Hear my prayer - Purcell

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morphthing1

12 жыл бұрын

Henry Purcell's Hear my prayer, O Lord. Sung by the Oxford Camerata.

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@Athrenad 11 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the best choral piece ever written.

@TheMattyDean 11 жыл бұрын

One of the best pieces of classical music ever written, certainly one of my favourites!

@fhpurcell5364 5 жыл бұрын

Aw man, thanks. I'm pretty proud of it.

@themusicofwferdinand 5 жыл бұрын

Heavenly. This is a true prayer.

@awyliu 12 жыл бұрын

Short but perfectly formed - the slower the speed, the more delicious the dissonances.

@ybot1688 Жыл бұрын

I love the soprano tone and semitone jumps and changes it’s so beautiful

@StuartSafford 9 жыл бұрын

I end the day with this prayer.

@CalpundroAstelisi 2 жыл бұрын

so beautiful, so perfect

@MTGlipp 12 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this piece! And this performance is stellar as well - some of the dissonances are balanced so well that they don't even quite sound real anymore, and the plain ol' major triads are also ridiculously well tuned. Like that chord at 0:49, it sounds almost metallic somehow, even though all parts are singing a slightly different vowel =P The only thing that still bugs me a little is the realised minor third in the last chord. Not as cool as the bare fifth I'm afraid =P

@KamixSam 10 жыл бұрын

wow tears...amazing

@elizabethwilliams5442 2 жыл бұрын

Incredibly moving!

@fhpurcell5364 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading this, friend, it's one of the pieces I take the most pride in. They sang it very nicely!

@softnflabby 2 жыл бұрын

A more apt setting of the word "crying" is hard to imagine.

@ybot1688 Жыл бұрын

Exactly I agree

@p07a 2 ай бұрын

I am guessing you meant the fourth bar before the end?

@jacarey5 12 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Thanks so much.

@newgeorge 12 жыл бұрын

stunning!

@SimonBeirne 10 ай бұрын

Purcell at his best.

@keddrickjamaal 3 жыл бұрын

This is delicious. And the text makes you yearn for humbling

@engelbertschoormans 8 жыл бұрын

1:02 Nice harmony. ;-)

@adamkeener6106 3 жыл бұрын

What the fudge was that?!?!? WOW! The dissonances and resolutions...tears!

@anjasemi 7 жыл бұрын

Tolle Intonation und Spannung, in der Dissonanzen voll zur Wirkung kommen!

@fhpurcell5364 5 жыл бұрын

Dankeschon!

@jamesmackayNL 12 жыл бұрын

Renaissance polyphony at its best!

@alk9365 7 жыл бұрын

Baroque.

@fhpurcell5364 5 жыл бұрын

"Renaissance"? Sacrilegous!

@mariarosariacasario7183 4 жыл бұрын

brividi...

@BandeeBoy96 11 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's baroque.

@johnholmes912 4 жыл бұрын

@Sophie Harbridge Purcell is most certainly baroque ( early )

@myempathy1 8 жыл бұрын

The music almost works against itself.

@O-sa-car 7 жыл бұрын

Just as the spirit wrestles with the flesh

@shucklesors 2 жыл бұрын

there is a 5 minute + version of this does anyone know what it's called?

@coreyhable.countertenor 2 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing you’re thinking of the Sven-David Sandstrom’s arrangement? That one is about 6 minutes and very cool! Same title

@405232SING 12 жыл бұрын

Taking margotlorena's place, are we? :O

@rocketleaguer2087 8 жыл бұрын

Hate to be that guy... 00:34 Alto 2 .............

@fhpurcell5364 5 жыл бұрын

Ha, hahaha. I cackled.

@gorelash9056 5 жыл бұрын

Why?

@DrChrisF 4 жыл бұрын

@@gorelash9056 They sing a wrong note on beat 4. They sing F when it says on E

@hgburgin 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrChrisF exactly, wrong note.

@mllcg 10 жыл бұрын

youtube pls. Buy "Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35: I. Allegretto - Allegro vivace- Moderato" on

@yuehchopin 12 жыл бұрын

groß Kontrapunkt

@sarahweir5859 10 жыл бұрын

What is with the minor 3rd at the end?? Raaahhhh!!! It's so beautiful anyway. x

@philgibson4896 10 жыл бұрын

Perhaps Purcell thought about the open fifth, but eventually chose the minor key instead. I would not presume to second guess Purcell, though. I think he knew what he was doing. When I play music from this period, I sometimes use the open fifth at the end instead of a minor key, so I find myself thinking like you, Sarah, regarding the open fifth. Not that I drink from an open fifth, mind you.

@fleeb 6 жыл бұрын

This piece is very dissonant for the times, likely to express the pain represented in the words. I expect Purcell elected to end with the minor 3rd to help maintain that dissonance, in accordance with the pain expressed throughout the rest of the piece. No ending in peace, only in pain, for this great work. To me, the ending is as perfect as the rest of the work, when you take what this represents. Sheer genius.

@goldenlion6565 6 жыл бұрын

The third is not supposed to be there, it was a mistake by the organ in the background.