Eric Whitacre conducts THE SEAL LULLABY (Junges Vokalensemble Hannover)

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Eric Whitacre conducts THE SEAL LULLABY (Junges Vokalensemble Hannover)

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13 жыл бұрын

Eric Whitacre conducts Junges Vokalensemble Hannover: The Seal Lullaby -
Concert from 15.01.2011 in Markuskirche Hannover (Germany) -
Regular conductor: Klaus-Juergen Etzold -
Piano: Alexander Schories -
www.vokalensemble-hannover.de
Camera: Jan Frühauf / Johannes Hasselhorn
Edit: Jan Frühauf
Sound: Martin Pahl

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@messayaa340 5 жыл бұрын

when you pour your heart and soul into a piece and then submit it and don’t hear from the company and when you call you found out they scrapped it to make Kung fu panda

@kptlt.phillipthomsen5973 5 жыл бұрын

But then again we DID get Hanz Zimmer writing "Oogway Ascends" which is Also BEAUTIFUL

@robertpost1221 4 жыл бұрын

I sang this piece with The Mile HIgh Choir. It's just beautiful. It will be sung by choirs for hundreds of years after Kung Fu Panda is is totally forgotten.

@ayo4637 4 жыл бұрын

Kung fu panda has a beautiful soundtrack what are you talking about

@ilyaibrahimovic9842 4 жыл бұрын

@@ayo4637 Whitacre originally composed this piece for some studio production and got curious when they never replied. He followed up, and they basically said "oh it was great. It's just that we scrapped that project [for which Whitacre had composed this lullaby] for Kung Fu Panda."

@jamesschopen-davis1330 4 жыл бұрын

@@robertpost1221Kung Fu Panda will never be forgotten

@SarahBear 6 жыл бұрын

i remeber singing the alto part in choir... id love to sing this again

@denasiathomas8735 4 жыл бұрын

Sarah bear yes altos represent!!❤️

@nizharapeavy6451 3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

@JoseRodriguez-lp7rs 3 жыл бұрын

I was a tenor... this makes me cry

@_emmbur_1453 3 жыл бұрын

I’m learning it too as an alto lol

@wobwobrob 3 жыл бұрын

I was a tenor in my little choir. This piece was so fucking cool to sing!

@jgugsu7251 9 жыл бұрын

My high school's Concert Choir is currently singing this song for our finale concert in May. This is my favorite song we have ever done. Not only is it a beautiful poem, but it is a beautiful song of which Whitacre's arrangement allows the choir to paint a scene with the words of the lullaby.

@Oohsengngin 8 жыл бұрын

+xXJiJohiXx Cool! We will be performing this too at OPUS concert, Singapore in March 2016! Can't wait ^_^

@gillwilkinsongw 3 жыл бұрын

I first heard this played on Classic FM, and couldn't wait until the end to hear who wrote it. The music is totally sublime, it actually brings tears to my eyes when I hear it., reminding me so much of the sea, and waves rolling in and out. Truly awesome. Thank you Eric Whitacre for your beautiful music.

@carolpeter3427 2 жыл бұрын

Same here, I heard this first time last night when I tuned into classic FM for for my dog Moses to listen to Pet Classics as he is petrified of fireworks. This music came on and I thought wow, this is amazing. My son came in to talk to me while it was on and I just couldn't concentrate on what he was saying because I just wanted to listen to this song I told him to be quiet so I could find out who wrote it, then he said I will record it on my phone and it will find out who it is for you. My son also said it's a lovely sound.

@OgZyBeAvEr 10 жыл бұрын

I sung this song in choir when we did a concert. We got the biggest applause that night for it too. I'm a tenor! The most important thing about this song is harmony. You don't have it, you may as well be singing Rockabye baby.

