Sorry I can't say the same for your punctuation. It's spelled 'its' without apostrophe, when used as a possessive. A kind of exception to the rule. I hope you don't use an apostrophe for plurals!
Has anyone else noticed that this video is beautifully edited to capture the entrances of different voices in quick sequence? So much better than simply putting the camera on random singers with no attention to the score!
It is lovely to see the faces close up as they enter, though I believe this may have been recorded separately and they are simply lip- singing their parts in the video.
You mean there's a video that goes with the song? I noticed that the sopranos were nicely balanced even in the forte sections and either weren't belting or were nicely edited.
Diese Aufführung beinhaltet so Vieles: subtil den Byrd'schen Kraftlinien mit Freude nachspüren, sehr überzeugender Ausdruck innerer Bewegheit ohne falsches Pathos, einfach wunderbar, was für ein Geschenk an uns!
Почти согласен. Когда слушаешь Берда, хочется думать: зачем после Ренессанса надо было что-то менять, если и так великолепно! ) VOCES8 желаем еще многие десятилетия такого восхитительного исполнения добарочной музыки!
Indeed ! Flowing and soaking in the stream of such powerful heavenly harmonies dissipates that which is inharmonious (illness, fear, anxiety) and thus brings healing.
This is the only era of music that can soothe me when my soul is troubled. Like the musicians were speaking the language of the Holy Spirit... Does anyone suspect that we who love it so much had a past life in this era, likely as musicians?
Bet William Byrd wouldnt believe that such a wonderful choir would be singing his glorious harmonies almost 4 centuries after his death. Incredible performance. Incredible composer.
Joy, Joy! Thanks, VOCES8. Just look at the fun they're having presenting this beautiful motet! Thanks, William Byrd. Love & joy to all. Our time here is so short. Let's get it where we find it. - Obscure choral singer
I sit captivated as I listen in High-Fidelity Stereophonic sound. This is the stuff voces8 excels at. They make it look easy, as if they were just handed the charts and started singing. This is their meat and potatoes, their steak and gravy, their cake and ice cream. And they are having fun.
William Byrd has not had this much fun in a few hundred years. Incredible breadth of texture and delightful video production so beautifully highlighting the contrapuntal flows and hand-offs. Spine-tingling. And what signalled the cut off at the end? Pure magic.
Überwältigende Interpretation... Die Überschwänglichkeit desTextes, vom Komponisten genial eingefangen, kommt duch das aufmerksame Miteinander des Ensembles hervorragend zur Geltung. Es bringt die rhythmische Vielfalt der Motette zum Vorschein und gibt ihr einen 'jazzigen Touch'. Die Krönung sind die lang ausgehaltenen Töne der hohen Stimmen!
Grandissimo. Liebe dieses „Lied“ und hab schon mal einen Vergleich verschiedener Interpretationen angestellt. Super Ensemble! So singen können ist großartig! 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
I agree totally with what you said. The Renaissance was the era of Byrd and Tallis and the incredible Palestrina. They will live forever. .The glory of their music will never decrease Wow Thanks for listening. Had a few too many beers today ..Hope you are sober..Please don't reply.
Which renaissance in England? Everything was either stolen or copied. You have Byrd. Composer. One. Composer. Not style. Even baroque had to be bought from Germany and now real Handels name is forbidden from proper pronouncing all over England. No shame...no shame whatsoever
@@cetterusAre you serious ? English music had a considerable influence on Renaissance music. To begin with, English music familiarised continental ears with the intervals of thirds and sixths, which were considered dissonant elsewhere in Europe, in the Middle Ages. What’s more, there would probably have been no Guillaume Dufay nor Gilles Binchois without John Dunstable, so there would have been no Franco-Flemish school etiher, or it would have taken a completely different form from what we know. And have you listened to pieces from the Eton Choirbook? A number of typically English marvels that bear no resemblance to the continental music of the time. And I hope you’ll forgive me for preferring the master to the pupil, Tallis to Byrd. Or even John Sheppard, a very original composer : listen to his _Media vita_ (by the choir of Westminster Cathedral, my favourite recording) or to _A solis ortus cardine_ (by the choir of New College, Oxford). What you write about English baroque music seems to me to be a little more well-founded, but you forget, for a start, the influence of French music, which is much more perceptible in Henry Purcell than that of German music : the English baroque was not born with Handel or Mattheson.
