Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Handel - messiah - 44 hallelujah.ogg

Handel - messiah - 44 hallelujah.ogg
It appears in George Frideric Handel, Choir and History of classical music traditions. The uploader was Raul654. The audio is of high quality and there is no static present in the file, you can hear each verse being sung clearly no unrecogniseable sounds or anything of that sort.


 * Nominate and support. — Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм  •  Champagne?  • 1:51pm •  02:51, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Some problems here, but I think we can overcome there:
 * The source link is dead. However...
 * This current link, which provides access to recordings of lots of MIT concerts ( including the 2005 Messiah concert striking this part of my comment for clarity as this recording predates the 2005 concert), says that the licence is "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0", which is not an acceptable licence here.
 * Looking through the Wayback machine, I've found this and this, which refers to a CC 2.0 SA licence, from just 3 days before Raul uploaded the file. The use of the number "44" on the website and on Raul's file is particularly telling.  So I think we've got confirmation that the file was released under a proper licence even though that licence has been changed subsequently, but I'd like you to double-check my reasoning and update the file page.
 * If this can be overcome, there's a cleanup tag to get rid of the applause, with which I would agree.
 * Incidentally, the rest of the Messiah seems to have been uploaded: see Commons:Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Music. I've not listened to it, but there's a possibility of some more gems here. BencherliteTalk 11:15, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree about removing the applause. I was aware of the existence of the complete Messiah suite but the Hallelujah chorus is what grabbed my attention. — Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм  •  Champagne?  • 9:23pm •  10:23, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Nice recording, both the choir and the orchestra sound good. No problem with the applause, it is a live performance. Btw, I added the file to the Messiah (Handel), which is in my opinion a relevant place for this hit. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 14:37, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Support as well. I'm neutral on the applause issue.  Imzadi  1979   →  22:44, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Fine performance and recording.Please fade out the applause after 4 seconds or so rather than including 45 seconds of it. Note that the US chorus says a more euphonic "for evah and evah " rather than the normal US rhotic pronunciation "for everr and everr" Hope that sounds right to British listeners.  Edison (talk) 00:25, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak Support The quality sounds fine to me (although I'm not sure if it's spectacular - it sounds a little too tinny to be totally first-rate), and it is of a well-known piece of music, performed well. I think I heard an error in the Brass section shortly before the end. I don't think that takes very much away from the recording. Major Bloodnok (talk) 08:17, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Neutral It's not that spectacular of a recording (aesthetically and technically), nor is it historically significant. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I don't know if it's of featured quality.  I went ahead and cut most of the applause and added a fade-out to the file hosted on commons.  Them  From  Space  06:38, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Source link has been updated, applause edited and clean-up tag removed. No remaining issues, so Promoted Handel - messiah - 44 hallelujah.ogg --BencherliteTalk 16:42, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

