VOCES8 - Sigurbjörnsson: Heyr himna smiður
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VOCES8 perform Heyr himna smiður from their upcoming album 'Infinity', released on Decca Classics on 27th August 2021. Preorder now: voces8.lnk.to/InfinityID
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Music video by Voces8 performing Heyr himna smiður. A Decca Classics Video; © 2021 Universal Music Operations Limited
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This lyric was written by Kolbein Tumason, an Icelandic chieftain, Goði, in 1208 shortly before being killed in battle, the battle of Víðines. One of the most beautiful psalm written in Icelandic.
"He who sings, prays twice." - Saint Augustine
"He who farts, elicits stern looks." - Uknown
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and she who sings ?
Is told to make haste back to the hearth and retrieve scrumptious morsels for hungry men.@@thomasdef634
@thomasdef634 please don't let your agenda scorn this beautiful quote.
I absolutely love this. So beautiful to hear worship in the old tongue. If the northern lights have a sound, this is it.
Beautifully put.
Beautiful comment.
@@joshuamallory8107 Thank you!
@@TalynStormcrow Thank you!
The Northen Lights were with us long before worship. Thank God. (Sic)
This is so well done that I instantly started to cry when I heard your absolutely beautiful singing. My father was a church organist for 39 years and this song was one of his all time favourites. When he passed away last year this was one of the songs in the funeral.
Thank you guys for bringing back memories... and tears
All the best from Iceland.
What an almost perfect pronunciation of this 800-year-old Icelandic hymn, together with a masterful intonation in this beautiful music from 1974 from Dr. Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson.
It sounds a lot like renaissance music
Coming from an Icelander: their pronunciation is very impressive!
Please can you translate for us
@@hannahmccoy8336 Here you go.
Hear, O smith of heavens,
what the poet asks.
May softly come unto me
thy mercy.
So I call on thee,
for thou hast created me.
I am thy slave,
Thou art my Lord.
God, I call on thee to heal me.
Remember me, mild one,
Most we need thee.
Drive out, O king of suns,
generous and great,
every human sorrow
from the city of the heart.
Watch over me, mild one,
Most we need thee,
truly every moment
in the world of men.
send us, son of the virgin,
good causes,
all aid is from thee,
in my heart.
Ja Thad er satt
@@wyattmichaelproductions thank you
Your native tongue is hauntingly beautiful.
I can’t believe how Icelandic you sound! Please sing the other masterpiece of Icelandic choir music. Requiem by Jón Leifs.
“If it weren’t for music, I would think that love is mortal.” Mark Helprin
One of the best vocal groups ever!!!!
Как же они чувствуют друг друга, это изумительно когда ты с другим рядом стоящим исполняет одной душой.
Icelandic: "Hear the heavenly carpenter". Exquisitely beautiful. God Bless You All.
An 800 year old piece of history so well performed.
They sing like real angels 😍🙏🏻Thank you God for this gift !
Indeed! Thanks be to God!🙏❤🔥
This song was played on my fathers funeral. Thank you for this beautiful piece of art.
I had it also played at my uncles funeral, (by other performers though) which I couldnt attent due to covid, as I live in Iceland and my family in Netherlands. My uncle also had a weak spot for Iceland. My family played this song the night before he died, and he smiled hearing it, clearly he loved to hear it even if he was barely concious. We had it play when he was brought into the chapel during the funeral as well. I wish I was there in person. This song has always enchanted me, no matter who sings it, but for funerals it really is a miracle potion of giving strength and serenity.
@@AnnaMaria-zm8cv Absolutely right. A wonderful song. It was a good decision to pick it.
This is what Music is meant to do: to raise the level of conscious of the People. Thanks for your lofty mission
Unbelievable what harmonies are capable of! My tears just came, and came, and came...
I heard this song years ago. Years. I heard this piece in the haunting echo of a train station in a youtube video, and it has enchanted me since. And now I see that you have decided to cover this marvelous piece! My favorite piece with my favorite performers. What a wonderful day!
I just can't possibly express how happy this makes me. It's like two spheres of heaven converged.
