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🕯️🎶 Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei (arr. Adagio for Strings, Op. 11) Laurens Symfonisch | Dir. Wiecher Mandemaker – symphonic choir 🎙️ • Samuel Barber was 26 when he wrote a single movement for string quartet. It wasn’t a requiem. It wasn’t a funeral hymn. It was simply the second movement of a chamber piece, inspired by a Latin poem about harvests and tilling. But something in that melody struck a nerve no one could name — and the world, by collective instinct, began using it to carry its dead. Roosevelt, Kennedy, September 11th. Always this piece. • What Barber wrote for strings already carried that weight. But when the melody is handed to human voices, something shifts in its very nature. A string vibrates through friction; a voice vibrates from inside the body — lungs, diaphragm, throat, bone. The Agnus Dei isn’t a transcription; it’s a revelation: the liturgical text that pleads “grant us peace” meets a melody that already knew how to ask for it before it had words. And here, inside the Sint-Janskathedraal, with 700 years of stone returning every harmonic, the sound doesn’t come from the singers — it comes from the walls, the ceiling, the floor. Sixty voices subdivide, the dynamics rising from near-inaudible silence to a fortissimo that isn’t an explosion: it’s the weight of something inevitable arriving slowly. • Pay attention to the moment when all the voices open up at once. There’s no stage microphone amplifying anything — just natural acoustics and Gothic reverberation. The sound takes its time to die, and that delay is part of the music: each note carries the shadow of the one before it. That’s why this piece tightens your chest without asking permission. Barber didn’t compose a sadness. He composed the exact shape of the space that loss leaves inside us — and the cathedral simply makes visible what was already there. • 👉 Follow for the best of classical music, daily in your feed. • • • #choir #choral #classicalmusic #sacredmusic
🕯️🎶 Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei (arr. Adagio for Strings, Op. 11) Laurens Symfonisch | Dir. Wiecher Mandemaker – symphonic choir 🎙️ • Samuel Barber was 26 when he wrote a single movement for string quartet. It wasn’t a requiem. It wasn’t a funeral hymn. It was simply the second movement of a chamber piece, inspired by a Latin poem about harvests and tilling. But something in that melody struck a nerve no one could name — and the world, by collective instinct, began using it to carry its dead. Roosevelt, Kennedy, September 11th. Always this piece. • What Barber wrote for strings already carried that weight. But when the melody is handed to human voices, something shifts in its very nature. A string vibrates through friction; a voice vibrates from inside the body — lungs, diaphragm, throat, bone. The Agnus Dei isn’t a transcription; it’s a revelation: the liturgical text that pleads “grant us peace” meets a melody that already knew how to ask for it before it had words. And here, inside the Sint-Janskathedraal, with 700 years of stone returning every harmonic, the sound doesn’t come from the singers — it comes from the walls, the ceiling, the floor. Sixty voices subdivide, the dynamics rising from near-inaudible silence to a fortissimo that isn’t an explosion: it’s the weight of something inevitable arriving slowly. • Pay attention to the moment when all the voices open up at once. There’s no stage microphone amplifying anything — just natural acoustics and Gothic reverberation. The sound takes its time to die, and that delay is part of the music: each note carries the shadow of the one before it. That’s why this piece tightens your chest without asking permission. Barber didn’t compose a sadness. He composed the exact shape of the space that loss leaves inside us — and the cathedral simply makes visible what was already there. • 👉 Follow for the best of classical music, daily in your feed. • • • #choir #choral #classicalmusic #sacredmusic
