Monday, January 17, 2011

"O Sanctissima"


Songs of Praise had once again featured Libera for their new episode that shows us Sally Magnusson's journey along the Sussex Market town and her exposure along the aristocratic heritage of the Arundel Cathedral. This episode also brings us the newest music video of Libera, "O Sanctissima" which was reported to be filmed last October inside the majestic wonders of the Cathedral.
"O Sanctissima" is a track included on Libera's 2010 album, "Peace" and Mini-Ben is the soloist. 

A lot of people are saying that Mini-Ben isn't so Mini anymore. Everybody started calling him "Mini-Ben" because there were used to be two Ben's in the choir, Ben Philipp and Ben Crawley. 

A snapshot taken from "Lacrymosa" wherein Ben is also the soloist. He was so young in this video.

In this video "O Sanctissima" we can see the grown-up Benedict Philipp who recently celebrated his 15th Birthday
last 7th of January.
This video have a lot of illumination in it, and in this snapshot we can see the boys of Libera walking in the central isle of the Arundel Cathedral, illuminated like angels.

"Lullabye-is-the-last-video-of-Josh" seems to be proven wrong. First we saw him on their recent SOP performance of "Eternal Light" and now in this video we can see him again at the back, long after he have had his 16th birthday, which is usually the right age wherein most of the members leave the choir. These recent and continues appearances of Josh is maybe telling us that they can still stay in the group as long as they still have their high voice.

Also in the background we can see the magnificent altar of the Arundel Cathedral. 

Here are the younger members of Libera seen in the video, singing their parts. We can see (from left to right) Freddie, Daniel, Mini-James, Ralph and Kav. Behind Kav is Jakob, unseen in this shot, and Matthew as well. You can see them in the video.

All in all, the video was great and Libera had once again, given us something we will never forget. Having 0 "Dislikes" on YouTube, "O Sanctissima" will be one of the greatest performances of Libera.

1 comment:

  1. O Sanctissima is my favourite of all Ben's solos. How I wish, he'll still be able to sing this during their concert in October. Exultate is being sang by Ralph and other younger boys now (US concert) Looking forward to Josh doing a solo as well.

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