May his memory be for a blessing. I lost my mother five months ago. Coincidentally my teenager had sung this (the top soprano part) just a few months before.
As we left the church at my darling husband’s funeral I had this recording played. I cry every time I hear it but i need to hear it every day - it gives me hope.
This was a great favourite of my late husband. Played at his funeral and I now turn to it when I need solace and remember my loving husband. Magnificent choral work.
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” - Benjamin Britten
Thank you for sharing this quote Caryn. I would love to include it in my mother's funeral order of service, but I think it best to keep it for my own personal meaning, as it really captures so much about my relationship with my mother.
Our father has just passed away. I find this music so beautiful. He loved Elgar. “When I hear music I fear no danger, I am invulnerable. I see no foe.” Henry David Thoreau
When I worked in Central London, I used to pop into this church to hear free 'dinner time' music - always something to appreciate, but this is exceptional.
This was the recording that introduced me to VOCES8 as I searched for a version of Nimrod. I have been following VOCES8 ever since and I keep coming back to this recording. It is utterly sublime and so moving. It would be one of my Desert Island Discs - if I am ever famous enough to be invited onto the programme!! 😏
My mother died this week. This came to my rescue. I have always loved the Elgar original, and this choral arrangement is sublime as a Requiem. Thank you for a magnificent performance.
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua leceat eis. (May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord, with Thy saints forever, for Thou art Kind. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.)
To me, Elgar created the most amazing shimmering sound in this movement. It seems perfect to go with this sacred text: eternal light. Typically, Voces8 delivers a profoundly brilliant performance.
To those who are unfamiliar with music, this song is ridiculously difficult to get through. Each part acts as it’s own beast, and you must not only know YOUR part, but everyone else’s part to a T for it to pay off the way it’s supposed to. This is a beautiful performance, made all the more impressive by the difficulty of the piece.
The hardest part of singing this in my choir I think was getting the long phrases smooth and not dying from the excruciating interval jumps. Of course you need to know others' parts to know when your beat is. (Dunno why but there indeed are many people who blissfully count their long note's length in their own head, disregarding what's happening... even soloists. So it's definitely a skill that some have to work for.)
Just wanted to say thank you. I’ve just returned from my grandmother’s cremation service and this was the most beautiful piece of choral music I have ever heard. I chose this piece for her last journey down the aisle before her body departed from this world. Thank you VOCES8. Love to you all. ✝️✡️
Came here via their recording of Underneath The Stars - Kate Rusby and it goes without saying I'm glad I did. What a pleasure to hear this arrangement, I'm obviously aware of the verison played on Remberance Sunday, but to hear words put to the music is thrilling and so so moving. I also appreciated the touching Comments. Perfect & Thank you and peace to you all.
I heard this on the radio a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I was quite aware of Nimrod, but not of the addition of the wonderful Lux Aeterna text. My dear friend, who is declining rapidly with dementia, totally fell in love with this setting, and is moved to tears whenever I play it for her. Between losing her, and my own mother's terminal illness, this arrangement not only provides beauty, but some comfort in the pain of loss.
Exquisitely beautiful interpretation of this imaginative setting of "Nimrod" (Enigma Variations). Though the text is from the ordinary of the funeral mass, the theme of eternal light is singularly appropriate for these challenging times. Profound thanks for this lovely musical offering. Later -- two years later. Christmas Eve 2022 -- and again and again I return to this inspiring amalgam of text and music. At now 82, and mostly housebound, it is musical settings and renderings such as these.that keep my faith alive in my silent solitude. Thank you, Voces 8 for your inspired musical ministry to a rather derelect former choirmaster and chorister. Christmas blessings to you all!
Garywait3231, you have perfectly expressed my personal thoughts and I adopt your heartfelt comments as my own. Thank you, Voces8, and warm wishes to all the other former choral directors and singers, especially those who might be homebound or living with physical impairments. God bless you and keep you in the palm of his hand.
@@RobertChastain : My heartfelt thanks, and best New Year's wishes to you, for your kind words. And thanks to groups like Voces 8 who give us such a blessed foretaste of the music of the spheres!
Some music affects a certain part of the brain. The harmony and beauty of this piece always brings tears to my eyes, whether I am listening to it or playing it.
