The Choir of Royal Holloway, Rupert Gough - Gjeilo: Ave Generosa (Lyric Video)

Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo is bringing warmth and comfort this holiday season with a new album called Winter Songs. Available here: decca.lnk.to/w...
Combining choir, piano and strings, this album reimagines beloved carols, alongside brand new compositions which evoke the spirit of winter. Christmas favourites such as ‘The First Nowell’, ‘The Holly and the Ivy’ and ‘Silent Night’ alternating with beautiful Gjeilo works such as ‘The Rose’ and ‘Ecce Novum’ - balancing the new and the familiar in perfect harmony.
Ola Gjeilo says: “I’ve always wanted to do a Christmas album and I’m so excited to get to share these winter-inspired tracks, 15 collaborations with the amazing Choir of Royal Holloway and 12 Ensemble.”
The new recording features Ola Gjeilo on piano, the Choir of Royal Holloway, and 12 Ensemble - a collection of London’s finest and most exciting chamber musicians. The conductor is Rupert Gough, Director of Choral Music and College Organist at Royal Holloway since 2005.
Music video for Ave Generosa. (C) 2017 Decca Music Group Limited
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[@allieasbill2055]

As an alto, I appreciate how he lets altos sing. Most of the time we get a drone or a simple harmony, but Ola writes our part a lot more interesting than normal.

[@nantalagafirma3334]

Allie you’re so right, He writes such beautiful alto lines. Much more interesting than many.

[@TheJazzzter]

AMEN, SISTERS!!!

[@claireadams3107]

I accidentally stumbled across this in my KZbin suggested and now I’m on a mission to convince my choir director to have our choir perform this piece

[@valtteripennanen4043]

You can do it. IF the choir director of yours refuses on this deal, shame on him/her

[@juliadiers1927]

DO IT!!! i sang this with my choir and it was so fun

[@DityaSangGita]

Ah yes so true. Me tooo 😁

[@jonrankin2357]

How did you get on? :)

[@miri__8480]

My choir performed it a few weeks ago...I love every second of singing it ❤️❤️ I really hope you get to sing it one day

[@RomanBarabakhJunior]

One of the most harmonically beautiful pieces. It's simply impressive!

[@In5ane956]

Singing this now in a choir. Love it that every voice gets to shine in this.

[@MrMaqhawe]

This bass line is everything right with the world

[@emelpuck5437]

i'm deeply in fond of Ola Gjeilo's work.

[@joshualausberg6771]

Keep doing what you're doing man. In a world where mainstream genres reign supreme, it is the hidden gems, like the pieces that you create, that give music a deeper meaning.

[@fredsik]

But Ola Gjeilo and Eric Whitacre ARE the classical world's version of mainstream dreg. This is just a couple of close seconds away from the sugary world of "The River Flows in You". How people fail to see this always astonishes me.

[@lionsmaine1238]

fredsik Yeah, I can agree on that. Compared to a number of contemporary composers like Dominick Diorio, Jake Runestad, Morten Lauridsen, Elaine Hagenberg, Daniel Elder, and Eriks Esenvalds, Ola Gjeilo's music is just too sweet and lacks substance. I'd compare it to unseasoned chicken.

[@weirdo70615702]

Shining Armor I’m a bit musically young, but what do you mean by too sweet? The chord structures seem really complex when compared to most music I hear nowadays

[@DaveDexterMusic]

Christ, you people. Dissonance doesn't auto-equal quality and "sweet" doesn't auto-equal dreg. A choral mastermind like Thomas Tallis often used dissonances - which frankly I tend not to like - but was also often very tonal and consonant. If you want to take a swing at Tallis for being sugary sweet dreg, be my guest. This is excellent choral composing.

[@Nooticus]

^

[@nancydeflon9451]

I love everything he composes, but I think this is my absolute favorite.

[@mehbuteh]

I love how it gets real loud at the end and the rings out as each section stops singing

[@arlenedechoiseul-guyancour5871]

Envoûtant. Comme souvent le grégorien . Apaisant, la musique de l'âme, évidemment. Et les voix graves,exaltées. Etant soprane, j'aime cette amplification. Etonnant aussi de la part d'un contemporain, de ceux qui cherchent la haute-voltige, les acrobaties, l'explosions des valeurs classiques, fondatrices, fondamentales....

[@wheelmanmitch]

Splendid!

[@francktamala]

I practice this song with my choir 2 years ago, unfortunately we ended up not performing it because the concert was canceled 😭😭 This piece is amazing

[@clairefries3482]

This is a MASTERPIECE ! I feel like it comes from a another planet... b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l

[@magicarp79]

From a soprano, to you: Thank you for composing this piece. I love it so much.

[@caroltaurua5406]

This reminds me of Gregorian chant. Its beautiful. Thank you for music such as this. Greetings from Dunedin, New Zealand.

