VOCES8: Send in the Clowns - Stephen Sondheim (arr. Clements)
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- VOCES8 sings Jim Clements' arrangement of 'Send in the Clowns' by Stephen Sondheim. The video was filmed in the VOCES8 Centre in London.
LYRICS
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground
You in mid-air
Send in the clowns
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around
One who can't move
But where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns
Just when I stopped
Opening doors
Finally knowing
The one that I wanted was yours
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines
No one is there
Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want-
Sorry my dear
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here - เพลง
Wow, this group is tremendous. The tuning, the rhythm, the volumes are so perfectly harmonious, it is a great pleasure to listen to them.
When the sopranos come in the humming, it sounds like a string section in an orchestra... AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!
This clip was uploaded on my birthday, and what a gift it was
'What A Sad Day For Music' But What A Legacy He Has Left Us All. Stephen Sondheim R.I.P
Most folks don't know the context for this gem
Human voices with a total Sonic range Bravo 👏
Thank you, thank you, thank you all. What a pleasant and calming way to end my working day. Your singing touches me deep in my soul, and you bring this 77 YO male to tears nearly every time I hear you. Thank you.
Katie is the best actor among them, so it’s appropriate she leads. Her facial expressions are just right.
Chills. Best version of this song I’ve heard. Would love to hear more pieces that feature Katie.
The perfect human oboe ringing bell tones.
Honestly couldn’t imagine a more perfect voice from a better singer. She’s just incredible
Stephen Sondheim is looking down on this wonderful rendition of his creation
Katie sings as an angel in the paradise.
I have always thought this was one of the saddest yet most real song written. So captures that human relationships. And, of course, this group is unsurpassed in all they do. Love the alto voice featured.
I think the jury has spoken. We love voces8, and we LOVE KATIE!!!!!
Rest in Peace Stephen. Thank you for your music.
I've been watching this video for at least 20 times by now and still wonder how Katie's voice can be so mature and refined yet so warm and emotional at the same time. She's incredibly gifted and beautiful, like a visitor from another dimension full of beauty and bliss...
And of course the ensemble is in perfect pitch as always, the harmonies are mesmerizing. Thank you.
rest in peace sondheim, you genius
You can hear the phasing of perfect pitch at the beginning. Phasing is the physics argument about what frequency is. Astonishing. Freaking astonishing
What you notice first of all is the sheer beauty of the sound, then the quality of the acting.
This was my father's favorite song. I still don't know what it's about but this rendition is absolutely gorgeous. Miss you, Dad.
THANK YOU FOR FEATURING KATIE. I love her voice so much, this song is perfect
Katie's solo voice is so rich and moving. So glad to see her featured....a perfect song for the times.
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The most beautiful rendition of Bring in the Clowns I have ever heard. The alto's voice is so golden and full of grace. Not many songs make me a 77 year old man cry. The fact that she is drop dead gorgeous doesn't hurt. Oh! Voces8 is my soul my life my total enjoyment.
A gift that keeps giving... Thank you and the parents and teachers who inspired you...
Stephen, this 76 year old feels the same way. I have the original cast recording on vinyl. I first saw A Little Night Music in 2005, then again in Stratford (Ontario) in 2016, and have always especially loved this song. Yes, Katie is outstanding here ... very much worth the tears! (though Andrea is my favourite).
Todavía vives?
Great singing of a typical disbelieving Jonas of an Englishman "Isn't it rich...........,(now
listen to this......)
Their version of Send in the Clowns is very good too…..😊
How wonderful Katie’s mezzo-soprano works as lead vocals on this track. It adds a certain somberness to the music that enhances the melancholy expressed in the lyrics. Another brilliant piece of art by the world’s leading vocal ensemble.
2:59 'sorry' gives me CHILLS
Another stunner from Voces8 and Jim Clements. He really is the most extraordinary arranger.
I'm glad you like it!
I hope Sondheim got to hear this one before he went. May his memory be a blessing.
Who else is here crying hysterically in November 2021? :’(
Katie. Alto. Sultry. Beautiful. Heaven. I've run out of words...
R.I.P. Steven Sondheim
My mums favourite song. I used to hear her sing it when she was cleaning and thought nobody was listening . She could hold a note too 😀. Thank you for taking me back x
"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be." - Thanos
Lmao. Yes. Wait....is Voces8....Thanos? 😂
@@damianjr73 oh snap
@@user-km9bx3gf3z underrated reply
@@TheophilosPorter i forgot i wrote that but hooray for me being clever
@@user-km9bx3gf3z JJ
Overwhelmingly beautiful, as always. When VOCES8 sings a song, they own it! THANK YOU!