🎶✨ Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 ("Ode to Joy") London Symphony Orchestra & Choir 🎵 Sir Antonio Pappano – conductor 🪄 • In 1822, London's Royal Philharmonic Society paid Beethoven fifty pounds to write a symphony. It was meant to premiere in London. Beethoven accepted, fell ill, missed the deadline, and wrote on the first page of the manuscript that the work was for the London society. But he premiered the Ninth in Vienna, on May 7, 1824, before London had received a single page. The score only arrived six months later. The British premiere took place on March 21, 1825, without Beethoven, who never set foot on English soil. • The Ninth lasts more than an hour, and the choir only enters in the last of the four movements. Before it, the orchestra moves through a storm in D minor, then a dance in cut time, and finally the slowest adagio Beethoven ever wrote. When the choir finally arrives, at the very moment captured in this video, it comes as the destination of that entire path. What sounds like a hymn got there only after every single note that came before. • The conductor is Sir Antonio Pappano, an Anglo-Italian maestro born in 1959. He was music director of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden for twenty-two years, the longest tenure in the house's history. In September 2024 he became Chief Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Simon Rattle. This concert carries special significance: it marks exactly 200 years since the British premiere of the Ninth, in March 1825. In 1825, the choir sang Schiller in Italian. In 2025, it is an Italian who conducts the work in London. • 👉 Follow for the best of classical music daily on your feed. • • • #beethoven #choir #choral #classicalmusic
🎶✨ Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 ("Ode to Joy") London Symphony Orchestra & Choir 🎵 Sir Antonio Pappano – conductor 🪄 • In 1822, London's Royal Philharmonic Society paid Beethoven fifty pounds to write a symphony. It was meant to premiere in London. Beethoven accepted, fell ill, missed the deadline, and wrote on the first page of the manuscript that the work was for the London society. But he premiered the Ninth in Vienna, on May 7, 1824, before London had received a single page. The score only arrived six months later. The British premiere took place on March 21, 1825, without Beethoven, who never set foot on English soil. • The Ninth lasts more than an hour, and the choir only enters in the last of the four movements. Before it, the orchestra moves through a storm in D minor, then a dance in cut time, and finally the slowest adagio Beethoven ever wrote. When the choir finally arrives, at the very moment captured in this video, it comes as the destination of that entire path. What sounds like a hymn got there only after every single note that came before. • The conductor is Sir Antonio Pappano, an Anglo-Italian maestro born in 1959. He was music director of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden for twenty-two years, the longest tenure in the house's history. In September 2024 he became Chief Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Simon Rattle. This concert carries special significance: it marks exactly 200 years since the British premiere of the Ninth, in March 1825. In 1825, the choir sang Schiller in Italian. In 2025, it is an Italian who conducts the work in London. • 👉 Follow for the best of classical music daily on your feed. • • • #beethoven #choir #choral #classicalmusic
One last “swan song” for our long-serving soprano Andrea: ‘May You Walk Gently’ composed by our tenor Blake — a message of hope and warmth for the next chapter. This piece is also included in Andrea’s Farewell Concert, streaming for a limited time only on VOCES8’s digital concert series, LIVE From London. @anh86 #voces8 #choral #choir #acapella #singing
One last “swan song” for our long-serving soprano Andrea: ‘May You Walk Gently’ composed by our tenor Blake — a message of hope and warmth for the next chapter. This piece is also included in Andrea’s Farewell Concert, streaming for a limited time only on VOCES8’s digital concert series, LIVE From London. @anh86 #voces8 #choral #choir #acapella #singing
🌍🎶 Christopher Tin — Waloyo Yamoni („Wir überwinden den Wind“) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · Angel City Chorale · Cadogan Hall 🎻 • Christopher Tin komponierte die erste Videospielmusik, die einen Grammy gewann. Baba Yetu entstand, weil sein Mitbewohner im Studium Game Designer wurde — und eine Filmmusik brauchte. Das Stück auf Suaheli wurde zum Phänomen: aufgeführt in der Carnegie Hall, am Burj Khalifa und bei der Generalversammlung der Vereinte Nationen. Es schaffte es ins Guinness World Records. Doch Tin wollte nicht als Komponist eines einzigen Erfolgswerks gelten — er wollte beweisen, dass es kein Zufall war. • Die Antwort war The Drop That Contained the Sea — ein Zyklus aus 10 Stücken in 10 Sprachen, vom Proto-Indoeuropäischen bis Lango, aufgenommen in den Abbey Road Studios mit dem Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 2014 feierte es eine ausverkaufte Premiere in der Carnegie Hall und erreichte Platz 1 der Klassik-Charts von Billboard. Das Anfangsmotiv von Waloyo Yamoni enthält die sieben Töne einer Dur-Tonleiter — vier absteigend, drei aufsteigend — und kehrt im gesamten Album wieder. Das ganze Werk entsteht aus einer einzigen musikalischen Idee. • Diese Aufnahme stammt aus dem Jahr 2016 in London. Tin dirigiert selbst. Als der Tenor Jimmer Bolden einsetzt, verändert sich die Atmosphäre im Saal — genau dieser Moment wurde 2022 zu einem der meistgeteilten Clips im Internet. Keine Kampagne, kein Algorithmus. Menschen, die den Komponisten nicht kannten, den Text nicht verstanden und nie zuvor Lango gehört hatten, konnten nicht aufhören zuzusehen. 