Twelve years late to the party
(Disclaimer: this post has nothing at all to do with Maurice, despite the gif.)
I love subtitles. If they’re available, I have them on. If not, I’m anxious and keep trying to read the screen anyway. Now and then it pays off in unexpected ways.
(The following is something that I’m sure that those of you who follow Laurence Fox’s music career (or jazz, like, at all) have known about since forever (so you folks will probably want to skip this), but I don’t so I didn’t, so this was new to me and delightful.)
I needed to check something in Lewis s1e03: “Old School Ties” so I put on my dvd, switched on the subtitles, and skipped ahead to the first possibly-relevant-but-I-couldn’t-quite-remember scene, which is of Hathaway’s band rehearsing. As the scene cuts from Nicky Turnbull’s speech at the Oxford Union to a churchful of music, the subtitles claim: “(Gregorio Allegri’s “Miserere Mei” playing)”. So I listen, and… wait. I thought I knew how that piece sounds. *rewind, listen, rewind, listen*
Huh. Really? The Allegri Miserere? Isn’t that this piece?:
*youtube*
Okay, yeah, seems to be, so what…?
Closing credits to the rescue: “Miserere Mei by Gregorio Allegri, arranged by Tim Garland, performed by Acoustic Triangle.”
*googlegoogle*
OH! It’s a jazz arrangement and it’s fricking glorious. You can hear the whole thing here. And my favorite part? From what I can tell (and please correct me if I’m wrong), the other three members of “Hathaway’s band” are, in fact, Acoustic Triangle: Tim Garland (soprano sax), Gwilym Simcock (piano), and Malcolm Creese (bass).
Now I hope you will pardon me while I go listen to it on an endless loop for the next three days.