Of the Voices in particular: The only Superlatives I could add to those already used in the comments: Vox Angelus Of the Room: We often say: "The Room is the other half of the Paino/Forte"; This Room uplifts, supports and enhances this spectacular sound (and am sure it's why they chose it over others)... No Coincidence. With all our Technology, it's still hard to say we've mastered the art/science of Room Crafting. Many Years of Good health and Joyful performances to all the crew!
first second i listened to it in class beside my friend, I looked at her and she was so confused and concerned and my facial expressions, and I don't blame her, I am still awe struck 🤩❤️ i have always wondered if this piece had been arranged for a choir and here it is❤️
Sublime and haunting . One of the most beautiful and sad pieces of music I have ever heard. Perhaps only equalled by Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings.
Masterful voices producing mind-blowing vocal control, balance and blend. VOCES8 infuse heart and soul while executing this so effortlessly. Thank you again for a beautiful performance.
As intimate and intense as "Nimrod" is in the orchestral version, the intensity is magnified and focused by an octet of choral voices. As of that weren't enough, the text of the prayer "Lux Aeterna" from the Latin Requiem Mass further sharpens the impact. This is powerfully unbearable in the very best of ways. Samuel Barber's "Adagio" treated similarly is on a par with this. This music and sound is almost too beauiful.
Eternal rest grant unto her, Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her! And though the mercy of God, may all the faithful departed rest in peace. Hail Mary, Full of Grace… Amen. And may our Lord Jesus Christ and all the angels and saints, especially Our Blessed Mother, comfort you and pray for the repose of your dear wife’s soul. Amen. God bless you, brother!
Exquisite! Young people making such beautiful music gives hope that this troubled world has a better future coming, and harmony indeed can rule in this world and in our souls; Godspeed
It was the late Prince Philip's funeral that led me to hear this music. It was one of the songs he selected to be played at his funeral, and it was indeed played at the Windsor Castle.
I find it impossible to describe in words how much this blows me away. Awe-inspiring, sublime, perfect, holiness personified, truly inspired by God, pure beauty, ecstasy and SO much more. Thank you SO much. You are beautiful. Praise God for evermore! 👍😇
Eternal rest grant unto her, Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her! And through the mercy of God, may all the faithful departed rest in peace. Hail Mary, Full of Grace… Amen. And may our Lord Jesus Christ and all the angels and saints, especially Our Blessed Mother, comfort you and pray for the repose of your dear mother’s soul. Amen. God bless you, Sister!
This always reminds of remembrance sunday which commemorates all those who died in WW1 and WW2 it always brings tears to my eyes when I think of all the young men who died in such awful scenes,
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いい歌です。合唱しました。
一緒に歌った友人が、コロナ期間で会えないなかで病気で天国へ。葬儀でこの曲を流しました。
This provides me comfort tonight, on the passing of my father. Thank you.
May he rest in peace.🕯😔
May he rest in eternal light, peace and joy
Dave, my father is gone too, but he lives inside me every day.
This was played at my Mum's funeral. It gave me comfort too. x
May his memory be for a blessing. I lost my mother five months ago. Coincidentally my teenager had sung this (the top soprano part) just a few months before.
Absolutely nailed it. I could listen to this on repeat for eternity.
It’s a most beautiful affirmation of how the human voice can be a musical instrument all its own.
As we left the church at my darling husband’s funeral I had this recording played. I cry every time I hear it but i need to hear it every day - it gives me hope.
I wish you peace of mind
What a beautiful tribute to your husband....
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This was a great favourite of my late husband. Played at his funeral and I now turn to it when I need solace and remember my loving husband. Magnificent choral work.
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
- Benjamin Britten
Thank you for sharing this quote Caryn. I would love to include it in my mother's funeral order of service, but I think it best to keep it for my own personal meaning, as it really captures so much about my relationship with my mother.
Gorgeous and profound.
thank you
not only music : The English patient is a fantastic and cruel movie
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Our father has just passed away. I find this music so beautiful. He loved Elgar.
“When I hear music I fear no danger, I am invulnerable. I see no foe.” Henry David Thoreau
When I worked in Central London, I used to pop into this church to hear free 'dinner time' music - always something to appreciate, but this is exceptional.
This was the recording that introduced me to VOCES8 as I searched for a version of Nimrod. I have been following VOCES8 ever since and I keep coming back to this recording.
It is utterly sublime and so moving.
It would be one of my Desert Island Discs - if I am ever famous enough to be invited onto the programme!! 😏
Mine too. Earmarked for my own funeral!
My mother died this week. This came to my rescue. I have always loved the Elgar original, and this choral arrangement is sublime as a Requiem. Thank you for a magnificent performance.
May this music comfort your soul and guide your mother to her eternal light and peace, greetings from the Netherlands.
@@jan-pietervanwaasbergen2441 Thank you so much. That means a great deal to me.