Is it only me that praises this wonderful piece. You think it can't get any better and it does ,and that process continues throughout, and then the final 30 seconds open the tear ducts. A truly wonderful piece piece of Renaissance vocal music. If you go to my funeral it will be playing .Hopefully not for a few years yet .Thank you Voces 8 for bringing William Byrd kicking and screaming into the twenty first century.
Such extraordinary joy Byrd expresses while his friends are being hung, drawn, and quartered, and Byrd himself was under suspicion most of the time. Ah, the supreme joy of the Catholic faith, worth dying for a thousand times over! Not a nanosecond of depression, whatever may be happening in the world! Praise God!
Magnifica pieza, sólo hay que ver sus miradas y sonrisas para entender la enorme alegría y orgullo que sienten cuando cantan con esta perfección . Magnífico
This is one of the best VOCES8 videos and performances we have ever seen. Captured and communicated the spirit of the piece totally. Had both me and my wife in tears. Bravo! /RayK
How could something so wonderful be written when Shakespeare was in short pants. Answer . William Byrd. England's greatest composer of vocal music by a country mile Would have loved to have chatted with him.
What a beautiful job by all! I love how much fun everyone is clearly having. Bravissimi! My grandfather's name was William Byrd, so Byrd has always been my favorite English Renaissance composer. What an amazing motet this is! I can't imagine it's ever been sung any better or with any greater joy and enthusiasm.
Ce motet est lumineux, vos visages sont lumineux, ce premier jour de 2022 devient lumineux malgré les mascarades restrictives que nous imposent nos dirigeants ( "The music won the cause" as say Handel in "Alexander's feast)... (This motet is luminous, your faces are luminous, this first day of 2022 becomes luminous despite the restrictive masquerades imposed on us by our leaders).
It is difficult to describe the level of perfection necessary in every part to achieve something like this. Here we have a recording that we hope will be around 500 years from now - because it will never be surpassed by any ensemble, and we need proof that there was indeed the most sublime greatness in our time. This video is all the proof you need of that.
I cannot agree more with you but I think your estimation should stretch to millenia rather than 500 years. That's how good the wonderful William Byrd is and choirs like Voces8 who appreciate the glory of his music will take him on the first steps on this incredible journey through the centuries and beyond .
An extraordinary start to what we hope will be a better year. May this wonderful, lively, and exuberant music sung to perfection by eight musicians of supreme artistry move us all forward to better days!
Byrd was a genius. As a contrabass I have an affinity for altos and am all in as a Katie fan club member. Of course we all love Andrea too but you need to introduce us to the new talent. Sounds very promising.
Wow!! I'm speechless... the magnificent interplay of voices and rhythms is brought out so astonishingly well, and with such joyous expression... bravo!!!
Wow, wow, wow!!! This is as good as it gets! The blend is SO lovely! This will be on repeat for sure! Voces8 is the best I've heard! Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent!
This piece is over 400 years old, and this is probably the most perfect performance in it's history.
I think so too. Incredibly beautiful. Song and performance!
*its history
I did not hear this 400 yrs ago -- But if anyone did this better, they were in the same class with gods.
Sorry I can't say the same for your punctuation. It's spelled 'its' without apostrophe, when used as a possessive. A kind of exception to the rule. I hope you don't use an apostrophe for plurals!
La modernidad es ESTO!!
Has anyone else noticed that this video is beautifully edited to capture the entrances of different voices in quick sequence? So much better than simply putting the camera on random singers with no attention to the score!
I love that they do that! My aural skills are not good at all, but if I know when and who is singing I can pick up the different lines more easily.
It is lovely to see the faces close up as they enter, though I believe this may have been recorded separately and they are simply lip- singing their parts in the video.
You mean there's a video that goes with the song? I noticed that the sopranos were nicely balanced even in the forte sections and either weren't belting or were nicely edited.
Ah, yes I just did and was also surprised by the excellent video capture. Very professional!
Yes, this is much better produced than some of the others, well worth the considerable effort required!
Voces8 always reminds me that I am vastly grateful to be alive in a miraculous world in which men and women can sing in harmony. Pure joy!
Diese Aufführung beinhaltet so Vieles: subtil den Byrd'schen Kraftlinien mit Freude nachspüren, sehr überzeugender Ausdruck innerer Bewegheit ohne falsches Pathos, einfach wunderbar,
was für ein Geschenk an uns!