@doreenprice1110 5 жыл бұрын

Owen Thompson v

@Deuterom 12 жыл бұрын

Though poetry is the music of words, I admit that I could read Mr Kipling's verses and never truly see its full beauty. But, Oh My Lord, put to Mr Whitacre's incredible musical creation …it reaches into my soul and I am moved to tears. To me, this piece stands as evidence that the human voice is the most glorious of musical instruments. Breathtakingly beautiful …Amazing!

@ClergetMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Rudyard Kipling is a master author. He is one of my favorite English writers. Whitacres setting of this gorgeous poem is unparalleled.

@whittosjuju 10 жыл бұрын

I am so glad I had the privilege to sing this song with an Honor Choir...and after we hit that 3 way note during rehearsal, our conductor was just like "I'm done...I'm so done..." and he was already in tears...Such a gorgeous song!

@datchet11 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@Yagirlnyesha 3 жыл бұрын

I hope they play this song when I arrive to heaven

@fgbowen 9 жыл бұрын

I swear this song is a Short Film waiting to happen

@fgbowen 8 жыл бұрын

Ha! lol. yes - I get it - well... ok, yeah. Beautiful song. Reminds me of a few of God's words - Even tigers are held accountable for their kills (that's Genesis) - so,... what am I saying? There is compassion in all things beautifully made. There is a hope for the best - for every child. These are the words I would weave into the rehearsal if I were to rehearse this song ever. It is so incredibly beautiful. Reflects so so so perfectly the love of the Seal - and family. A good lesson for us All - In these days of death and deceiving.

@kristathebookworm 7 жыл бұрын

Actually this song was composed to be the title song of a Dreamworks movie of the same name. It got trashed and replaced with Kung Fu Panda, sadly

@fgbowen 7 жыл бұрын

kristathebookworm - agree - 100% - and yes, I did hear that some time ago. ahhhhg. you gotta know PIXAR would have known Better than. ... whew, well, yeah. the song is excellent - no question - and would make an incredible film, if someone would synthesize the story from the melody, phrasing, back-story, etc.

@ayannaphillips4962 9 жыл бұрын

This will forever be my most favorite song composed by Eric

@janeough45 5 жыл бұрын

ayanna phillips ,,,,im not familiar with the bloke that wrote this stunning song , however its my special find it will be in my heart d soul forever x greetings from south yorkshire england x

@---ne7xy 4 жыл бұрын

Have u heard Cloudburst?!

@saharakennedy4800 2 жыл бұрын

go check out i thank you God by him !!! you'll love it!

@sophiadouthit9738 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@ClergetMusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@---ne7xy I was there when Eric premiered it with the Indiana All State High School Band.

@ava-jg6tf 8 ай бұрын

i love how you can hear the altos so well

@MS-nz8ue 6 жыл бұрын

If I tried to sing this by myself (as opposed to with my choir mates)... Forget seal lullaby, it'll be a seal requiem because I'll sound like a dying seal.

@Rachel-fi4sc 10 жыл бұрын

This was sung by two of the choirs at the NZCF national competitions. Both times I heard it, I wanted to cry. It is so emotive and so beautiful, and I close my eyes and see that little seal pup, with those huge, dark eyes, and the water like a painting. I think this is now my favourite piece of choral music ever.

@beyethedoor 12 жыл бұрын

I have spent the last four days listening to this piece about 10 times a day, and just before sleep, still not tired of it. Beautiful contribution to the world that so needs to hear beautiful music. Thank you

@michaelderickson9431 3 жыл бұрын

I miss this song man. Good times

@MidwestSingerDude 11 жыл бұрын

What a truly eye-opening performance. Sure, I've heard non-English choirs singing English pieces, but this performance struck me deep. Language is no barrier in performing beautiful music. Music is universal and it's such a great thing to have amongst all of the negative things in today's world. Whitacre's music is something truly special!

@jamespetersen887 5 жыл бұрын

Extraordinary emotional piece. To me it evokes the profound joys our children bring us, along with the unbearable grief of losing them.

@ClergetMusic 2 жыл бұрын

And everything you’d do to make sure they’re safe, warm, and comfortable. Just like in the text of the song .

