What an amazing strength in these boys' voices! Superb! I don't find it at all disturbing that the rhythm is slower than what we're used too. This is a very refreshing interpretation that shows all the beauty of these boys' voices.
_WOW_ Oh I see it was in Würzburg in my country, 3 years ago... _I would have traveled the 600 km..._ :-( (if only I had known it in advance) : I am about coming to you dear Debut... I am so happy!
The composer uses colorful harmonies wandering upwards with chord progressions and repetitive text . Constant switching from dark harmonies to triumphal lighter major modes and mounting dynamics and light ascending tones in the melody and the repetitive rhythmic pattern, gives an overall unsettling laborious effect. A skillfully performed vocal choral exercise, though.
From dumb videos to memes...music sample on meme video...i remember the early 90s...mauro picatto with proximus (eurotrance track) Adiemus bit in the middle of the song...searching further to original...found it...seached other versions.....now im here.. ...now thats a worthy nostalgic shit right here XD
My guess is that few of you have listened to the recordings of conductor Otto Klemperer. Slow is not necessarily bad. For this Adiemus, however, the sense of jubilation from the original is missing and for that reason the slow tempo doesn't work well.
Angeloflaetitia Agreed - plus if you're going to perform it that slowly, the kids have to at least PERFECTLY in time with each other (which they weren't at the beginning, for example). I think 'making it slower' also only would have worked better if throughout the song, the tempo gradually increased to what it normally is... it might add to the wonderful way the original song gradually builds in intensity! I also didn't really like the interpretation of trying to turn it into some kind of 'posh/beautiful/Western/church/cathedral' type of song (if you know the actual words to describe what I'm trying to get at please mention them lol!) However, I do have to say 'good job' to these guys, as their voices really are quite good! I can almost imagine this choir singing 'Pie Jesu' or something similar inside a cathedral (primarily for the acoustics) and figure that they would sound absolutely amazing 😊 so much so that I'd probably get goosebumps!
I like your comments in the 1st & 3rd paragraphs. Their voices are excellent. As you know, choral music is very popular in Russia so this may be somewhat expected, as the musical tradition is strong and almost universally admired. My son was blessed to be a member of the Phoenix (AZ) Boys Choir, directed by Georg Stangeleberger -- who was enticed to come to the U.S. from his position as Director of the Vienna Boys Choir a number of years ago. Our son, as a soloist for the PBC, was fortunate enough to have performed "out front" in many great cathedrals during the choir's travels, including St. Peters and St. Stephens in Europe, venues like Carnegie Hall in NYC, and alongside a nationally recognized opera soloist during a "Leonard Bernstein" concert with the Phoenix Symphony, among many others. IMHO, the quality of voices in both organizations (Moscow and Phoenix Boys choirs) are comparable. Obviously one cannot compare them to the Metropolitan, but their quality at early teen ages (some younger, some older) is truly fantastic. The Moscow Choir is excellent. The way the work is interpreted by the musical director and staff is the decider here. Any critique should be laid at the feet of the way the work is presented to the audience, not the young men. They did their jobs very well.
the applied tempo gives it a gravity, dignity, spirituality, _wonderful actually_ and no doubt that this is one of the best academically trained boys' choirs worldwide. And, here we are not in a studio, or in a surrounding that was polished by sound technicians later...