This is giving me consolation and solace as I, like many, process the passing of Her Majesty.
Thank you, Ma'am, for everything.
The most beautiful rendition of this masterpiece ever recorded in my humble opinion!
There are not enough superlatives. Nothing but perfection from the best vocal group on the planet. Bravo.
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.
Requiem aeternam
dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua leceat eis.
(May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord, with Thy saints forever,
for Thou art Kind.
Eternal rest
give to them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.)
my soul floats upon the notes of the sopranos even though as a tenor I could never reach such heights but this is heavenly to listen to over & over
❤👊🏽🤗
The tenor line is gorgeous!! Tenors have some beautiful parts in choral music, and so do basses as well. 💛✨
Love your work. Elgar is smiling in heaven❤
To me, Elgar created the most amazing shimmering sound in this movement. It seems perfect to go with this sacred text: eternal light. Typically, Voces8 delivers a profoundly brilliant performance.
To those who are unfamiliar with music, this song is ridiculously difficult to get through. Each part acts as it’s own beast, and you must not only know YOUR part, but everyone else’s part to a T for it to pay off the way it’s supposed to. This is a beautiful performance, made all the more impressive by the difficulty of the piece.
Chamber music at its finest
I completely agree. But, I would venture that this is true of all singing bar solos. I make a point of knowing everyone's parts.
I guess if some thing is worth the challenge then it’s worth doing it well. What a beautiful performance.
Played this at the end of my mothers memorial service. Everyone was saying “What is this ? It’s so beautiful.
The hardest part of singing this in my choir I think was getting the long phrases smooth and not dying from the excruciating interval jumps. Of course you need to know others' parts to know when your beat is. (Dunno why but there indeed are many people who blissfully count their long note's length in their own head, disregarding what's happening... even soloists. So it's definitely a skill that some have to work for.)
I return to this recording again and again and again, and I’m stunned, humbled and refreshed every time.
Yes, I do the same and my response is also the same. It is an exquisite piece.
It's simply sublime. I can't get enough of it.
Always a beautiful piece, but this rendition, by these 8 people, is stunning.
Remembering all lost at Sea, a beautiful rendering. From
RN Veteran UK 🇬🇧.
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That last note sounds like a great organ with all the stops pulled out. Incredible.
Indeed! Compare it with Diane Bish’s rendition on the great organ in Texas. Completely overpowering are both works.
What an incredible pleasure it is to listen to these amazing singers!
Perfect. That last word Requiem sung by Voces8 is the most beautiful sound imaginable.
A most wonderful recording. It can’t get any better than this !. Absolutely Marvellous.
Great beauty. Such sounds. Grateful thanks.
Just wanted to say thank you. I’ve just returned from my grandmother’s cremation service and this was the most beautiful piece of choral music I have ever heard. I chose this piece for her last journey down the aisle before her body departed from this world. Thank you VOCES8. Love to you all. ✝️✡️
Your talent is off the scale! Just magic!!
Came here via their recording of Underneath The Stars - Kate Rusby and it goes without saying I'm glad I did. What a pleasure to hear this arrangement, I'm obviously aware of the verison played on Remberance Sunday, but to hear words put to the music is thrilling and so so moving. I also appreciated the touching Comments. Perfect & Thank you and peace to you all.
Superb, how do they make such beautiful harmonies that gel together so seamlessly. It is beyond words.
Thank you so much
Yes it is beyond words- it’s music.
As you look and listen it's almost impossible to believe these sounds are coming from mere mortals.
So pure, such discipline. I love this version.
I heard this on the radio a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I was quite aware of Nimrod, but not of the addition of the wonderful Lux Aeterna text. My dear friend, who is declining rapidly with dementia, totally fell in love with this setting, and is moved to tears whenever I play it for her. Between losing her, and my own mother's terminal illness, this arrangement not only provides beauty, but some comfort in the pain of loss.
Exquisitely beautiful interpretation of this imaginative setting of "Nimrod" (Enigma Variations). Though the text is from the ordinary of the funeral mass, the theme of eternal light is singularly appropriate for these challenging times. Profound thanks for this lovely musical offering.
Later -- two years later. Christmas Eve 2022 -- and again and again I return to this inspiring amalgam of text and music. At now 82, and mostly housebound, it is musical settings and renderings such as these.that keep my faith alive in my silent solitude. Thank you, Voces 8 for your inspired musical ministry to a rather derelect former choirmaster and chorister. Christmas blessings to you all!
