VOCES8 & Jack Liebeck: The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Paul Drayton)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2022
- VOCES8 is joined by violinist Jack Liebeck for a performance of Paul Drayton's arrangement of 'The Lark Ascending'. The performance was part of the Live From London Summer Festival.
The new recording is now available here orcd.co/mmkdy6o
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Extracts from 'The Lark Ascending' by George Meredith
He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound,
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake.
For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup
And he the wine which overflows
to lift us with him as he goes.
Till lost on his aerial rings
In light, and then the fancy sings. - บันเทิง
PERFECTION. Please share with your friends. Hell, share with your enemies. The world needs this right now.
Yes- I don’t have the vocabulary to say anything else but YES
I shared this with my cat. She is a lion now.
Vaughan Williams AND Voces8. It doesn't get any better than this!
Yes it does. Listening to them with eyes shut....
.......... AND 🎻 violinist
Jack LIEBECK as well !
Please don't forget this beautiful NINTH VOICE !!!
"The Lark Ascending" is IMHO one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written -- it brings tears to my eyes. This is a lovely variation.
@@arcturianstarport8949, indeed, I feel the same.😊
Just so beautiful
They make the world a better place. Oh to see them live. Any offer out there please🍾Any evening
I saw them some years ago when they were only just beginning.
Jack Liebeck became another voice in Voces8...all were as one in this performance. Mr Liebeck's playing was so intertwined with the others, each anticipating the other, weaving in such synchronous tones, it truly is beyond any words to describe what we are hearing. This is a master work of storytelling performed by some of the best in the world. My deepest gratitude for this moment in my life.
Surely one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever to grace our ears
Such a complex piece vocally. Long been one of my favorite pieces of music. You guys are astounding.
I don't know if Vaughan Willims ever imagined this piece would be performed like this, But I'm sure if he heard this arrangement, he would shed tears of joy. I know I did.
Hallo John! Same for me.
That's 16 minutes *added* to my life. What a performance!
My absolute favorite a cappella group! So pure and unselfish with their talent!
Well, there are none other to compare.
Voces8 really are the ones who got me into cappella although I got a real liking probably back in my fifties.
I just want to thank you for spelling "a cappella" correctly [g]
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." -Poe
How could anyone hear this and not be moved to tears?
The goosebumps haven’t gone down yet…beyond beautiful!
Yes
@@ws175 Same here. Fantastic performance
YES!
Same!
Stunning. Anyone who’s laid on the grass and listened to a lark rise singing into the sky will feel the chills hearing this rendition. Thank you.
Exacto !!!!!
this is so beautiful - grown man in tears of bliss - great download.
Great fan of Vaughan Williams, this piece in particular. It's the first time I've heard a choir replace the orchestra. It's truly amazing.
Indeed, when comparing this version with the original orchestra version: the heavenly voices flow into one another meeting to form the basic waves created by the orchestra.
In any case this is a master piece.😊
Wow!!! I would have never thought of such an arrangement, but I'm sure glad that somebody did! Brilliant.
This is so sublime I am literally in tears. The Lark is one of my favourite compositions as it truly captures the imagination as you fly with the bird and see what is happening below, before it soars and gradually disappears out of sight into the heights of the sky. The violinist captures the lark exquisitely, and Voces8 are right alongside. Fantastic arrangement, exquisitely vocalised, Now where is that tissue…..thank you guys - utterly transcendent and beautiful!.
I didn't know that music as wonderful as this could exist.
@@paulinemckelvey9001 Just goes to prove that we are not merely flesh and blood, but are spiritual beings made in the image of God.
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With 88 thumbs up I didn't want to disturb this number, so replied instead, lovely note here Jennifer, you've captured the essence.
My favorite piece of music reimagined and performed in a unique way. Beautiful.
You nailed my sentiments exactly! Thank you.
Exactly!
Danke für diesen besonderen Hörgenuss🎼☀️
Blend the most wonderful sound to ever come from a violin with the best voices ever heard, and this is what you get. I am overwhelmed. God bless you all and special kudos to Paul Dayton. I need a handkerchief now. 🎶
Just ONE question :
INSTEAD OF "kudos" (btw this word comes from Ancient Greek : "κυδος"),
could'nt you say "BRAVO", a word which comes from Latin AND is much better-known by the people ?????
