Medieval Carol 'Gaudete' - Choir of Clare College Cambridge & London Cello Orchestra

This medieval carol is here given a spirited rendition by the Choir of Clare College Cambridge. In Daryl Runswick's arrangement, under Geoffrey Simon's direction, the choir is accompanied by a small cello ensemble, a descant recorder and a medieval tabor (drum). The word "arrangement" should be emphasized, as this version is not intended to represent how this piece was played and sung all those centuries ago! (From Cala Records CACDS4115 'A Cello Christmas' with all due acknowledgements.) ... Click this link to hear another track from this CD: 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' ... • 'We Wish You a Merry C...

[@larry2569]

Got to number 2 in the charts, 1272. Man the 70's were good

[@cardwitch91]

Best comment here!

[@larry2569]

@@cardwitch91 lol!

[@mournblade1066]

@@larry2569 Brendan Frasier of Dead Can Dance made a similar comment a number of years ago when they performed "Saltarello" in concert, and prefaced it by saying, "This next tune is a cover of song that was a smash hit in Italy in the summer of 1428."

[@larry2569]

@@mournblade1066 lool! 😁 Yea great pieces of music will never get old

[@mournblade1066]

@@larry2569 Oops! I meant Brendan Perry, not Brendan Frasier! Ha!

[@TyphusAndronicus]

You know you're in for a treat when a medieval song starts with echoing drums.

[@davidedondoli4702]

No one came out with stuff like "June 2020 anyone?" or, better yet, "I'm 8 years old and I listen to this"... Amazing!

[@Petr.Fedosov]

August 2020 anyone? I'm 15 years old and I listen to this))))))))))))))))))))))).

[@pitbikecrazy]

I am unborn and telepathically communicated with my mother to listen to this in the year 2020

[@davidedondoli4702]

@@pitbikecrazy 🤣 you made my day!

[@theultimatederp3288]

​@@davidedondoli4702 December 4. 2020 anyone? Only 27 days left. Thank god.

[@chrisphallheatlover9848]

Im 26, and was brought up listening to Christmas songs like this, if you like this check out, guadete Steeleye span lyrics, its amazing.

[@hitrapperandartistdababy]

I LOVE when we actually have real authentic songs from ancient times! Hell, I’m not even christian nor religious. But my god this is beautiful

[@NicolasOrlinski]

Three and twenty Moors disliked this joyful song.

[@tomboysuze]

hahahahahaha

[@Hegelmaus81]

Vae victis. Deus vult!

[@willkriegforkartoffeln4878]

Da Pacem Domine!

[@damianjones7554]

i love Gaudete, its the very essence of Christmas :-)

[@GaryS.Dennis-lt4mo]

I've been fluent in "real" classical latin for 59 years - but every performance I have ever heard of this little thing by anybody has used the same pronunciation as Steeleye Span - including Cambridge's Claire College Choir waxing Gregorian! So that's how i perform it! Lord and the souls of the original Gregorians know how this was originally pronounced. Almost certainly NOT in Julius Caesar's or even Constantine's Latin! Lighten UP, classicist zealots! This song is gorgeous! Enjoy! or quietly steal away!

[@mattworthington7669]

Try the Skaldic Bard version, in old Norse. Not claiming it's better or more beautiful, but still beautiful, and from a different angle. I'm sure you'll appreciate

[@MonicaDelCarpio]

This pronunciation is how we are taught in Italy at school. Maybe not the right one, but we are used like this...

[@notajedimaster2489]

Loquerisne linguam latine? Mihi valde placeret loqui tecum.

[@mariannatodd7010]

I love this! I imagine all Christendom marching and chanting this rousing hymn! I love how on Maria the middle syllable is lengthened and softened amid the militaristic setting to show our tenderness toward our most excellent and sweet mother!

[@Kitiwake]

So nice. Pax Christi tecum.

[@williamschultz104]

Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array!O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recorse to thee! Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesus.Sancta Maria Mater Dei ora pro nobis peccatoribus,nunc et in ora nostrae.Amen!

[@williamschultz104]

Mortis nostrae, at the end pardon me.

[@christinethornhill]

I wonder how many others learnt this Carol in their schooldays ? Mine were in the 50s . Unforgettable . Thank you for the great reminder ❤️🙏🏼

[@bigboredthing]

My school choir sang this in 2006. Still sticks in my mind as a favourite.