Renaissance choral music = the pinnacle of western civilization
Почти согласен. Когда слушаешь Берда, хочется думать: зачем после Ренессанса надо было что-то менять, если и так великолепно! ) VOCES8 желаем еще многие десятилетия такого восхитительного исполнения добарочной музыки!
I think that is the music period closer to the soul
So, you're saying that Western Civilisation has been going downhill for the past 400 or so years? You may be on to something there :)
Just about outstripped by Bach, for me. But not by much.
I love renaissance choral. It and the Baroque music are the pinnacle of Universe.
Great music, wonderfully sung with a twinkle in your eyes - what more fun could there be than that?
A lot of health problems in our family right now. But this is healing and reminds me that I live in God's grace and love.
May God bless your family and give you hope and strength in the victory won for us by our Lord Jesus Christ!
Indeed ! Flowing and soaking in the stream of such powerful heavenly harmonies dissipates that which is inharmonious (illness, fear, anxiety) and thus brings healing.
And what an Almighty God we both have to have inspired such otherworldly music!
This is the only era of music that can soothe me when my soul is troubled. Like the musicians were speaking the language of the Holy Spirit...
Does anyone suspect that we who love it so much had a past life in this era, likely as musicians?
It also helps to salve the depressing news in Ukraine and the depressing evidence of the corruption around our bloated ex-president.
Bet William Byrd wouldnt believe that such a wonderful choir would be singing his glorious harmonies almost 4 centuries after his death. Incredible performance. Incredible composer.
I discovered VOCES8 last month and cannot stop listening to them. So good for my soul! Massive blessings to you all!
Joy, Joy! Thanks, VOCES8. Just look at the fun they're having presenting this beautiful motet! Thanks, William Byrd. Love & joy to all. Our time here is so short. Let's get it where we find it. - Obscure choral singer
Voces8 is a group of angels that live with us.
Byrd was an absolute boss. Great performance. Really enjoyed it.
Stai calmo. 😑
Don't keep calm. Just enjoy with every fibre of your body It is magnificent .
There has never been and probably never will be a more sublime instrument than the human voice
When you think you have a favourite recording of this piece, suddenly this recording appears. Just perfect; clarity, transparency!
Exelente grupo polifónico. Voces limpias, notas perfectas. Que buena pieza coral. Felicitaciones. Les escribe un fan de Colombia.
They love what they are doing. It’s easy to love singing when you’re this good at it.
I sit captivated as I listen in High-Fidelity Stereophonic sound. This is the stuff voces8 excels at. They make it look easy, as if they were just handed the charts and started singing. This is their meat and potatoes, their steak and gravy, their cake and ice cream. And they are having fun.
So well put! And you are right indeed!
…God is surely the great creator of all… He created heavenly voices like VOCES8…
Fantastic rendition!
Most beautiful rendition of Psalm 150 I ever heard...
William Byrd has not had this much fun in a few hundred years. Incredible breadth of texture and delightful video production so beautifully highlighting the contrapuntal flows and hand-offs. Spine-tingling. And what signalled the cut off at the end? Pure magic.
I agree completely. What an incredible piece. I don't think you could ever hear a greater piece of vocal music. Bravo William Byrd..Bravo Voces 8.
Molly you look like you are having the best time ever and I love it!
Look att her at 2.34
Überwältigende Interpretation... Die Überschwänglichkeit desTextes, vom Komponisten genial eingefangen, kommt duch das aufmerksame Miteinander des Ensembles hervorragend zur Geltung. Es bringt die rhythmische Vielfalt der Motette zum Vorschein und gibt ihr einen 'jazzigen Touch'. Die Krönung sind die lang ausgehaltenen Töne der hohen Stimmen!
William Byrd just sat up and said, "That is what I heard in my head!"
I can listen to Voces8 for hours at a time. Actually, I have...rather often. The soprano's voice is absolute perfection.
Grandissimo. Liebe dieses „Lied“ und hab schon mal einen Vergleich verschiedener Interpretationen angestellt. Super Ensemble! So singen können ist großartig! 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
English Renaissance music is my favourite repertoire, and great performance, as always! Thank you very much.
