Absolute voices of angels. And you r right. They sound like a full choir. I have never heard anyone sing this more beautifully. I can’t stop watching and the last part of the song unbelievable.
I was just thinking that they sounded like a few of the larger choirs that I've heard in 800+ year old cathedrals in Britain, but with better harmonics.
I'm not even 30 and I feel the responsibility to say this does not compare very well to the unbelievable polyphonic Ave Maria arrangements out there. Not that these guys did poorly, but when you're gonna bring in "every version of Ave Maria ever recorded", then, well this is a necessary footnote.
I’m a music teacher and vocalist. This is by far the most unique snd sublime rendition of Schubert’s Ave Maria I’ve heard ! Intricate harmonies ....lavish legato ...shimmering trebles velvet bass .......Exquisite
73 years old, pastor of the homeless. So beautiful and heartwarming. God bless these young men and all whom they meet, mentor, serve, support and live. Have a blessed Christmas to you all.
Never in my life have I been able to listen to this song because it was played at my father's funeral in 1970 when I was 5 years old. I immediately turn it off whenever I see it anywhere. Well today this mysteriously popped up in my feed. Been thinking about my father a lot lately and wishing I had him here to talk to and love me. Listening to this is what I imagine it must feel like to be sitting next to God and Heaven, this is the first time I could ever listen to this all the way through and appreciate it for what it is. What a gift you have given me today! This is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life, I love all of you for this, you have given me an enormous gift today and I thank you for that! You have a new super fan 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Sending Love from another who misses her father also. Whenever I miss him terribly, I go outside alone and talk to the stars. Today, I send Love to you and tell you, because your father can't, how proud I am of the woman you've become. May you find a small sign over the next few days, a sign from above, that immediately makes you pause, to let you know your father's spirit is still with you every day and that Love never dies, it only changes form.
@@smileawhile3788 hello Friend! So happy I got this notification.... YOU are my sign! I felt his love through YOU I know the holy spirit is working through you here you have given me a priceless gift today I am so grateful to you! I am sure your father is right next to you as well he must have been an incredible man to have made a daughter with a caring heart like you! Many Thanks and much love to you for your support and kindness today ♥️🙏🏻
This song is SO TIMELY for my family and I! My 13 year old sister has cancer, and Sunday I had gotten a call from my parents asking to gather all of my siblings to come and say our goodbyes… We prayed, we asked for a miracle, and here we are 5 days later and my sister has made a MIRACULOUS recovery and doctors are in AWE!
I am a 77 yr old Catholic woman who grew up listening to Ave Maria, and I don't believe I have ever heard it sung better than these gentlemen. I pray they continue to sing together because their voices compliment each other. Simply beautiful! 🥲"Happy tears"
As an 88 yr old Roman Catholic I've never heard it different than the original but this was subliminal. I admire the 4 young men that produced such beautiful prayer song with deep feelings 🙏 in their voices God bless them 🙏 and help them with success in life .
they were good, there is another Singer on youtube that many would say is the best singer in the world, he is flawless in his transitions and performances are great, Dimash, here is his song of Ava maria and he does the music but no words, I think you will like it, th-cam.com/video/mLG8g2ooFSA/w-d-xo.html
I read about 20 comments and figured since no one else addressed the elephant in the room I would do it. And please, no haters, ok? I mean all of this with all of the respect in my heart for these gentleman and my love for them taking the time to learn the song and do such an amazing job on it. As a 68 year old Black singer, I was a member of the Barbershop Quartet Society for about 15 years. Their style of music has never been very popular among young Black men, so I know something about "singing something different". I just wanted to say how absolutely REFRESHING it was to hear four young very talented Black men singing something classical and doing, as I said earlier, such an amazing job on it. I literally had tears in my eyes listening to this and that rarely happens. I wish we could get more young Black people, men and women, interested in this type of music rather than the rap and hip-hop that in my opinion, has been a major factor in glorifying thug life, street life, and disrespect towards women in the Black community over the last 40 years.
I could not agree with you more, and I think it is wonderful to see these young men singing something so beautifully that seems "out of character"... It should not be that way, and I hope that more young people (black or any other color, race, or creed) will discover the beauty of classical music... One only has to look at East Asians for groups like Bach Collegium Japan or performers like Lang-Lang and others to know how universal western classical music is...
I didn't realize it until i've seen your comment. I mean we are a few black people studying classical music. We are at least... 6, 7 in my conservatory, for all the instruments. But never, and why do I realize it only now, never have I seen a black quartet.
This rendition of Schubert’s Ave Marie deserves a million likes. The acoustics in that stairwell are incredible. It sounds like a cathedral. And these four men have the voices of angels. Kudos to whoever among them did the arrangement. Let us all make a commitment in 2022 to build up and preserve civilization rather than tearing it down.
Oh my gosh!! This is the most beautiful rendition I think I have ever heard Of Ave Maria!! Brought tears to my eyes and gave me chills up and down my whole body absolutely gorgeous how beautiful those voices that God bless those young men with is amazing totally amazing!! Can’t wait what they put out next, totally beautiful!!! God bless them.
Yes!!! And I wondered, if in fact the harmonies were spontaneous - borne of that connection that happens when one makes music with other vessels being filled breath by breath with holy spirit.
You don't have to be Catholic to appreciate the Ave Maria sung so beautifully with such passion and in complete harmony... God blessed you four with great voices and you give back to the world. Bravo!
It wasn't the stairwell that was incredible, it was the young men who sang that was incredible. God bless you guys for the blessing you gave all who heard you! Merry Christmas!❤
Bellisimo,Grazie a Dio ,from where are you guys ! What a gift from God ..May the good Lord bless you in your beautiful souls and for sure Mother Mary is very pleased to hear this Her Song,As we acclaimed of this song "Hail Mary",that's the meaning of the Ave Maria...
Anyone who's ever sung in a choir knows how hard it is to get a capella down without sounding forced. The synchronisation and blending is beyond words. I salute you!
I couldn't agree with you more! I sing 1st soprano in my chorus that I've been in for over 10 years. (I think I joined when I was 23.) So I've been in my chorus for about 13 years. However, I've been singing in some type of chorus since I learned how to talk. Singing A Capella is so difficult to do correctly without it sounding forced. These guys did a wonderful job!
@@raquelgarvin8391 - "Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy" (Luke 1:42-44).
I can’t stop listening to this. I went to Paris and took a day trip to Chartres Cathedral. I played this on my headphones as I walked through the church. Transcendent experience.
So refreshing to see four young men so talented and breaking with the customary expected roles for guys like this. I think most listeners don't know how long it takes to learn to sing in such tight harmonies unless they are singers themselves. I hope they continue as a group create such beauty again. and can
Me either. Normally I bypass videos and come back to them but this one gave me such an amazing feeling that I wanted to hear the song from beginning to end!!!!!!! Love their redention!!!!! 4 men sound like a full blown choir 4 real.
MY GOD...there are angels. They met in a stairwell to sing the Ave Maria. For a few minutes, they gave my soul wings and let it soar toward Heaven. Magnificent!
Perfectly described my experience hearing this as well. I already have it in my "when I'm gone" book that this version is the one to be played at my funeral!
@@justyne8627 Amen! Looking that that may have seemed dark, mea culpa, I've been back at Church a year now after a 35 year detour. God is great, I must let a few more ppl know of the joy only He can give:) God Bless you as well!
Yes exactly, the dynamics, the harmonies!!! Just the right vibrato at the right place... Oh my my my you cry with joy and listen to it again and again and you keep discovering new harmonies.