Edit : "BRAVO" rather comes from actual Italian language, I think so ! 🤗
Such a beautiful version of “The Lark Ascending”. Such a lovely group of young people bringing joy to everyone in their singing. May they continue to be blessed in this great work.
Daring and ingeniously rendered; impossibly beautiful; perhaps the most captivating Lark Ascending I've ever heard~~
I don't need much motivation to listen to Vaughan Williams. This version is amazing. Simply astounding.
Just fantastic. Quintessentially British.
Liebeck makes the violin literally sing. How wonderful!
Human voice in all its glory. If wind had sound, it would sound like this.
If heaven had sound, I would say : )
Where would we be without music, it really doesn’t get any better than this, thank you.
breathtakingly beautiful rendition of one of the finest pieces of music ever written. simply stunning..
No words to describe such Beauty! This song is from Heaven!
Don't even doubt what you say. The Holy Spirit inspires music and musicians.
Just one of the milliions of beautiful and meaningful and loving and merciful things He does in the world every day.
When you see, you see - as Graham Hess's dying wife noted in the film "Signs".
The Holy Spirit was there too, as He was in my bedroom on 28-2-21, when I begged for help.
Now in 2022 we are all in the same need, and He is ready to help us.
This recording is best heard using ear buds or headphones. You cannot hear the intricate parts (voices/violin) without them.
After discovering this, I have listened to this excellent performance several times and I don’t think I will ever get tired of it. Such a great interpretation of one of my favorite pieces.
15 minutes 57 seconds of wonderous, magical, pure beauty. It was a privilege to have listened. THANK YOU
This song brings me to tears every time I listen to it, especially that sublime high note from the sopranos near the end. 😢❤😊
I didn’t think I could love this piece more-until it was performed in a vocal arrangement by Voces 8. 💕
UPLIFTS THE SOUL & SPIRIT. MAGNIFICENT. GRATEFIUL THANKS TO VOCES 8 & JACK LIEBECK. BLESSINGS💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟
This ensemble has one of the most captivating sounds I have ever heard in my many years of life.
It’s nice to hear some soloists that aren’t normally heard, the men in particular.
I did not expect the text of the Meredith poem: absolutely breathtaking.!
Now I can die a happy man. VOCES8 have done it again, so beautiful.
Absolument sublime... Une source de plénitude et d'inspiration. Merci !
What an amazing version of Vaughan Williams's masterpiece! Angelic and heavenly.
Exquisite. The violinist is superb, absolutely sublime.
Lark Ascending by Mr. Liebeck and the voices. Absolutely wonderful!
The last note. Violins can breathe! Incredible. Beautiful. Thank you.
But of course. Cellos as well...
So beautiful. I love this piece that evokes the English countryside-a masterpiece
masterpiece indeed,although the violin takes me rather to an asian’ chinese landscape. that’'s the beauty of music
Well -and the Rheinhessen landscape with a view of the Taunus mountains
@@ws175 Yes, I can well understand your point. I see the Eifel landscape that I hiked so often when I was younger. Everybody remembers their own favorite most beautiful landscape while hearing this music - until they have once seen the English countryside at sunrise on a spring morning. Vaughan Williams then starts playing in your mind and you will never loose this connection in your brain again.
What a stunning, beautiful performance by Voces8 and Jack Liebeck! Unachievable by a normal choral singer yet highly inspirational and enjoyable.Thank you so much for sharing!
@@thomasrottmann5578 Yes, I don't deny that english landscape is beautiful and ascending larks are beautiful. Welsh landscape is also nice, and so is scottish, and so are their larks. Not to mention the belgians. I didn't want to say that Rheinhessen is THE most beautiful landscape. It is the open fields there , where the larks like to settle, ascend, and sing. You see ? Sure there are other places which they like, too.
@@thomasrottmann5578 well may be that wasn't the best answer. I try again. This music - quiteceverything that comes from voces8 is spinechillingly beautiful. Beyond beautiful. Voces8 are stunning in how they transport the beauty of music. Any music. Often teams come to my eyes when I hear them, and sometimes I just start to cry. During the dark months of corona shutdown, when we had to teach by Zoom and meet the familiy through zoom, voces8 gave me joy, comfort and strength. And they still do, wherever I am on the planet thanks to the wonderful thing called internet. And I am so happy to see that they give others joy and comfort as well, wherever those music-loving listeners are.
