Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis played on 40 Guitars

[@JoeParrish]

Purchase the track here - joeparrish.bandcamp.com/track/spem-in-alium-40-guitars Check out my band Albion - kzbin.info/door/ZZgdvQxbGmIeGEdzFWZ-1g So I recorded this famous renaissance choral piece with 40 acoustic guitars playing the 40 individual parts. I decided to upload it today (November 23rd) since it is the 435th anniversary of Tallis' death.

[@amnbvcxz8650]

I wish it was on Spotify, id listen to it often!😍

[@amnbvcxz8650]

Why so few likes?! THIS IS STELLAR THANK YOU❤ wish it was on spotify or some streaming platforms to listen to!

[@RussinTirnaNog]

Very beautiful rendition, though did expect to see 40 people playing 40 guitars throughout the ruin.

[@sibionic]

this is not only scholarly and a feat of musicianship, it sounds completely beautiful. Tallis would be amazed. Congratulations Joe.

[@monscarmeli]

You know there is something fundamentally wrong with the world when barely a thousand have been graced with this sublime offering, while untold millions mindlessly gawk at twits unboxing clothes.

[@docbailey3265]

Quite right.

[@floriangeyer1886]

Agree!

[@amnbvcxz8650]

The worst are violent disgusting explicit songs millions listen to these days 😂

[@docbailey3265]

Classical music on a steel string guitar played with plectrum? Clutching my pearls and reaching for the smelling salts! Oh Noes! Loved it!

[@juba1946]

The most beautiful polyphony composed by Thomas Tallis.

[@vertillan]

This doesn't have enough views. Amazing work.

[@golos7670]

how in the world did you get the CLARITY I hear here? I've loved this piece since I first heard it in childhood but your rendition is a revelation to be sure. Congratulations.

[@Mary-AnnThorson]

Beautiful

[@tjwhite1963]

Very nice! Thank you for sharing this! 😊

[@canine6023]

Thankyou so much. Very beautiful.

[@tung-x]

When in college, I read about this motet of 40 voices... always curious about anything unusual, I had to find some recordings. Anyway, great version and the clarity is fantastic! Bravo!

[@philippelahaussedelalouvie6107]

Ethereal - wonderful mastery of expressive strings, great adaptation of voices

[@johnsmalley8853]

Magical

[@hismajestysmen]

This is simply stunning, just ran across it. I have sung this piece a handful of times, with one singer per each of the 40 parts. This is a whole new dimension.

[@rev.rachel]

This is a gorgeous rendition!

[@MrJdsenior]

How freakin cool is this? One thing I found very interesting about it is that you can pick the various parts out of it so easily. I don't have any idea why this seems easier than with voices, but it does, to me anyway. On my playlist this is gone, it has. I get the feeling that if you had played it on a bunch of different guitars the clarity would have been lost. A gem.

[@HerbariumColibisco]

Espetacular!!!!

[@jbush4456]

I dont think I've ever been this excited to hear something on KZbin! The description in your comment alone gave me chills of anticipation. Can't wait!

[@CassiniProjekt]

Everything you're doing rocks! One of the best music channels on YT.

[@g.augusto5169]

I didn't knew about this cover, but I'm glad I found it. :D

[@GuyStPierre4love]

Beautiful music ma friend! God bless.

[@GeoffSalt1]

Sublime, many thanks!

[@erinmckenzie-christensen6975]

I have sung this as a chorister, but for the first time I have begun to appreciate it. When I have heard it sung it sounds like choral sludge, but with the guitar makes the notes much clearer. It was interesting to note the "Respice" entries - that is the two places where all the choirs fall silent at once, and all the singers who have gotten lost along the way come in with redoubled vigour.

[@JoeParrish]

Thanks Erin, the original creates a kind of ethereal wash which I find great in it's own right, but yes the idea here was to expose the counterpoint among the individual parts through the more cutting, focused sound of the notes played on guitar

[@hismajestysmen]

@@JoeParrish You have succeeded in doing that admirably. I have been lucky enough to sing Spem twice with just one singer per part, where I started the whole thing off both times. The experience is like slowly starting some kind of great cosmic engine. I love this piece intimately. And I absolutely love what you have done with it. The clarity is wonderful.

