed this piece for a music school composition contest. It won first prize.

[@MattWeisherComposer]

I always loved that story in school. Barber’s Overture to School for Scandal is the same story, I believe. We didn’t have prizes or anything of that nature, but I can say for sure much of my best work was in college.

[@clintgolub1751]

Same with Hector Berlioz’s “Harold en Italie” for pipe organ! Composed for a competition in Rome I believe when he was quite young. There must have been something in the water in Europe at this time (or coffee houses 😂) for so many great composers and philosophers to bounce ideas off each other during this time. I believe Franz List wrote his “Toentanz” Dance of the Dead after hearing Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” around the same time.

[@marianoalojado2202]

That song tugs at my heart everytime I listen to it, specially when sung and properly pronounced in French!

[@cl0udysky347]

LITERALLY fell asleep to this

[@djmotise]

A magnificent example of Racine's sublime French writing. To sing this piece in any other languages is pure folly.

[@swordsman1965]

Though you realize that Jean Raçine was a Calvinist -- believing in the PREDESTINATION of salvation and damnation: that, your soul was either "elect" or "damned" from the time of Creation, and there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you could do to change the outcome. So if you were "damned," then NO AMOUNT of fervent prayer, or good works, or intercession by Jesus or Saints could help you. It was ALREADY a done deal. So, why be good? Why be bad? Nothing made ANY difference WHATSOEVER. That said, while I question Jean Raçine's convictions, the MUSIC (by Gabriel Fauré) is nonetheless TRANSCENDENT and BEAUTIFUL. I'm just trying to reconcile such beautiful music with such rigid, immovable beliefs...

[@laffreuxjacobin6286]

@@swordsman1965 Racine was not a calvinist but a jansenist .It's true that both calvinists and jansenists believed in the predestination.He was educated at Port Royal Paris then at Port Royal des champs ("in the fields") in the Chevreuse valley a high place of jansenism.When he died in 1699 he was buried at Port Royal. In 1710 1711 the abbay was destoyed because the jansenist opposition to royal absolutism? his ashes were transferred to the church St Etienne du Mont in Paris in the "Quartier Latin" an other place marked by jansenism it's here that lie the ashes of Blaise PASCAL the great mathematician physicist and philosopher and jansenist......

[@videoriatto2011]

Fantastic version of a fantastic masterpiece

[@mydogskips2]

Yes. I have heard a few performances here on YT, and while they were all very nice, this is like no other I have heard. For me it was a revelation, like hearing the song new for the first time, the clarity of the voices is really amazing here.

[@heleneculioli-atwood6997]

Magnifique.

[@ht9882]

The angelic voices! Everytime I hear this it brings tears to my eyes.

[@socialite1283]

Perfection from a master musician in the cathedral tradition who learned and refined his craft under another master musician Boris Ord. A good gentle speed with a delightful cadence.

[@ac8907]

Pas facile pour les petits de prononcer le français mais ils auront appris un texte et une mélodie magnifiques

[@jameshelgeson4668]

Sans doute plus facile pour les petits que pour les adultes. (Les enfants apprennent plus facilement les langues que les plus âgés.)

[@clarekelly1289]

@@jameshelgeson4668 00al..

[@ce253]

Eh oui, c'est le malheur avec les traductions on perd la magie de la rime. Reste un texte merveilleux de sainte dévotion, magnifié par la somptueuse musique de Fauré

[@goxokogoxoki6734]

Mais ils s’en sortent collectivement bien, je trouve !

[@ac8907]

@@ce253 Ils chantent en français….

[@madeleinejones3972]

Truly truly truly beautiful. Never bored of this. It speaks of absolute beauty...the beauty of God.

[@eglisebaptistedelacotebasq8583]

Magnifique vraiment! Beautiful!

[@chrismurray9448]

Such reverent treatment of this beautiful song! Always gives me chills and the words are so powerful

[@clarencemesquitta9246]

So good., no matter how many times i listen to it.Cant believe he wrote it at such a young age.What talent,.

[@barrypeterson6725]

Absolutely beautiful! Listening to this piece refreshes my soul.