I am listening to my now favourite rendition of Lark Ascending, this morning on my veranda listening to the morning chorus of bird song over the Australian bush, in the southern part of Victoria, Australia.
You never disappoint.
Thank you.
Happy spring to you!
@@mwnyc3976
And I know I shouldn’t assume anything, but Happy Fall to you.
Absolutely brilliant. One of my favourite pieces and this totally does it justice. Although the violin is the star, it just shows that human voices can become an orchestra.
THIS IS MUSIC MAGIC
Impressive!!! The lenght of this piece carried out in such precision and unity.Bravo!! I always marvel at how well their tone is throughout. And can we just recognize the absolute stunning violin player?!!! New fav.
Katie looked to be enjoying singing this as she couldn't stop smiling! She has one short solo, and her beautiful alto voice just blows me away! 😊
Beautiful! A perfect marriage of my two favourite instruments - the violin and the human voice - interpreting a sublime and timeless composition. All of that and the voice of Ms Haines, which never fails to amaze and thrill at the same time. Simply wonderful!
Brava!! I just heard the orchestral arrangement of this piece about a month ago for the first time and fell in love with it! Now my favorite choral group has done an arrangement of it??? Jaw-droppingly stunning!!!
You might like the Julia Wang version which is just violin & piano which is here on TH-cam.
th-cam.com/video/3b0rN43q6jo/w-d-xo.html
Is there a way for one person to give this performance 1000 likes? Thank you for this amazing performance of my favorite piece of music.
Best thing to do is to share it amongst your friends and family like I have done. 🙂
@@jpcoll2011 I totally agree. I've already sent it to three friends. It's too beautiful a performance to keep to myself.
It already has 4,800 likes!!! AND 216,000 subscribers (I hope my math is correct lol. K=1000...does it not? 😶)
Flawless, and utterly beautiful… thank you
One of my all time favorites. This version can match the best orchestral versions. Kudos, Voces8 and Paul Drayton!
An exultation of nine larks. My heart, can this get any more glorious?
@alisonalcock5218, because you obviously feel that exultation of nine larks it is transmitted to you. 😊
Had me sobbing uncontrollably. Incredible version of this heavenly music. 🙏❤️
It's always one of my favourite violin piece to play, but with this version of voces 8, we are reaching a new level of beauty, nostalgic.
I always held Iona Brown as the standard bearer of this piece, but Jack has me in stitches.
Exquisite perfection.
Siete sempre più magici!!! 👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏
Love to all who Love this
VOICES 8 are Magnificent!!!
Wow, the violinist looked emotionally enthralled. Love to see it.
Wow, what a pleasant surprise! You guys totally nailed this! And Jack's interpretation must be one of the best I've heard of the Lark. Impressive!
By chance I first heard this moving piece of music on BBC Radio3 in November 1981 whilst driving home from visiting my wife & newborn baby at the LGI hospital in Leeds. (The very kind & professional pediatrician had been gradually informing us of the sad news about our first born).
After then listening to this emotional music I had to stop the car & I cried.
Many thanks indeed for your wonderful performance of this incredible piece, voted many times I believe a number one classical favourite in the UK.
Such beauty... thank you. A glimpse of the Divine
Well, i give up. I thought this-one would never blend with voices but to have every background string part arranged for a separate voice and mix in actual folk song lyrics even. I am amazed and very very happy.
Stunning and sensitive performance, just wonderful. I also MOST appreciate the way their dress graduates from black to blue from left to right. Lovely touch.
Through some technical glitch I was unable to access this concert in the summer and it is SO wonderful to experience it now! A gorgeous performance by Jack Liebert and the arrangement by Paul Drayton was phenomenal! The arrangement and the splendid performance by VOCES8 conveyed the lush English harmonies and the pastoral setting brilliantly!
I have played this piece many times in the orchestral version and a special shout out goes to altos Kayie and Barnaby who covered many of the French Horn parts beautifully! ;-)
You mean 'Jack Liebeck' correctly.
What a great way to start my day, thank you all so much! It does make one feel like they're floating just a little. :)
Soaring...
