Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium nunquam habui | Bachakademie | SWR Classic

Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium nunquam habui für 40 gemischte Stimmen a cappella | Liederhalle Stuttgart, November 2016
Gaechinger Cantorey
SWR Symphonieorchester
Dirigent: Hans-Christoph Rademann
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[@NickJay]

A fabulously beautiful performance! I really love this and Tallis was obviously a genius of his day to be able to compose this in his head, so to speak. I only discovered this piece a short time ago thanks to the King's Singers but it's really growing on me every time I hear it and wish I could hear it live one day.

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

I call this "The Beautiful ringing song" because it's like it rings in your ears. It hypnotizes me and brings tears to my eyes.

[@paulbourdon1236]

Stunningly beautiful. Tallis was a genius.

[@guitarslim56]

Tallis was a mad scientist.

[@gotzpahl6302]

Thank you for taking us back to the roots of Western musical culture : the praise of God. This music comes to it's full unfolding in the setting of Gothic architecture within which it was originally played. I had the fortune of this sublime experience in the formative years of my musical formation.

[@UildesJr]

Bravo! Não é algo que os canais auditivos possam captar, mas sim, sentido e absorvido pela alma!

[@GerryWhite48]

Simply beautiful, much credit to everyone involved, hope you enjoyed singing it as I did listening to it.

[@thomasfletcher8997]

OH my sweet dear lord god...

[@jefftaylor8894]

I really like the lower key - a tone or so lower than most performances. Much easier on the ear. The thing is already stacked with fundamentals and overtones that create a sometimes overwhelming cluster of pitch content; but hearing it in this key really clarifies it for me.

[@1oscarbravo]

In this key - G - it's sung by SATBarB. A tone higher in A, it's better for SSATB.

[@josejunior4036]

bravo!!!!!!

[@sg_ccssyhh]

Undoubtly a masterpiece, inspired by the Holy Spirit. This is just a prelude of how the Heavenly Choir sounds like.

[@andreadallasta1030]

favoloso!

[@freiheit2791]

Wunderbar.

[@Duh321]

just came here for an english project, and i got to say i like it.

[@stephenkorab6456]

I found this performance beautiful and most enjoyable. The harsh criticism in this commentary saddens me, as if nothing here was beautiful or worthwhile.

[@klassikswrkultur]

Thank you so much for your compliments and your nuanced comment!

[@stephenkorab6456]

​@@klassikswrkultur You are most welcome. 🕊

[@pamgripp3945]

The best!

[@MrMICHELVILELA]

Parece que vem do céu!

[@jackiewalker7259]

Yessss

[@paulbourdon1236]

I absolutely love this performance! I'd love to see them live! Is there somewhere I could find an explanation for the musically ignorant on the organization of this piece? It is so complex and rich. Constantly changing. It seems to hinge on the sopranos but I can't figure out how they interact. I assume there is one per chorus? Maybe I'm naive but it seems to me to be one of the best of western culture.

[@klassikswrkultur]

A good starting point is Wikipedia: "The motet is laid out for eight choirs of five voices (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spem_in_alium fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spem_in_alium

[@paulbourdon1236]

That was a big help! Thanks! Are the choirs arranged left to right? @@klassikswrkultur

[@mwnyc3976]

Paul, if you're still interested in this piece, back in May, Stile Antico put together one of those coronavirus-lockdown video performances where the singers all sing their parts at home and the individual voices all get edited together. They laid out the video so that each singer is in a separate little box: the boxes are arranged in eight columns of five voices, and the boxes appear and disappear as the voices sing. It really helps you see how the piece is put together. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5fRdpWtmLGkZqc

[@paulbourdon1236]

@@mwnyc3976 Thank you!!! This is brilliant!

[@problemchimp4231]

Be great if you could explain this to us folks, then transition into Yes & Led Zeppelin

[@TRCWhiteRaven]

Chuck Norris sings this alone.

[@BlackAdder665]

Marvellously and hilariously inappropriate comment! :-D

[@siankoasha452]

Excuse me, I did mean to write "SPEM" and not Seem as that would be ridiculous.

[@sveafan5721]

my recommendation: don't sing spem in alium if you can't count indeed - unfortunately, the soprano in choir 5 (not pictured when she comes in) starts one beat too early (at 1:27) which makes the entire piece fall apart until 1:50 when the soprano of choir 6 takes over :-(... nobody is perfect for sure but too bad that a high profile choir like gaechinger cantorey is not able to perform this piece right being broadcasted live...

[@mwnyc3976]

Yes, that was a mini-not-quite-disaster. But those things happen in concert sometimes, even to the very best groups. (I am a little surprised, though, that Rademann, the Cantorey, and SWR were willing to post this online.)

[@Isabel-pu9zw]

Yo solo veo 39 personas, me falta una

[@siankoasha452]

Seem

[@Matthan678]

The choir sings without much confidence and the conductor does not help. He just beats time and stands too far away from them. The whole performance just lumbers along. The Tallis Scholars and the best but if you can get hold of David Wulstan's performance made in the early 70's with the Clerkes of Oxenford grab it. Prof. Wulstan knew about Tudor church music better than anyone.

[@BlackAdder665]

Thanks! Am always on the look-out for good performances of this gem.

[@MrEspressso2000]

Geistliche Musik gehört in einen sakralen Raum, in dem auch Frack u. Abendkleid deplaciert ist.

[@arongreenwood9414]

And what dress and space would that be, if you would be so kind as to illustrate that!?

[@saska83]

I am not impressed with this performance, they are not listening to each other... entire verse is like a canon, but it seems to confusing, and the colour of each vocal section are not compatible with each other... the crescendo and decrescendo are badly accentuated on certain parts, there is no imitations of old instruments, some passages are conceived like you are listening to an ensemble, not to a choir...

[@paulbourdon1236]

Obviously my ear is untrained. Do you have a favorite performance of this?

[@saska83]

@@paulbourdon1236 listen to this rendition... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJTWonybYrhgfMk

[@Andrew...00]

all directors have their own way of interpreting music. if the director wasn't happy with it, it wouldn't have been uploaded. stop this!

[@Andrew...00]

unless you think you can direct it better

[@saska83]

@@Andrew...00 it is all about to put voices together in order to listen to each other, to cover some imperfections and to help each other to make the sound more compact. Here is about to sing together, not to be individual.

[@malenasheytanova9967]

This is a pure and utter Disaster.

[@guitarslim56]

Ha! You guys making comments are brutal! Keeping it honest! :()

[@benkopal]

if you mean video direction, I agree.