Sicut Cervus - Palestrina

[@justinwhitsed3994]

My father was a chorister at Ely Cathedral, he passed before I was born, I would like to think that he sounded as exquisite your beautiful singing

[@carlostoro3401]

¿Usted canta? Do you sing?

[@zenkuriyama8516]

The entire group is amazing, but give the chap singing the alto line a prize! Hot damn!

[@corner559]

The way the alto line is accentuated at 1:00 is sublime. Most performances it gets lost among the voices.

[@zenkuriyama8516]

Yes! Totally agree--I was just going to comment this. I had this on in the background and when I get to that point I was like, "wait, what was THAT?!" Just glorious!

[@myjoncarllewis]

That is one of my most favorite "throwaway" lines in all of vocal music! Totally gratuitous and absolutely necessary. Of course it's an alto line (and, of course, I was an alto)!

[@defendstruth4579]

Yes, my heart lifted straight out of my chest and in obedience; I followed.

[@spawacz000]

It happens around 2:13 again. Just glorious.

[@katetaylor1466]

My father was a lay clerk at Ely and I was baptised there too. It is a fabulous place and incredibly special in my life . The Gesualdo Six sound exemplifies what it means to me.

[@emilyrln]

I'm not sitting here at my computer crying… I'm not… 😭

[@JIM-ot4ws]

The counter tenor floating on the top sounds so good!

[@edwardhart5466]

Great musicians, every note to perfection, every word to perfection with musicality great future for these excellent musicians. Thankyou all

[@anman366]

I will always come back to this version as it is the best one on all of KZbin. Brings an emotional wave every time I hear it. Thank you!

[@jnathanj883]

Gesualdo Six are very good with many musics in many places, even car parks!

[@AlexSmith-tr9hc]

A truly sublime and masterful work done with exquisite harmony. I especially enjoyed the countertenor contribution of Guy James (first man on the left) whose superbly angelic voice was easily distinguishable among the members. Thanks for sharing!

[@fantasylover87]

As a soprano who has sung this before, I have so much singer's envy for the tone of the countertenor!

[@JIM-ot4ws]

Yes, absolutely, he sounds sublime. It just floats over the top.

[@paulb264]

gorgeous! the harmonies and melodies can really be appreciated at this tempo

[@beatricegini2122]

Siete meravigliosi: precisione, intonazione, intenzione, effetto, sonorità. Perfetti! Bravi!

[@BlaketheRev]

A reminder of light and hope in the COVID era. Thank you for this!

[@deborahflornoy4143]

That's how it's done! What incredible ensemble singing, so intelligent and inspired!

[@saintandrews83]

The acoustics are phenomenal and the singing brilliant, I wish I could join a male group and sing counter tenor like this all day

[@vsezonov]

Exquisite! I especially love Joseph's soaring lines towards the end. It's so good to see you guys performing again.

[@patriciamaguire9914]

What a gorgeous way to start the day - fabulous as always guys :)

[@jamesvanheel4886]

Wow. My new favorite recording of Sicut Cervus! Bravo!

[@ast131255]

A daily dose of your music makes the day seem more positive

[@valerioangioletti8820]

Straordinari coro fantastico musica eccelsa braviiiiiiiii.

[@jenedwards94]

My first encounter of this group. How transporting and peaceful. I will be looking and listening for more

[@timplatt1739]

Beautiful! And you guys were amazing in LIVE FROM LONDON! Thank you for your exquisite singing!

[@corner559]

Absolutely stunning performance.

[@phbrinsden]

Bravo countertenor and alto. So good.

[@markbrown4955]

That has cheered me up. Thank you gentlemen

[@sunday7choir]

Very pretty rendition, thanks for sharing your beautiful music!

[@nickis-h8e]

Tremendous! It sounds like heavenly voice! I felt a terrifying thrill!!

[@ottobossl]

Wunderbare Musik eines sehr ambivalenten Menschen, von herausragenden Musikern perfekt intonisiert.

[@theloganway5530]

Basically what it would've sounded like when he wrote it. Excellent work!

[@benjosephr.cuyacot5963]

Who knows but some not very distance age, tiring of orchestral sonorities and operatic romances, may find again in such music as Palestrina’s a depth of feeling, a profound and placid flow of harmony, better fitted to express the soul of man cleansed of pride in reason and power, and standing again humble and fearful before the engulfing infinite. _Will Durant, Story of Civilization VI (The Reformation), p. 783

[@ibunrakuken]

Bravi! Buonissimo equilibrio delle voci!

[@BarryWaterlow]

Palestrina must still be alive: his music surely here is.

