Listened to this a few times while my Mother was ill this summer. This is my first listen since she passed, with a tear my eyes I revisit and remember those sad days. Love you.
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Little Lamb, I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee; He is called by thy name. For he calls himself a Lamb. He is meek, and he is mild, He became a little child. I, a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb, God bless thee! Little Lamb, God bless thee!
My family has this on a sampler CD of carols, and every Christmas when we are decorating the tree we put our carol recordings on. When this song happens we all stop hanging lights and get so quiet, and my dad cries. These last few years I do too.
I conducted this song with my choir in 2012 and we didn't come close to how ethereal this choir makes this song seem. The Tenebrae Choir has the ability to sing extremely softly without compromising the diction of the words or the dynamics. I use to tell my choir that a good choir can sing fff, but only an extremely great choir can sing ppp and this choir is a fine example of an extremely great choir!
I have been priveleged to sing this, and it is like being immersed woth fellow singers, the conductor AND the sudience in the sublime sacred. You trally have to concentrate on the music not to give in to emotion during the performance itself. What you feel has to go deep into the music to create an experience of oneness with the audience. You can cry when the conductor lowers the baton and there is that deep silence of sacred awe and unity the performance created---that silence before the clapping. Nothing like that kind of communion!
La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) brought me here...Haunting, sad, uplifting, beautiful all in one...I remember this when he was walking along the canals...
@@barbakanka If the island is Isola Tiberina, then that's not a canal, it is just river Tiber which flows around the island... I would not call that a canal. Having said that, it makes little difference. This film shows great beauties
IMHO, this is one of the most stunning pieces of music of all time, and never better sung than by this choir. I wanted to send it to my sister, and listened to every video, I think, before finally discovering this one. It is spellbinding.
This is such a masterpiece. I love the way Tavener creates those bittersweet dissonances in the verses which are then released into this beautiful four part chorus. This version is expressively and tenderly sung- a fantastic performance.
Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee, Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb. He is meek, and he is mild; He became a little child. I, a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by his name.Little Lamb, God bless thee! Little Lamb, God bless thee!
Diese Musik gelangt direkt ins Herz und in die Seele! Welche Wohltat! Das Konzert im Münster Bern vom 27.2.2016 war sehr berührend! I was touched of the clear and pure sound of Tenebrea Choir! Thank You deeply
@World Trad & Ethno Folk Channel So am I. I was even more overjoied when I got to meet them, because I've always wanted to sing with a group like them. I feel God's pleasure when I sing in the choir, and I treat each song and hymn as though it's as precious stones. Only Heaven can inspire music such as this, and God wants me to sing it as much and as often as possible. So, why not. Indeed, there is no reason.
This is one of the most beautiful and uniquely written pieces l’ve heard/sung yet. It was the last piece l ever sang with my chorale just this past year before graduating, and it brings tears to my eyes every time. Such a sweet song and meaning, and such a sweet memory.
My son sang this in his school choir at their carol concert it was truly beautiful. And amazingly calmed the baby being used as Jesus who was getting a bit restless to sleep as soon as they started singing . Wonderful piece of music.
This is like looking at a Mark Rothko painting... at the beginning is like "nice" then at the end of the song you're totally sucked up into it crying in awe!!
I just found this group tonight and I'm already IN LOVE with them! What a flawless sound. It's a clear sound that I hear from a boy choir like Libera and what's amazing is that they are adults. BEAUTIFUL!!!
Tout simplement magnifique... et terriblement touchant... J'ai découvert cette chanson dans le non moins sublime film "La grande bellezza". Vive l'Italie, vive Rome la ville éternelle ❤
Tears of joyful solemnity... Just to think about how lovingly His Holy mother wove his swodling garments and how tenderly she wrapped Him in them, knowing that He is God and perfectly human and Divine.
After a previous comment about this choir. May I say after hearing this piece many times.The long sections that you sing in one breath is such an impact on how good you all are. Hope to hear you live one day. Thank you so much. Pete Law x Royal Marine Drummer
RIP John Tavener. I'm a member of a choir and was privileged to sing this a few years ago. It remains the most beautiful and haunting piece we've ever sung, in my view..
Eu descobri essa música na quarentena, que presente maravilhoso. As vezes eu dormia de fone de ouvido e no auge da música eu acordava parcialmente com uma sensação maravilhosa depois voltava a dormir
Apart from the beauty of the music, I love the fact that there's none of the usual English choral preciousness here... No careful over-marking of final consonants, or dragging out of vowels or exaggeratedly clipped unison line-endings. It all feels so brilliantly relaxed and natural....
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o’er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
The guy could have made this so much more perfect by making the words go along with the chord change but no he had to make it go "who-oo made thee" instead of "who made thee." That goddamn thee is trailing behind
This was sampled in a Large Professor song called "In The Sun" and I have been looking for the original source for about ten years, to finally find it today. So beautiful.
Wonderful music to fit a stunning ritual. At the end of the service, when the lights go out and there is just the one candle flickering it nearly brings me to tears!
Well, that's enough of THAT. I wanna tell ya, I am NO crier. I can't even remember the last time I listened to a piece that literally caused physical tearing. You performance, for me, was moving, in a very real sense. Thank you.
If you have "one of those days" and then listen to this at day's end, all will be right with the world. I'll bet Tavener had one of those days--and then sat down to write this, just to spite it.
Pure sublimity: Tavener's exquisitely beautiful setting of the inspired mystical lyric of William Blake. May Our Lord Jesv Christ receive Sir John's soul into the heavenly sanctuaries and may his memory be hallowed unto Eternity in the Divine Mercy .
It was hearing that Eric Whitacre wowed this music that I gave it a listen. So its two wows now. I did like the change of tempos that this world class choir sang of this music,so,a wow for the choir. Pete Law x Royal Marine Drummer.
The tempo change is the secret to this music's beauty. It is indicated in the score as "allargando," a slowing and broadening. I've heard other choirs do this piece, but none do it as well as Tenebrae. This is perfection.
Absolutely beautiful. The fact that the lyrics are talking about the redeemer of mankind, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, makes it even better. To my shame I have to admit that knowlingy this is my first time listening to this version. Because I already knew a part of "The Lamb", it was sampled by the trance producers Solarstone and Scott Bond for their epic "3rd Earth". I like them both. Completely different genres but great in their own way.
Absolutely sublime! I think he's part of the same musical trend coined "minimalistic", along with other great composers who haven't been celebrated enough I think, such as Vladimir Martynov, David Lang or Arvo Pärt. All to be found featured in "La Grande Bellezza", an extraoardinarily aesthetic and meditative film by Paolo Sorrentino. "Youth" also features Davi Lang's "Simple Songs". Must be watched and heard.
Thank you for the suggestion. I love all those amazing artists. I simply like to call them gifted, because their music is a gift to a world that is so starved for rich, meaningful music like this. I discovered this when I became Orthodox Christian, and you'll hear it even more if you're interested in listening to the ancient chants that have been sung since weigh before Christ even became a human being. In fact, He was with the Father before everything was created as St. John's Gospel tells us. Tavener discovered this, too, and this is what led him to compose such marvelous music. It was a gift from God.
Supremo, Glorioso, Superlativo, esas voces y esta composición me elevan más allá de todo lo que conozco y entiendo, inunda mi alma de paz.Maravillosa,de otro mundo, de otra galaxia.
Wonderfoul interpretation of the poetry. I dindn't really like the "childish" one, but I absloutely love this one. It is so pure, so divine, so inspiring and moving.
