Sure on this Shining Night

Comments

8 years ago

isabella shamoun

Really Great Job

8 years ago

heathtanner64

The best recording of this song. I listen to it on a regular basis. It gives me so much peace.

9 years ago

Kathy Reese

From Angelo

9 years ago

Sherry Campbell

One of the best recordings - has a lightness and legato piano not found in other renditions.

9 years ago

Brian Baumgarn

If you listen to Lauridsen and don't feel it deep in the marrow, I truly feel sorry for you. Barton and Claire are so right. As a Christian, I think there is enough substance in those 57 words and Morten Lauridsen's music to meditate on and feel epiphany for a lifetime. The poem may be pantheistic but is all about sensing our souls in the NOW!

9 years ago

Viverastar s

Performed this with my school and boy was it beautiful, even more so being its not on speakers but in person. This arrangement can give you chills.

9 years ago

John Colton

Beautiful!

9 years ago

James Barclay

Absolutely beautiful. I bet many musicians who perform this consider it analagous to praying. Exquisite. Well done and think you all who made this You Tube possible. There is a recording of Lausidsen's vocal works done by the Bob Jones University choir. (Yes, THAT Bob Jones U. in Kentucky)

10 years ago

Brian Baumgarn

Only a little over fifty words and Lauridsen's simple vocal arrangement can take us to the place where we imagine, feel and see the shadows of the stars. What a performance U. of Utah Singers!!

10 years ago

Claire Herring

Beautiful job University of Utah Singers! Bravo!!! Gorgeous! I love this song so much that I decided it would be played at my funeral (but sung by Milliken University's choir, sorry). The text is taken from a poem called "Description of Elysium" (heaven) from James Agee's first book Permit Me Voyage. I believe it is a metaphor for death (the late year lies down the north; all is healed, all is health; high summer holds the earth--hearts all whole). The late year (old age); high summer (youth) holds the earth. Sure on this shining night, kindness must watch for me this side the ground (that is, under ground). Wonderful imagery!

10 years ago

Kristen E

Perfrct!

10 years ago

Sirracco

This performance never gets old.

10 years ago

marysueeasteregg

The poster who says "the poem was written by a WWII fighter pilot (or a pilot from a war) flying over lands where he fought years ago and seeing the lands and people healed" is incorrect. Agee, an American, was born in 1909, too late for him to have fought in WWI; & the poem was published in 1934, before the start of WWII. I can find nothing about Agee having been a pilot, or a soldier. But he did visit Europe in the mid 1920's, when he was a teenager. Perhaps he visited lands still healing from the ravages of WWI?

10 years ago

EmilyJoMusic96

I am singing this is my high school choir right now and I am absolutely in love with it!

10 years ago

Rod Jones

Masterful use of rubato and a true understanding of the composers intentions. This is a really fine, World class choir. The Director has brought out the very best in each voice and moulded them into a splendid singing unit that produces the most beautiful and ethereal sound. The Directors communication with the choir and the accompanist (who is also superb) is evident in this performance and transmits to the listner. This is a performance that I wish to hear in Heaven, sung by these angels.

10 years ago

Gordon Moser

The playing with tempos in this rendition is breathtaking! I literally felt myself eagerly awaiting the resolve of every suspension held just a fraction of a beat longer. Wow, what a beautiful performance of a gorgeous tune

11 years ago

Flavio Sgubin

spettacolo !!!

11 years ago

Helen Schroeder

One of the best versions right here!

11 years ago

Throat Yogurt

Might get shot for this, but I actually prefer this performance over the Polyphony recording.

11 years ago

William Frederick

First - this choir is outstanding... Absolutly professional. Second - this song is perhaps THE loveliest choral piece that I have ever heard. I have listened to it many times as it has helped me cope with the loss of my brother through suicide. It gives me a sense of profound peace. Thank you for posting this.