Stunning ❤thank you so much for sharing your voices with the world. Ave Maria is one of my favourite pieces of music. Just stunning . Beautiful voices and I’m sure beautiful men 🙏🏻♥️🙌
4 angels singing! Baritone, tenor, alto and soprano, perfectly harmonized! This was simply BEAUTIFUL! And while not a black man myself. It's SO REFRESHING to hear something like this, than the rap/hip hop. Boyz 2 Men have NOTHING on you 4. The harmonizing was BEYOND ON POINT!! MUCH LOVE AND LIGHT GUYS!!!🥰😁
I am a 68 year old Black Catholic and this is one of the best versions of Ave Maria I have heard. I wish I had came across this video before Christmas 2023. I am listening to and discovered this video on TH-cam December 27, 2023. This song always touches my heart and especially in these turbulent times with so much crime, hatred, war, and racism. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Black but not Catholic, and Ave Maria always moves me. Found this on 12/31/23. I agree about the times... There's a song from the 1960's that starts with something like "I am so weary..." I'll have to look it up. Otis Redding maybe? Blessings to all in the coming year.
Black but not Catholic, and Ave Maria always moves me. Found this on 12/31/23. I agree about the times... There's a song from the 1960's that starts with something like "I am so weary..." I'll have to look it up. Otis Redding maybe? Blessings to all in the coming year.
What a complex species we are. We are capable of the worst types of atrocities against each other and animals. Then you hear this, and it makes you weep with joy. More of this please.
Agreed! What has become of humanity? Then you hear this beautiful piece. Since the Prophet Jubal was given the gift of music, music has brought another side to evil. ⛰🌲👨🌾🇺🇸✝️
I sit here mesmerized and tears in my eyes. I am no less than AMAZED at these voices. These gorgeous young men singing in such unbelievable harmony. Gentlemen, thank you. Thank you. For while you sang, I felt like I was in heaven. Truly. So beautiful. So beautiful. So BEAUTIFUL! Absolute perfection. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
They must wear jackets to hide their wings because they surely have the voices of angels. They brought me to tears with their beautiful rendition. God bless you gentlemen!
I had Ave Maria sung at my wedding mass (42 years ago) for my presentation to the Blessed Virgin (which is laying flowers at her feet and praying for a happy and fruitful marriage, under her guidance). The gentleman who sang it sang it with such beauty, I knew I would never hear anything more lovely. I was wrong. I cried through this entire video and have sent it to numerous people. Hearing this today was a gift. Deborah is correct-- their jackers surely must be hiding their angels' wings.
As an Italian woman I have heard this song in many different renditions this was beautiful. I applauded you with tears. You all did this song a wonderful justice thank you
It is for times like this that I’m grateful for the internet…. I would not have had this opportunity to hear such angelic voices otherwise! Thank you! 💖
This is so beautifully sung, It made my brain expand. My head literally crackled. More . Please!! You have so much more than a great stairway... You made me cry. Love God. Be Blessed...❤
The human voice is, indeed, one of the purest sounds on Earth. By putting their voices together - in harmony - these 4 gentlemen have given us the most tremendous gift. Thank you, young men. ❤
Absolutely the best version of Ave Maria I’ve ever heard. Normally it is sung as a solo at weddings and funerals. This is the first time I have heard it sung as 4-part harmony. It gave me chills. Superb job!
I love ave maria and moreso for the one offs I come across here and there, like this one. It was maybe a page in when I forgot what I was listening to because these guys are above that. Such a treat
Brave beautiful men. Thanks for responding to God's calling to sing for Him. Such a blessing to hear you sing to Our Lady in such an exquisite way. May God bless you and allow you to keep bringing souls closer to Him.
I"m a Catholic who has always favored this hymn. I imagine it being sung in heaven by the angels. It also brings me back to my father in Ireland who always sang it. Your rendition brought me goose bumps. Thank you so much for sharing - you made me very happy. :)
This is the best Ava Maria I have EVER heard and believe these young men deserve to be heard…Can you imagine how this would sound in a cathedral?….absolutely beautiful…
I’m 76 years old and this was always my father’s favorite hymn and it was played at dad’s funeral and also I had it played at my husband’s funeral. This is absolutely beautiful guys! Thank you so much, too bad you can’t go sing in some of the old Churches in the European countries because they have such beautiful acoustics!
Thank you. My mum just passed away right before Christmas and this was her favourite song and I played Mario Lanza’s version as she transitioned. It’s Christmas Day - the first Christmas without her. I’m alone before the family arrive looking for Christmas music and found this. It’s so beautiful and a timely gift to the world so thank you so much.
My deepest sympathies to you at this sad time, I lost my dad a couple of Christmases ago - sending huge hugs from London to find you wherever you may be. ❤
Actually, please re-read the Bible very carefully and slowly, because she’s not your “blessed mother”, (nor is she a “perpetual virgin”...Jesus had brothers and sisters, and God never had any intention of denying Mary and Joseph the family they had planned, and he didn’t deny them. Jesus just had to come first, they had their children afterwards). Going to anyone but God with your prayers, and going to anyone but Jesus Christ as your intercessor is an abomination to God. Someone has to tell misguided people this. It’s out of love. Truth must be said. And the word of God says all this. Mary doesn’t hear your worship, and all worship (and “revering”, because that’s the same thing to God) is to be directed to God. Mary would be appalled at people “revering” her, Jesus is HER savior, too. She never would have prayed to anyone but God, and frankly, all the people over the centuries who have tried to contact her to “intercede” for them have first of all, they’ve defied God, by going against his word; they’ve in their lives kicked Jesus Christ himself aside (which you cannot actually do in reality, but you can do it in the eyes of God metaphorically), because that’s HIS job; and it’s necromancy, one isn’t supposed to be contacting the dead, regardless of how alive you feel their spirit is in heaven; attempting to harass poor Mary in death by nonstop requests for “intercession” must have been Roman Pagan way of trying to get back for her providing Jesus to the world, or just to make would-be Christians engage in pagan activity, because that’s what Rome did when imprisionment, torture and vicious murder didn’t stop the TRUE message of Jesus (no purgatory, no “earning” anything to do with salvation, Jesus already paid for our sins, NOTHING we can do can ADD anything to Jesus’s gifts how insulting and arrogant to think one can somehow put a cherry on top of that. Extremely arrogant and totally missing the point. No “indulgences” could ever have any impact on the afterlife of anyone ever. God. Cannot. Be. Bribed. And anyone who claims otherwise or who ever did is not on the side of God, but is running a counterfeit to STRIP PEOPLE OF THEIR OWN POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST...JOHN 14:12. Read it as slowly and as many times as you need. Then pop over to Revelation and read it as slowly and as many times as you need. Pay very, very, very close attention to the whore of Babylon. Only one place on earth could ever fit this description. Come out of Babylon while you still can. That’s biblical. And shrines are also idolatry, idk why this one even needs to be said, and all the statues and trinkets of Mary and saints and angels are all idolatry. God didn’t say it’s forbidden, but then it’s all OK after all if it happened to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. He said not to do it at all. Period. I always hear it said that Catholics “don’t pray to Mary”. Well, if you recite anything with her name in it, if you try to contact her in any way, you are praying to her. If you have a little image or statue of her, you are committing idolatry. If you kneel before it, maybe light a candle, then you’re committing idolatry all the more. Go to God, if you want to be his child. Don’t whore around after other gods, and yes, anyone, anyone, anyone but him is whoring around after another god. You (hopefully) don’t go to the neighbor, friends, aunts, uncles, coworkers, butcher, baker, and candlestick maker when you want to have a relationship with someone, or do you? Do you sleep with the neighborhood to deepen your relationship with your spouse? Then WHY would anyone think it’s a good idea to go to anyone but God for anything in their lives? He’s not so incompetent that he doesn’t have time for you, is he a liar? Is God a liar? Is he? He said to come to him. Directly. No middleman. No hierarchies. Anyone putting themselves between you and God is lying to you, and is standing in between you and God. Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. No man or woman on earth could ever be your leader to him. Only Jesus can be very very your intercessor (or Jesus is a liar and I say he is NOT a liar), and the Holy Spirit is your guide and comforter. Btw, yet one more (of an endless list of how Catholicism defies God and is actually Roman paganism (just going to saints and Mary, renamed Roman gods and goddesses, there’s no “queen of heaven”, except one God hates in the OT, a pagan false goddess)...God said CALL NO MAN FATHER, FOR I AM YOUR FATHER”. And again, no exceptions because rod this or that reason, so stop doing that See? See what Rome has done for 2,000 years (doing with their co-conspirators, the Jewish authorities who tell power stripping lies to THEIR people, too, both have stolen the birthright of their followers with lies, lies, lies that can all be exposed by just readi carefully the word of God, and skip modern versions that water it down and sometimes reverse meanings), all to steer people away from a true, direct relationship with God and straight into paganism and therefore straight into hell? I can only let God be the true judge of what he’ll be doing with all those who have been misled by popes and Rome and rabbis. But I CAN do what Jesus commanded and that’s to speak the word to all those who have ears to hear. God help those who don’t, let their ears and hearts be open to your TRUE word. These facts are sometimes perceived as an attack. The Bible say the word of God was sharper than any two edged sword, and this is all in the word of God, so it proceeds out of the mouth of God, not mine. People need to take it up with Him if they’re offended. We are told to speak what is written. That being said, the men are so beautiful and they sing beautifully, very angelic indeed, it would just be even better to have be them sing songs exalting God himself, as we are to do. We are definitely not instructed to sing such songs about Mary or saints.