@sarahwanderer 10 ай бұрын

Always makes me wanna cry I love this

@pberger4334 Жыл бұрын

I get chills every time I hear the Seal Lullaby and Sing Gently by this fabulous composer! automatically!

@EstherLufwino-nh6or Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite song we sang this in a concert! Sending love from Zambia

@marionclark9564 2 жыл бұрын

Sang this in a workshop last night. When I first heard it, it made me cry.

@enilegnave21 13 жыл бұрын

Like all of Eric's works, this just steals your breath away and transports you elsewhere! An excellent job by this choir.

@jamidanielle2790 4 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful piece of music! Such a sad sound, but the harmonies are incredible. Takes me back to my college choir days and gets me all nostalgic. What an amazing performance!

@gillwilkinsongw 3 жыл бұрын

Sublime. Bless you Eric Whitaker for writing this simply wonderful piece of music.

@oughtonoughton2634 2 жыл бұрын

Gill , this beautiful lullaby is so special , i wish i were singing with these lovely people i woulkd blend in rather lovely ,, this lullaby is a classic that belongs in the top ten of all times lol Jane x

@jamiel4756 4 жыл бұрын

i’m crying ,,, so good !!

@kaiwastired Жыл бұрын

I performed this song with my high school vocal ensemble last week at a choir contest, and we ended up with a superior rating. Singing alto part for this song was amazing. We get to perform it at the choir concert this up coming week and I am so excited.

@LuckyIbiza 12 жыл бұрын

I was at this concert... breathtaking perfomances... awesome!!!! :)

@vivianedark22 9 жыл бұрын

My Choir was chosen this year to be the New Mexico All-State Honor Choir. I am ecstatic that we get the chance to sing this. It is absolutely beautiful.

@elizabethrobshaw7869 2 жыл бұрын

so privileged to have been able to sing this song...absolutely gorgeous song, thank you Eric Whitacre

@AriesGirl0327 5 жыл бұрын

I’m lying in bed crying 😭 This piece is gorgeous and I miss choir so much! Whitacre pieces were my favorites.

@Carlos-ze4tm Жыл бұрын

I played this in band as an alto sax and it was absolutely beautiful playing with the choir

@howardhadley9347 9 жыл бұрын

never heard this piece before...my loss. its really beautiful

@janeough45 5 жыл бұрын

howard hadley same here ,this lovely song reaches my heart and soul ,what a genius this bloke is to have written such utter joy xxx lol fro south yorkshire england

@laurahaskins123 5 жыл бұрын

I have never performed this without my voice catching, and a few tears falling...

@eldritchrose 10 жыл бұрын

My junior high choir is singing this with the high school choir! I love this song so much

@HappieKaffie 12 жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful. The piano accompaniment is so light and delicate. Wonderful.

@paigestallings264 10 жыл бұрын

Sang this song my junior year of high school. Still makes me smile every time I hear it.

@moongypsysc 10 жыл бұрын

just hearing this for the first time... so beautiful :)

@virginia_apel Жыл бұрын

I was married right there and I sang on those steps. Now I live far away from Hannover. Brings tears to my eyes.

@andreawallenberger2668 Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️💒👰🤵‍♂

@robintoler6332 10 жыл бұрын

This is what our choir is singing.... quite beautiful. To sing it is very tender!

@cbrt2011 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful, Robin. Just what I needed when I got home today. How I miss my Chorale Acadienne.

@natural09100 2 жыл бұрын

Just so beautiful

@janeough45 5 жыл бұрын

could my twin sister and i join this rather beautiful choir ,we could blend in with the harmonies with great delight xxx this song is the most beautiful song we have ever heard x the choir is utter magic xx

@49bonsai 7 жыл бұрын

Es verschlägt mir die Sprache, ein Traum!

@liuyulng 10 жыл бұрын

so great! It's from Eric Whitacre, a talent composer and conductor. and so handsome.

@ThePclayton 2 жыл бұрын

so beautiful.

