Were you listening to the same things as me? The carol in this video was sung in solid forte throughout with little in terms of phrasing or dynamic contrast, and some very scrappy endings on lines.
It's a beautiful performance, thank you VOCES8; but the Pearsall arrangement is particularly responsive to expression (and dynamics) and would have glowed 'symphonically' under more sensitive variation, and less 'danciness' which usually suits other arrangements, but superficialises the debth of this amazing one.
I feel it was done as a piece from all their hearts ❤️, which explains the smiles and interactive faces, swinging about it's all a lovely package. Lovely singing
I’ve been singing in choirs and listening to choral music for 50 years. I’ve just heard this recording for the first time and I think it might be the best choral singing I have ever heard. What a treat at Christmas. Thank you.
Oh what a wonderful Christmas blessing you have been to me tonight. I love your JOY!! Not just the glorious sound, if that were not enough, each of you EXUDES JOY. Thank you.
Certainly a very much upfront arrangement, indeed - until today the one I preferred most was the Praetorius version, rendered so magnificently by Paul McCreesh‘s Gabrieli Crew: ua-cam.com/video/8spVTWJT-6g/v-deo.html - a very different approach to the one heard here for sure. Nevertheless there‘s something about it, to find a note in the booklet: „ Continuo: Full Organ „ 😅😅
Unison is, despite appearances, one of the hardest things in choral singing. You have to rehearse and agree on exactly how, and then listen like your life depends on it.
I love this group--the joyfulness of their presence for one things, and then the lovely settings of such beautiful and well-known carols. They almost turn them into madrigals with the different voices taking over at different times. Just lovely! Fresh and lovely anytime of the year! Thank you!
Merry Christmas to you all! And thank you so much for sharing your stunningly beautiful voices with us all year long. Your videos are head and shoulders above all others and I am very grateful for your generosity, time and extraordinary talents.
One of my favourite carols and arrangements! Sung many times in a church choir before retiring. Truly magical. "Oh that we were there." That line sums up Christmas for me.
Truly Joy to the World! Thank you for inspiring us, Voces8. The spheres are resonating with your intonational perfection, from whence 'the ninth voice' appears...
The acoustics of the space are a major factor of their cohesive sound - similar to that of the effect of Kings College Chapel, Cambridge to the resident choir there.
Ich krieg mich nicht mehr ein sowas wunderbares und die entzückende Altistin und der Counter: eine Augenweide. Die Soprane hätt ich gerne mal eingeladen zum persönlichen Konzert unterm Christbaum, die Herren dürften den Sound tragen . Was für ein Fest! Vielen herzlichen Dank und frohe Weihnacht 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
SUPERB!!! Wonderful arrangement marvelously performed. Especially loved the musical evocation of the text's reference to bell ringing in the last stanzas : the bells rang out joyfully in the vocal dynamics. "Oh, that I were there!"
Beautiful as always may you all have a very Merry Christmas and a blessed and a Happy New Year. Thank you so much for bringing such beautiful joy into our lives through your music♥♥♥♥♥. I could listen to your singing for hours.
You people are amazing! I sing in a chamber ensemble, so I really appreciate the difficulty of this kind of perfectio The little alto in the red dress is the one I watch most. She is so joyful and fills that inner harmony so beautifully and discretely. Trying to pick her voice out of the others is my challenge!
Absolutely stunning ! Thank you so very much for your continuing excellence and brilliance---world class indeed---and great happiness inducing. Merry Christmas eight times !
Thank you for this excellent performance. You don't just take a pill, or have a wand waved over you, to get such outstanding results. It takes work, and the employment of extraordinary talents, and we the audience are blessed by it. Merry Christmas! from a wet, chilly Oregon.
Breathtaking performance! Thank you!
THE most pure vocal version of "In Dulci" EVER performed!
Were you listening to the same things as me? The carol in this video was sung in solid forte throughout with little in terms of phrasing or dynamic contrast, and some very scrappy endings on lines.
It's a beautiful performance, thank you VOCES8; but the Pearsall arrangement is particularly responsive to expression (and dynamics) and would have glowed 'symphonically' under more sensitive variation, and less 'danciness' which usually suits other arrangements, but superficialises the debth of this amazing one.
@@symetryrtemys2101 OK. Can you point me at a version on YT that has addressed these shortcomings?
That last chord rings like nobody's business! So awesome
Indeed....goosebumps!
That's the thing with Voces8 - the spaces they're in don't want them to finish, so they keep singing back at them.
I noticed that too! Never heard a ring before on my many recordings of this arrangement! Love the attention to intonation! THANK YOU!