@@misskim2058 go to Luke 1:48 and read, very slowly…”For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth ALL GENERATIONS WILL CALL ME BLESSED.” NKJV
@@johnsteven5544 freind, by "no words" in this context one means so wonderful that words cannot express the appreciation. Yes it is the prayer of Hail Mary...and more I do know that.
So beautiful. I close my eyes and see them in that massive cathedral with high arched ceilings, at night, with the snow gently falling outside. Gives me goosebumps to hear them. These gentlemen are ready for Primetime!
Just beautiful , the harmony of the 4 voices these young men should have a singing contract , should be singing at a cathedral in Rome , breathtaking , just took my breath away , beautiful touches your heart , their harmony is “ pitch-perfect” , sheer perfection. My eyes are tearing up my mother who is gone loved this song thank you 🎼🌹
TY so much, I am Catholic and this was like stepping into heaven ...I closed my eyes to take it all in What gifts you gentleman have, You have made our Lord happy with this wonderous song honoring His Mother!
I have performed the Schubert Ave Maria in a chorus, small groups, and as a soloist. I have performed it in church, weddings, funerals and as part of mass. I have heard dozens of arrangements and this is hands down the most glorious version. I actually wept becuase of how beautiful it is. What an amazing talent you have!
@@annettemargarit9245 We already exist in many different genres, some people just aren't aware and assume we're limited to only certain styles of music. Have you ever heard Leontyne Price sing? She retired decades ago, but she's one of the most exquisite opera singers to ever grace the Met.
As a traditional catholic this was the best rendition of the Ave Maria that I’ve ever heard. This is my favorite song that always brings tears to my eye. I always place myself next to Mary turning the Crucifixion. Honoring her great sacrifice of watching Her Son being tortured and but to death for our sins. Pray friends, pray for the world. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts to the world. Absolutely beautiful!! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
I am a 76 year old Catholic. If you brought tears, to my eyes. You nailed it....(my family would say too). 😇 Thank you! You guys are so awesome doing this and gave me some long needed faith.
No, not an incredible stairwell.....FOUR INCREDIBLE MEN WITH INCREDIBLE VOICES SINGING AN INCREDIBLE SONG!!!! Loved it. I got chills and was so blessed by you! Hugz, Tree
I too am in my 60’s and used to sing worship songs in stairwells at then Stevens memorial Hospital. Edmonds Wa. This was truly like I’ve never heard, AMAZING. Thank You. Beautiful work..
And it inspires me to start singing again myself, sung in many churches. So thank you gentlemen, even have been singing with you along abit though I am a woman. :)
🕊🌹🕊Well done Gentle Men I listen over and over your voices blended so Beautifully I closed my eyes and just floated with your voices this has to be my favorite song I cry in church when this song comes on God Bless you All many many successes 🕊💙🙏🏼💙🕊🕊💟✝️💟🕊🌹🫶🏼🌹
I hope you all know that the INCREDIBLE thing in this video is not the stairwell, it's you four. You're melting my brain (in a good way) with your talents. I've never heard 4 people sound more like one voice. I also love the way you group-conduct; it's so organic. Special shout-out to the tenor/counter-tenor with the most amazing tone and vibrato. This whole thing is just stunning.
God bless you, gentlemen. This is the greatest performance of this song and it leaves me speechless. Ave Maria and Vivo Cristo Rey, my brothers in Christ
Such a gift I found this on Christmas Eve. Just magnificent! I was in tears by the end. I hope to hear more from these wonderful young men. Thank you for sharing your gifted voices.
I have heard Schubert's Ace Maria sung often by singers of very different caliber. As a 70 year old Catholic woman, the prayer is important to me. Their rendition of Ave Maria is now my favorite. Thank you for posting this.
@@0my, Jesus Christ is the only one who is worthy of worship, glory, and praise. Jesus Christ is the one who was pierced on the cross to pay for our sîns, NOT MARY. Jesus Christ took the wrath, suffered and died, so that we can be justly forgiven for our sïns, and set free from the condemnation of the Law, NOT MARY. Mary has no throne in Heaven, she bears no title such as “Queen of Heaven”, and she most certainly will not have any of us who are redeemed through Christ bending our knees and bowing to her, but rather, MARY WILL BE BOWING DOWN TO JESUS CHRIST AND CONFESSING HE IS LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, TO THE GLORY OF YHVH! Mary says she needs God as her Savior in Luke 1 vs 43, which means Mary is a sïnful human like the rest of us, because only sînners need God as their Savior. Jesus Christ doesn’t need God as His Savior, because HE IS GOD in the form of a flesh man, and as God, Jesus Christ has no sïn. You pray to Mary, and worship Mary, and you are no different than the pagans who worshiped Ishtar and prayed to her, and called her “Queen of Heaven”, like you call Mary the “Queen of Heaven”. The Israelites were divorced from YHVH for worshiping the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah 7-8, so how do you think you will not suffer the same fate for your pagan idolatry, as you worship Mary instead of worshiping Jesus Christ, YHVH in the flesh, like you’re supposed to? You understand that God says we’re only supposed to pray to Him in the scriptures, right? And He forbids us from praying to idols, like Mary, right? Mary did not suffer as the propitiation for our sîns, only Jesus Christ did that, and your pagan idolatry is ßIasphemous against Christ. Please turn from your pagan idolatry, and worship the Creator only, YHVH incarnate in Jesus Christ, for He alone is God and Savior.
How heavenly and beautiful their rendition is!! I am moved to pray, and cry, and sing with them. Hallelujah!Gentlemen, you have opened the gates of Heaven for us to take a listen of Angels singing. God bless you Fine-Men, for sharing your gifts with us.
This is my mom's favorite song. She is in the final stages of alzheimers and this song still brings her peace and joy. Thank you for sharing your talent ❤️
This is true ACAPELLA! No beats or vocal imitations of musical instruments. This is truly singing "in the manner of the church ", which is the translation of the word, acapella. Thank you for using your talent to praise God.
Four singers that sound like a full choir.
An angelic choir.
