Rousing and Ripsnorting Choral Music

[Corno Dolce]

Moscow is a haven for connoisseurs of fine Choral Music. I include a sample here for my colleagues on MIMF:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BANVN...ECC2A0&index=8

Enjoy!

Cheers,

CD

[JHC]

Thanks for that CD my 2 favorite genres in classical are Chamber and Choral in particular the English Choral is top on my list

[wljmrbill]

Thanks for link. enjoyed the music.. like Russian Music anyway.

[Krummhorn]

The Russian choirs are always marvelous to listen to.

Thanks for sharing this vid clip.

[jsg]

*The bane of Capitalism is the uneven distribution of blessings - The tyranny of Socialism is the even distribution of misery*

...and the difference between Capitalism and Communism is that in Communism, man exploits man, while in Capitalism it's the other way around.


Jerry

[Corno Dolce]

Hi J.H.C.

I have the good fortune of knowing a very fine male voice ensemble who have been to Australia, Korea, and many other countries. I am in the process of securing concert venues in America for them. They are keenly appreciative of English Choral Music, especially unaccompanied repertoire. It's a wonderful thing that through Choral Music many bridges can be built over vast cultural divides. The Russians have such an enormously vast treasure of very melodic Sacred and Folk music.

Cheers,

CD

[JHC]

Hi J.H.C.

I have the good fortune of knowing a very fine male voice ensemble who have been to Australia, Korea, and many other countries. I am in the process of securing concert venues in America for them. They are keenly appreciative of English Choral Music, especially unaccompanied repertoire.


Cheers,

CD

a cappella is my favorite form of choral

The Russian choirs are always marvelous to listen to.

Do you remember the Russian army male voice choir?

[Dorsetmike]

I used to enjoy a capella also, back in my younger days before the demon baccy took away my dulcet counter tenor tones, especially liked one voice per part, madrigals, motets renaissance and baroque mainly. Purcell, Byrd, Wylbye, Thomkins, Bennett, and many others of the period. We did sometimes perform more recent works, I think Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia was about as recent as we got.

Once performed the Messiah in a 30 strong choir, plus soloists, harder work than you might think.

Voice didn't seem to break properly I had no problem singing the Alto range, had more trouble trying to get down the scale if I took a tenor part. I was still able to hit G4 into my late 20s early 30s, (counting middle C as C3) but by age 40, I could only manage E4 unless I had been singing a lot more than usual for a week or more. My fathers voice was the same, he was still taking Soprano solos in a church choir well into his 20s. None of my sons took any interest in singing so don't know if the voice heritage continued.