Today is the day of the Lord... so i shall dedicate this blog to him... cos im now listening to this wondrously beautiful soprano sing Laudate Dominum from Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore... its one of the most beautiful works of music i have ever heard... far better than any modern rock or pop

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If Mozart had turned up at the gates of Heaven with nothing to show for his life but his setting of "Laudate Dominum" (Psalm 117) from his "Vesperae solennes de confessore,K339 to his credit:then that alone would have been enough to make him qualify for automatic entry with no further questions asked.It is THAT good.

I first encountered this glorious piece in those halcyon days of my first exploring Classical music.I was joyfully collecting,one by one,the Haydn Masses that George Guest and his wonderful Choir of St.John's College,Cambridge had recorded for Decca back in the late 1960's.And on the particular disc that contained the brilliant "Paukenmesse";K339 came as the filler item,and what a filler it turned out to be !

The Vespers are divided into six movements with "Laudate Dominum" been the penultimate piece.There is actually no warning in a musical sense to prepare you for it's sudden magical materialisation.You will be suitably impressed by the opening sonorities of the "Dixit Dominus" and by the time you get to the rather severe,fugal "Laudate pueri" you might think that you have got the measure of Mozart's intentions in this work.Therefore,the "trap" he springs here is all the more unexpected and jaw-dropingly surprising.We get a lovely performance here as well,with the Wren Orchestra weaving a magic carpet of sound that the excellent soprano Felicity Palmer and our peerless choir climb aboard and transport us to listener's paradise.That moment when Ms Palmer rises ethereally out of the concluding choral Amen is just amazing,and is one of the most amazing things in all Mozart's output.

Reviewer: Quisegosum from Inverness,Scotland.

it is so gorgeous that it transcends all aural inhibitions... here it is in full Latin and the English translations

Laudate Dominum omnes gentes:laudate eum omnes populi;
Quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia ejus:
et veritas Domini manet in aeternum.
Gloria Patri, et Filio,et Spiritui Sancto
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum Amen.

O praise the Lord, all ye heathen praise him, all ye nations;
For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us
and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end Amen.

Not being insensitive to other religions here or anything but classical music has its foundations in the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches... so pardon me for using the above lyrics and being so religious when i am visibly not.
i think i shall find my old love for classical music again after hearing this beautiful piece de resistance... by mozart... my favourite composer of all time... chopin comes a close second but nothing is more sublimely simple yet surreally complex in the harmonising and synthesising of melodies and tones... it touches your heart in the most deep ways when you immerse yourself in the music and imagine that it is like an angel chanting from high...

Imagine that you are in a crowd and then suddenely all the lights are turned off... then a spotlight shines to the skies above and there is an angel who with wings of white and halo of gold... then the music starts as she opens her mouth and the wings beat a gentle breeze that relaxes your restless soul... then the words come forth and you feel as if the Holy Spirit is foisted upon you as you feel the deepest recesses of your heart strain to sing along. you feel that the music makes you so vulnerable and so ashamed cos you feel that you have sinned and not worthy of the lord's mercy... when it ends it leaves in u a tide of guilt that ebbs away and surprisingly you want to hear it over and over and over again... its gives peace

i have been under too much fire lately thus all the smoke and war that goes about me... thus i need internal peace... no mood to vent anything here cos all the fire is channeled into studying thus im rather extinguished... i want to go Salzburg... to see mozart's birthplace... Laudate Dominum...


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