This whole thing is extremely beautiful. I was raised completely secularly and my perspective on Christianity (and religion more broadly but personally I think Christianity does this best) is that they create beauty and this sense of "heavenlyness" to draw people in. Churches make you feel at peace, the music is so serene, everything about the religion is so appealing in an almost drug-like way and i'd say this performance is a perfect example. Even as a complete atheist who is never going to believe in any God I feel like i'm almost being transported to the heavenly realm listening to this, it's just so perfect, so perfect it almost seems to transcend normal human experience (hence the effect i'm talking about). I think if I was in that church listening to this i'd be weeping just at the beauty of it all. The way it resonates, the child's innocent voice juxtaposed to the older guy's voice and all the resonance in between, the perfect acoustics of the bulding...the tranquility in everyone there...just a truly beautiful experience to witness.
"Зорю бьют" в исполнении Алексея это шедевр. Прочто очарована и заворожена. И, да, согласна, есть сходство с Дмитрием Хворостовским, моим земляком. Алексею успехов и творческих побед!
Wat een stemmen, geweldig. Eerst dat jongetje achteraan, engeltje, en dan opeens deze blonde zanger, wat een bas, met tranen in mijn ogen luister ik, zo mooi. en ik kan alleen maar denken: stop de oorlog, start de vrede. Geef deze jongens een kans op leven, stuur ze niet de oorlog in, vrede. Mir.