Katie gets to show her formidable chops. What a voice!
Resonates in the Soul. BRAVO!
Resplendent with haunting melancholy. Thank you for featuring Katie in this arrangement as she was the perfect choice to bring out the deeper meaning of this beautiful song's lyrics. Heartbreaking and very well done. Thank you
This was so beautiful it made me cry. I miss singing with other people ❤️😢
I weep as well, but unfortunately I can't sing.
Kayla Burrell same, I miss my choir. And online singing is just not the same, harmonies just don’t lock and sounds as beautiful as live.
I miss my choir so much....but there WILL be singing again! Be strong 😊
8 beautiful people with wonderful voices, a song full of emotion......VOCES8 you are perfection, I love you
What a Miracle: 8 different characters expressing and performing 1 Soul. Heartwarming.🙏🎶
I cry all to easy.... this womans voice and her colleagues had me in floods - its beautiful.
It touched my soul. Thank you so much.
the resonance in the opening was... just surreal.
and I guess the world needs more songs with Alto and Bass as the soloist. perfect rendition.
Exactly right. Great to hear the alto voice leading.
I'm bass/baritone now, but when I was going from treble 1 to here, Alto was my favorite part. Generally the most skilled singers in a given choir.
Check out their version of Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence...
I love the Alto voice.
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Who could give this a thumbs down??
This is beyond gorgeous!
This is pure speculation, of course, but I suspect that the negative responses are generated by some seriously invested, possibly doctrinaire, hairdressers.
@@observer6567 That made my morning. 😂Merry Christmas!
Finally, an alto soloist! I’m so happy!
RIP Stephen Sondheim. Thanks for the Music Sir!
The brutal bitterness of the lyrics are perfectly captured in this gorgeous performance. Thank you, VOCES8.
What an international treasure Voces8 is.
Great rendition of a genius that just passed away. Rip
The versatility of Voces8 never ceases to amaze me! I appreciate how they highlight individual members and their own unique voices; even though when they sing together they are so unified in sound and tone.
Can we talk about the perfection from 4:17 to 4:31? I am rarely a fan of choral renditions of pop and theater tunes but Jesus God, this one's too good.
Absolutely beautiful. I sit here with tears in my eyes listening to Katie's wonderful voice.
Es tan dulce, tierno afiatado, extraordinariamente HERMOSO. Me toca el alma.
Gracias por tan angelical regalo❤
How could Sondheim get any better than his own arrangement? Clements managed to transport the blend heavenward and the melancholy deeper. Absolutely perfect! Thank you for a taste of true pleasure.
Glad you like it!
Beautiful arrangement and so sympathetically sung by Katie. This song is so easy to get wrong with its deceptive simplicity, but this was full of gentle melancholy that is exactly right xox
Stephen Sondheim indicated in an interview with Terry Gross, that it is where the accents are to fall which sets this apart form generic simplicity.
Just discovered them. Beautiful sound
ALL THEIR melodies and parts ARE MEMORIZED.......do y'all get that.
Listening to this in tears. We will miss you so much, Maestro Sondheim. ❤️
1:37 and I'm literally in tears, how a choir performing a piece like this can catch the full meaning of a movie is almost divine.
Thank you.
Had to watch this again and simply sit and cry - such pathos and such beauty.
I’m visualising Torvil and Dean skating this , brings back memories
Wow!!! Such a pairing . . . Sondheim's haunting melody and this arrangement is great but these voices performing this brilliant work, adding to perfect pitch all the heart this song needs! I was moved to tears of beauty and joy! For me, this song will never be closer to perfection than what I just heard. God bless you for using your talents to bring all of us such art. Praise be to God!
this is send from Above for our great pleasure. Hello Alto I like your expression. RIP Stephen Sondheim youll like this too❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤
having you voces8 exists on earth is such a great thing !
I loved this. It showed off Katy's voice beautifully.
Those Maj7 chords and the suspended dominants... and that last F#Maj9... 🥰
How thrilling to hear Katie’s gorgeous voice highlighted here. I’ve never heard this song so beautifully rendered! Thank you!
This is the best A capella choir I have heard since The Singers Unlimited!
