Verdi: Quattro pezzi sacri - Radio Filharmonisch Orkest & Groot Omroepkoor - Live concert HD

[@micapoalfine3277]

So beautiful 🙏

[@harryhagan5937]

This is superb! I wish everyone in the world could hear this wondrous, transforming music. God bless the repose of the soul of the dear Maestro Verdi

[@elizabethblock9021]

Wonderful that there's a woman conducting! And not every chorus can sing split up, rather than with all the sopranos, altos, tenors, basses together. I sang this 63 years ago (!) and it's amazing how much of it still sounded familiar.

[@steveschutte7956]

Very beautiful pieces, done beautifully! The recording and video is so well done, as well. Thank you to all the performers on a superb job.

[@joheinharmeyer8552]

Gute Dynamik, gute Phrasierungen, sehr schöne Harmonie und wunderbares Orchester

[@1968KWT]

Thanks for uploading this performance of an undeservedly neglected work 🌺🌺🌺

[@jennytheexperimentalist]

Fun fact! The Ave Maria (1st movement) in this piece uses the enigmatic scale! In comparison to the major scale, it has a flat re and sharp fa, sol, and la. It was originally written in 1889 as a response to Adolfo Crescentini’s challenge to use a scale he invented in a piece and use it to harmonize the piece. Verdi was the one who coined the scale’s name as a reaction to the sound of the scale. For additional context, the enigmatic scale was designed to not have a perfect interval connecting to do/tonic. This means that the I chord is augmented and you have tertian harmonies like with the IV chord. It’s really interesting to listen to!

[@MadMusicologist]

I came to love them by studying Luigi Nono's string quartet "Fragmente - Stille, An Diotima". The "scala enigmatica" plays a fundamental role there.

[@TMSH]

32:22 "Et laudámus nomen tuum in sǽculum, et in sǽculum sǽculi." "And let us praise your name forever and ever." This 165th bar of No. 4 Te Deum was also heard in the early 90s TV commercial of the Family Rosary Crusade in the Philippines. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIqWpK2hp7WbqaM

[@joseantoniomunoz9672]

🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁🚁

[@teddyber6337]

Golden 4 hard to see how it as been played so badly in the past...

[@SZ-ef9lz]

The last bars of the Te Deum are really frightening - "In te Domine speravi" but the music ends almost in dark despair. Hope? I don't think so.

[@harryhagan5937]

Hope has more than a single facet, I believe.

[@pianistegolfeur]

Elle est toujours superbe à la direction...! j'espère simplement qu'elle ne porte pas toujours sa queue de cheval quand elle ne dirige pas : quelle beauté !

[@1968KWT]

If only audiences (like this audience here 37:43-38:04) refrained from applauding immediately after the end of a work (whether sacred or secular), at least out of respect for the performers . . .

[@mcouzijn]

Nonsense, Is 22 seconds of silence, plus a conductor obviously relaxing, not enough for you?