European Grand Prix Association For Choral Singing 46th Tolosa Choral Contest 2014, Basque Country, Spain PARAMABIRA from Jakarta, INDONESIA SI CHI'O VORREI MORIRE, Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Stephen Tyerman What a splendid performance of this passionate madrigal. The choir and director are both precise and flexible, as is vital with a text of such varying moods. Good thing it's in Italian - otherwise the censors might try to take it off RU-vid!
Not only that-the choir is from Indonesia which is a Muslim majority country. So the singers and their conductor might get some problems with the religious authorities there if the latter understood what the young people were singing in a far away Christian country, the Basque country.