I agree totally with what you said. The Renaissance was the era of Byrd and Tallis and the incredible Palestrina. They will live forever. .The glory of their music will never decrease Wow Thanks for listening. Had a few too many beers today ..Hope you are sober..Please don't reply.
Which renaissance in England? Everything was either stolen or copied. You have Byrd. Composer. One. Composer. Not style. Even baroque had to be bought from Germany and now real Handels name is forbidden from proper pronouncing all over England. No shame...no shame whatsoever
@@cetterusAre you serious ? English music had a considerable influence on Renaissance music. To begin with, English music familiarised continental ears with the intervals of thirds and sixths, which were considered dissonant elsewhere in Europe, in the Middle Ages. What’s more, there would probably have been no Guillaume Dufay nor Gilles Binchois without John Dunstable, so there would have been no Franco-Flemish school etiher, or it would have taken a completely different form from what we know. And have you listened to pieces from the Eton Choirbook? A number of typically English marvels that bear no resemblance to the continental music of the time. And I hope you’ll forgive me for preferring the master to the pupil, Tallis to Byrd. Or even John Sheppard, a very original composer : listen to his _Media vita_ (by the choir of Westminster Cathedral, my favourite recording) or to _A solis ortus cardine_ (by the choir of New College, Oxford).
What you write about English baroque music seems to me to be a little more well-founded, but you forget, for a start, the influence of French music, which is much more perceptible in Henry Purcell than that of German music : the English baroque was not born with Handel or Mattheson.
Liebe Sänger.
Ich liebe dieses Stück und Eure hervorragende und sympathische Interpretation.
Grandios!
LG
Is it only me that praises this wonderful piece. You think it can't get any better and it does ,and that process continues throughout, and then the final 30 seconds open the tear ducts. A truly wonderful piece piece of Renaissance vocal music. If you go to my funeral it will be playing .Hopefully not for a few years yet .Thank you Voces 8 for bringing William Byrd kicking and screaming into the twenty first century.
Top class👍🇬🇧
I am just overwhelmed by the joy in it, they all seem to be so lucky singing this. So joy has the benefit that it can survive 400 years.
Tolle Präsentation des Musikstückes. Man spürt die Freude der Sänger*innen.
A precise, nimble, joyous, and dancelike performance! Bravo!
Byrd, Bach, they sadly never heard their works performed so very beautifully as this.
Such extraordinary joy Byrd expresses while his friends are being hung, drawn, and quartered, and Byrd himself was under suspicion most of the time. Ah, the supreme joy of the
Catholic faith, worth dying for a thousand times over! Not a nanosecond of depression, whatever may be happening in the world! Praise God!
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory! 😊
Magnifica pieza, sólo hay que ver sus miradas y sonrisas para entender la enorme alegría y orgullo que sienten cuando cantan con esta perfección . Magnífico
This is a wonderful addition to the repertoire. I love the music of Byrd, and the performance here of VOCES8 is awesome! I love these folks.
Beautiful.
The energy and mischief of Byrd escapes so many singers, well done on an accurate and intelligent interpretation!
What a class act they are. They are magnificent, magical and sing like angels 😇. The soprano is something else. Thank you.
What fun you all had, and we who listened! Blessings and thanks,
One of my favorite Byrds. Beautiful performance -- clear texture and great energy.
What a way to herald in the new year. wonderful as always :)
The complexity is amazing. I would LOOOOOOVE to sing this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VOCES8 never ceases to amaze. We are blest by their gift to us.
Pure genius. Bartók was mind blowing!
The way that last measure resolves into the final chord is heavenly 😇 So well balanced, every voice soars. It brought tears to my eyes.
Dear Voces8 What a fantastic release out of gloomy lock downs! Thanks again for sharing joy.. From Amsterdam with LovE
Those endless waves 🌊 of imitations are so incredibly beautiful!
Amen! I can't wait to hear what Byrd has been working on all this time.
I can't think of a better way to ring in the New Year than this! Thank you @VOCES8 and may your 2022 be as joyful as this motet.
Full of Light & Love - thank you! Blessings in abundance as we begin anew!
Utterly stunning. What joy, angels dancing and the Lord's great smile over every nuance.
This is just about the most perfect I have heard from this already perfect ensemble. Bravo. Wonderful, beautiful.
This is one of the best VOCES8 videos and performances we have ever seen. Captured and communicated the spirit of the piece totally. Had both me and my wife in tears. Bravo! /RayK
Soaring, joyous, beautifully textured and controlled…perfect.