[@swordsman1965]

Though you realize that Jean Raçine was a Calvinist -- believing in the PREDESTINATION of salvation and damnation: that, your soul was either "elect" or "damned" from the time of Creation, and there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you could do to change the outcome. So if you were "damned," then NO AMOUNT of fervent prayer, or good works, or intercession by Jesus or Saints could help you. It was ALREADY a done deal. So, why be good? Why be bad? Nothing made ANY difference WHATSOEVER. That said, while I question Jean Raçine's convictions, the MUSIC (by Gabriel Fauré) is nonetheless TRANSCENDENT and BEAUTIFUL. I'm just trying to reconcile such beautiful music with such rigid, immovable beliefs...

[@dallasmark7980]

@@swordsman1965What Jean Racine personally believed is completely irrelevant to this work and our hearing of it for two reasons: 1) His text here doesn't express his own personal beliefs: it's his French paraphrase of an already-existing Latin text from the Roman Catholic matins service; and 2) the music itself was composed by Fauré, who wrote that music some 165 years after Racine's death. Also not particularly relevant, but intriguing nonetheless, is the fact that Fauré was not a particularly religious man and considered himself a "gentle agnostic."

[@Singer-lx4jj]

Beautiful performance. We expect it of Choir of King's College Choir and they have delivered. It is lovely to see Stephen Cleobury again (now unfortunately deceased). I loved him doing the Christmas Carols.

[@Azadserdar60]

Woow this is so nice song thanks for my Canadian love 🥰🥰

[@reinholdstehle8033]

Wie schön und klar diese herrlichen jugendlichen Stimmen, gibt es musikalisch etwas beeindruckenderes?

[@marianoalojado2202]

There is one. The Vatican's Children Choir.

[@joesoy9185]

@@marianoalojado2202 Not in the same league.

[@Arclightraid]

Tres magnifique!

[@ceuxquirestent]

What a superb soul at 19...

[@fulgenjbatista4640]

💎 This is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL 💎 🙏💜🙏 💜🎵💜

[@jalexander2106]

How sublime!

[@sylvainelouisemarie6117]

Très belle interprétation .

[@bronxboy47]

This sublime work has been haunting me all month long. I must have stumbled up and listened to at least 8 different versions on KZbin in the past two weeks.

[@davidschestenger7350]

Exquisite

[@montserratsinol4661]

He cantat moltes vegades aquesta magnífica obra i cada vegada que torno a escoltar-la , m’emociona,!!!! Una gran interpretació!!!!!!

[@jacquidodds660]

Found in Year of Wonder. Beautiful

[@melomane5714]

A beautiful rendition of a truly beautiful piece!

[@SomeBuddy777]

Glorious 🙏

[@ritasolisradius9061]

❤❤❤

[@classicalguitareterna]

So beautiful! Angelic! The entire heaven so joyfully listen to them - as well as to other beautiful souls singing such glorious songs - whenever they sing.

[@xetgyxjtjmufmcmnvv9137]

Do you happen to be religious?

[@pseunition6038]

@@xetgyxjtjmufmcmnvv9137 Do you happen to be irreligious?

[@sgut1947]

Very good! So often this piece comes across as horribly sentimental, but not here. You kept it warm but dignified. Great job.

[@Jenniemorgan7]

Beautiful!

[@denisrenaguerard8917]

Best version yet! Beautifully done.

[@michelarusso9189]

Avvolgente 🌸❤️🌸❤️🌸❤️

[@marcoantoniobernardo2060]

Deus fala através da música e essa magnífica prece, aliada ao genialidade de Fauré, Racine e ao dom da voz, sem dúvida sua voz chega às mentes e corações. Obra divina.

[@philipgillibrand832]

Sublime

[@italybellissima4422]

Truly wonderful music. Amazing!

[@maracosta9342]

Lindo, obrigada, parabéns!

[@jackojee2503]

Wah!!! So beautiful. Well done Choir

[@jackojee2503]

And we are doing this Anthem this coming Sunday during Choral Evensong. It's live on KZbin and Facebook. All Saints Cathedral Nairobi Kenya.

[@theresaheidel9878]

purely angelic

[@heldercruzitabirito8730]

Um canto ao SENHOR REI DO UNIVERSO! Magnífico!

[@eyitayoa.oginni8430]

Wonderful!

[@louiseg7100]

We sing it on the choir of my college ^^ it is just AMAZING 😍

[@msf60khz]

Absolute clarity and perfection.

[@TheSunlight74]

My favourite version of this

[@b.t.s.agnomen1044]

Spotify has a spectacular version performed by the St. Thomas Choir of Men & Boys (NY?)

[@kofidotse]

Beautiful

[@kofidotse]

👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

[@Codywife1]

yes that was truly wonderful thank you

[@bevbobash4086]

Achingly beautiful!