[@maniatissa]

I have to hand it to the Catholics...Their Hymns are truly breathtaking...

[@timothyfreeman97]

What religious tradition do you hail from?

[@maniatissa]

@@timothyfreeman97 I was raised as a Christian Orthodox, but I have been an agnostic for the past 20 years.

[@Kitiwake]

@@maniatissa Agnostic...a Latin word for a Greek word meaning "ignorant". GK Chesterton, Catholic author.

[@maamearaba4863]

Just a 16 year old in love with this kind of music 🥰

[@susantobias9937]

So am i. I sung this type of music in high school. If sung right it is beautiful.

[@charlottegury1243]

Same, i'm in middle school though

[@Katya-zj7ni]

@@charlottegury1243 check out the Gregorian version from the monks

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

Timeless music! I was in love with this kind of music when I was 16. Still am, I suppose. I just danced to this music! 😊😊😊😊😊

[@Joyce9211]

try the Steeleye Span folk group version it makes you tingle. :)

[@timdoonan6067]

Roughly 500 years of wonderful Christian choral harmony in Gaudete…. and still brings joy to so many.

[@Kitiwake]

A Catholic hymn sang in Latin, the language of the church. "Mist takes the morning path to wreath the willows-Rejoice, rejoice-small birds sing as the early rising monk takes to his sandals-Christ is born of the Virgin Mary-cloistered, the Benedictine dawn threads timelessly the needles eye". The Benedictines are a monastic Catholic order of monks still today.

[@margaretfarquhar9567]

It is hard to imagine what life was like for the people During medieval times, but this powerful music gives us a glimpse of their creativity. Thank you for making this video, it has comforted me

[@Katya-zj7ni]

Male voices raised in praise of the Virgin Mary is just beautiful , happy Christmas x

[@michaelhaywood8262]

I remember when this was a top 20 hit for Steeleye Span [a British folk group]. 1973 I think, probably before many listening now were born.

[@1962Vaz]

Steeleye Span, one of the most important folk group.

[@anselman3156]

I still have the 45 rpm "single" I bought when it first came out. A constant Christmas favourite.

[@kittykat8795]

The best version by miles! Gives me chills as the music builds, and those drums are so awesome.

[@popatyourecords]

I THINK THEY ARE BHOURANS

[@charlesstuart7290]

When you think of it - one of the earliest examples of sung music that most of us will ever hear.

[@richardforshaw8479]

Timeless rendition- the best!

[@Achoman93]

Beautifully done. A lovely ode to this time of year. Gives me visions of Aragorn, Jesus and Santa Claus all within the space of one song. Thank you.

[@francoispremier3394]

Centuries of Christian worship should inspire us to renew and strengthen our faith in each and every way, and through every trial and tribulation.

[@Russell-1]

Haven’t ‘centuries of Christian worship’ shown the ‘faith’ to be nothing but a sham?

[@Kitiwake]

@@Russell-1 rather the opposite. It was the abandonment of Christian worship in the 16th century that led to the totalitarianism of the 20th.

[@williamschultz104]

@@Kitiwake Touche Pat!I would like to imagine you a Sedevacantist Catholic as I am.True Catholic tradition keeps us sane in a world heading further and further into the abyss!Dominus vobiscum!

[@elizabethmazurak3033]

This has always been a favorite of mine. I am so happy to hear it performed so well!

[@Shenloanne]

Heard it live in a local WWT centre a few Christmasses ago. Fucking banger of a song. Basically as good as this.

[@TheAsharedhett]

The emphasis of the imperative to rejoice is striking and awesome. It is in the plural form, speaking to a collective audience: Rejoice! Rejoice! Christ is born of the Virgin Mary. The Savoir of the World has come. :)

[@Skraeling1000]

This is one of those rare pieces which non Christians can enjoy immensely, simply because the tune itself is very evocative :)

[@TheAsharedhett]

Christians can enjoy it even more!

[@TheAsharedhett]

But yes, it is excellent.

[@smartalek180]

+TheAsharedhett No, that's not arrogant in the slightest.And then you people whine, and say the ones you call "militant atheists" are being arrogant and offensive to you.Projection, much?Perhaps you should reread your Matthew, especially 7:2-5.Just a thought.It's a bit early in the season, but I wish you the finest of Christmases.