[@steelmongoose4956]

He expressed the Eternal in his music, and that never dies.

[@riverwildcat1]

Gorgeous.

[@trishtraynor]

I sang in the choir from the age of 10, and being Catholic before Vatican 2 meant embracing the glory of works written for Mass Nowhere else are we encouraged to steepl in the gift of music. 💖

[@joematties7557]

pre Vatican 2 still lives on. We love our latin music :)

[@JulianneTure]

This is sublime. Thank you!

[@KevinECarmona]

Woww.... the best Sicut Cervus!!!! 😍😍

[@troywilson_fr]

The way that their all singing completely different sounding parts, yet it all culminates into a beautiful song is masterful.

[@flor1051]

When God created the whole universe in six days, at each day He said: This is good... but on the last day, when He contemplated the whole creation together, He said: everything is too good. Beauty is the diversity in unity because God is three but One... and He is the essence of Beauty so to speak.

[@jean-francoisissartel7414]

Je découvre, et quelle beauté !!!! Sublimes voix. Merci ....

[@skylargreer8204]

Even though they're all singing differently, they blend together so well.

[@janpalucci6880]

Beautiful! I am learning Sicut Corvus for my choir! I was so moved listening to you!

[@goofball2228]

Same!

[@jnathanj883]

Cervus, Corvus, whatever! Hart, Crow, whatever! Both seek their maker, their ideal. (Quoth the atheist Raven? 'Nevermore' [Edgar Allan Poe riff])

[@josephmiller7992]

Luscious performance. Stunning.

[@sabmegabri]

Outstanding. I've relished each note. 🤗

[@giovannicalorini7729]

Sublime 💙

[@yohannesedward8557]

Wowww....like angel voices...I like tenor voice very good skill...You use head voice??? I learn until have head voice for high voice

[@gunterdeschepper8013]

First encounter of magical voices!

[@marinapegrisch1305]

Well , palestrina wrote for the pope's chapel ! How glorious and elevating. Congrats!!!

[@catrionaritchie6001]

Lovely way to end the day.

[@NathanRepasz]

You guys are incredible! Exquisite blend and vowel consistency, really just top-notch.

[@priyopkp29]

what a beautiful performance. 👍

[@stevemusic246]

Wonderful!! 🙏 thank you

[@theoneandonlymattsmith]

Very well sung. I have only ever sung in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral once but I will always remember it.

[@johnmoeckel1]

Thank you for your wonderful rendition of this timeless work. Masterful interpretation, flawless and inspirational execution. Bravissimo!

[@1romans122]

I love Palestrina. Thanks for this.

[@marcelloc.3827]

Magnifica esecuzione 👏👏👏😊

[@AlbertoRovelli1968]

Close to perfection, expression of faith and art.

[@davidanda9686]

The best performance i have ever heard

[@zafratheprofessor3560]

Great version, good tonality and interpretation.

[@JoanKentBible]

Sublime!

[@marinapegrisch1305]

Thank you , gentlemen !!😇

[@eduardobeirasgarcia9402]

Buena afinacion, limpieza de voces, claridad.....

[@ThoronRayan]

This is the only version I found that has the overarching highest continuous cry at 1:01 and for the life of me I can't puzzle out what voice/part that is. It sounds beautiful. Please, can someone tell me which voice/part that is? Is it the Contralto?

[@johnfox7985]

Sounds like tenor singing what would normally be the alto part in most SATB arrangements...I think...

[@corner559]

It's the alto line I believe. It's amazing to listen to.

[@peterhaselden5784]

It’s the first tenor (the top two are both countertenors singing the same part)

[@andrewh273]

we just sung this in a baroque church, it is truly gorgeous. :))

[@lisalachapelle1226]

I love this

[@mariahelenastracke9760]

Lindíssimo!!!

[@simonefernandes6530]

Perfeição 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@sibionic]

You guys are so, so good

[@garyhinkle5736]

Beautiful Gentlemen🎵

[@lorettamoore3492]

Brilliant!Love you boys

[@fonsedyr]

My favourite motet. Thank you x

[@luizabruni7101]

Lindo!!! Celestial

[@dreamer_4937]

Thank you; the first recording I’ve found that’s not flat at the beginning!! Thank god there’s at least one 😂

[@jnathanj883]

If you are afflicted with 'perfect pitch' I understand your comment as legit. The rest of us benighted 'relative pitch' folk however depend on the whole gamut of notes within the performance, for our sense of musical aesthetics

[@goofball2228]

I’m an alto in my high school choir and we are singing this…

[@nerdguy9174]

Just what I needed!