[@arlenedechoiseul-guyancour5871]

It IS a gregorian song, based on a woman writer's text, from the Middle Ages

[@polystralianpuritist801]

It has that winter touch to it.

[@Kaylapotet]

I have gotten really familiar with composers and choir music all the way back to Gregorian chant. And i think Ola is the best composer ive heard of all time. I love the music

[@DankGank]

Wow a piece where Barelytones get to shine! I love it!

[@raisingremiandremo]

I sang with with my choir (Quava Vocal Group) in 2019. Absolutely amazing 🥹. Love from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@eyepod1967]

The last 10 seconds made me cry.

[@roksanaptasznik1253]

This is my all-time favourite. Can't get enough of harmony and voices sink in each other. ❤❤❤

[@ThomasJakobMusic]

THANKS for being the light in my KZbin subscriptions.

[@artystka-skrzypaczka7260]

Simply- it's beautiful, but "gloriosa" is the best😍

[@Lasse3]

*Behold! Ola Gjeilo is composing!*

[@marklee7864]

How wonderful!!! Ola's music, Always, It makes me humble. I appriciate his own inspirations which touch our mind deeply.

[@MiSt3300]

We started to sing this with my choir and I wasn't really convinced by the bass part which we were training. But when I decided to listen to this I was blown away! I can't wait till we sing it with the rest of the choir

[@dbean5174]

Yeah that 13.5 whole note could be pretty tiresome 😅

[@basiag9]

Extremely heart touching. Amazing!

[@richardquiroga7178]

Simplemente genial. Un bálsamo para el oído. Gracias, por tan sublime composición, Ola Gjeilo

[@さすらいのラーメン侍]

前半の激しさと後半の神秘的な音楽が素晴らしい。 Beautiful!!

[@robynlynnellebaker3378]

Just gorgeous. Hopefully, our choir can sing this. When it’s safe to sing again. It was nice to have the music to sing along with.

[@clairenicosia5918]

so beautiful! i can't stop listenning to this song!

[@Angelina_Katashinska]

Це так красиво ✨✨✨🫶🏻 дякую 🙏🏻

[@jbrownbyu]

Love the coupling with the sheet music. Beautiful.

[@Dan2805]

Mirabilis !!!

[@franceskinskij]

I discovered this piece 2 days ago. I got goosebumps after goosebumps. On one part it was consistent, second only to Wagner's prelude from Tristan und Isolde. This is the last thing I expected from a contemporary choir piece. This is making me appreciate choir music more. Thanks

[@arlenedechoiseul-guyancour5871]

Absolument d'accord! Envoûtant. Apaisant; la musique de l'âme, évidemment. Etonnant aussi de la part d'un contemporain, de ceux qui cherchent la haute-voltige, les acrobaties, l'explosions des valeurs classiques, fondatrices, fondamentales....

[@mavohq]

my choir director chose five of his songs for the advanced choir to sing next year and im so hyped!! these are so gorgeous and i cannot wait to perform them!!! edit: we had our winter concert the december before covid and these were in it, it was the last concert i ever did or will do with that group since our spring concert was cancelled and i graduated that spring, it makes these songs all the more special to me

[@adrianbenson2570]

Where did you go for school?

[@mavohq]

@@adrianbenson2570 cranbrook

[@MiSt3300]

My choir also sings this now (;

[@sizwemondlane7464]

This is so cleverly written!!! I’m in awe.

[@choseninnerstrength2366]

This song is GORGEOUS! My choir could never....

[@simonidastankovic2627]

What a godly Music ! Thank you so much !!!

[@kovacsilona2961]

Woww Bass!!! Bravo!!! Perfect.

[@prantosangma7208]

beautiful hymn and beautiful language

[@creativeflame_]

0:10 that entrance is so powerful ✨

[@julienelson8162]

Gorgeous.

[@vermontchoralunion]

The ladies of VCU sang the SSAA (original) version of this at our Christmas 2017 concerts - thank you for making the Hildegard text available as SATB for those who wish to learn that version.

[@teoguardian]

This piece always feels like a reset button for my soul

[@hypervclassics3468]

Wow... Am blown Away...

[@michelplockyn404]

Toujours très beau ce que vous écrivez !

[@gerardvanamstel]

Very beautiful peace!

[@mayochupenjoyer]

that teria at measure 88 gets me every time

[@simonidastankovic2627]

PURE MASTERPIECE

[@GertOverweg55]

Gewéldig !

[@EllaEllaEh]

I’ve been a lifelong choir member and I’ve sung everything from tenor to highest soprano. Your music is so beautiful, and I wish I could be a part of a choir who performs this. I would have goosebumps through the whole thing. I’m a sucker for a rich low voice, and those altos and basses are superb! I’ve listened to both versions of this piece and I have to say, I like the SSAA version better. I think the higher key makes it sound more triumphant and vital. Whereas the SATB sounds more contemplative and subdued. So subjective, though. Thank you for your beautiful music.

