Polskie Slowiki - Gabriel Fauré - Requiem "Pie Jesu" 

beautiful and clear voice....

澄んだ声。もうなんと言ったら良いかわからないけど、聴いてるだけで幸せになれる。

quite delightful

5 stars, amazing voice! I singin this at a festival this sat

Thanks for this beauty..sad beauty..but full of an inmense HOPE!!!! Nina

The reason why Faure scored the Pie Jesu for boy treble was because the Madeleine Church, of which he was choirmaster, didn't allow the usage of female vocalists. The long phrases in this piece would put too much strain on a boy's technique and breath control. Faure, in subsequent performances, entrusted female sopranos to sing the Pie Jesu (Jean-Michel Nectoux, Gabriel Faure: a musical life, p. 122).

Beautiful song, I love it.

Brilliant - a great performance of a great tune!

La voz del chico es sensacional, el maestro es el que lleva muy rápida la canción.

I love this song! The little boy did an amazing job! Although the song is quite a bit faster than intended, you have to make up for the breath support that he has. It isnt nearly as strong as an adult so the song has to be faster.

I liked it.

Beautiful treble and interpretation!

The only reason that Faure scored the Pie Jesu to be sung by a boy was because the Madeleine Church barred the usage of female singers in its choirs. Performances of the Pie Jesu outside of the Madeleine were entrusted by Faure to female sopranos. The tempo of this piece in conjunction with the long phrases can cause severe strain on a boy's technique and breath control. This performance by Polskie Slowiki is a testament to that when we see the tempo being faster than intended.

yes a bit fast, still beautiful. can you guys at least appreciate the music and not critique.

But it was written for boy soprano. I think we're used to the over romanticized version where a soprano luxuriates on it all day. the faster tempo serves the limited breath support of the little boy.

two firsts: never sang or heard it this fast, never heard it 100% acapela / choral, not instruments. amazing! May have to hear this several more times to get used to the tempo; at this point want it slower, for Heaven's sake!!!

yes, i think so too...

me too heard it first on south park. this is a piece of musical magic

I was browsing through RU-vid looking for performances of the Pie Jesu from Faure's requiem, and found this. As much as I'm in favor of a child soprano performing this piece (adds an air of innocence missing from most adult performances), I can't say i much like this performance: the tempo is nearly 2 times too fast, the soloist struggles to keep up, and using choir as orchestra creates a murky morass of sound. My grade for this performance and video: C. Stars: 3.

.... at 1:03 he sings dona dona... NOT dona eis - why? the original had dona eis...

Pie iesu domine, dona eis requiem *WHACK* ...Pie iesu domine, dona eis requiem *WHACK* ...

He's probably very nervous. He looks young and really does have a lovely voice.

Naitzirc life and let to life others! No one asked you to com on this page, listen! You can do whatever you want, no one cares. PLZ don't tell other ppl how to life! We life like that for 1k years we love it and we will stay with this!

I prefer it slower, and in the english style, where the singer sings round vocals, almost like o's.

they r going flat i have to sing this song for state and i have perfect pitch .... but its still kinda good for a guy...

I actually think the faster tempo sounds better

A bit too quick in my view but still amazing!

Maybe the director and the kid's father are golf buddies!

Indeed, a voice of quality. Unfortunately, the tempo is far too high (it's part of a Requiem !). I appreciated also the role of the choir, replacing the original orechestra.

HA! i first heard this in South Park : Lice Capades

it is really fast...

it's hard to find the right tempo, most are too slow, this one is too fast :(

Je le préfère avec un tempo un peu plus lent

so so so fast....O.O

Ka?

indeed :)) faster is impossible :9

Beautiful piece but MUCH too fast. I'm also missing this sort of "drama" needed for this song. A boy's soprano is not mature enough to "dig out" and express all the emotions written between lines...

Too fast!!! I´m missing emotions...

You don't have to be religious to accept beauty in music just like you don't really have to believe what happens in fiction stories. Get off your high horse and find something beautiful in the world. I'm an atheist myself and your type of people just annoy me.

what the hell??? a capella????

Haha Monty Python xD

This is clearly worshiping Christ so it would be stupid to ignore religion here. But then again the RU-vid comment section is one of the worst forums for any sort of religious or philosophical discussian.

to fast...

It's just kind of weird.

sorry don t like it. too fast no emotions

Beautiful voice, terrible performance