Absolutely. A combination of the beautiful acoustics of the room, a superb sound engineer and of course the incomparable Voces8.
Perfect just temperament offers the glorious full spectrum of overtones.
What a beautiful arrangement of an exquisite hymn! This sure is a Christmas present.
It's like Lay A Garland, only faster!
It just means, in the most beautiful way, Merry Christmas one and all. A savoir was born for you today.
Amen
Thank you for that. It’s wonderful to know that human beings are capable of creating such beautiful, timeless sounds.
I have never heard such beautiful, precise singing in my many decades of life.
I feel it was done as a piece from all their hearts ❤️, which explains the smiles and interactive faces, swinging about it's all a lovely package. Lovely singing
I’ve been singing in choirs and listening to choral music for 50 years. I’ve just heard this recording for the first time and I think it might be the best choral singing I have ever heard. What a treat at Christmas. Thank you.
My favourite choral group singing my favourite carol. Perfect !
I keep listening to this over and over. It thrills the soul. The man at 1:53 can't hold back his joy. It all just so beautiful, seriously.
This arrangement is absolutely marvellous! One of the best versions of this song I have ever heard. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Words fail me… simply beautiful.
I love the constant smiles from Molly and Katie embodying the joy of the song and season!
This is the first time I could actually hear the young lady in the red dress. She has such a beautiful and soulful voice! ❤
An exquisite interpretation of a much-loved carol. It's these things that are the true meaning of Christmas, even if one is not religious.
Oh what a wonderful Christmas blessing you have been to me tonight. I love your JOY!! Not just the glorious sound, if that were not enough, each of you EXUDES JOY. Thank you.
Oh, yes. Thank you!
Certainly the best arrangement of this I've ever heard. And so beautifully performed!
Certainly a very much upfront arrangement, indeed - until today the one I preferred most was the Praetorius version, rendered so magnificently by Paul McCreesh‘s Gabrieli Crew: ua-cam.com/video/8spVTWJT-6g/v-deo.html - a very different approach to the one heard here for sure. Nevertheless there‘s something about it, to find a note in the booklet: „ Continuo: Full Organ „ 😅😅
@@chrst7346 This also appears in my Oxford Book of Carols, more or less faithfully to Praetorius.
Another year and another Voces8 video on my birthday. Thanks guys!
Happy Birthday!
I keep coming back to this one out of all their Christmas arrangements. My God, that unison at 2:04 is spectacular.
Unison is, despite appearances, one of the hardest things in choral singing.
You have to rehearse and agree on exactly how, and then listen like your life depends on it.
It's great but not an unisono.
It just doesn't get better than this. So full of life and feeling with pinpoint accuracy throughout. Absolutely superb. Thank you. ❤️
Wow, just wow! What a sound with "just" 8 voices.
FUN AND SMILES AND JOY!!!! Thank you, brilliantly done by all.
I love this group--the joyfulness of their presence for one things, and then the lovely settings of such beautiful and well-known carols. They almost turn them into madrigals with the different voices taking over at different times. Just lovely! Fresh and lovely anytime of the year! Thank you!
The most wonderful interpretation of our old Christmas carol I have heard! Thank you so much, Voces8! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you all! And thank you so much for sharing your stunningly beautiful voices with us all year long. Your videos are head and shoulders above all others and I am very grateful for your generosity, time and extraordinary talents.
Oh I love it I love it I love it I'm going to sing this all year now that I found it
One of my favourite carols and arrangements! Sung many times in a church choir before retiring. Truly magical.
"Oh that we were there." That line sums up Christmas for me.
Glorious. the utter skillfulness of each individual singer blended together in an exquisitely celebratory conversation. Happy holidays and thank you.
Truly Joy to the World! Thank you for inspiring us, Voces8. The spheres are resonating with your intonational perfection, from whence 'the ninth voice' appears...
Wonderful, made all the more so by the obvious joy of the singers! Good joy to all.
Utterly, utterly beautiful. To fill your mind regularly with such perfection, can only create bliss.
Beautiful, just beautiful.
This is fantastically realized, wonderful voices, a coherent arrangement; a goosebump moment.
Thank You, Voces8 For This Beautiful Christmas Gift Of
Music ❤
One of my favourites. Great to see my favourite group singing it!
Love this sound of Christmas wonderful voices🎄
Always loved this beautiful carol! Perfect!
Bravo!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Exceptionnellement beau...Merci à vous les VOCES8.Joyeuses fêtes ..🌹🌹🤍🤍❤❤
How wonderful.
Magnificent, thank you again..
Love, love, love! Just wonderful! ❤️
Truly sublime!!