[@cantusfirmusbecker7825]

Weiter so! Bravo, bravissimo!

[@peterpeecock7721]

What is it like to record in the Lady Chapel? I have memories there from my school days [6 days per week typically]. [Easier perhaps for recording than Coventry Cathedral? I dont know if you know it there]. I really enjoy your singing [ line, balance, and especially tuning - your major thirds are ravishing!]. Very many thanks.

[@jnathanj883]

I'm surprised that no one has remarked on the embellishments in this rendition, compared to the standard print versions currently sung.

[@neilmalcolm5992]

Everything’s fab in Ely chapel , this too!

[@hildegarde7586]

The singing is glorious…..what’s that barbie doll suspended above the singers?

[@almeusdei2297]

THIS POLYPHONY WAS WRITTEN FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH , AT A TRIDENTINE SOLEMN MASS. THAT IS WHY THIS WAS WRITTEN.

[@ransomcoates546]

It sure was. The Mass of All Times.

[@davidepoggi]

Ok but don't scream

[@cdw1917]

@@TheIndividualChannel nope. Roman rite in Italy. Not Sarum.

[@mayallbeone9047]

​@@ransomcoates546the Mass of all times is the eternal one being celebrated in heaven, which we tap into at ours, regardless of the form our masses take

[@lucybowers7933]

Very, very beautifully sung! What a great! THANK you for perfection…

[@zeljkodukovski9268]

Divno

[@jackvishneski1942]

I'm inspired by the overtones they're getting

[@JoanKentBible]

Sublimel

[@nope24601]

Hallelujah!

[@cht2162]

To my hearing, there is way too much resonance in the building for recording purposes. It results in an ethereal recording but with too much reverberating and confusing sound.

[@jnathanj883]

Aw, C'mon. Are you offering to jet the "G6" in your "G6" to some more amiable acoustic? I love hearing Owain Park's long-lived group in all the places they sing. My favorite in that vein is hearing them sing Howell's "Here is the Little Door", in a nearly dead room. They are excellent because they hear each other, and the room, and adjust.

[@user-jarlygri]

altinos is wonderful

[@ivarenic4383]

My new favorite performance of Sicut Cervus

[@任静-o3t]

喜欢喜欢💕

[@michaeldoyle6702]

Beautiful performance. Why does the chapel have no stained glass? Who is the figure above the choir?

[@jackmorrison7379]

A representation (modern) of the BVM ascending (assumption) to glory in heaven. It is the Lady Chapel of the cathedral. The Puritans smashed out the stained glass, and scratched off the painted figures that once occupied the red smudges in the wall beyond the altar.

[@peterpeecock7721]

@@jackmorrison7379 A curious aside - Oliver Cromwell, of Puritan fame, lived in Ely for a time, and there is an old house known as Cromwell's House, not far from the cathedral.

[@_5up3rm4n]

The Preach Boys!

[@herrodish]

Como busca la cierva las corrientes de agua, así te busca mi alma, Dios mío.

[@jnathanj883]

Or as Herbert Howells had it, bent into English: "Like as the Hart desireth the Waterbrooks, So Longeth my Soul after Thee" (feels like King James Version of the bible. I'm probably wrong. . .)

[@skittenhund]

Fuckin best song we ever sang dude. I walked down the aisle to this 💕💕💕

[@cristinasomacarrera5577]

Precioso

[@benedettochianca3038]

❤️

[@auraelenaramirez5948]

What key is this in?

[@philmcdonald6088]

it's psalm 42.

[@louiecastle]

what is that ghastly blue doll doing hanging on the wall above them?

[@sebprieto2130]

An apparition of Mary

[@0xSol_Invictus]

this piece sounds so much better when sung faster :(

[@jnathanj883]

It depends (the tempo) upon the room where sung.

[@ilzezepa2]

Fantastic!!!!.... but "t" is too much for latin

[@Ruffiello]

"T's" in Latin are dental, as they are in Italian.

[@ireneusjustinpolicarp8628]

I don’t know if Anglicans sing plain chant during their liturgical service, but since the 60s the Popes have basically killed it. We have no such thing as sacred music. Keep it up. Maybe some day, you can teach us how to sing like Catholics again.

[@JulianneTure]

Yes, we do. Especially in High Church parishes, where there can be as much Latin as English in the liturgy!

[@pravoslavn]

Gesualdo Six is always outstanding. But who schmaltzed-up the altar and reredos of the Lady Chapel at Ely ??? Typical modern lack-of-taste and a desecration to a stately old cathedral. A pox upon whomever is responsible.

[@fleurafricaine5740]

Too much reverberation