The note that the three women sign at 3:06 transports me like nothing else. Can't listen to this without weeping and feeling swept up to an ethereal level, perhaps even to third heaven, as the medieval mystics called it.
Life is shit at the moment yet such singing, such exquisite sound transcends everything. Just lovely
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Beautiful!
Marvelous! Excellent! Sublime! Fabulous arrangement, too! Ms Katie was great at delivering the lyrics, all the little solos provided nice contrast and Ms Andrea's voice floating on that descant was the icing on the cake! (Liked her dress, too! )
This is the most gorgeous arrangement and voices I have heard sing this, bravo to you all.
So nice to hear Katie do a solo!
Ich verfolge Voces8 schon seit vielen Jahren und genieße diese wunderbaren Stimmen. Was ich sagen muss - es ist schön zu hören, wie sich die Stimmen entwickelt haben! Jede einzelne hat an Reife und Ausdruck gewonnen! Die Schönheit der Stimmen im Ensemble addiert sich nicht, sie potenziert sich! Immer wieder und immer mehr ein Hochgenuß für die Ohren - ob am Feierabend oder auf langen Autofahrten.
Amazing! Surreal and beautiful harmonies. I've never heard a version of this song I've enjoyed - until now. Absolutely mesmerizing and immersing version, WOW!!! This could not have been performed better!
Beautiful. Gosh… I miss singing with a group. How wonderful it must feel to be surrounded by such peers.
I've run out of words... So lovely to hear Katie's voice leading this wonderful octet. Very moving...
Einfach nur schön
Finally!! She deserves more solos. Truly!!
All of them are wonderful, together and alone.
8 voices better than one Striesand or Collins. Calm,my heart, VOCES8
you found words somehow 🙄
@@prometheusrex1 Such helpful feedback. Your pedantry has brought so much to the comments section.
Katie has an incredible voice, wonderful...
This broke me. I miss singing with other people so much. Exquisite blend!
A sublime version of one of my favourite songs from the exquisite Voces8. What a joy to listen to this. Thanks so much!
Just lovely.
I love this way of "staging" and filming (except the wall that visually lock them), every chorist seems enchanted by the music they sing. Katie's aura is the best !
What a beautiful rendition by the lovely Katie.
(One of my favourite songs) + (VOCES8) = Perfection!!!
So lovely; so tender, so sad. I listen to this version because the tenderness of the voices. I wonder how great it would be to have Katie and Eleonore, or Katie and Andrea sing the Flower Duet from Lakeme. It would be stunning no doubt.
I'm glad to see her getting her own focus in a piece.
Utterly fabulous. Thanks so much! Katie!
Nice, nice, nice. The leading voice is superb!
Well done. Music done this way causes me, anyway, to be pensive, calm, and to reflect. It is much needed in today's world!
Beautiful - I'm glad to hear Katie being featured as a soloist, at last!
I have listened to this 4 times in 90 minutes and love it more and more each time -- BRAVO and thank you creating true beauty and for sharing at a time when our world needs beauty more than ever!
I just came to listen to the phrase 'you in mid-air...', so wonderfully sung! Aaaaaaaah, love this arrangement sung by you!
I listen to you so often. Thank you for the joy you bring to me.
Spectacular arrangement. Jim Clements, incredible! Would love to hear the lead even more prominent or others slightly less. Today I discovered VOCES8 and binged like crazy. So grateful to your whole team for your music.
Too beautiful for words. I'm in tears.
absolutely georgeous - skills beyond what I can imagine - keep up the great work
I hadn't heard of this song before this video but it's since become my favourite. Honestly lost count of how many times I've listened to this performance! Great work voces8
My brother passed away in 05, during a 30+ year as a highschool choir director, j| would be so proud of all of you...
Lovely. Thanks so much, Voces8, for making "things" (personal and otherwise) easier to deal with.
Most songs that Voces8 sings are songs that lots of groups of varying abilities sing; Voces8 shines for its talent and professionalism, but lots of groups sing that song. Most groups would hesitate to try this one; there are multiple parts that require exquisite intonation and control to make this complex arrangement succeed. This is the one I turn to when I want a showpiece for why this is the best a cappella group in the world.
I've heard this song many times but this is the first time I've really appreciated what it's saying. Bravi tutti especially Katie.
Wonderful! Thank you! The best arrangement I’ve heard! Katie, beautiful!