Absolute voices of angels. And you r right. They sound like a full choir. I have never heard anyone sing this more beautifully. I can’t stop watching and the last part of the song unbelievable.
Can’t believe it’s only 4 people!!😮
yes
My thoughts exactly. These men are so talented!
Agreed
The harmonizing was sheer magic. Sounded like they were singing in a grand cathedral. Just sublime
I listened so intently! Got so wrapped up in the sheer beauty of their voices! Simply amazing!
Absolutely beautiful rendition! Great sound, Guys!👏
Phatastic fire😢😮😂🎉❤
I was just thinking that they sounded like a few of the larger choirs that I've heard in 800+ year old cathedrals in Britain, but with better harmonics.
I'm sure our Divine creator is smiling
This was beautiful
Thank you for sharing ❤
These voices are precious. This is real music. Harmony coming from their hart❤❤❤❤
hart=heart (truly)
Heart-breakingly beautiful. The voices of angels.
I'm a 70-year-old Catholic, and I've probably heard every version of Ave Maria ever recorded, but these four guys blew me away. They are incredible...
Amen!! ❤
You are so right. Most beautiful rendition I ever heard.
I'm not even 30 and I feel the responsibility to say this does not compare very well to the unbelievable polyphonic Ave Maria arrangements out there. Not that these guys did poorly, but when you're gonna bring in "every version of Ave Maria ever recorded", then, well this is a necessary footnote.
Me, too: Catholic and almost 70. It gave me chills it was so beautiful. I'm sure our Mother loved it and smiled.
Same here.
I’m a music teacher and vocalist. This is by far the most unique snd sublime rendition of Schubert’s Ave Maria I’ve heard ! Intricate harmonies ....lavish legato ...shimmering trebles velvet bass .......Exquisite
Well said
@@becca5100 Next stop -- America's Got talent....betcha.
Yes.
@@Chicago48 Please no. It would distort them.
Yes velvet bass teddy 🐻
I'm 68, raised Catholic, and this is the most beautiful version of this song I have ever heard! It brought tears to my eyes!
Agree!
I am a 65 year old, raised Protestant and I got tears in my eyes too 😢
Yes and Mother Mary as Well as Jesus are color blind. Jesus looks at the Heart. It's a Beautiful Acupella.
Raised Catholic, nondenominational, independent, this was a blessing.
73 years old, pastor of the homeless. So beautiful and heartwarming. God bless these young men and all whom they meet, mentor, serve, support and live.
Have a blessed Christmas to you all.
God blessed them with angelical voices, how absolutely beautiful ❤❤❤
Never in my life have I been able to listen to this song because it was played at my father's funeral in 1970 when I was 5 years old. I immediately turn it off whenever I see it anywhere. Well today this mysteriously popped up in my feed. Been thinking about my father a lot lately and wishing I had him here to talk to and love me. Listening to this is what I imagine it must feel like to be sitting next to God and Heaven, this is the first time I could ever listen to this all the way through and appreciate it for what it is. What a gift you have given me today! This is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life, I love all of you for this, you have given me an enormous gift today and I thank you for that! You have a new super fan 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Was sung at my Dads funeral too -I still tear up every time.
Sending Love from another who misses her father also. Whenever I miss him terribly, I go outside alone and talk to the stars.
Today, I send Love to you and tell you, because your father can't, how proud I am of the woman you've become.
May you find a small sign over the next few days, a sign from above, that immediately makes you pause, to let you know your father's spirit is still with you every day and that Love never dies, it only changes form.
@@smileawhile3788 hello Friend! So happy I got this notification.... YOU are my sign! I felt his love through YOU I know the holy spirit is working through you here you have given me a priceless gift today I am so grateful to you! I am sure your father is right next to you as well he must have been an incredible man to have made a daughter with a caring heart like you! Many Thanks and much love to you for your support and kindness today ♥️🙏🏻
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May your father's soul rest in peace.....
In a stairwell? No special equipment, no sound studio just the voices of angels. AMAZING! 💎💎💎💎
Absolument ! C'est fabuleux !!
lovely🎵
Maybe the acoustics are good in the stairwell. There’s bound to be a bit of echo
Very amazing😊
Yes and it makes sense it's the acoustics of the stairwell itself that makes it just so perfect
This song is SO TIMELY for my family and I! My 13 year old sister has cancer, and Sunday I had gotten a call from my parents asking to gather all of my siblings to come and say our goodbyes… We prayed, we asked for a miracle, and here we are 5 days later and my sister has made a MIRACULOUS recovery and doctors are in AWE!
🙏✝️❤️👼🪽❤
Alleluia !!!
Pregare con vera fede fa veramente miracoli, grazie della vostra testimonianza, il Signore vi benedica.
Praise the Lord 🙏🕊️
Miracles DO Happen! So very happy for your sister…God is gtreat…ALL the time! 🙏❤🙏
I am a 77 yr old Catholic woman who grew up listening to Ave Maria, and I don't believe I have ever heard it sung better than these gentlemen. I pray they continue to sing together because their voices compliment each other. Simply beautiful! 🥲"Happy tears"
😂simply awesome beautiful 🎉😂😊
As an 88 yr old Roman Catholic I've never heard it different than the original but this was subliminal. I admire the 4 young men that produced such beautiful prayer song with deep feelings 🙏 in their voices
God bless them 🙏 and help them with success in life .
As a 77 year old former Catholic, this song has always touched my heart. Such an amazing rendition! Perfection! 🙏🏾✨♥️🕊️
More of these amazing voices, please. Gid bless them.
they were good, there is another Singer on youtube that many would say is the best singer in the world, he is flawless in his transitions and performances are great, Dimash, here is his song of Ava maria and he does the music but no words, I think you will like it, th-cam.com/video/mLG8g2ooFSA/w-d-xo.html
I read about 20 comments and figured since no one else addressed the elephant in the room I would do it. And please, no haters, ok? I mean all of this with all of the respect in my heart for these gentleman and my love for them taking the time to learn the song and do such an amazing job on it. As a 68 year old Black singer, I was a member of the Barbershop Quartet Society for about 15 years. Their style of music has never been very popular among young Black men, so I know something about "singing something different". I just wanted to say how absolutely REFRESHING it was to hear four young very talented Black men singing something classical and doing, as I said earlier, such an amazing job on it. I literally had tears in my eyes listening to this and that rarely happens. I wish we could get more young Black people, men and women, interested in this type of music rather than the rap and hip-hop that in my opinion, has been a major factor in glorifying thug life, street life, and disrespect towards women in the Black community over the last 40 years.
I could not agree with you more, and I think it is wonderful to see these young men singing something so beautifully that seems "out of character"... It should not be that way, and I hope that more young people (black or any other color, race, or creed) will discover the beauty of classical music... One only has to look at East Asians for groups like Bach Collegium Japan or performers like Lang-Lang and others to know how universal western classical music is...
I didn't realize it until i've seen your comment. I mean we are a few black people studying classical music. We are at least... 6, 7 in my conservatory, for all the instruments. But never, and why do I realize it only now, never have I seen a black quartet.
@@samt.1780 I have met & played alongside a New York-originating string quartet of 'African'-American musicians.
It's sad to see what they've become. They won't become interested in classical Western music because they no longer like Europeans.
'Not all, not all, not all, but most.' -JLP🤣😂😂
This rendition of Schubert’s Ave Marie deserves a million likes. The acoustics in that stairwell are incredible. It sounds like a cathedral. And these four men have the voices of angels. Kudos to whoever among them did the arrangement. Let us all make a commitment in 2022 to build up and preserve civilization rather than tearing it down.
It does sound like a cathedral!!!