Thanks for this beautiful performance! It's a good way to start the year 💪🏽🥂
That last chord! … I wonder if Byrd even imagined his music being sung so beautifully!
...very elegant !
How could something so wonderful be written when Shakespeare was in short pants. Answer . William Byrd. England's greatest composer of vocal music by a country mile Would have loved to have chatted with him.
As always perfect performance of this magnificent group of singers.
What a beautiful job by all! I love how much fun everyone is clearly having. Bravissimi! My grandfather's name was William Byrd, so Byrd has always been my favorite English Renaissance composer. What an amazing motet this is! I can't imagine it's ever been sung any better or with any greater joy and enthusiasm.
Magnifique! L'année commence bien.
Ce motet est lumineux, vos visages sont lumineux, ce premier jour de 2022 devient lumineux malgré les mascarades restrictives que nous imposent nos dirigeants
( "The music won the cause" as say Handel in "Alexander's feast)...
(This motet is luminous, your faces are luminous, this first day of 2022 becomes luminous despite the restrictive masquerades imposed on us by our leaders).
Sensationally sung! And what a great piece!
Sublime sound and joyous to watch the group interaction! Thank you all and best wishes for 2022!
Absolutely beautiful …..as pure as can be…RADIANT
Fantastic performance of a beautiful piece. All the best for 2022.
Just wonderfully sung, there is perfection, dare and joy.
It is difficult to describe the level of perfection necessary in every part to achieve something like this. Here we have a recording that we hope will be around 500 years from now - because it will never be surpassed by any ensemble, and we need proof that there was indeed the most sublime greatness in our time. This video is all the proof you need of that.
I cannot agree more with you but I think your estimation should stretch to millenia rather than 500 years. That's how good the wonderful William Byrd is and choirs like Voces8 who appreciate the glory of his music will take him on the first steps on this incredible journey through the centuries and beyond .
merci de nous abreuver de votre magnifique musique et de votre joie
Rediscovered Byrd after 40 years. Yum yum
Wow! Thanks to Molly for your sparkle. Appreciation, as always, to the spectacular middle voices of Katy and Chris.
If angels do exist then they must surely sound like this. Literally heavenly.
So pure and beautiful piece of music, and as always, so wonderfully performed by this excellent ensemble!
Just absolutely incredible - Loved this
As with everything else they do, VOCES8 hits it out of the park with this wonderful performance.
You splendidly recreate the timeless awe and joy.
Thank you so much!
Another towering performance from my favourite soprano.
This piece is completely new to me-and I cannot imagine a more perfect 1st hearing!
Beautiful! Thank you so much for singing pieces like this, and singing them so well. What a way to ring in the new year.
I like these ones without all of the dissonance. Always amazed by the Voces8 choir!
An extraordinary start to what we hope will be a better year. May this wonderful, lively, and exuberant music sung to perfection by eight musicians of supreme artistry move us all forward to better days!
Byrd was a genius. As a contrabass I have an affinity for altos and am all in as a Katie fan club member. Of course we all love Andrea too but you need to introduce us to the new talent. Sounds very promising.
Where do I sign up for the Katie fan club, anyhow?
Wow.....
Wow!! I'm speechless... the magnificent interplay of voices and rhythms is brought out so astonishingly well, and with such joyous expression... bravo!!!
Beautiful!
This is amazing! What a triumph. The vocals are off the charts.
Beautiful New Year's Day present. Thank you!
I keep coming back to listen to this. It is absolutely wonderful. Perfection.
What a magnificent way to begin a new year!
Belle interprétation enjouée et pleine de vie ! Bravo 👍
Wow, wow, wow!!! This is as good as it gets! The blend is SO lovely! This will be on repeat for sure! Voces8 is the best I've heard! Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent!
One of my all-time favorite pieces. Masterfully performed.
Voces8 dank jullie voor dit heerlijke sprankelende begin van het nieuw jaar.. Heel mooi en met zoveel plezier gezongen ♥️
That second to last chord… oh my heavens! Perfection!
Wow, great 🎉❤
Love y'all. Good to see you having fun!
Só perfectly balanced, it sounds out of this world.
You guys are simply stunning. The best I’ve ever heard. Thank you.
Beautiful music in a difficult time,thank you all.