[@adamabele785]

I had a talk with my conductor and gave some examples of pieces that I estimated the choir could handle. And now pieces of Gjeilo are some of the most beloved in the repertoire. I was part of a performance in a foreign country. We brought part of our own Orchestra with us, but needed to hire professional musicians. They also got hooked to these pieces and loved it. Just give it a try. When you knock, it is possible that the door is already open and you just need to enter.

[@WildWestGal]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@lucascastro5778]

What a beautiful song

[@keddrickjamaal]

This song is magnificent! Beautiful and a gem to sing

[@seshanabeykoon9804]

A heart catching piece at the first hearing. Enchanting with its flourishing scales and auxiliaries and the fruitful harmony that blends. Love the infinitely blessed meaning beneath that reveals the grace and purity of the Blessed Virgin, whom the world tries to deviate from. Hildegard Vin Bingen is known to be an ancient musician of early years whom has inspired the words. Praise to be God Forever and Let the whole world be mesmerized and flourished by his grace, and be cured and protected from harm.

[@josephalvarez5315]

I just heard this piece at a concert, and now it got recommend to me? Google definitely uses our microphones or something

[@FilipGereg]

Nothing new to be real

[@FilipGereg]

Always remember, if the service is free and still going strong, the product they are selling is you

[@isaacward3499]

Maybe they noticed the tickets to the concert...😅

[@gabbyleach7436]

I love the alto part!! So powerful

[@sizwemondlane7464]

They phrased the hell out of bar 17! 😭😭😭❤️😍

[@TheDarkokaca]

Beautiful piece! ❤️❤️😇

[@meowmeowmeow1984]

My choir did this piece in 2019 it was such a fun piece to learn and it sounded great. Lovely composition keep up the good work :))

[@RoyalBrenda]

Masterpiece man, keep going

[@morganlouiseramsey]

This is beyond beautiful!

[@4EyedAnimation]

Always amazing...your music has gotten me thru sad heavy days.

[@sirbader1]

You'll be alright.

[@magicarp79]

I love this composition. Sounds like old school polyphony.

[@anthonypuente9072]

It’s Middle Ages monophony

[@LevelUpWithMatthew]

@@anthonypuente9072 its only based on that lmaoooo

[@susannestechow1009]

Not polyphony, then the voices would start to various times, like at a canon or a fugue ,and would be self-standing. That is homophony it means either, that the voices have wholely or almost wholely the same rhythm, or one voice , for instance the soprano, is the main voice and the other voices make the harmonies and accompanish the main voice with long notes like here how it seems to me. Maybe it sounds medievally, but there are harmonies which the mostly unknown medieval componists had would made never to their time.

[@LevelUpWithMatthew]

@@susannestechow1009 it’s has elements of polyphony at the end

[@eugeneclasby518]

@@susannestechow1009There are a number of canon passages in the piece. The “cantus firmus” is chant derived.

[@rockymountainchamberchoir]

Such a beautiful piece!

[@fideliowald8736]

schöne Gestaltung!

[@littlebrotha123]

ENGLISH TRANSLATION: I behold you, noble, glorious and whole woman, the pupil of purity. You are the sacred matrix in which God takes great pleasure. The essences of Heaven flooded into you, and the Great Word of God dressed itself in flesh. You appeared as a shining white lily, as God looked upon you before all of Creation. O lovely and tender one, how greatly has God delighted in you. For He has placed His passionate embrace within you, so that His Son might nurse at your breast. Your womb held joy, with all the celestial symphony sounding through you, Virgin, who bore the Son of God, when your purity became luminous in God. Your flesh held joy, like grass upon which dew falls, pouring its life-green into it, and so it is true in you also, o Mother of all delight. Now let all Ecclesia shine in joy and sound in symphony praising the most tender woman, Mary, the bequeather/seed-source of God. Amen.

[@sirbader1]

Fucking based. Thanks bro.

[@Amadea27]

Thanks!!!

[@Athompthomp]

but the song has only the first paragraph.

[@jennipherkafula9467]

Amen

[@michaelrex6948]

That's... not... a very good translation... This is definitely closer: 1. Hail, nobly born, hail, honored and inviolate, you Maiden are the piercing gaze of chastity, you the material of holiness- the one who pleased God. 2. For heaven’s flood poured into you as heaven’s Word was clothed in flesh in you. 3. You are the lily, gleaming white, upon which God has fixed his gaze before all else created. 4. O beautiful, O sweet! How deep is that delight that God received in you, when ‘round you he enwrapped his warm embrace, so that his Son was suckled at your breast. 5. Your womb rejoiced as from you sounded forth the whole celestial symphony. For as a virgin you have borne the Son of God- in God your chastity shone bright. 6. Your flesh rejoiced just as a blade of grass on which the dew has fall’n, viridity within it to infuse-just so it happened unto you, O mother of all joy! 7. So now in joy gleams all the Church like dawn, resounds in symphony because of you, the Virgin sweet and worthy of all praise, Maria, God’s mother. Amen.

