Great Gregorian music in the beautiful cathedral of the Notre Dame, magnificent organ music and choir. Blessings, especially for our French friends! From a Dutch Roman Catholic Christian.
Even for those of us with no experience of Latin in church, the sound of Latin hymns and Gregorian chant sounds so... heavenly. I guess edifying sounds will always transcend language and culture.
clay10h Even the humblest traditional Latin Mass, which is the birthright of every western Catholic, has the same majesty and reverence as all the great organs of Catholic France.
I would LOVE to be inside Notre Dame during the singing of this sequence!!! The thunderous blast of the organ, the glorious acoustics, the angelic choir, the rising smoke of incense, and the earth quaking under my feet! Are we standing on Mount Zion?
Notre-Dame de Paris est universelle ! En France, nous aimons notre Patrimoine, ces Grands Monuments, propriété de l'Etat Français car construits avant 1905 ( séparation de l'Egilse et de l'état) sont en chantier permanent ( Paris, Amiens, Reims, Toulouse...) Je suis Français, passionné d'histoire, amoureux de ces Monuments, de ses orgues, de leurs clochers...🙂🇨🇵
@@marcosafran270 Propriété de l'état, certainement pas, spolié à l'Eglise par l'état oui et deux fois en plus et par ailleurs profanée et abîmée gravement par les révolutionnaires assassins de 1789 ! Et non, Notre Dame est catholique certainement pas universelle car sinon on pourrait y célébrer n'importe quoi y compris des cultes hérétiques ou païens!
I heartily agree with you. I have visited Notre Dame de Paris many, many times, and have played both the organs during Masses, and have given a recital on the Grand Orgue. Nevertheless it is good that this version of Victimae Paschali Laudes has been sung in at least three churches in this country. I was immensely pleased, and honoured, to receive at telephone call from M. le Chanoine, Monseigneur Jehan REVERT on Easter Day, he who conducted this performance..
This is truly magnificent. Notre-Dame de Paris is the perfect setting for this timeless and ancient sung prayer with Pierre Cochereau at the great and grand Aristide Cavaille-Coll organ. Incomparable. Thank you for uploading this.
Totally Devastated....the day after Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week/Easter Week 2019... HOW could this TRAGEDY happen. I so wanted to visit. My deceased mother spent Christmas Eve here in 1970 and never stopped talking about it. So much here, the famous windows and the incomparable historic Great Organ....home to the creators of the iconic Late Romantic French organ music from Cesar Franck,Louis Vierne, Charles Widor, Charles Tournemiere, Marcel Dupre, Olivier Messaien, Pierre Cocherau etc . I am in California, not Paris. I am not Catholic by upbringing but the Sacredness and Spirituality embedded in this experience is universal.....I have been a member of the West Coast version of Notre Darme, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
God bless, Bill, from a Catholic friend (a convert from when I was 19 - now I'm 82, praise God). I used to live in Long Beach, in the south. A marvelous Paschal season of hope to you.
Pour moi, c'est la plus belle interprétation (même si l'orgue est parfois trop présent). Les voix féminines sont sublimes. Elles nous élèvent vers le Très Haut. Par moment elles sont réconfortantes. Très émouvant. Je l'ai d'ailleurs "dédié" à ma mère, qui s'en est allée, il y a quelques temps. Les cantiques en latin, tantôt dégagent une force intense, tantôt nous permet de "rentrer en contemplation".
Easter Sequence. Superb chorus, the largest organ in France, and the exquisite acoustics of the second greatest Cathedral dedicated to Our Lady (after the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome).
The Official text of 1970 is in Latin. Unfortunately, many bishops have ignored the Vatican II recommendation that even where the language of the people is used, the people Should Know how to Respond their Part in Latin ! Bishops ! Why not ?? !
Well, the Traditional Altar of Notre Dame was still standing, even after the fire, while the new one was destroyed when the roof fell... This could be a sign...
In Memoriam, Frances Clarke Brown Doggett on her 9th anniversary of passing 12/11/2009(2018) My mother, Frances attended Christmas Midnight Mass at Notre Dame, Christmas Eve 1970 and never stopped talking about it. She had a great love of great Cathedral organs and organ music. Her experience was magnified into the early 2000s at Grace Cathedral,San Francisco on Christmas Eve, a sacred place in North America with parallels to Notre Dame
Esecuzione impeccabile armonia di cori e suoni che si fondono in un acustica perfetta.l unico cruccio è la mancanza di una sequenza presente nel testo originale.
Cette oeuvre est vraiment magnifique Pierre Cochereau et la Maitrise de Notre Dame s'accordent à la perfection, direction JEHAN REVERT. vous pouvez retrouver cet enregistrement sur CD , marque FY et du SOLSTICE, sous ref : CYD 45 édition sans doute de 12.2002.le titre : GRANDES HEURES LITURGIQUES à NOTRE DAME DE PARIS. le Te DEUM, le Magnificat en ton royal, le motet sicut cervus de Palestrina et d'autres chants grégoriens + les cloches de Notre Dame.
I heard Pierre Cochereau here in Hagerstown MD when he gave a concert years ago. He arrived moments before the concert and had never seen the organ. Nevertheless, he gave a great performance.
@clay10h: in Germany we call this music with guitars, drums, PA etc. "Happy Clappy" which still has to endure and survive throughout the following centuries as the traditional sacred music already has done...