Oh my gosh!! This is the most beautiful rendition I think I have ever heard Of Ave Maria!! Brought tears to my eyes and gave me chills up and down my whole body absolutely gorgeous how beautiful those voices that God bless those young men with is amazing totally amazing!! Can’t wait what they put out next, totally beautiful!!! God bless them.
I thought the exact same thing…..sounds like they are singing in a Cathedral….beautiful, just beautiful! ❤️
Yes!!! And I wondered, if in fact the harmonies were spontaneous - borne of that connection that happens when one makes music with other vessels being filled breath by breath with holy spirit.
Absolutely incredible, this video proves that it doesn’t take an elaborate setting to creat a masterpiece of praise. God Bless.
My father is a currently in a hospice due to acute leukaemia, weeks to live, listening to your stunning voices, brings some peace. ❤️
🤗🙏🏾 🛐
Prays for you and your father 🙏
May God make it easy for him, sending ❤
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I will pray for you. God bless. ❤
You don't have to be Catholic to appreciate the Ave Maria sung so beautifully with such passion and in complete harmony... God blessed you four with great voices and you give back to the world. Bravo!
Excactly. I'm not of catholic faith but have always loved Ave Maria. These for young men gave such a absolutely beautiful rendition😊
It wasn't the stairwell that was incredible, it was the young men who sang that was incredible. God bless you guys for the blessing you gave all who heard you! Merry Christmas!❤
Bellisimo,Grazie a Dio ,from where are you guys ! What a gift from God ..May the good Lord bless you in your beautiful souls and for sure Mother Mary is very pleased to hear this Her Song,As we acclaimed of this song "Hail Mary",that's the meaning of the Ave Maria...
Right lol 😂
A stairway to heaven.
Stairway was to amplify their voices.
Brilliant Thank you so much
Absolutely incredible. Their harmonizing was mesmerizing.
Magnifique
Anyone who's ever sung in a choir knows how hard it is to get a capella down without sounding forced. The synchronisation and blending is beyond words. I salute you!
I couldn't agree with you more! I sing 1st soprano in my chorus that I've been in for over 10 years. (I think I joined when I was 23.) So I've been in my chorus for about 13 years. However, I've been singing in some type of chorus since I learned how to talk. Singing A Capella is so difficult to do correctly without it sounding forced. These guys did a wonderful job!
Yes, very much what I was trying to say
THAT part 😳🙏💪💯🙌💙🙌
I was in the accapella chorus in high school and this look me back 57 years. I too was moved to tears!!@
God bless these men who bless us with their voices that God gave them.
I pray that Our Lady will bless each of these young men in their lives for honoring her so beautifully!
She doesn't bless people, Jesus Christ does!!!!!!!
@@raquelgarvin8391she is the Lord's mother a little more special than you and I,if she blesses them it's none of your concern
@@raquelgarvin8391 - "Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy" (Luke 1:42-44).
@@raquelgarvin8391 Unnecessary
@venenareligioest410 Jesus is the only person to be Immaculately concepted, which is not an issue because He didn't have brothers 🥰
I can’t stop listening to this. I went to Paris and took a day trip to Chartres Cathedral. I played this on my headphones as I walked through the church. Transcendent experience.
Beautiful very prayerful and gentle
Please asking Him about the peace in Ukraine in the church San Shapele
So refreshing to see four young men so talented and breaking with the customary expected roles for guys like this. I think most listeners don't know how long it takes to learn to sing in such tight harmonies unless they are singers themselves. I hope they continue as a group create such beauty again. and can
Me either. Normally I bypass videos and come back to them but this one gave me such an amazing feeling that I wanted to hear the song from beginning to end!!!!!!! Love their redention!!!!! 4 men sound like a full blown choir 4 real.
That experience sounds fantastic! ❤
MY GOD...there are angels. They met in a stairwell to sing the Ave Maria. For a few minutes, they gave my soul wings and let it soar toward Heaven. Magnificent!
Perfectly described my experience hearing this as well. I already have it in my "when I'm gone" book that this version is the one to be played at my funeral!
@@auntyfluffy Blessings to you! and here's to a long long beautiful life 🍸
@@justyne8627 Amen! Looking that that may have seemed dark, mea culpa, I've been back at Church a year now after a 35 year detour. God is great, I must let a few more ppl know of the joy only He can give:) God Bless you as well!
Well stated. If this music doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you must have the soul of a stone.
It's all but a state of mind, nothing else; it's just some situations tax us more.
Absolutely amazing!! Made me cry. Beautiful use of the talents God gave you❤
I would use a double thumbs up. They sound as I would imagine angels would sound. So incredibly beautiful. WOW
That's exactly what I thought! Like an Angelic Heavenly Choir!
This is absolutely phenomenal. Superb blend, balance, arrangement and dynamics. Bravo!
Reminds me of my high school choir, Minneapolis Central High School, 1973. We recorded at Herb Pilhofer's Sound 80 studio....
It would be astounding even without the stairwell!
Amen!
Hi, Josh.
Yes exactly, the dynamics, the harmonies!!! Just the right vibrato at the right place... Oh my my my you cry with joy and listen to it again and again and you keep discovering new harmonies.
I’m Catholic and this is just absolutely beautiful. Such an endearing moment for Our Lady.
It gave me chills! So so beautiful!
Agreed! This is beautiful!!! ❤
It is s poem that had nothing do with religion, written by Sir Walter Scott.
Exquisite!
@@pamelabrown9484I learnt something today 😊
Stunning ❤thank you so much for sharing your voices with the world. Ave Maria is one of my favourite pieces of music.
Just stunning . Beautiful voices and I’m sure beautiful men 🙏🏻♥️🙌
4 angels singing! Baritone, tenor, alto and soprano, perfectly harmonized!
This was simply BEAUTIFUL!
And while not a black man myself. It's SO REFRESHING to hear something like this, than the rap/hip hop. Boyz 2 Men have NOTHING on you 4. The harmonizing was BEYOND ON POINT!! MUCH LOVE AND LIGHT GUYS!!!🥰😁
Agreed
Wonderfully said.
Why bring colour into it, we are all gods children.
Bass no baritone . Low low bass
@@fabiocamera732no. Baritone
No such classification as "low low bass". Get your vocal classifications correct.
I am a 68 year old Black Catholic and this is one of the best versions of Ave Maria I have heard. I wish I had came across this video before Christmas 2023. I am listening to and discovered this video on TH-cam December 27, 2023. This song always touches my heart and especially in these turbulent times with so much crime, hatred, war, and racism. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Check out Missa Luba, an African choir singing the Latin mass in 1965, pre-Vatican II ❤
Black but not Catholic, and Ave Maria always moves me. Found this on 12/31/23. I agree about the times... There's a song from the 1960's that starts with something like "I am so weary..." I'll have to look it up. Otis Redding maybe? Blessings to all in the coming year.
@@nancyjolemore5748 Yes I will. I never heard of them.
Black but not Catholic, and Ave Maria always moves me. Found this on 12/31/23. I agree about the times... There's a song from the 1960's that starts with something like "I am so weary..." I'll have to look it up. Otis Redding maybe? Blessings to all in the coming year.
Amazing rendition❤ absolutely amazing
What a complex species we are. We are capable of the worst types of atrocities against each other and animals. Then you hear this, and it makes you weep with joy. More of this please.
Agreed! What has become of humanity? Then you hear this beautiful piece. Since the Prophet Jubal was given the gift of music, music has brought another side to evil. ⛰🌲👨🌾🇺🇸✝️
How well put. ❤️
How beautiful, they sound like a quartet of angels, I could listen to them all day. God Bless them all the days of their lives
I sit here mesmerized and tears in my eyes. I am no less than AMAZED at these voices. These gorgeous young men singing in such unbelievable harmony. Gentlemen, thank you. Thank you. For while you sang, I felt like I was in heaven. Truly. So beautiful. So beautiful. So BEAUTIFUL! Absolute perfection. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
Absolutely.😭😢
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It’s April 2024. I needed to hear this today. God bless you.