It works so well like this. Wow. Whoever's idea it was to do this, it was a good one!
It's like feeling, tasting, hearing, and seeing the most beautiful parts of the world...all at once
Lovely performance........ just lovely.........
Omg sitting having my Saturday breakfast listening to this wonderful treat. Magnificent violin playing of the highest quality alongside the most perfect voices there is. Thank you so much what an absolute treat!
What A Wonderful Job!!! Absolutely Beautiful!!!!
Wow, wow, wow! Einfach wunderschön!
Yes, sublime indeed. I was ascending and soaring in the blue sky with the lark …thankyou to such wonderful musicians.
The most beautiful piece of music with Jack Liebeck and voices8 adding their amazing dimension. Close your eyes and enjoy. This is as close to perfection as humanity could hope to achieve.
One of my favourite violin pieces played by the talented Mr Liebeck. Really wonderful to hear some of George Meredith’s poem that appears in the original score being sung by my favourite vocal group, too! Excellent addition to voces8’s repertoire. Thank you!
STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS....I still have goosebumps...goodness this is amazing
For singing till his heaven fills,
’T is love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which overflows
To lift us with him as he goes:
Joya pura!!!!!!
Every time @voces8 sings with instrumentation it is so obvious that they sing with the perfection of instruments. Amazing!
I feel it more apt to note that those instrumentalist(s) play with the “perfection” of the human voices. A distinction without much difference, to be sure.
Choral music taught me beauty was, and this is a perfect example.
As always, stunning. Words fail me. My spirit is ascending as I listen to this....again and again.
Words cannot express how happy I am to see this performed by yourselves.
"The Lark Ascending" has always been one of my favorite pieces of music - because it paints such a vivid picture in my mind while listening to it. When I read that VOCES8 was going to perform it, I wondered how they were going to add voices to this work that I have always heard in its instrumental version. And what a superb rendering of this work it is! Thank you so much VOCES8 and Jack Liebeck.
I take my hat off to the genius who thought of this arrangement. It's stellar.
Now if I can just keep myself from stamping all over my hat for not having thought of it first.
This will become famous and do very well for this ensemble.
So very beautiful. A complete spiritual experience. Thank you
What an exquisite performance! Incredibly evocative. Beautiful blend of instrument and voice.
This version is even more ethereal than the original.
7:46 is so beautiful
Beautiful in every way ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
One of my favourite compositions exquisitely performed. Thank you.
Such a gorgeous piece of music so enchanting and entrancing. Voces8, your performance is simply beautiful. I was smiling all the way through watching your faces, so expressive. Thank you all so much for the gift of your singing.
Outstanding !....nothing else needs to be said.
Beautiful Gift Of Music ❤
There are no words for the beauty of this performance. Bravissimo!!!
Quite an emotional rendition to one of my favorite composers.
Halfway through this I realized I was holding my breath; literally breath-taking!
Once again the unsurpassed Voces8 bring us a performance that opens up a well-known piece as we have never heard it before. I was holding my breath! - not least at some of Jack Liebeck's violin flights . . .
it is a quarter to three in the morning and wow this puts me to sleep like laying on a cottonball in the air flying away beautiful thank you 💙
What is the sky without the Lark? An empty blue lake, peopled by clouds and an unloved Sun. What is the Lark without the sky? An incomplete poem, a Haiku, lacking the last word. What are these wings but will of God? What is this song but love of God? What is the Lark without me watching it? A spirit free beyond the bond to the Earth and the need for me. What am I? A man bound to that Earth with a spirit that so yearns to soar with the Lark.
So beautiful ❤
Hauntingly beautiful.
Just got new listening gear for my iPad. Casually tuned in to TH-cam. I do not know now which to attribute the glorious sound from this enchanting version of one of Vaughn Williamson's masterpiece. The honour must go to Voces and their superb arrangement. I am old enough to remember that in order to listen to this quality, a trip to the concert hall or some extremely and bulky hi fi equipment were the only ways. All I have to do now is push some light weight gear in my ears and press a couple of buttons. It felt mean not to applaud at the end.
This is an incredible piece of music. For me it is the first concerto for violin I've ever heard accompanied by the human voice! As usual, VOCES8hits it out of the park and Vaughn Williams is second to none.
Oh, heaven cannot be far away.