+rascasse 2Marseille Votre commentaire est d'une bétise confondante... Non seulement l'Europe n'a jamais eu de véritable unité religieuse, mais en plus les musulmans sont arrivés sur la péninsule Ibérique au VIIème siècle, soit trois après la fin de la persécution des chrétiens en Europe à travers l'édit de Milan. Autrement dit, les chants de Muezzin comme vous dîtes, sont arrivés en Europe près de 400 ans avant l'introduction du Victimae dans la lithurgie. De plus, je suis de Marseille et nous savons très bien que vous n'êtes pas réveillés à 4h du matin par un Muezzin car cela n'existe pas. N'utilisez pas une belle musique pour faire valoir vos opinions fondées sur des inepties !
+rascasse 2Marseille cela ne me surprend pas quand même vous avez détruit le pouvoir de l'Eglise avec votre "Révolution" de 1789. :( Amitiés de la Hongrie.
This setting of the Easter Sequence was composed specifically for Notre Damme Cathedral in Paris. It is the only place in the world where you can hear this setting and I can assure you that their music is not in chant notation but in modern day notation with specific rhythms, harmonies, and dynamics....unlike the gregorian version commonly sung throughout the world.
Victimae paschali laudes immolent Christiani. Agnus redemit oves: Christus innocens Patri reconciliavit peccatores. Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando: dux vitae mortuus regnat vivus. Dic nobis, Maria, quid vidisti in via? Sepulcrum Christi viventis: et gloriam vidi resurgentis. Angelicos testes, sudarium et vestes. Surrexit Christus spes mea: praecedet suos in Galilaeam. Scimus Christum surrexisse a mortuis vere: tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere. Amen. Alleluja.
Victimae paschali laudes immolent Christiani. Agnus redemit oves: Christus innocens Patri reconciliavit peccatores. Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando: dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus. Dic nobis Maria, quid vidisti in via? Sepulcrum Christi viventis, et gloriam vidi resurgentis Angelicos testes, sudarium, et vestes. Surrexit Christus spes mea: praecedet suos [vos] in Galilaeam. [Credendum est magis soli Mariae veraci Quam Judaeorum Turbae fallaci.] Scimus Christum surrexisse a mortuis vere: tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere. [Amen.] [Alleluia.]
This is a slightly different version of the Gregorian hymn, but it is appropriate here for Notre Dame, which shall arise again after the diabolic attack it suffered. Quote from an expert: old oak does not burn easily !
Furthermore it has been sing regularly in Norwich Cathedral, where the Choirmaster was formerly a pupil of mine, and took away a copy of my transcription! After all these years I have just found out.
Cher Mgr Revert, qui avez fait chanter et prier cette Cathédrale, avec votre Maîtrise...! Maîtrise qui n' était pas alors une assemblée de Schtroumpf et dont les voix de garçons suffisaient à la louange de Dieu et de Marie...
I'm sad to have read that the Organ was lost in the fire. :( Thankfully your video and many other recordings of it will ensure that it's music will endure forever.
It seems quite intact. The choir-organ got wet (deliberatley, to protect it and the wooden choir-stalls form burning). Hopefully the smoke/dust damage is not too bad. (But that's easily fixed.
To the Paschal Victim, the Christians offer praises. The Lamb redeemed the sheep: The innocent Christ reconciled sinners with the Father. Death and Life fought in singular fight. The owner of Life, who had died, now reigns alive. Tell us, Mary, what did you saw along the way?
(continuation) I saw the Sepulchre of the living Christ and the glory of the Resurrected one, the angelic witnesses, the winding cloth and his clothes. Christ my hope has risen again, he preceeds his followers into Galilee. We know that Christ has risen truly from the dead. You victorious King, have mercy on us. Amen. Alleluia.
I've found (and I've heard) this version just before easter 2011... And I'm living in "full enchantment" since then. I'm the leader of a little chatolic choir in Hungary, and I wonder if I got the score of this wonderful piece (even for fee / money /etc...) !! Is it possible ?? :) Many thanks in advance !!! (if my english is bad : sorry...)
Bientôt le grand orgue de ND va résonner à nouveau dans une cathédrale neuve ! L'incendie aura permis d'entreprendre des travaux équivalents à ceux d'il y a 150 ans avec Le Duc, travaux dont il aurait été difficile d'entreprendre à notre époque par manque de moyens budget de l'état. Si Violet Le Duc était vivant en 2020, je me demande quel projet il aurait choisi pour reconstruire la toiture ? Les matériaux d'aujourd'hui dont il ne disposait pas a son époque l'auraient-ils inspiré ? L'incendie, un mal pour un bien inespéré.
Maîtrise et Choeurs de la Cathédrale sous la direction du Chanoîne Jehan Revert (+)(Maître de Chapelle) Orgue de Choeur Jacques Marichal(+) Flûtes Guy et Jean-Michel(+) Angelloz Grandes Orgues Pierre Cochereau(+) Harmonisation Chanoîne Jehan Revert(+)
TO THOSE WHO DO NOT CARE FOR THE RHYTHMIC PERFORMANCE STYLE: See: Notes inégales at Wikipedia Singing the chant in this style with such a huge number of vocal resources and in such a live reverberant space is practical, especially if assembly is singing with choir. It is much easier to keep everyone together vocally than singing straight chant. It also allows for more uniform breathing. This "pulsing" inegale style is easy for most people to feel.
@lightflavour12: in the Easter Sunday of 2010, Lefebvre plays this Prose "more powerful". I upload this version in youtube (Victimae paschali laudes & alleluia). Sorry for my poor english.
Cher Mgr Revert, merci pour ces beautés! Je crois avoir usé le vinyl d' où vient cet extrait...! Souvenir ému d' un voyage à Rome avec vous et la Maîtrise... C' était bien sûr avant les schtroumpf et le bidon d' huile évidé qui sert d' encensoir actuellement "in-situ"...