[@christiang.6729]

smartalek180 "whine"? What? There are different types of Catholics, in the mental way of thinking type of sense.

[@frankjones3601]

Stunning and energising there’s nothing to match medieval music.

[@pizmak6268]

It is not medieval carol; it is renaissance one! But still it is one of the most beautiful carols ever created. Gaudete, gaudete- Christus est natus ex Maria Virgine!

[@221b-Maker-Street]

Gaudeté is strictly derived from the Jistebnice Cantional of 1420, so I guess that's why people refer to it as mediæval...?

[@pizmak6268]

@@221b-Maker-Street , it may be the rison of this indeed...

[@Kitiwake]

@@221b-Maker-Street I think the melody is older than the lyrics.,??

[@verylostdoommarauder]

This is my favorite Christmas song, only because it isn't super overplayed.

[@cobblestonegenerator]

Try Poulencs Four Christmas Motets.

[@nickdouglass421]

@Julia A The words "Christus est natus" --' Christ is born. Therefore a Christmas Carol.

[@nymahclarke9543]

I love this song so much,the port comes out at christmas and this gets played

[@Peacefully-Happy-86]

Nymah Clarke im coming to yours for Christmas haha sounds great and cosy

[@cardwitch91]

I've loved this hymn ever since I was a child and it was on my parents' 'The Christmas Album'. It's such a rousing piece that it has always stuck with me.

[@MrRunner]

One of he best things I ever did was study Latin through Middle and all of High School. It enabled me to pick up latin based languages quickly (Italian, Spanish, French and English), which was very useful when wokring in the EU.

[@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179]

Latin is wonderful.

[@MrRunner]

@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 The key to modern language. Gracias

[@Kitiwake]

Excellent.

[@lectorintellegat]

Recte dicis. Etiam idem verum esse invenio. Verbis tuis gratias ago.

[@MrRunner]

@@lectorintellegat Gratias tibi

[@Katya-zj7ni]

Spine tingling as usual .. happy Christmas everyone and Gaudete x

[@Kitiwake]

Same to you, Catherine.

[@mnd1955]

Rendered with great feeling and joy, which is most appropriate for this carol.

[@hudsonbailey674]

This arrangement of Advent's Rose Sunday's "Gaudete" is electric and moving. Congratulations, Clare College, Cambridge.

[@deehartley8554]

Listening to this while feeling very low (heavy cold) but this is so uplifting.....

[@jaybest1787]

The drums just gave a whole different mystical touch 👏👏

[@pmajudge]

PROFOUND BEAUTIFULLY SUNG . THANKS . FROM U.K. (2022).

[@allison1908]

I love this version. It's full of excitement and joy. I've heard some people refer to this version as the "drum whacking song." Happy Gaudete Sunday!

[@bukov1964]

I love it. It smells of mission. No chubby cherubic faces drifting off here. The Savior has now infiltrated the territory of the Enemy, and is on the move.

[@Hunlover123601]

he has literally JUST been born in this song. poor kid should get some time to grow up and walk and all that dontcha think?

[@pierceknepley5448]

Right with you, my man! The "strong man" is now cast out. Glory to King Jesus!

[@pierceknepley5448]

@@Hunlover123601 That's fair. The enemy's days are numbered for sure, though.

[@eriklandau7314]

tis a wondrous sound i am doing a medieval workout to this consisting of poises sword play and anvil lifting jesus is the son of god turn to him my brothers and be saved from thy sins god bless you all x

[@elizabethclark394]

Timeless and brings back very special memories for me. Thank you for posting 👏👏

[@adam28xx]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rami-sep]

Thank you Jesus

[@michaelclarke124]

Wonderful version of such a beautiful song.

[@michelefavro694]

una delle più belle esecuzioni di questo canto meraviglioso!!!!

[@Tom-wo9uu]

Percussion accompaniment sounds like it would be a ton of fun to play!

[@kyriawalker9237]

absolutely bangs. me and the boys love getting down to this after a few stellas. big ups to the lads over at clare college

[@hedgemist691]

lol

[@lindasampson7023]

Love this hymn and looking forward to singing the antiphon / refrain this Gaudete Sunday.

