Can Anyone Identify This?

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:06 pm

http://www.box.net/shared/n3lmnxfv3x

Beautiful writing. Can't understand the language. Does anyone know it? E-mail me off list at chuckjackson1@cox.net.

Thanks

olaness · Post by **olaness** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:28 am

Now thats an interesting piece. Can't make heads or tails out of whats being sung though, no matter what language it is in...

If yo uknew who composed it then that might well give you some clues as to what language it is in.

Sounds a little Brahmsian, although there are a number of things that makes me think its not him but rather someone who writes in a similar style.

olaness · Post by **olaness** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:03 am

Yes I agree with you on that, RC, also the orchestration isn't quite Brahms either, similarly the links between phrases.

But someone must know what it is...

Alex F · Post by **Alex F** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:59 pm

I wonder if this is not some Russian work. There is a theme of an old Russian hymn that comes through in several places.

circusboy · Post by **circusboy** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:33 pm

I'll still need to verify it from another recording, but I think it's

Faure's "Cantique de Racine"

It's a later work of his, when all the French were being influenced both by the Russians and by Wagner.

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:23 pm

Can't be the Faure. The entire Cantique de Racine clocks in at under 6 minutes, much shorter than this excerpt. I'm still searching.

Chuck

Anterux · Post by **Anterux** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:12 pm

I dont recognize this piece. But it's not FaurÃ©.

It reminds me vaguely of Vaughan Williams' Toward the Unknown Region...

I think it's Brittish.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:55 pm

That would be British. And Benjamin Britten is British. And so is Ralph Vaughan Williams. And Brittany is in France, not Britain, and their denizens are called Bretons, which is completely different although some people cannot pronounce it differently from Britain, while those of the UK, or blighty, are in slang called Brits. And this is not to be confused with the famous sexy actress Britt Ekland, who is not English, but Swedish by birth, although she starred, among other movies, as a Bond girl, in The Man With the Golden Gun, who was Christopher Lee, who is also British. Finally, I never had the occasion to meet a Breton when I was in Britain.

God save the Queen!

Albertibass · Post by **Albertibass** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:26 am

This piece really is beautiful. How did you find this recording?

Anterux · Post by **Anterux** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:55 pm

iiipopes wrote:That would be British. And Benjamin Britten is British. And so is Ralph Vaughan Williams. And Brittany is in France, not Britain, and their denizens are called Bretons, which is completely different although some people cannot pronounce it differently from Britain, while those of the UK, or blighty, are in slang called Brits. And this is not to be confused with the famous sexy actress Britt Ekland, who is not English, but Swedish by birth, although she starred, among other movies, as a Bond girl, in The Man With the Golden Gun, who was Christopher Lee, who is also British. Finally, I never had the occasion to meet a Breton when I was in Britain.

God save the Queen!

Thx!

Now I think it's British...

Albertibass · Post by **Albertibass** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:34 am

So i did some asking around this past week at school, and Dr. Baumer successfully identified it.

"...the piece is by Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915) and it is the first movement from his cantata, â€œSt. John of Damascus,â€

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:10 pm

Thank you. Wonderful piece, just ordered it.

Ya'll take good care now.

sungfw · Post by **sungfw** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:38 pm

circusboy wrote:I'll still need to verify it from another recording, but I think it's

Faure's "Cantique de Racine"

It's a later work of his, when all the French were being influenced both by the Russians and by Wagner.

Um ... Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 was written in 1865, when FaurÃ© was 20, making it one of his earliest compositions. It was written during his final year at Ã‰cole Niedermeyer, where it won first prize for musical composition, though it was not published until 1876, with a full orchestral version following in 1906.

bort · Post by **bort** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:32 pm

Chuck Jackson wrote:Thank you. Wonderful piece, just ordered it.

Ya'll take good care now.

Where did you order it from? I can't seem to find it...

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:50 pm

bort wrote:
Chuck Jackson wrote:Thank you. Wonderful piece, just ordered it.

Ya'll take good care now.
Where did you order it from? I can't seem to find it...

Google pulls up this one.

Albertibass · Post by **Albertibass** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:32 am

Doug@GT wrote:
bort wrote:
Chuck Jackson wrote:Thank you. Wonderful piece, just ordered it.

Ya'll take good care now.
Where did you order it from? I can't seem to find it...
Google pulls up this one.

yeah i got that recording, and it was pretty good.