Fuck... Same here, exactly. You nailed it.
You heard the Arstidir version. Great band! You should check their stuff
@@Jonne2002 Already did of course.
@@mimzou nice :)
I absolutely agree.
Just wow. Y’all remind me of the complexity and beauty of Earth. Many thanks.
Thank you for singing this classic and beautiful hymn from my country so very well. Hafið þökk fyrir.
The minor 9th tunings and balancing here is absolute perfection
Yea the performance is great, but it's the composition that is actually magical. How people can even come up with these things is beyond my comprehension.
No earthly idea what that means but this piece of pure Heaven
Exquisitely-done. Those suspended-fourths and tight-seconds (!) are brilliantly-realized. Your are true treasures, Voces8. One could meditate to the breathing. The deer on our hill draw nigh when they hear your music...
"The deer on our hill draw nigh when they hear your music..." What a spectacular compliment!
I Just noticed Last Autumn HOW MUCH DEER LOVE music!!, It's so CUTE and FUNNY!! I was AMAZED!!! I think animals, in general LOVE Music!!! Especially BIRDS!!🐶🐰🐷🐮🐴🐑🐼🐔🐬🐧🐨...🐦😄
I heard this on a 9-1-1:Lone Star Season 3 Episode 18- Season Finale: A Bright and Cloudless Morning.
Captain Strand(Rob Lowe) is trapped in a building that collapsed due to an explosion. He is faced with a memory from his past, when he was trapped in the Twin Towers with a police officer.
This music was quite moving and haunting. Something I could fall asleep to and that is saying something, being an insomniac.
There is a calm...a sense of peace, when this song is sung. Such heavenly and blessed voices. Just Beautiiful.🇨🇦
I saw that same episode a few night ago on the TV here in Perth WA, yes very moving & beautiful piece that had me searching through my Voces8 albums for more of their tracks to listen to. I've played this piece over and over, puts me in a very peaceful place. Cheers Paul
this song is lovelier and loftier than a cathedral. the sound itself is hallowed space. i want to live here, in the world of this song
Beautiful! Perfectly pronounced Icelandic. Thank you!
I suppose it's a sort of addiction, but the last thing I do every night is play this video at least once or twice (and probably more...)
I'm doing the same.
I hope this is what Heaven sounds like. So beautiful and deeply moving. Touches my soul. 💓
@@guitargirl7452 0:40; 1:46; 2:26; 2:35 with these beautiful Angels 💖
I just wanna say thank you for doing such an amazing job at pronouncing everything!
Even though I cannot understand the words, I am trembling at the beauty of this rendition. Thank you for sharing it.
Kudos on the pronunciation! I am Icelandic, and I did not cringe this time.
The novelist William Styron said he was alone in his house and contemplating suicide, when he heard a beautiful piece of music on television, and rang a friend to tell him how bad he was feeling.
He couldn't have heard Voces8, since they were not around then, but I would recommend them to anyone in spiritual grief.
This makes my soul settle.
beautiful dissonances. stunning performance!
this video should have millions of views!!! absolute masterpiece, i get chills every time!!!
I love these beautiful people from Voces 8 because they put all the emotions in their faces. Watching and listening to this gives me inner peace. So beautiful! I never heard Icelandic before, such a beauty.
Closely akin to Danish. First Vikings to settle here. The Prime Minister's son, Thor, was in grad school in Denmark with my group.
@@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 not at all. Its closer to old norse, which is this hymne sung in, as old Icelandic is quite identical to old norse. Danish is the second language here in Iceland as Iceland used to be part of the Danish kingdom, but they never managed to push their language as official, luckily not because celandic is too beautiful. Iceland was also not settled by Danish, they came after they claimed Iceland as their own, the settlers came mostly from Norway and brought slaves from Ireland, creating the genetic base of most Icelanders today. Icelandic is a beautiful poetic language that in spoken version is absolutely unique and unlike any other Scandinavian language. And sung its even more enchanting. Faroese may come close as a mixture between Danish and Icelandic.
Stunning performance!
Goosebumps all over my body.
Oh, I haven't heard this in years. Used to have a recording of it with an Icelandic choir that I always listened to 20 years ago...