846.000 Likes allein auf Tins TikTok. Vielleicht, weil das, was Bolden singt, keine Übersetzung braucht — es ist der Klang eines Wunsches, den wir alle kennen. • 👉 Folge: das Beste der klassischen Musik, täglich in deinem Feed. • • • #klassischemusik #chor #choral #orchester
🌍🎶 Christopher Tin — Waloyo Yamoni („Wir überwinden den Wind“) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · Angel City Chorale · Cadogan Hall 🎻 • Christopher Tin komponierte die erste Videospielmusik, die einen Grammy gewann. Baba Yetu entstand, weil sein Mitbewohner im Studium Game Designer wurde — und eine Filmmusik brauchte. Das Stück auf Suaheli wurde zum Phänomen: aufgeführt in der Carnegie Hall, am Burj Khalifa und bei der Generalversammlung der Vereinte Nationen. Es schaffte es ins Guinness World Records. Doch Tin wollte nicht als Komponist eines einzigen Erfolgswerks gelten — er wollte beweisen, dass es kein Zufall war. • Die Antwort war The Drop That Contained the Sea — ein Zyklus aus 10 Stücken in 10 Sprachen, vom Proto-Indoeuropäischen bis Lango, aufgenommen in den Abbey Road Studios mit dem Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 2014 feierte es eine ausverkaufte Premiere in der Carnegie Hall und erreichte Platz 1 der Klassik-Charts von Billboard. Das Anfangsmotiv von Waloyo Yamoni enthält die sieben Töne einer Dur-Tonleiter — vier absteigend, drei aufsteigend — und kehrt im gesamten Album wieder. Das ganze Werk entsteht aus einer einzigen musikalischen Idee. • Diese Aufnahme stammt aus dem Jahr 2016 in London. Tin dirigiert selbst. Als der Tenor Jimmer Bolden einsetzt, verändert sich die Atmosphäre im Saal — genau dieser Moment wurde 2022 zu einem der meistgeteilten Clips im Internet. Keine Kampagne, kein Algorithmus. Menschen, die den Komponisten nicht kannten, den Text nicht verstanden und nie zuvor Lango gehört hatten, konnten nicht aufhören zuzusehen. 846.000 Likes allein auf Tins TikTok. Vielleicht, weil das, was Bolden singt, keine Übersetzung braucht — es ist der Klang eines Wunsches, den wir alle kennen. • 👉 Folge: das Beste der klassischen Musik, täglich in deinem Feed. • • • #klassischemusik #chor #choral #orchester
We don't always sing without scores, but we do it when we can. We think it brings our audiences closer to us and the pieces we're singing. Do you agree? Let us know in the comments! This is from our 2025 St Matthew Passion performance at @southbankcentre's Royal Festival Hall. The 2026 edition is on Sunday 8 March with @florilegiumuk, @londonyouthchoirs, David Hill and six spectacular soloists. Find out more about the St Matthew Passion in our Change Your Tune podcast special. Listen through the link in our bio or search ‘St Matthew Passion Change Your Tune’ wherever you get your podcasts! #JSBach #classicalmusic #Choir #choral
We don't always sing without scores, but we do it when we can. We think it brings our audiences closer to us and the pieces we're singing. Do you agree? Let us know in the comments! This is from our 2025 St Matthew Passion performance at @southbankcentre's Royal Festival Hall. The 2026 edition is on Sunday 8 March with @florilegiumuk, @londonyouthchoirs, David Hill and six spectacular soloists. Find out more about the St Matthew Passion in our Change Your Tune podcast special. Listen through the link in our bio or search ‘St Matthew Passion Change Your Tune’ wherever you get your podcasts! #JSBach #classicalmusic #Choir #choral
Johns’ Boys Welsh Male Voice Choir: Choir or the World winners and Britain’s Got Talent Semi-Finalists 🎶 Come and see us on tour! 🔗 johnsboys.co.uk #britainsgottalent #choir #choral #classicalmusic #bgt
Johns’ Boys Welsh Male Voice Choir: Choir or the World winners and Britain’s Got Talent Semi-Finalists 🎶 Come and see us on tour! 🔗 johnsboys.co.uk #britainsgottalent #choir #choral #classicalmusic #bgt