God bless you.
God loves you.
Rooting for you. 🙂
May '2024 :)
@@ingridburling8731 ❤️
I'm 73. This was my dad's favorite song. These gentlemen filled my heart with awe and joy! May the Lord bless you all!
Hi deematyi how are you doing today 😊❤
This was also mine and my mother's favorite song.These beautiful angels of God sang it beautifully.Please hear more from them.
They must wear jackets to hide their wings because they surely have the voices of angels. They brought me to tears with their beautiful rendition. God bless you gentlemen!
I had Ave Maria sung at my wedding mass (42 years ago) for my presentation to the Blessed Virgin (which is laying flowers at her feet and praying for a happy and fruitful marriage, under her guidance). The gentleman who sang it sang it with such beauty, I knew I would never hear anything more lovely. I was wrong. I cried through this entire video and have sent it to numerous people. Hearing this today was a gift. Deborah is correct-- their jackers surely must be hiding their angels' wings.
Old Jewish guy here. That was just spectacular and moving.
Old Catholic guy likes it as well.
@@watermain48 ditto here, and Ave Maria is not the only indefectible tie between us and "Old Jewish guys".
Muslim, made me tearful.....
@@atikva3804some kid named Josh or something.
Music is the unifying language.
As an Italian woman I have heard this song in many different renditions this was beautiful. I applauded you with tears. You all did this song a wonderful justice thank you
Hi my friend how are you doing today ☺️ merry Christmas 🎉😊
It is for times like this that I’m grateful for the internet…. I would not have had this opportunity to hear such angelic voices otherwise! Thank you! 💖
Amen Sister 🙏🏽
My thoughts, exactly!
AMEN 🙏🏿
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This is so beautifully sung, It made my brain expand. My head literally crackled. More . Please!! You have so much more than a great stairway... You made me cry. Love God. Be Blessed...❤
The stairwell may have great acoustics, but the talent of these men is what makes this version phenomenal. Amazing!
My sentiments, exactly. The credit goes to these incredibly talented singers; not the staircase. Absolutely heavenly.
I echo your sentiments. These men are amazing. I am forwarding this to a friend of mine who is a wonderful baritone.
Just like a Concert Grand at Carnegie Hall, the Acoustic means nothing if the Talent is not there to bring it out.....Marvelous Singers
The human voice is, indeed, one of the purest sounds on Earth. By putting their voices together - in harmony - these 4 gentlemen have given us the most tremendous gift. Thank you, young men. ❤
Absolutely the best version of Ave Maria I’ve ever heard. Normally it is sung as a solo at weddings and funerals. This is the first time I have heard it sung as 4-part harmony. It gave me chills. Superb job!
I love ave maria and moreso for the one offs I come across here and there, like this one. It was maybe a page in when I forgot what I was listening to because these guys are above that. Such a treat
Same here, such a harmony it is, too!
I know. This version would make even the worst skeptic doubt his skepticism.
I have sang in choirs every year until recently…This is a perfect resonance of this angelic music ..rendered in acoustic excellence.
*That is NOT the stairwell. It is your God-given, angelic voices that make it sound incredible!!! God bless you!!!!!!* 🤗🥰😇
It's God who put them in the stairwell.
Acoustic. great sound.
Amen!! ❤
u single?
God’s timing is always perfect 🙌🏽🙏🏾🙌🏽💯💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
I’m speechless, these gentlemen have voices that are beyond ethereal, absolutely gorgeous. What a gift they have.
Sala d attesa del paradiso ❤❤❤straordinari
Brave beautiful men. Thanks for responding to God's calling to sing for Him. Such a blessing to hear you sing to Our Lady in such an exquisite way. May God bless you and allow you to keep bringing souls closer to Him.
Simply beautiful. God bless each and every one of these men. 💙🙏💙
My Mother requested this be sung at her funeral. I believe she is smiling up in heaven hearing this today. So beautiful !
My mother wanted this sung at her funeral, too. The man who sang it did it well, but this was just gorgeous.
It was sung at my Mother’s funeral, also.
I"m a Catholic who has always favored this hymn. I imagine it being sung in heaven by the angels. It also brings me back to my father in Ireland who always sang it. Your rendition brought me goose bumps. Thank you so much for sharing - you made me very happy. :)
This is the best Ava Maria I have EVER heard and believe these young men deserve to be heard…Can you imagine how this would sound in a cathedral?….absolutely beautiful…
Can you imagine the absolute joy it has brought to this particular building! 💞🥳💖
it's beyond amazing!
You are too kind, thank you!
Amazing for sure
@@KingsReturnMusic Goosebumps all over my skin. THAT was a masterpiece. STANDING OVATON! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
And my rescue kitten loves it. Thank you guys. BB sends her love ❤😮😮😮😮
I’m 76 years old and this was always my father’s favorite hymn and it was played at dad’s funeral and also I had it played at my husband’s funeral. This is absolutely beautiful guys! Thank you so much, too bad you can’t go sing in some of the old Churches in the European countries because they have such beautiful acoustics!
Hi Patricia how are you doing today ❤❤happy new year 🎉😊🎉
Thank you. My mum just passed away right before Christmas and this was her favourite song and I played Mario Lanza’s version as she transitioned. It’s Christmas Day - the first Christmas without her. I’m alone before the family arrive looking for Christmas music and found this. It’s so beautiful and a timely gift to the world so thank you so much.
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My deepest sympathies to you at this sad time, I lost my dad a couple of Christmases ago - sending huge hugs from London to find you wherever you may be. ❤
Sending prayers for you and your family 🌹
We feel you x
May peace be with you.
I am a previous choir person in catholic school and I have never heard the Ave Maria sung so beautifully..thank you for sharing...gave me chills...
I am sure Our Blessed Mother was paying attention and so were all the angels in heaven. Thank you for this beautiful Ave Maria... Praise God.
agreed!
Actually, please re-read the Bible very carefully and slowly, because she’s not your “blessed mother”, (nor is she a “perpetual virgin”...Jesus had brothers and sisters, and God never had any intention of denying Mary and Joseph the family they had planned, and he didn’t deny them. Jesus just had to come first, they had their children afterwards).
Going to anyone but God with your prayers, and going to anyone but Jesus Christ as your intercessor is an abomination to God. Someone has to tell misguided people this. It’s out of love.
Truth must be said. And the word of God says all this.
Mary doesn’t hear your worship, and all worship (and “revering”, because that’s the same thing to God) is to be directed to God. Mary would be appalled at people “revering” her, Jesus is HER savior, too. She never would have prayed to anyone but God, and frankly, all the people over the centuries who have tried to contact her to “intercede” for them have first of all, they’ve defied God, by going against his word; they’ve in their lives kicked Jesus Christ himself aside (which you cannot actually do in reality, but you can do it in the eyes of God metaphorically), because that’s HIS job; and it’s necromancy, one isn’t supposed to be contacting the dead, regardless of how alive you feel their spirit is in heaven; attempting to harass poor Mary in death by nonstop requests for “intercession” must have been Roman Pagan way of trying to get back for her providing Jesus to the world, or just to make would-be Christians engage in pagan activity, because that’s what Rome did when imprisionment, torture and vicious murder didn’t stop the TRUE message of Jesus (no purgatory, no “earning” anything to do with salvation, Jesus already paid for our sins, NOTHING we can do can ADD anything to Jesus’s gifts how insulting and arrogant to think one can somehow put a cherry on top of that. Extremely arrogant and totally missing the point. No “indulgences” could ever have any impact on the afterlife of anyone ever. God. Cannot. Be. Bribed. And anyone who claims otherwise or who ever did is not on the side of God, but is running a counterfeit to STRIP PEOPLE OF THEIR OWN POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST...JOHN 14:12. Read it as slowly and as many times as you need. Then pop over to Revelation and read it as slowly and as many times as you need.