Beautiful rendition of this favourite piece. Spot on pronounciation of the Icelandic as well, bravo.
I mean, on videos like this, there’s no need to have a dislike button. Ethereal and stunning.
absolutely right. and yet some goblins dare...
Listening to this piece gives me goose bumps every time. Voices of angels...
This performance is the very definition of music. Which is to say, this performance evokes an emotion so beautiful, so deep, so transcend it is beyond the capability of any language to describe.
One of my favorite choral pieces. Fantastic work.
Everything you do is absolutely beautiful!
A new video from the 8!! Always makes my day!
This IS perfection, worthy of quiet meditation on both music and lyric. VOCES8...there is nothing better.
It's beautiful and I hope I do it justice when pronouncing the words 😮❤
Egad, such beauty. The welkin reverberates with such sonority.
wonderfully soothing, balsam for the ear and soul! thank you voces8!
This is immensly beautiful. My heart seems to expand and I start wheeping at the same time.
I agree! See my reply to Michael Wyatt's translation in the comments 🥲🙏
Deep spiritual experience...
This is great! Captures the infinite wisdom and undying love of the eternal heart, the voice of God itself. A beacon of immortal light to guide the human soul through the turbulent storm driven waters of our dark world.
The beginning has the most perfect picardy third I’ve ever heard in my life. Beautiful
As an Icelandic classical musician and organist there is no Tierce de Picardie at the beginning.
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I've been in need of something beautiful and peaceful for these past few days. And then this showed up in my subscriptions.
Thank you. :)
Arstidir made me love this 8 or so years ago!
one of the best recordings of this magical and ethereal piece of vocal music. brava!
Un véritable avant-goût du Ciel ! Merci
Oh my God you beautiful people. I've been wishing you to do this one!
listening to this is about as close to being in Valhalla as you can get while still living in this realm.
enigmatic, beautiful. listening to this piece with your eyes closed, brings you to unexplored lands
I listen to this every time it plays as an advert. It’s simply stunning
Wow, this is probably the best pronunciation I have heard from a non Icelandic group. My favourite piece to sing and this is a fantastic performance..
Danke! 🙏
I L-O-V-E this BEAUTIFUL Hymn SOOOO Much, I could listen to it ALL DAY LONG!!!👏👏👏❤💕❤💕❤😌💐💐💐💐
Loved! 😍🎶🎵
Lovely!
Always Beautiful, thank you
beautiful as always! always beautiful
AMAZING! ❗
Giving me the chills. Absolutely angelical and beautiful.
Her eyes are so blue! Amazing voices from all them all!!
Magical..💜
So beautiful. Thank you
Super très beau j’adore ❤️
Absolutely gorgeous. Thank you.
Beautiful.
Wieder grossartig. Tiefsten Dank
Voces8 is hands down the benchmark for perfection in a cappella. Perfect intonation, expression and the sopranos blend so beautifully into each other. I'm never getting tired of listening.
Haunting, yet hopeful and as always, exquisitely sung. Such a lovely interlude!
Magnifique !
BEAUTIFUL
Stunning 👌
Amazing
Stunning...absolutely stunning! Thank you!
Absolutely lovely.
es sublime
Beautiful... as always, with Voces8!!
Sublime !
Beautiful rendition. 🥰🙏
Absolute perfection!
Merci , une fois de plus ! ! !
This is soothing.Thank you V8
Bravo... excelentt
"Oh wondrous majesty, eternal light, thou bringest the sweet smell and delight, of voices pure and bright"
Wunderschön. ❤️
Thanks so much for these lovely crystal clear voices a real pleasure to listen I hope we could still hear you singing a long way 👏🥰
Beautiful
Magnificent.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!
goosebump moment! wonderful thank you
Lovely!
Well done... ☝️😎
This was wonderful. I have always loved the arstidir version and nothing so far has come even close to matching the beautiful sound the created in that train station. I really wanted to hear that super deep, resonating bass here though which I didn’t quite hear. Thoroughly enjoyed this though and will listen many more times int he future!
Exquisite...