Posted on 06/11/2019 10:23:43 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
As I've said before I have a jump stick in my car of over 3,000 pieces. About once or twice a year up comes Nana Mouskouri doing Amazing Grace. Let me preface what I'm about to say with IMHO!!!!!
This is the most beautiful vocal piece there is!! Let me repeat the url. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweGOc--kZY
Oh, and I asked here before. I have tried and tried to get the name of the choral group doing the background. Would like to buy some of their music. Any way to???
And The William Tell Overature :<)))))
Does this help any?
https://www.discogs.com/Nana-Mouskouri-An-Evening-With-Nana-Mouskouri/release/4741648
Thanks for the link but its ironic. It has “Accompanied by” for all the entries except for Amazing Grace??????
I thought that was weird. Would it be the Kings Singers?
In the comments on this video, I saw this:
Frances Pirlo: “The Norman tabernachal choir is singing with her.(not sure I spelled that right.)anyhoo, beautiful!”
I suppose they meant the Mormon Tabernacle choir. No idea if this is accurate or not.
Thanks, I’ll poke around.
I have always been partial to Whitney Houston’s rendition of Amazing Grace.
That/they may be it. Tabernacle Choir. Thanks.
Really good, but I’ll stay partial to Nana. :<)
LOVED IT, my style of music. Soul searching, get down on your knees and get right with God music.
Thanks
There’s also a Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, so it could be them.
I was at a local kirking of the tartan ceremony in a double barrel vaulted ceiling cathedral a few years ago. Bagpipe band with more than 30 pipers and over 10 drummers played Amazing Grace. The acoustics in that cathedral were incredible and they almost took the roof off. Most majestic, powerful, Christ-acclaiming rendition I’ve ever heard. We mostly think of Amazing Grace as a reverent song. This version was more Christ as Almighty God and King. It gave me goose bumps and made me tear up.
That was beautiful, but I’ve always been partial to Judy Collins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDdvReNKKuk
Wow and thank you. With the background chorus it sounded earily similar to Nana Mouskouri. Its now my favorite 2nd version. :<)))
My pleasure. Could you imagine a duet with those two? Wow!!
Mouskourie also did a duet with Joan Baez that is pretty good, but this solo version is her best.
Sorry, I was referring to another great Mouskouri solo: “plaisir d’amour”!
Had I not lived for a while in Canada and seen Nana on CBC, I would have gone through life unknowingly crippled.
Even Now
Carry Me On
Down By the Greenwood Side
Hallelujah
The Guests
Song for Liberty
I saw her in concert at SMU and her studio performances were unrepeatable live. So much multitracking and other effects.
But I love her stuff.
She did a concert in Oakland where I think the reviewer nailed it. Nana has the most technically precise singing of anyone alive at the time, but she lacks a modicum of soul. Fair enough. Her version of Love is a Rose lacks foundation and is typical of too much of her work. But that’s the way it goes, I guess.
Her Greek oeuvre I don’t care for. But her English and French numbers are very soothing listening. I’ve spent years listening to her. It’s frustrating she is unknown in the US while the rest of the world embraces her.
The situation is the same for Sarah Brightman, a British singer who can bring you to tears. She was married to Andrew Lloyd Weber, creator of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Sarah was featured as an entertainer of a recent Olympics, and was unrecognized by anyone is the US.
I love my country, but we are provincial. You have to spend time outside the US, exposed to international news and culture to see what navel gazers Americans are. There’s some great stuff out there besides rap, pop, and country.
/rant
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