Pay very, very, very close attention to the whore of Babylon. Only one place on earth could ever fit this description. Come out of Babylon while you still can. That’s biblical.
And shrines are also idolatry, idk why this one even needs to be said, and all the statues and trinkets of Mary and saints and angels are all idolatry. God didn’t say it’s forbidden, but then it’s all OK after all if it happened to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. He said not to do it at all. Period. I always hear it said that Catholics “don’t pray to Mary”. Well, if you recite anything with her name in it, if you try to contact her in any way, you are praying to her. If you have a little image or statue of her, you are committing idolatry. If you kneel before it, maybe light a candle, then you’re committing idolatry all the more. Go to God, if you want to be his child. Don’t whore around after other gods, and yes, anyone, anyone, anyone but him is whoring around after another god.
You (hopefully) don’t go to the neighbor, friends, aunts, uncles, coworkers, butcher, baker, and candlestick maker when you want to have a relationship with someone, or do you? Do you sleep with the neighborhood to deepen your relationship with your spouse? Then WHY would anyone think it’s a good idea to go to anyone but God for anything in their lives? He’s not so incompetent that he doesn’t have time for you, is he a liar? Is God a liar? Is he? He said to come to him. Directly. No middleman. No hierarchies. Anyone putting themselves between you and God is lying to you, and is standing in between you and God. Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. No man or woman on earth could ever be your leader to him. Only Jesus can be very very your intercessor (or Jesus is a liar and I say he is NOT a liar), and the Holy Spirit is your guide and comforter.
Btw, yet one more (of an endless list of how Catholicism defies God and is actually Roman paganism (just going to saints and Mary, renamed Roman gods and goddesses, there’s no “queen of heaven”, except one God hates in the OT, a pagan false goddess)...God said CALL NO MAN FATHER, FOR I AM YOUR FATHER”. And again, no exceptions because rod this or that reason, so stop doing that
See? See what Rome has done for 2,000 years (doing with their co-conspirators, the Jewish authorities who tell power stripping lies to THEIR people, too, both have stolen the birthright of their followers with lies, lies, lies that can all be exposed by just readi carefully the word of God, and skip modern versions that water it down and sometimes reverse meanings), all to steer people away from a true, direct relationship with God and straight into paganism and therefore straight into hell?
I can only let God be the true judge of what he’ll be doing with all those who have been misled by popes and Rome and rabbis.
But I CAN do what Jesus commanded and that’s to speak the word to all those who have ears to hear. God help those who don’t, let their ears and hearts be open to your TRUE word.
These facts are sometimes perceived as an attack. The Bible say the word of God was sharper than any two edged sword, and this is all in the word of God, so it proceeds out of the mouth of God, not mine. People need to take it up with Him if they’re offended. We are told to speak what is written.
That being said, the men are so beautiful and they sing beautifully, very angelic indeed, it would just be even better to have be them sing songs exalting God himself, as we are to do. We are definitely not instructed to sing such songs about Mary or saints.
@@misskim2058 who told you
@@antoinettechuffa4982 God. It is written. In the Bible. God said so. Read it, as I said, very slowly and carefully, if that’s what it takes.
@@misskim2058 go to Luke 1:48 and read, very slowly…”For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth ALL GENERATIONS WILL CALL ME BLESSED.” NKJV
Truly increidble. These 4 young men deserve a singing contract. Thank you for your rendition. Blessings.
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You do not need to be Christian or Catholic to find this very beautiful, which it is! No words. Moving. Wonderful!
That’s for sure!
So lovely to see black folks sing this not so easy schubert 's song! What a beauty !!!!! I was tired of raps.. breath of fresh air indeed❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍
No words? It’s the Hail Mary, friend.
@@johnsteven5544 freind, by "no words" in this context one means so wonderful that words cannot express the appreciation. Yes it is the prayer of Hail Mary...and more I do know that.
Indeed. Atheist here. Loved this.
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What's understood doesn't have to be explained.
Bellissimo
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So Grateful for these lovely voices praising Our Lady Mother Mary. 💙💜👑💙💜👑💙💜💙👑💙💜👑👑👑👑👑💙💜
Wow. Sounds like it's being sung in the most elegant cathedral ever built.
So beautiful. I close my eyes and see them in that massive cathedral with high arched ceilings, at night, with the snow gently falling outside. Gives me goosebumps to hear them. These gentlemen are ready for Primetime!
I’m 67 and that is the most incredible version of Ave Maria I have ever heard. You guys are great and so is your hallway.
I’m 70 & agree
Was not expecting this at all! Angelic voices from heaven! They did this song justice! Félicitations!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I'm niether over 60 nor Catholic, and that was still spine tingling! Such beautiful and well attuned voices you all have. BRAVO! ❤️
🤣🤣🤣Yes. These young men have such beautiful voices!
Same 😂 and that was beautiful and soothing
Just beautiful , the harmony of the 4 voices these young men should have a singing contract , should be singing at a cathedral in Rome , breathtaking , just took my breath away , beautiful touches your heart , their harmony is “ pitch-perfect” , sheer perfection. My eyes are tearing up my mother who is gone loved this song thank you 🎼🌹
I am. And I was. I agree it was beautiful. And I've heard it sung by Benedictine monks in monastery.
TY so much, I am Catholic and this was like stepping into heaven ...I closed my eyes to take it all in
What gifts you gentleman have, You have made our Lord happy with this wonderous song honoring His Mother!
Why we were born.
@@AnneSterling-jz9rs Amen Sister!!
Amen dear Nancy, beautifully stated❤️🙏❤️
I am in awe of their voices n Love this song. Please keep singing together! ♥️
I have performed the Schubert Ave Maria in a chorus, small groups, and as a soloist. I have performed it in church, weddings, funerals and as part of mass. I have heard dozens of arrangements and this is hands down the most glorious version. I actually wept becuase of how beautiful it is. What an amazing talent you have!
Some of those chords, especially in those acoustics, are as soul shakingly beautiful as the Gregorian chants of old. Amazing talent here.
Oh to get wonderful black voices to move into other genres!
Yes, I agree💝!
Yes! They are very reminiscent of Gregorian chants.
I was thinking the same thing!
@@annettemargarit9245 We already exist in many different genres, some people just aren't aware and assume we're limited to only certain styles of music. Have you ever heard Leontyne Price sing? She retired decades ago, but she's one of the most exquisite opera singers to ever grace the Met.
As a traditional catholic this was the best rendition of the Ave Maria that I’ve ever heard. This is my favorite song that always brings tears to my eye. I always place myself next to Mary turning the Crucifixion. Honoring her great sacrifice of watching Her Son being tortured and but to death for our sins. Pray friends, pray for the world. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts to the world. Absolutely beautiful!! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Lindíssima!😢
Lol, uou haven’t heard Pavoritti?
❤ que relato maravilhoso!
We, the world, have to be aware of it! Amén!!!!
I agree, as a fellow Trad Catholic, this is a truly beautiful and respectful rendition. Thanks guys. More please 😊🙏
Voice.... Absolutely amazing.
I am a 76 year old Catholic. If you brought tears, to my eyes. You nailed it....(my family would say too). 😇 Thank you! You guys are so awesome doing this and gave me some long needed faith.
How beautiful! This is for certain Our Mother loved so much you singing to Her. God bless you all 🙏📿❤️
Hi Cecilia 👋 how are you doing today and happy new year ❤🎉🎉😊
@@Kenhartman2990 I’m doing well. Happy New Year to you too. 🎉🍾
@ceciliaoliveira8481 Thanks so where are you from?
