"O Magnum Mysterium" by Morten Lauridsen, Reaction/Analysis by Musician/Producer

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"O Magnum Mysterium" by Morten Lauridsen, Reaction/Analysis by Musician/Producer
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@nancypetrie5717 5 ай бұрын

And this is why I sing in a good choir. The emotional responses to music like this are beyond sublime.

@spadams999 5 ай бұрын

I've been listening to Morten Lauridsen for many years and I still cry when I hear this piece. All of Lauriden's pieces have dense harmony with dissonance resolving all over the place. I recommend you listen to Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna. It is wondrous.

@clemson1889 5 ай бұрын

My high school honors chorus (I was in it 🥰) performed this in 1983 at the Six Flags over Georgia Invitational Choral Competition. We competed against specially invited choruses across the Southeast. We won 1st place!!

@StrateleStudios 5 ай бұрын

Way to go! 👏👏👏

@jwandhistools 5 ай бұрын

That sound massages the heart.

@mariuskraft3155 22 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@richardtodd7295 5 ай бұрын

"O Magnum Mysterium" by Morten Lauridsen, was written in 1994 on commission for the Los Angeles Master Chorale. It has been recorded many times, as well as being rearranged for different types of musical organizations. Morten Lauridsen was on the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music up until his retirement in 2019. I started to send the Voces 8 version, but it was from 2014, and it didn't sound full enough to me. The Los Angeles master Chorale version is good, as are several from Europe. I found this version, with the score sung by Lauridisen's own group, the Nordic Chamber Choir. I believe it is definitive. My comment to Jeff was to have the tissues ready!

@herbertwackerlin6174 5 ай бұрын

Agree about this being a masterful rendition and absolute standard for how to perform this piece most emotively ❤

@andrewplumb6544 5 ай бұрын

With you Jeff. Having the score as well really enhances the listening. Thank you Richard.

@oldbandguy 4 ай бұрын

Leonid and Friends brought me here, but "O Magnum" made me subscribe! Love that you have such a wide variety of genres. Look forward to checking out more. Stan Kenton next :-)

@danielschreiber5964 5 ай бұрын

I sang on this recording!

@richardtodd7295 5 ай бұрын

Outstanding! I majored in vocal music but that was years ago. (I'm 80 now!) I tried to sing along but my vocal cords failed me. Even so, every time I hear this and hum along the tears start at the end.

@danielschreiber5964 5 ай бұрын

@@richardtodd7295 the recording took place 2001 at an abbey in south-west Germany, the Nordic Chamber Choir which later renamed to "Chamber Choir of Europe" was a group of singers who had gotten to know each other as part of the world youth choir and we had the good fortune of having the composer be present at the time of the recording, he even played the piano himself on the recording of his "chansons des roses".

@herbertwackerlin6174 5 ай бұрын

Wow, now THAT is cool 😎😃

@StrateleStudios 5 ай бұрын

What an absolute privilege and honor it must have been! Well done my friend!

@danielschreiber5964 5 ай бұрын

Indeed it was! And maestro Lauridsen was such a humble and generous person, he's the nicest man. @@StrateleStudios

@philippepiveron4937 5 ай бұрын

Your channel is truly a haven to discover works from all horizons! THANKS !

@StrateleStudios 5 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend!

@ironkimberly2134 5 ай бұрын

I Love this!!!!!!!!!! so heavenly!!!! Love that you let us read the music with it in real time!!!!! so cool!!!! Great Reaction!!!! Thank you!!!!

@rbmelk7083 5 ай бұрын

This is fantastic! I had this exact performance queued up for March, and I’m glad you got it out there even sooner! Wonderful, wonderful piece! (I’m a bit of a nerd and therefore have the next dozen or so requests picked out already. However, I have no trouble pivoting if someone else puts a work in before me or if I come across something amazing and new to me that I can't wait to share:)

@jitskebu7582 5 ай бұрын

I would love to sing this in a choir😍 thanks Jeff!!

@elephantprog 5 ай бұрын

Man, as a prog metal guy, who often listens to fine tuned, eq'd and compressed complex music with hundred of tracks in a single song, it's import to remember the incredible power of just the human voice! This song reaches emotional peaks that I don't think other genres can.

@StrateleStudios 5 ай бұрын

Yes! 👏👏👏

@nathanberridge7321 5 ай бұрын

If you like complex music with just the human voice, check out "Spem in Alium" by Thomas Tallis. 40 vocal parts all doing different melodies, interweaving, boucing off each other, joining for climaxes. Try to find a version where the voices are panned left and right so you can hear closer to how it was originally sung - in a round concert hall where the singers surrounded the audience!

@agathavandoesburg7297 5 ай бұрын

One of my favourites!! We sang this with online Stay At Home Choir 3 years ago!❤️

@bethanywakim6175 5 ай бұрын

I first heard this sung by the Masters Chorale; rather than the standard “choir in the front of the room”, they stood in a circle and surrounded the audience. Otherworldly experience… and thus began my high school obsession with acapella music.

@soleywolfgangsdottir 5 ай бұрын

i can reccomend to listen to an eivor-album called "at the heart of a selkie", which she recorded with peter jensen, the danish radio big band and the danish national vocal ensemble, it's a one hour acoustic journey into the faroese folk tales of selkie women. the combination of her voice, the big band and chorals ist just stunningly beautiful. after o magnum mysterium i'm pretty sure that you'll fancy it.

@Perspectiveon 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this Jeff and Richard. Stunningly beautiful piece.

@richardtodd7295 5 ай бұрын

Here is another version of O Magnum Mysterium by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Brass section. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/brWqhJSdp5iunZ8.htmlsi=ubWNBxf8aV9a2pDM.

@phildupuis1084 5 ай бұрын

Heaven's soundtrack

@herbertwackerlin6174 5 ай бұрын

A truly outstanding piece of music, so beautifully performed ❤ Another suggestion: a piece not so often performed (at least in Switzerland 😂) by Ola Gjeilo called „Sanctus“, here sung by the heavenly Ensemble Tenebrae: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mq6iasaUzdCwg30.htmlsi=Ljbx9xb_9kWfyJU1 We are going to perform it with Rheinstimmen and one of Tenebrae‘s basses is going to sing the whole concert with us 😍😍😍

@johndennison3140 5 ай бұрын

Hi Jeff Aurora has just dropped another track called “The confect of the mind” trust me be prepared to cry its message hits your soul.

@StrateleStudios 5 ай бұрын

I’ll definitely get that on my list!

@sarahmgeorges 5 ай бұрын

Lauridsen is one of my favorite choral composers. Along with Dirait-on (another gorgeous piece from his song cycle Les Chanson des Roses), this is probably his most well known composition. My favorite though, is Prayer. I've done this with honor choir kids in my district and it just breaks me. You'll have to check it out... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rpeopZCSvNm1dXU.htmlsi=kOLNI0HJHdLavOpo

@sarahmgeorges 5 ай бұрын

He's actually accompanying the choir in this video