[@griffinbachdavis9591]

Thank you Steeleye Span for introducing me to this beauty!

[@willragsdale309]

Not a Christian, but I love this!

[@belamoure]

Mordant biting full of vinegar and no dust gathering here. Bravo!

[@hudsonbailey674]

Clock stops ticking when "Gaudete" sparks its inspiration. It just came seem to turn back to a lost era of EDEN music.

[@feydlordpretend4566]

Merry Christmastide to one and all (2020)..

[@youngarchivest9092]

Absolute Banger!!!

[@randomuploadsism]

listen to this, it'll blow your socks off

[@bennevis9221]

classic partridge lol

[@kath2934]

I love this version!!!

[@paperchain1239]

I feel like playing this at 7am at Grantchester Meadows on Christmas morning.

[@cvryder2000]

The drummers are having waaaay too much fun up in here!

[@Bakuninite]

As a lapsed Catholic, this track enabled me to relapse long enough to dis the Prods all December long, then slink back into my comfortable lapse.

[@henrysevern]

Catholic, Prod or Atheist it is a good piece of music, still think Steeleye Span version the most.

[@johnhamilton8301]

No need to lapse - stand up for the church that you want to see - many other Catholics would like to see the same (including, I suspect, Pope Francis).

[@Kitiwake]

From the last line of the Penny Catechism. "The four last things: Death, judgement, heaven, hell". We might all be ok if we have made an honest effort and still can't see our way to the Catholic church. But I'm not in that category, thanks be to God.

[@howaichun8436]

very beautiful chant

[@artdanks]

This is awesome! Thanks for posting!

[@memsahibproductions]

This is the best version ever!

[@buringplumbranches]

All I want for christmas is an end to the plague

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

So did the composer of this song!

[@henrysevern]

We are snowflakes, they had real bad plagues back then and did have a clue what was going on.

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

@@henrysevern So true! For example: In 1665 there was the plague in London. Sick people were locked up in their houses with their entire families. That was it. Need I say more?

[@grownrocket5801]

We use this for the opening number to our Nativity Ballet! Love from The Metropolitan Ballet of Tacoma!

[@OstrogothRome]

The churches would have 10x the seats filled if they still had music like this. Thanks, Victorians, for making it all so solemn and ponderous and dull. Clothing was better in Mediaeval times too (thanks again, Beau Brummel).

[@y7va]

Clothing was better? It was dull af

[@toompyfloyd4074]

@@y7va you've obviously never seen real medieval clothing

[@toompyfloyd4074]

Amen!

[@toompyfloyd4074]

my parish actualy sings this around christmas

[@toompyfloyd4074]

and our pews are full!:D

[@seekerseraphimtherecluse4314]

I am an Orthodox Christian but I have always admired the Western liturgical/hymnal style. I hope and pray one day that Western Christians are reunited with holy Orthodoxy which has resisted the modernist tyrannies plaguing our culture.

[@ilyayolla3828]

John Doe, I’m from Russia and I’m too Orthodox.

[@seekerseraphimtherecluse4314]

Ilya Yolla Well met! Nice to meet a fellow Orthodox, I have been studying the Church Fathers and saints and every day I learn more about how we are the true Church. I am an American though and do you think I should try living in Russia one day? Things are becoming very perverted and decayed in my country....I know Russia has problems too but all the Western countries like mine seem to be getting more anti-Christian. :(

[@legionxiii8055]

Seeker Seraphim I pray for the wounds of 1054 to be healed as well, the eldest Churches need to be united now more than ever.

[@anteplibela]

M O T H P U S S Y

[@steven_003]

Aren't we all brothers united by our belives in Jesus Christus?

[@thepiperatthegate8827]

Lovely, just lovely. And the imagery really gives a flavour of the "medievalness" of this song!

[@paulawiddowson]

beautiful music

[@MrNU998]

The choir at my parish sings this at every Christmas midnight Mass

[@jacquesdixon2480]

Mine too!

[@cynthiakeller5954]

It must be magical to hear it

[@user-lc6sx3kx8k]

JUST EPIC!!!

[@joblasco5586]

Wonderful! Thank you for this!

[@HordrissTheConfuser]

I'm listening to this piece on the exact opposite side of the Sun to the correct one!