[@innocenzobarrera1505]

Esecuzione di gran classe!

[@serapolis1]

waooooooooo

[@catherinebreen2647]

Heavenly

[@counsinger]

i like the voice young mans and boys put together

[@b.t.s.agnomen1044]

It's quite a tradition, a moribund one, unfortunately

[@gabriellaramirez1786]

OMG! 😍

[@palashvictor]

Wow

[@gwalaus]

I like the harp. My father was a harpist. He was always coming home ha' pissed.

[@elizabethfarr3815]

I wish we could have heard more of it.

[@edwardomahaga9334]

One of the best from western culture

[@marizooliveira2933]

J'aime est misic

[@missmerrily348]

Superb! Bravo!

[@maciejuczak1316]

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[@shellerwilliam4221]

My teacher was his personal pupil and spoke much of him with veneration. Fauré had a terrible disease of the cochlea, which came with age and which he kept secret. If a note was played to him, he heard another note. It is not embarrassing in itself to write, but to listen to what he had written was unbearable. Therefore he entrusted to his best students to write the orchestrations of his works in his last years .

[@hmvanoostveen8152]

Based on old latin prayer.

[@liuabu928]

Parfait mais le tempo est trop rapide. Perfect but the tempois so fast

[@gwalaus]

Gabe Faure was just 19 when he wrote this. (Wow!) Notice the harmonic subtlety in places which lifts it clear of the sentimental realm and prefigures his later requiem setting. The text is not really representative of Racine, it's simply a paraphrase of the putative Ambrosian matins hymn Consors paterni luminis, and neither is it what one would expect a good Jansenist dramatist to choose to mess around with. However, it must have appealed to Faure's young and gentle sensibilities, with the lovely result so beautifully realized by Kings here in the Albert Hall. BTW, whoever dreamt up the shite-awful name for that orchestra? "Orchestra of the Age of Endarkenment" perhaps? IMHO the so-called "Age of Enlightenment" is nothing more than a limp , petty humanist construct with no relevance to a truly enlightened view of western history. They can play pretty well, though. Word equal to God, the Almighty, our only hope, Eternal day of the earth and heavens; We break the silence of the peaceful night, Divine Saviour, look upon us! Fan the fire of your powerful grace upon us, So that all Hell may flee at the sound of your voice; Shake off the sleep of a languishing soul, Who has forgotten your laws! O Christ, be kind to these faithful people Who have now gathered in thanks. Listen to the chants they offer to your immortal glory, And may they come away fulfilled with your gifts!

[@astralislux305]

The autism is strong in this one. Nice review. ;)

[@ionjerdea8147]

FIRST...

[@sarlotevolosevic4559]

I liked it but the singing came out a bit "choppy" at the beginning for me.

[@mikepen3477]

2:38 concentrate boy!!

[@D3fcon141]

He was singing, he probably just didn't pronounce his "t" visibly.

[@fallantix]

coucou les 512

[@fallantix]

c Arthur

[@jeangurcel6553]

interprétation sobre et limpide

[@christopheastier4117]

Don't understand at all what your "rubbish" refers to ??

[@remijourdain5917]

Please do not mind if I get involved but what Jean Gurcel said is absolutely not a mark of disdain or dislike but the absolute contrary. As a Frenchman I can tell you that this is a very simple but deep praise to this interpretation of Faure's piece of art. Sometimes what is simple and sober is better than the rest, in my opinion.

[@leroroleroro]

absolutely

[@doralexplorateuse4001]

Ah merci je ne suis pas la seule française !! effectivement c'est très sobre et la prononciation est..... anglaise 😅

[@emmah5034]

this seems rushed!!!! slow it down please

[@margaridaaaa]

Too cold interpretation. Lack of emotionality. Far too much by the book.

[@newshound64]

The orchestra almost drowned out the choir. It would have been better if they had stopped playing during the singing. What you have here is the "wall of sound" of an orchestra fleshing out a singer.

[@Alex77rn]

ther's Harry Potter! 0:49!

[@carolepansu6675]

Une pointe d'accent british. Dommage.

[@les3jedis]

Certes charmant! chanté aussi par des enfants ... Mais moi qui médite aussi sur les paroles, je considère que les droits de la femme sont bafoués. Elle ne sont pas là.

[@maxelliot9426]

Sublime

[@TheMikester307]

Beautiful!