[@JoeParrish]

@@hismajestysmen Cosmic engine is a good description, or maybe a celestial clock. A nerve wracking work to have the first entry in. Thank you

[@seanmckerchar8781]

@@JoeParrish Think there is a bit too much emphasis in choirs to do everything legato. All the little quaver 'diddles' get lost but their intricate filigrees stand out on a staccato plucked guitar. So well done...

[@seanmckerchar8781]

Sublime

[@AnaClaudia-ic5pn]

The most beautiful music ever heard. Greetings from Brazil!

[@MrJdsenior]

Very cool. I can pick out individual parts so much more easily, and those couple of 'train wreck' chords just hit you in the gut. That's some pretty wild writing, beyond the overwhelming massiveness of the piece, width wise. The question and answer portions are more obvious as well. I expect that would also be true in person with multiple choirs arranged around the listener, but I have yet to hear it that way. Another I would like to hear the work presented on is however many harpsichords as is necessary, at a minimum four, obviously. I expect that would be very revealing as well, exactly like a plucked guitar, only different. :-) Well done. Joe. This would be a really fine piece for demonstrating binaural recording, with the 'guitars' (in your case) arranged in the round with an upper row and at different heights, as a multi row choir would be. If you've never heard one (headphones absolutely required), it is almost eerie, you can point accurately to an audible point source placed anywhere around you, even directly overhead. There it would probably be most striking, in a normal choir setup, if the main choir is 'in the round' and there is an antiphonal solo part located within, especially if located in a high balcony. You could do it looping though, as well, given a tape measure, some high seats, and a good cheat sheet. There are some examples on YT. I think I remember one was an orchestral movie score where it was done. Cheers. I just realized reading down through that I had already expressed some of this a couple of years ago, but am too lazy to edit those parts out.

[@nonononono-sy6id]

thanks man. i always wanted to do this. beautiful job! ❤️❤️❤️

[@operaorvieto6479]

Came from a FB Music Shitpost Group where you brought up and talked about how great your work is. You have a new subscriber and I will share this with my voice students.

[@psicologiadelamusica988]

You're great My friend 🤘😜

[@fralovagon]

amazing! thanks for sharing! congrats!

[@mabui67]

Maravillosa interpretación!!!

[@natanvandoorn5660]

Beautiful!

[@VanVlearMusic]

I’m probably in the minority here, but I actually saw the email from band camp and then came to KZbin to watch the video!

[@KathleenDesmond-f7d]

Amazing

[@GeoffStrehlMusic]

Can’t wait!

[@giancarlovannucci3303]

Very beautiful chorale. I love It very much!! And what about the location? Extraordinary! Is an ancient abbey? In my Land ( tuscany ) There is the Abbazia di San Galgano, It is from XII century and It hasn's the roof.

[@fatovamingus]

I just said how much I wish Janet Cardiff's "One Collective Breath" was around. did you know of that? 40 speakers in a circle...each had one of the voices...in the Cloisters. Wow...I stumbled out. I want to see how you did this

[@anthtan]

I wonder whether Tallis created a work of forty parts because Lent has 40 days. The meaning of the work, the lyrics, are humble and penitential in nature. Amazing work, by the way! Thumbs up!

[@山川川山]

I hope you will economically success

[@123agidee_2]

Would you consider doing your own interpretation of ravel’s bolero

[@DIABINMUS]

Battle of Evermore

[@lpbue]

I love you

[@docbailey3265]

Add a donation button to these please.

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[@amnbvcxz8650]

Точно подмечено

[@LeviBulger]

Ooh, someone hit a bad note at 1:10 😆

[@JoeParrish]

Believe it or not that is part of the composition. It’s called a false relation and there are many throughout the piece and in a lot of English Renaissance choral music. That one is especially glaring and some choirs ‘correct’ those dissonances when they perform the piece