💭 How much of this music can you read? What you see here is some of the earliest surviving musical notation: neumes. Before today’s staves and noteheads, church musicians used this system to bring chant to life in churches and cathedrals. It’s still read and sung in services today! ⛪︎ This ancient prayer, Da pacem Domine, has echoed in churches like this for over a millennium. Its meandering melody has inspired composers across the centuries, from Brumel in the 16th century to Arvo Pärt in the 21st 🎶 “Grant peace, Lord, in our time; for there is none else who would fight for us if not you, our God.” #ancient #peaceful #gregorian #chant #acapella #choir #classical #choral #singing #prayer
💭 How much of this music can you read? What you see here is some of the earliest surviving musical notation: neumes. Before today’s staves and noteheads, church musicians used this system to bring chant to life in churches and cathedrals. It’s still read and sung in services today! ⛪︎ This ancient prayer, Da pacem Domine, has echoed in churches like this for over a millennium. Its meandering melody has inspired composers across the centuries, from Brumel in the 16th century to Arvo Pärt in the 21st 🎶 “Grant peace, Lord, in our time; for there is none else who would fight for us if not you, our God.” #ancient #peaceful #gregorian #chant #acapella #choir #classical #choral #singing #prayer
The Libera boys were absolutely delighted by the rapturous reception they received during the encore to their return to the Philippines, singing Bayan Ko to the audience at the Aliw Theatre, Manila. Thanks so much to everyone who came to watch! 🙏 #classicalmusic #choir #choirmusic #choral #choralmusic #libera #asiantour #philippines #ontour
The Libera boys were absolutely delighted by the rapturous reception they received during the encore to their return to the Philippines, singing Bayan Ko to the audience at the Aliw Theatre, Manila. Thanks so much to everyone who came to watch! 🙏 #classicalmusic #choir #choirmusic #choral #choralmusic #libera #asiantour #philippines #ontour
#MusicMonday: Oh, What a Moment 🎶 Squire Parsons was instrumental in my career in Southern Gospel music. He hired me and gave me my start, becoming both a mentor and a father figure to me. We always stayed in touch, and it was an honor to be asked to sing at his memorial service after his passing. Of all the wonderful songs Squire penned, this one is my absolute favorite. This past Friday, I released this song to streaming platforms. Be sure to give it a listen. 😊 #EHSS #SquireParson #ErnieHaase #GospelMusic #SouthernGospel #Choral
#MusicMonday: Oh, What a Moment 🎶 Squire Parsons was instrumental in my career in Southern Gospel music. He hired me and gave me my start, becoming both a mentor and a father figure to me. We always stayed in touch, and it was an honor to be asked to sing at his memorial service after his passing. Of all the wonderful songs Squire penned, this one is my absolute favorite. This past Friday, I released this song to streaming platforms. Be sure to give it a listen. 😊 #EHSS #SquireParson #ErnieHaase #GospelMusic #SouthernGospel #Choral
Pour ceux qui auraient un petit coup de déprime dans cet hiver rigoureux, écoutez ça! Le soleil réapparaîtra instantanément. Une énergie qui réveille les sens! @abcpacific #pacificocean🌊 #oceanpacific #soleil #bonnehumeur #choral
Pour ceux qui auraient un petit coup de déprime dans cet hiver rigoureux, écoutez ça! Le soleil réapparaîtra instantanément. Une énergie qui réveille les sens! @abcpacific #pacificocean🌊 #oceanpacific #soleil #bonnehumeur #choral
Such a beautiful love song 💚 Concert tickets: johnsboys.co.uk @calumscott #choir #malevoicechoir #choral #choralmusic #choirs #choirmusic #classicalmusic #classicfm #classic #bgt #britainsgottalent #audition #agt #cymru #cymraeg #wales #welsh #cormeibion #calumscott
Such a beautiful love song 💚 Concert tickets: johnsboys.co.uk @calumscott #choir #malevoicechoir #choral #choralmusic #choirs #choirmusic #classicalmusic #classicfm #classic #bgt #britainsgottalent #audition #agt #cymru #cymraeg #wales #welsh #cormeibion #calumscott
'O Root of Jesse', composed by Thomas Hewitt Jones and performed by St Martin's Voices. These new recordings from contemporary composers, commissioned for Advent 2025, each offer a new setting of one of the ancient Advent 'O Antiphons'. Follow our Advent journey of reflections on the Everyday Faith app at the link in our bio, @thechurchofengland. #choir #choral
'O Root of Jesse', composed by Thomas Hewitt Jones and performed by St Martin's Voices. These new recordings from contemporary composers, commissioned for Advent 2025, each offer a new setting of one of the ancient Advent 'O Antiphons'. Follow our Advent journey of reflections on the Everyday Faith app at the link in our bio, @thechurchofengland. #choir #choral
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