Morten Lauridsen - O magnum mysterium | WDR Radio Choir

[@clarineric]

In my mind, this is the definitive performance of this magnificent work. I'm so glad I found this video.

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you very much!

[@davidcat436]

good performance, if it a bit slow. Listen to the Dale Warland Singers do this piece (search on KZbin) before you decide which is your favorite rendition though.

[@mariasmiles68]

I 100% agree. I love how the conductor clearly cares greatly for this choir and has that lovely choir joy!

[@rogerdadd636]

Floods of tears, beautiful

[@WDRKlassik]

Aw, thank you 😃

[@kurzkreis]

Absolutely gorgeous. This was a piece that caught me heart in the first few seconds when I first heard it, and has never let go. Thank you for this rendition, so full of aural warmth and wonder. Thanks also for the amazing video and audio quality, and for showing us the faces and passion of the singers and choir director. With great love and respect~ ❤❤❤

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you for your kind words! We are delighted that our music inspires you!

[@n64fan60]

Agreed. I've been coming back to this song for 15 years. I don't even know or care what the words mean, it's just so beautiful. Resets my state of mind every time.

[@p.terodactyl6848]

My family and I discovered this piece when we heard it in the PBS documentary Rick Steves' European Christmas. We, especially my mom, fell in love with it. Fast forward to several years later, and I was a part of my high school's concert choir, and we sang this piece for our winter concert. Learning and memorizing it was far from easy, and we were definitely pushed, but I did not mind it at all. It was absolutely beautiful and completely worth it. I kept it all a secret from my family until the concert so that they, especially my mom, would be ever pleasantly surprised by me singing one of her favorite Christmas pieces...and she definitely was. It was exactly five years ago to the day I'm writing this, and it was the last performance I did with my high school choir before the pandemic commenced. It is a highly cherished Christmas memory, and a highly cherished piece of music for me.

[@brendap7520]

There's a dance performance choreographed by Crystal Pite called Angel's Atlas that has this piece. It's at the end of the performance. They (The Royal Canadian Ballet) performed this right before the pandemic, then performed it again two years later. The full performance is not on KZbin, but it is out there. The piece starts with a choral piece by Tschaikovski.

[@allanhfchin]

Yes, this work is truly magical. I sang in a Catholic church choir where we sang motets and other classic service music for Mass every Sunday morning and holy days, and this Lauridsen motet was one of them in our repertoire. We would also perform a short concert during every Easter and Christmas, and we included this as well. 🙂

[@joeybeeisme]

I think every singer remembers their first Lauridsen experience. There's a great documentary about him. He's truly one of the greatest choral music composers the US has ever produced.

[@kimlibera663]

Is not this such a gorgeous piece of music. Heavenly!

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you 😊

[@eugeneclasby518]

A magnificent performance of a beautiful piece. I love to watch the faces of the singers as they take up this music and make it part of themselves (and of us.)

[@rolfellermann6568]

6:26 Minuten hören, meine Tochter (14 Jahre) und ich weinten leise und lauschten der Musik, wundervoll....

[@Lanclasscan]

My local choir is learning this. I can't stop playing this video. I am mesmerized. Brilliant work.!

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you! 😊

[@stevechappellie904]

I cry every single time I hear this song. Breathtaking. One of my favorites to hear and sing. The complex harmonies. Divine. Especially the minor note at the”Virgo”.

[@WDRKlassik]

🤗

[@Nattypants1985]

I am a member of the Carolina Concert Choir and our director was a student of Morton Lauridsen. He told us that he said his inspiration for this piece came from seeing a very moving piece of art in an art gallery in LA California. The painting appeared to be floating. He wanted to write a piece that floated like the painting. I would have to say that he was very successful.

[@WDRKlassik]

It really does sound like it's floating 🤩

[@trueheart4317]

Beautiful,✨ thank you for sharing. It truly is so dreamy and floaty 🙌😌😇

[@trevortomah8508]

A powerful soul stirring masterpiece, a resounding celestial Amen, an all encompassing blessed Shalom.

[@WDRKlassik]

Our pleasure! We're happy that you like it 😊

[@donaldcooper3404]

Things happen for a reason. I'm familiar with this beautiful work but haven't heard for some time. Just popped up in an email at a time when I REALLY need the reminder about God's mysterious ways. This is indeed a beautiful rendition, at just the right time!

[@WDRKlassik]

We're glad that you like our rendition! 🤗

[@eastmorton]

Beautiful performance, sung from the heart, of a hauntingly magical piece.

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you 🥰

[@williamreed2558]

Anyone who loves O Magnum Mysterium, listen to Lauridsen's Requiem, his masterpiece. You will be overwhelmed I guarantee.

[@peterjoseph6661]

I first heard this on the Sunday following 9/11 and have listened to it every anniversary of that tragedy. Magnificent performance.

[@robertmillner6216]

Beautiful. Moving.

[@notaire2]

Menschliche Stimmen sind die besten Instrumente in der musikalischen Welt. Frohe Weihnachten!

[@SNadezda]

Frohe Weihnachten!

[@h0pesfall]

Du hast mich noch nicht singen gehört :D

[@mariagrill6095]

Nice

[@jessierobinette8790]

Breathtaking piece. I was so fortunate as to perform it years ago with my wonderful college concert choir, and it is the sort of piece that seeps into your soul. I haven't sung it for about 25 years, and hopped right in like muscle memory. Images of past tours and concerts flooded my memory. Thank you for this.

[@WDRKlassik]

How nice! You are very welcome :)

[@ingeturns]

SO VERY ,VERY BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BLESS YOU ALL.

