Video1: = the “joy” of traditional amplification by multiplication and reverberation!
RadioNZ’s Hymns programme similarly suffers from choral recordings that likewise drown rational content in a surfeit of vowels and echoing organ, but without the justification of massed congregational voices. Most frustrating as a non-hymn singing listener, who might (perhaps) appreciate the meaning, if it could be discerned.
Video1: = the “joy” of traditional amplification by multiplication and reverberation!
RadioNZ’s Hymns programme similarly suffers from choral recordings that likewise drown rational content in a surfeit of vowels and echoing organ, but without the justification of massed congregational voices. Most frustrating as a non-hymn singing listener, who might (perhaps) appreciate the meaning, if it could be discerned.
Just as well liturgy is more than words!