Posted by:
Makurosu
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Date: April 21, 2014 08:29PM
Here they are doing Antonin Dvořák's "Gloria," from Mass in D, op. 86.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdNTXBAHzCIThere is another one by Schubert, which I think is in Latin but I didn't listen to it. I don't care for them. They are a nice big choir, but they come out sounding a bit muddy. Kind of soft and rounded too. I don't know how to describe it. Also, I can hear their accents.
I grew up listening to a recording of Mozart's Requiem that I thought for years was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but when I went looking for it I found that it was done by Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. It is so much better than anything I've ever heard by Motab. It just knocks my socks off. I can't even imagine them doing Palestrina. I have a recording by the Westminster Cathedral Choir that is so good, I close my eyes and feel like I'm floating into the clouds.
Still, I wish they would do selections like this at General Conference. I could just die when I hear a big trained choir like that doing Primary songs. Just shoot me.