[@MrGarfield4]

Sublime! ❤

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you! 🤗

[@christopherstead4466]

Timeless and wonderful

[@WDRKlassik]

@christopherstead4466 Thank you! :)

[@danielabutenhoff5340]

Augen zu und nur lauschen. Einfach nur schön ❤

[@WDRKlassik]

@danielabutenhoff5340 🥰

[@maichelrizard]

God bless you Morten Lauridsen

[@gopher7691]

Perfect intonation

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you! 😊

[@maxwellchessdotcom6952]

Bravo!!!

[@WDRKlassik]

😊

[@Mevar70]

Toccante, davvero toccante. Mi commuove oltre ogni dire. Splendido brano e splendida esecuzione ❤️

[@WDRKlassik]

Grazie mille 🥰

[@zadokthepriet]

We performed this in the 1994-5 school year at Wayne State University. Have loved it. Your version is wonderful.

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you! 🤗

[@blastesz]

Beautiful!!!

[@WDRKlassik]

@blastesz Thank you!

[@annettestandop9825]

Besser geht es nicht. Ich habe gerade eine orchesterreine Version davon gehört, aber diese Chorfassung ist um Welten besser. Und ergreifender. Vielen Dank dafür - und frohe Weihnachten.

[@WDRKlassik]

Frohe Weihnachten!🎄

[@marcelinho_musician]

5:40 "Alleluja" Amazing/Stunning Bass

[@romeguillermo4748]

Exquisite! Superb balance, even though this piece tends to favor the soprano range. Love to see the singers fully engaged in this soulful piece. Thank you for sharing.

[@WDRKlassik]

You're welcome! We're glad that you like our performance 🤗

[@rocky4976]

Beautiful beyond words. Thanks for posting. The mystery of God is truly wonderful and beyond rational comprehension.

[@WDRKlassik]

❤❤❤

[@ammerschwihrois]

are you sure?

[@ademarchavana]

@@ammerschwihrois Yes. It would be so unfortunate if you are not.

[@ScottFrye000111222]

The songs of Heaven

[@tous7798]

Pièce très difficile à chanter. Excellent rendu. Bravo !

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you! 🤗

[@coroamicidellamusica]

Wish i could sing in choir one day this timeless masterpiece :)

[@heinzmanglus5538]

Pure Magie 😇

[@WDRKlassik]

Dankeschön! 🤗

[@andythehobbit7109]

My choir will be doing this for Christmas Eve (midnight mass). Hopefully, we'll be able to do this beautiful motet justice. Those long notes, though....so many high Gs for the T1s. 😁

[@willbrink]

Stunning!

[@WDRKlassik]

😊

[@eamdsa]

Magnífico! ❤

[@WDRKlassik]

🥰

[@kenstarnes1789]

Very moving performance

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you! 🤗

[@eternalhalloween1]

A piece of 70s history!

[@jean-guygagnon6950]

Céleste! 🌟💜🌟

[@WDRKlassik]

🤗

[@larryurbon9550]

How is this theater Not full to hear this???

[@rpallen3129]

It was during Covid--in the performance notes, "Recorded live at the Kölner Philharmonie on 09.12.2021." Yes Christmas, but....

[@saramuller514]

Bellisima...tuve el placer de cantarla hace unos años...saludos desde Argentina....

[@WDRKlassik]

@saramuller514 Must have been amazing. Greetings from Cologne, Germany! 😊

[@Scag23]

Brilliant.

[@WDRKlassik]

🥰

[@LadyLaura1111]

❤HEAVENLY BEAUTY😢❤

[@norbertjung7402]

Saubere Leistung. Respekt. Gruesse aus Orthez(F).

[@valliemackrell1228]

Exquisite. Nuff said

[@WDRKlassik]

Thanks. 😊

[@isabelfueyoperez4317]

Me gusta la colocación y el atril para la partitura

[@MichelDomingue7]

Very well done!!

[@orladuggan7904]

Perfection

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you!

[@joseantoniovergara4300]

O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Christum. Alleluia.

[@isabelfueyoperez4317]

Afinación perfecta

[@alisondening2207]

Who is the choir director? Marvellous.

[@WDRKlassik]

Thank you! 🤗 The conductor is Simon Halsey 😊

[@isabelfueyoperez4317]

Precioso

[@miroslavkuzlyaev]

это чудесно)

[@wacawlubinski3189]

👍❤️🙏

[@DaveRByrne]

❤️❤️

[@focuswave7881]

👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻😢😢😢😢

[@laelpeiris1799]

O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, iacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Iesum Christum. Alleluia! O great mystery, and wonderful sacrament, that animals should see the newborn Lord, lying in a manger! Blessed is the virgin whose womb was worthy to bear the Lord, Jesus Christ. Alleluia!

[@jody2873]

Never muzzle an angel's mouth

[@davidcat436]

pronounced mys-tair-ee-oom, not mys-teer-ee-oom

[@benitaborbonus2807]

Leute, schreibt doch wenigstens den Namen des Komponisten richtig 😂

[@WDRKlassik]

Liebe Frau Borbonus, vielen Dank für den Hinweis. Wir werden die Tippfehler korrigieren.

[@barringtonwheater3118]

Nobody does this as well as Morten Lauridsen. It's just a shame about the lack of black faces in both choir and orchestra.

[@marleneholzwarth453]

Halsey could beat a little bit more reduced. Choir sings nice.

[@pollymatzinger4426]

the choir could take less obvious breaths. there is a way to breath in silently