[@omikron2811]

Gaudete, gaudete! Christus est natus Ex Maria virgine: Gaudete! Tempus adest gratiae, Hoc quod optabamus Carmina laetitiae Devote redamus. Deus homo factus est Natura mirante, Mundus renovatus est A Christo regnante. Ezecheelis porta clausa per transitur Unde Lux est orta Salus invenitur. Ergo nostra contio psallat iam in lustro, Benedicat Domino salus Regi nostro.

[@nickheredia1341]

I'm watching this and I'm thinking the people in the art are singing this after memorising this song and we're watching it on phones and laptops through an invisible light feeding information to us. And it would have been utterly unfathomable for them

[@jaimemendez73]

So beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!

[@Katya-zj7ni]

Guudete x

[@Uwek212]

The percussion is so _satisfying_....

[@isaakwang750]

Only 1290 kids remember

[@TheLittledikkins]

I was born 709 years after that date, but I love this song.

[@anthonysmith1625]

Too good for my words...

[@Sunflowers159]

I've only ever heard this in the Steeleye Span version. I much prefer this!

[@AMG-kw7kt]

Me too..!! This is authentic..

[@eEdselEdsel]

This might be based on the Boston Camerata arrangement.

[@1953patriciamorris]

Me too. I love Steeleye Span, but this version is superb!! Love the percussion

[@rumi9005]

@@AMG-kw7kt - I don't think either version (this or Steeleye Span's) could be considered authentic. But we'll never know for sure HOW it was actually sung in medieval times. It was probably performed as a 'Gregorian' style chant. Interestingly, celebratory chants and such were, in earlier times, generally performed in a minor key. Whereas nowadays we associate a minor key with sadness, not celebration. Think 'A Coventry Carol' for instance. Nowadays it's always arranged in the minor key. But that was probably not the case in Tudor times.

[@alexandrumanta1439]

I agree that no version is more authentic than any other. However, one can have preferences, and I prefer this to the Steeleye Span version, since it is cheerful, unlike their version which strikes me as being rather melancholy. The Kings Singers version is also worth hearing.

[@redx6373]

I love this, a great piece of art.

[@stevenyoung4861]

vigorous music for a vigorous age. We have all gone to sleep, with the century of the self.

[@jpraise6771]

Call me smart for realizing what you meant by that

[@cleocatra871]

Wonderful version!!

[@susannetilsner7063]

So wonderful❤❤❤

[@Pattilapeep]

Absolutely wonderful!!

[@tickley42]

Best version on KZbin!

[@Katya-zj7ni]

Check out Steeleyspan for a folk version , very lovely from the 1970’s

[@redlabel3977]

Lifts the soul 🙏

[@MrGer2295]

BEAUTIFUL ! ! ! Thank you for posting !

[@1mancicarter]

Love it! Thank you for this gem!

[@BalCleric]

Blew my socks off.

[@Crystalquartz964]

I know! I found them in my back garden

[@davidlewis492]

The day today is this day; enjoy this day and all to come.

[@Shenloanne]

Now, that's what I call music, 1276

[@kevinrobinson1056]

This is a wonderful version with not without giving us a taste of its original form ... Magical.

[@kleinbittersdorf]

Gratia Domini vobiscum. Amen.

[@pluv1e]

OH HONEY THIS SLAPS

[@hudsonbailey674]

Pluvia Fang, SLAP me so I never recover. Happiest! Gaudete!

[@Shenloanne]

It's not Xmas unless I hear this.

[@janeoxley4829]

Magnificent.

[@evanrok]

I love the drum of this song :)

[@jannyberg6891]

So do I.

[@CzarnyMlot]

Listening while playing Mount & Blade: Warband. Better than in-game music :) and awesome in its own right

[@christinetanti8065]

Beautiful!

[@riittasalonen8941]

A wonderful atmosphere !

[@defaultname7654]

Mesmerising.

[@anthonybardsley4985]

Played this in a brass band. It got me in one.

[@mrsmum3-6]

Excellent, love this. ❤

[@adam28xx]

Glad you like it!

[@michellemarie9526]

It's so... gleeful! Love it

[@illumoportetcresceremeaute887]

It's a victory song!

[@ciudadhombre]

...a particularly beautiful version; love the utilization of the drum! Thank you!

[@mdwilliams79]

This is really great.