@ceciliaoliveira8481 thank you so muvh.. so where are you from?
Thank you. So much, guys. This was so uplifting and has definitely brought honor to our Blessed Lady. Thank you. And Amen.
I love this version of Ave Maria. I could listen to them all day. God bless them all. 😊😊❤❤
I love the way they stayed true to most of the piece, but still added their own original harmonies. Lovely!
Our Lord thanks you for honoring his mother so beautifully 💚💜🧡♥️💙
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Beautiful song and voices
Unbilical Catholic Mary takes the integrity of Jesus Christ away! Read John 14 6
@@williamhartweg6935 dude….Catholics WROTE the Bible
@williamhartweg6935
You and your opinion aren’t needed in the comment section. Take it somewhere else!
No, not an incredible stairwell.....FOUR INCREDIBLE MEN WITH INCREDIBLE VOICES SINGING AN INCREDIBLE SONG!!!! Loved it. I got chills and was so blessed by you! Hugz, Tree
Bravo thank you you are blessed and a blessing to us
Beautiful. These men are talented. 😊
WOW... ABSOLUTELY STUNNING... WOW!!! They harmonize beautifully... Good on them all, Good on them!!!!
I too am in my 60’s and used to sing worship songs in stairwells at then Stevens memorial Hospital. Edmonds Wa. This was truly like I’ve never heard, AMAZING. Thank You. Beautiful work..
I have never heard a more beautiful singing of Ave Marie than this. These four talented gentlemen sing this in a way I've never heard before.
@ML Giggleman Same for me, just incredible.
And it inspires me to start singing again myself, sung in many churches. So thank you gentlemen, even have been singing with you along abit though I am a woman. :)
INDEED, to the Nth degree...
I am a reformed Protestant Christian but I have such a deep respect for Catholic tradition and Latin music. Thank you for this! You sound angelic👼🏼
Listen to harpa dei
🕊🌹🕊Well done Gentle Men I listen over and over your voices blended so Beautifully I closed my eyes and just floated with your voices this has to be my favorite song I cry in church when this song comes on God Bless you All many many successes 🕊💙🙏🏼💙🕊🕊💟✝️💟🕊🌹🫶🏼🌹
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!
Being Catholic I've heard this sung quite often. However, your version is so beautiful! You all have such heavenly voices.
I hope you all know that the INCREDIBLE thing in this video is not the stairwell, it's you four. You're melting my brain (in a good way) with your talents. I've never heard 4 people sound more like one voice. I also love the way you group-conduct; it's so organic.
Special shout-out to the tenor/counter-tenor with the most amazing tone and vibrato. This whole thing is just stunning.
I could not have said it better. The stairwell it definitely the smaller factor here. Perfection!
AWESOME!!!!!!
“Stunningly beautiful” are my words of choice. I’m still teary-eyed as I read these comments.
Well done! Your sound is enchanting and healing. Thank you. ✨🌕✨
God bless you, gentlemen. This is the greatest performance of this song and it leaves me speechless. Ave Maria and Vivo Cristo Rey, my brothers in Christ
Such a gift I found this on Christmas Eve. Just magnificent! I was in tears by the end. I hope to hear more from these wonderful young men. Thank you for sharing your gifted voices.
I have heard Schubert's Ace Maria sung often by singers of very different caliber. As a 70 year old Catholic woman, the prayer is important to me. Their rendition of Ave Maria is now my favorite. Thank you for posting this.
Mary endured a lot of suffering. She deserves our endless thanks.
You should know that this "Ave Maria" is not allowed in Catholic churches.
The Ave, Maria is the Hail Mary
@@graziacavasino8884 Not true, they sang it at Christmas time at my church
@@0my, Jesus Christ is the only one who is worthy of worship, glory, and praise. Jesus Christ is the one who was pierced on the cross to pay for our sîns, NOT MARY. Jesus Christ took the wrath, suffered and died, so that we can be justly forgiven for our sïns, and set free from the condemnation of the Law, NOT MARY. Mary has no throne in Heaven, she bears no title such as “Queen of Heaven”, and she most certainly will not have any of us who are redeemed through Christ bending our knees and bowing to her, but rather, MARY WILL BE BOWING DOWN TO JESUS CHRIST AND CONFESSING HE IS LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, TO THE GLORY OF YHVH! Mary says she needs God as her Savior in Luke 1 vs 43, which means Mary is a sïnful human like the rest of us, because only sînners need God as their Savior. Jesus Christ doesn’t need God as His Savior, because HE IS GOD in the form of a flesh man, and as God, Jesus Christ has no sïn. You pray to Mary, and worship Mary, and you are no different than the pagans who worshiped Ishtar and prayed to her, and called her “Queen of Heaven”, like you call Mary the “Queen of Heaven”. The Israelites were divorced from YHVH for worshiping the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah 7-8, so how do you think you will not suffer the same fate for your pagan idolatry, as you worship Mary instead of worshiping Jesus Christ, YHVH in the flesh, like you’re supposed to? You understand that God says we’re only supposed to pray to Him in the scriptures, right? And He forbids us from praying to idols, like Mary, right? Mary did not suffer as the propitiation for our sîns, only Jesus Christ did that, and your pagan idolatry is ßIasphemous against Christ. Please turn from your pagan idolatry, and worship the Creator only, YHVH incarnate in Jesus Christ, for He alone is God and Savior.
Amazing Bless you all ❤️🙏
Christmas Eve and I'm listening to Ave Maria, it couldn't get better.
Beautiful, thank you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Flawless
I hope you don't think that this serendipitous occurrence was merely a coincidence.
How heavenly and beautiful their rendition is!! I am moved to pray, and cry, and sing with them. Hallelujah!Gentlemen, you have opened the gates of Heaven for us to take a listen of Angels singing. God bless you Fine-Men, for sharing your gifts with us.
Well said. It actually left me speechless
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Beautiful
This was absolutely beautiful! I’m Italian Catholic and I love the Ave Maria…. One of the best renditions that I have ever heard👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏😇😇
Incredibly beautiful.
Wow, young men! You have driven this 68 year old lady to tears. Absolutely amazing.
Me too, @ just shy of 63.
Make that TWO 68 year old women in tears! This was so overwhelmingly beautiful. You need to record this!
Make that three 68 year old ladies.
I have you beat, Ladies … tears, and I’m 70. What an inspired, beautiful rendition.
One of the best versions of Ave Maria I have ever heard in my 50 years on earth. Brought tears to my eyes.
This is my mom's favorite song. She is in the final stages of alzheimers and this song still brings her peace and joy. Thank you for sharing your talent ❤️
God bless you and your Mother!
My father had it also
You will never regret the time spent with your mother
@@mariadeblock7643 thank you. It's hard but also I feel like I'm in a sacred place when I'm with her. Peace to you
@@stephpratt3 Wishing you peace during this difficult time.
Omgosh you have me crying right now. May GOD continue to bring peace to your mom and your family
God bless her! Please pray a Holy Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet for her every day asking for Jesus' Mercy and Mother Mary's intercession. God bless.
Incredibly beautiful ❤❤❤
This is true ACAPELLA! No beats or vocal imitations of musical instruments.
This is truly singing "in the manner of the church ", which is the translation of the word, acapella.
Thank you for using your talent to praise God.
Amen! Praising God!
Wow, I had no idea that was the meaning of the word Acapella. Thank you!
God bless these amazing men!
Wow! Just wow! Mother Mary is smiling down on you gentlemen. Thank you! What a blessing to listen to! 😁❤️✝️🙏
Hi Carolyn how are you doing today 😊❤