@spiciinugget 8 жыл бұрын

This is so BEAUTIFUL!! Wow I'm impressed😍👌🏼

@stevie1428 Жыл бұрын

Very grateful for this fantastic song. It reminds me to my nephew. He died a few months ago 30 years old. A kind of "wake-up call"...

@penharios4952 5 ай бұрын

Que harmonia maravilhosa!! 👏👏👏🎼🎼

@lynnecaulfield1744 8 жыл бұрын

Hauntingly beautiful

@walquiriamariana4240 3 жыл бұрын

Perfeito , essa musica e linda, já tive o privilégio de cantala no Coral da Universidade.

@fgbowen 13 жыл бұрын

I love this piece. I love that the piano takes the final melody cadence.

@giovannamelchiorre282 4 жыл бұрын

Bravissimi! Molto emozionante! Grazie

@recepciontorre6446 Ай бұрын

When you don t see People anymore, Just one heart, pumping Love.

@suebennett7159 6 жыл бұрын

Singing this on our choir tour to Prague in April, beautiful, mesmerising song.

@kevinhisle2159 4 жыл бұрын

When you hear this you are transformed. Life is beautiful.

@nonato1231 2 жыл бұрын

Sempre passando aqui e ouvindo essa preciosidade...😊😊😊

@quackson694 9 жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful piece.

@LadyBlanche.888 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This was blessed and beautiful. ❤

@MaxWally11 12 жыл бұрын

I hope we sound this good at our 8th grade concert!

@sergejzr 8 жыл бұрын

Beautiful magic! And I see this only now when I left Hannover after 10 years of living there..

@taylorsutphin8832 Жыл бұрын

Got the sheet music for this a week ago and we are sounding great! Was worried cause we are learning quite a few pieces before Jan. 24th but we’ve already got two full down in less than two weeks. Super excited to sing this in concert!!!!(shout out to Powhatan High School: One Voice)

@NastyEvilB 12 жыл бұрын

Singing with him was such an honor and a pleasure. This song may very well bring me to tears right here in my study hall.

@bmw12345ism 9 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful, soft song. Thanks Eric Whitacre. So happy to be singing it with the ODU choir in an upcoming concert.

@littlemisstentoes 11 жыл бұрын

i am singing this in my all state choir and i have never heard it before now. it has brought me to tears :') i can wait to sing this!

@jean-mariecorbise7697 8 жыл бұрын

Une pure merveille.

@wenglishsal 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely stunning.. I wiped away tears again, this is such an emotive piece of music... Simply wonderful ... *sighs* ... :0)x

@TheMusicGirlsWorld 12 жыл бұрын

This is so beautiful...!! Was shown in our choir class. Wonderful!

@lauramagner9260 10 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely beautiful. Every part has melody and I love it

@Randomwiz3412 12 жыл бұрын

this song is so beautiful!! im in love

@petertelen4590 10 жыл бұрын

wow beautiful piece... teary eyed.. ty:)

@_schokorosinchen3711 6 жыл бұрын

Einfach so ein tolles Lied! Sing ich auch im Chor. Einfach super 👍💟

@leawinter1992 5 жыл бұрын

This is such a beautiful piece! This choir performed it perfectly!

@randallflagg767 4 жыл бұрын

No words can describe how wonderful this is.

@janeough45 4 жыл бұрын

i adore this delightful song , more so when this divine choir is singing it ,,,,,,long live Barnsley,,,,,,,,

@sallyoesterling4796 9 жыл бұрын

This lovely piece always makes me cry, as I think about the cruel seal killing that takes place in Canada every year. Because of their beautiful fur, thousands of young seal pups are clubbed to death, often in front of their mothers, in a cruel commercial enterprise that is subsidized by the Canadian Government.

@71259mark 9 жыл бұрын

+Sally Oesterling Kanucks are Kruel.

@Firegirl483 8 жыл бұрын

you should start a petition to ban that and bring it to your state house when it gets enough signiatures.