[@ianislousa1658]

Sublime!

[@sherweencabrales]

The best ❤

[@diegodelacruziwadare3231]

OMG this is amazing!!! you are such a great composer. This sound like heaven, I want to know more about you!!!!

[@alwayscocacola25]

Majestic ❤️

[@eglejuodeikiene3156]

Very very much! Palestrina was my favorite, but now...

[@kozadojikrev3938]

super song.

[@joycearscott4204]

Stay with us a beautiful piece for the mind and soul

[@mihaelafenesan5214]

Stupenda

[@crok8349]

Magnificent!

[@AnnaZverina]

Okay so I saw that the bass line was something I could sing. I began singing along until of course he had to put in those gosh darn low B Flats!

[@BernardoBernalMusic]

Amazing! Thanks maestro

[@katebarton5548]

I love that

[@rachelsodipe8946]

1:12 and 4:04 give me CHILLS

[@jillpongo2959]

Bro same

[@waresnite]

@@jillpongo2959 4:04 can BLOW OFF even a Titanium roof... is ... just... amazing....

[@palomasuanzes2675]

Magnífica Obra!!! Transporta a otra dimensión. Me encanta.

[@MarkFromTaiwan]

I just buy two your albums on itunes. your music is so inspired. thank you man.

[@loneranger5654]

Nice one :) and thanks for including the sheet music, I love it, but unfortunately not enough people do this

[@littlebrotha123]

LATIN LYRICS: Ave, generosa, gloriosa et intacta puella. Tu pupilla castitatis, tu materia sanctitatis, que Deo placuit. Nam hec superna infusio in te fuit, quod supernum Verbum in te carnem induit. Tu candidum lilium, quod Deus ante omnem creaturam inspexit. O pulsherrima et dulcissima, quam valde Deus in te delectabatur, cum amplexionem caloris sui in te posuit, ita quod Filius eius de te lactatus est. Venter enim tuus gaudium havuit, cum omnis celestis symphonia de te sonuit, quia, Virgo, Filium Dei portasti, ubi castitas tua in Deo claruit. Viscera tua gaudium habuerunt, sicut gramen, super quod ros cadit, cum ei viriditatem infudit, ut et in te factum est, o Mater omnis gaudii. Nunc omnis Ecclesia in gaudio rutilet ac in symphonia sonet propter dulcissima Virginem et laudabilem Mariam, dei Genitricem. Amen

[@juanpbotha]

Bravo!

[@lindstheteacher1611]

I am singing this in my chior!

[@Monteverdiforever]

Me too....:-)

[@catherinenicol6671]

whouahhhhhhhhh😍😍😍😍

[@dariosatriani6688]

0:10 for replay :)

[@dylanaruto20]

Dario Satriani THANKS

[@josephinelagatta9320]

Questo pezzo tocca le parti più intime dell'anima.

[@krishanoberoi]

Good stuff!!

[@kadiaharrison9397]

I am also singing this in my Choir Awesome!

[@alexanderschwassmann3975]

Just went and bought the CD. :)

[@JeffPdAragao]

Carambas como eu adoro essa maravilha!

[@willamoss6989]

Love this song- singing it for contest season. Not especially fond of the lyrics, but it’s truly a musical masterpiece!

[@TheHypnag0g222]

Exquisite 🕊

[@serkanguvenin2532]

Türkiye'den selamlar! böyle güzel bir koroda söylemek için irtica edebilirim. keşke görme engelli olmasaydım keşke avrupada bir yerde doğsaydım tebrik ediyorum ve sevgilerimi gönderiyorum❤

[@henkvos4017]

Weer een Top nummer van Ola Gjeilo ziet er goed uit .

[@camusmonamour]

Paroles (latin puis français) : Ave generosa, gloriosa et intacta puella, tu pupilla castitatis, tu materia sanctitatis, que Deo placuit. - - - - - - - Salut, ô généreuse, ô Vierge glorieuse, pupille de chasteté, matière de sainteté, toi qui as plu à Dieu !

[@Ian-uf2qt]

Una canción hermosa; una linea de bajo increíble y variada.

[@dee_vt]

This showed up on my auto-play and I somehow know the bass part from memory but have no recollection of every learning/singing this song?? Memory works in VERY interesting ways.....

[@adamabele785]

Tenors underrepresented in this recording

[@tastelesssoperatatouille4396]

Sang this im the Texas all state choir