Impressive! The Voces8 produces great work consistently! The church ambiance and the participants dressing are great too!
I agree! And the guys are great in tuxes.
The acoustics of the space are a major factor of their cohesive sound - similar to that of the effect of Kings College Chapel, Cambridge to the resident choir there.
Golden Oldie from the gold book, standard Cathedral fare. Amazingly well done with 8 voices.
Glorious, much Christmas cheer indeed!
Absolutely beautiful
I used to sing this with my university ansamble... Love it♥️♥️♥️ Merry Christmas! 🥳
Exquisite...
Just beautiful, thank you.
Ich krieg mich nicht mehr ein sowas wunderbares und die entzückende Altistin und der Counter: eine Augenweide.
Die Soprane hätt ich gerne mal eingeladen zum persönlichen Konzert unterm Christbaum, die Herren dürften den Sound tragen .
Was für ein Fest! Vielen herzlichen Dank und frohe Weihnacht 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Glorious - really loved the driving pace of this performance, superb!
Thank you! Wonderful! A real Christmas gift!
Wonderful! Thank you so much for helping me to get into the spirit of the season!
Hi I sing in the namirembe cathedral choir and I love this song especially the trio I sing soprano it's an only men's choir so young boys sing soprano
wow. merry christmas to all of you.
Very beautiful vocal ensemble and gorgeous acoustics.
As good as it gets. Thank you for this after such a challenging year for all.
So stunning. I couldn't stop listening!
Best arrangement I've ever heard. The harmonies are so clean and feel so vibrant and alive. Thank you, and a very merry Christmas from Canada 🇨🇦 .
oh, this is excellent, beautiful and festive!
A wonderful and expressive version!
SUPERB!!! Wonderful arrangement marvelously performed. Especially loved the musical evocation of the text's reference to bell ringing in the last stanzas : the bells rang out joyfully in the vocal dynamics. "Oh, that I were there!"
You just bring joy to my soul!
Beautiful❤
What an amazing arrangement!! Love it. This is such a beautiful choir. 2:25
Great Joy! Wishing you a blessed Christmas and a New Year full of your glorious music, beloved 8
Wunderschööööööööön! Danke! Ein friedvolles gutes Jahr 2024! Grüße aus Germany!
Thank you! Beautiful 😀
Outside of the Regis Curia itself, this is surely unmatched. Just wonderful.
GLORIOUS!!!
Such a beautiful arrangement! The voices ring! Gorgeous
Beautiful, haunting arrangement and production of this evocative Christmas classic, thanks!
Perfection by iPad, I loved it
I love the empathetic juicy forcefulness of these voices!
Beautifully sung. Thank you. It brings back memories of when I sung it as a boy chorister many decades ago.
Beautiful as always may you all have a very Merry Christmas and a blessed and a Happy New Year. Thank you so much for bringing such beautiful joy into our lives through your music♥♥♥♥♥. I could listen to your singing for hours.
Wow ❤❤❤
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Merry Christmas, VOCES8!
You people are amazing! I sing in a chamber ensemble, so I really appreciate the difficulty of this kind of perfectio The little alto in the red dress is the one I watch most. She is so joyful and fills that inner harmony so beautifully and discretely. Trying to pick her voice out of the others is my challenge!
The way that chord locked in at 0:09 is just magical.
Beautiful performed🎄thank you
Wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing this beautiful arrangement and perfect performance, these videos are such treasures!
Thank you! Beautiful! Truly a great presentation of my favorite hymn.
Beautiful arrangement, sung so magnificently. And pretty Katie with that sultry alto voice. Wow!! Bravo, VOCES8!! 👏❤️
Pure perfection!
This is astounding and outstanding.
Top class 👍🇬🇧
Sehr, sehr schön! Habt ganz vielen Dank fürs Hochladen. Frohe Weihnachten und Frieden überall!!!
Absolutely stunning ! Thank you so very much for your continuing excellence and brilliance---world class indeed---and great happiness inducing. Merry Christmas eight times !
Thank you for this excellent performance. You don't just take a pill, or have a wand waved over you, to get such outstanding results. It takes work, and the employment of extraordinary talents, and we the audience are blessed by it. Merry Christmas! from a wet, chilly Oregon.
Perfect! Thank you!
Sublime! Beautifully arranged and sung.
Oooooh 'tis Yuletide once again and cold outside. No respite indoors however as the goosebumps are back.
o BRAVO ❤❤❤❤❤
Perfect, as always.
simple amazing voices 8
Lo sto ancora canticchiando tra me e me dopo mesi. Meraviglioso