@tantan292 7 жыл бұрын

it's about a mother seal singing to her pup during a storm.

@messayaa340 5 жыл бұрын

Catherine Renaud try again

@nancyottley3074 9 жыл бұрын

My choir sang this today in Leigh woods on some boats. So beautiful!

@oughtonoughton2634 2 жыл бұрын

Nancy i like your comment x do you mean Leigh in Lancishire England xx 🌹

@annegibson7374 6 жыл бұрын

One of the loveliest performances of this song I've heard to date. We sang this in my choir - it's exquisite.

@LEMCproductions 9 жыл бұрын

When we started singing this at my choir I just needed to hear this officially recorded. So beautiful, makes me tear up

@nethminimethiwala89 9 жыл бұрын

AMAZING just amazing... love it

@gilly_bean 4 жыл бұрын

I just had to tackle this song for my middle school honor's chorus in 2 days! Now that's it's over I really miss singing this song in a choir. It was so beautiful even tho it was so difficult 🙁

@dsachao 11 жыл бұрын

at my school, at the end of dido's tragic death of a broken heart after a beautiful and haunting aria, the strings died softly away......... until the Nokia ringtone broke the moment. our conductor threw up his hands, faced the audience, bowed and walked off the platform. it was awful.

@LewisBeck 4 жыл бұрын

Groan!

@MichaelRogers_MWR_Enterprises 4 жыл бұрын

It's the high price of performing LIVE. Some people have to suffer through colds, allergies or COPD. We must learn to refrain from resentment of the occasional cough like we do for closing doors, or pedestal wooden benches in a cathedral. Cell phones not silenced prior to the performance though is inexcusable when general housekeeping requests before the event is a courteous reminder.

@kyuhyun5739 8 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful piece 😍

@nonato1231 6 жыл бұрын

Linda canção, perfeita harmonia! Se essa música não inspira, então não há outra que isso possa fazer! Beautiful song, perfect harmony! If this song does not inspire, then there is no one else that can do that!

@JaesarDunaGella 12 жыл бұрын

I LOVE this song! My choir's singing this for festival in SSA. It's so amazing!

@jewels4972 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this we just did it in region choir

@LewisBeck 4 жыл бұрын

I'm Learning this song now; a tough one to learn but an exquisite rendering of Rudyard Kipling's poignant poem. Nice work Eric Whitacre!

@liseernie 4 ай бұрын

What bonnie faces the singers all have!

@josephj9968 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful !

@TheShakiraSaid 11 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

@devonambrose8009 11 жыл бұрын

I played this song with my school band with the choir singing with us and it sounded soooo pretty!! I love it soo much!!

@robindalton3539 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant masterpiece

@musicman4ever100 6 жыл бұрын

Splendidly beautiful.

@primitivamartinmaudo3233 5 жыл бұрын

UNA ESPLENDIDA OBRA. Que bonito!!!!!💥🍁💥

@15KATT 11 жыл бұрын

Where singing this for our festival an for spring concert!!! I love this song!!

@ayejay96 12 жыл бұрын

This is amazing! I got goosebumps all over.

@abink10 12 жыл бұрын

such a great piece. All his music... the beauty of it allows one to reflect in such a way as to as to really know the greatness of music :)

@oughtonoughton2634 2 жыл бұрын

I wish with all my heart , my twin sister and i could sing with this divine choir , we would blend in rather lovely xx This divine lullaby is so very beautiful xx Long live the Ukraine and its people xx 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@Sylvynya 11 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Simply Beautiful...

@amantislikethis 5 жыл бұрын

I’m singing this song in my high school choir this year, and I am in love with this song. So beautiful. I’m still mad that this was tossed aside for Kung Fu Panda...

@Subllama 4 жыл бұрын

ScowlingMantis8 we are too! I hope you do great

@amantislikethis 4 жыл бұрын

Shannon Maldonado Thank you! Good luck as well!