Garywait3231, you have perfectly expressed my personal thoughts and I adopt your heartfelt comments as my own. Thank you, Voces8, and warm wishes to all the other former choral directors and singers, especially those who might be homebound or living with physical impairments. God bless you and keep you in the palm of his hand.
@@RobertChastain : My heartfelt thanks, and best New Year's wishes to you, for your kind words. And thanks to groups like Voces 8 who give us such a blessed foretaste of the music of the spheres!
3:36 - WELL-now... THAT. was Wonderful.
Light Eternal.
Thanks you Jesus for Grace!!
Glorious. Thank you all, VOCES8, so much. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Sublime. Inimitable. Perfect. God touching this world.
Thanks Gregory - the Lord's gift of voice in action.
Yes... I’m weeping listening to this.
Exquisite, the pleasure of listening to this never dims, thank you so much
Only ever listened to orchestral, have to say this is just beautiful. Thank you.
Some music affects a certain part of the brain. The harmony and beauty of this piece always brings tears to my eyes, whether I am listening to it or playing it.
Absolutely Heavenly 💖🎶
This is what it feels like when a piece of music resonates with not only your heart but soul .
I love this song. My highschool choir performed this song and it was beautiful to sing.
If I've commented before, I must again. I've heard VOCES8 several times live and they always stir something in me.
What a breathtaking and beautiful rendition of this well known tune. I stumbled across them by accident but am completely blow away.
Of the Voices in particular: The only Superlatives I could add to those already used in the comments: Vox Angelus
Of the Room: We often say: "The Room is the other half of the Paino/Forte"; This Room uplifts, supports and enhances this spectacular sound (and am sure it's why they chose it over others)... No Coincidence. With all our Technology, it's still hard to say we've mastered the art/science of Room Crafting. Many Years of Good health and Joyful performances to all the crew!
The purest form of this piece yet, a way to take in its absolute essence.
Wow, simply stunning. Thank you.
No greater beauty in sound is there than the human voice in harmony with others.
Thanks for reuploading, so I can like it twice
Always think there is a lack of appreciation for just how seamless is the performance… no matter the personnel, always flawless… just wow
Just Amazing. Helping me through the loss of my Mum. Thanks guys, you're absolutely stunningly brilliant
Absolutely beautiful! Hard to exceed. Heavenly singing.
Well...as far as I am concerned...this performance for me; that there's just no other...THANK YOU!!!...THANK YOU!!...THANK YOU!!!!....
Breathless.......spectacular. Just beautiful...
I don't know how this even possible with just human voices, it's distilled beauty! Unbelievable!
first second i listened to it in class beside my friend, I looked at her and she was so confused and concerned and my facial expressions, and I don't blame her, I am still awe struck 🤩❤️ i have always wondered if this piece had been arranged for a choir and here it is❤️
So beautiful. I plan to have this at my funeral. Light eternal - perfect
Always a moving beautiful piece, never imagined it could get even better. Already tingling, at 2:15 I think my knees went.
Sublime and haunting .
One of the most beautiful and sad pieces of music I have ever heard. Perhaps only equalled by Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings.
Oh, England, England, artistically you are still far ahead of the continent! Love and regards!
Breathtaking. It brings me such joy knowing beauty like this exists on earth and we have access to it when we need it.
Amazing ensemble and great moving music ❤
Masterful voices producing mind-blowing vocal control, balance and blend. VOCES8 infuse heart and soul while executing this so effortlessly. Thank you again for a beautiful performance.
As intimate and intense as "Nimrod" is in the orchestral version, the intensity is magnified and focused by an octet of choral voices. As of that weren't enough, the text of the prayer "Lux Aeterna" from the Latin Requiem Mass further sharpens the impact. This is powerfully unbearable in the very best of ways. Samuel Barber's "Adagio" treated similarly is on a par with this. This music and sound is almost too beauiful.
Pure genius..... a gift of God. Thank you.
What a wonderful harmony...especially last sound, it's like pipe organ.
This is impressive, comforting and, in a way, relaxing. I love this job. very grateful.
So, beautifully done. I can't help but weep listening to it
We played this at my wifes funeral. Thank you all.
Eternal rest grant unto her, Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her! And though the mercy of God, may all the faithful departed rest in peace. Hail Mary, Full of Grace… Amen.
And may our Lord Jesus Christ and all the angels and saints, especially Our Blessed Mother, comfort you and pray for the repose of your dear wife’s soul. Amen. God bless you, brother!
Prachtige muziek, deze vertolking door 8 zangers is adembenemend ❤
wow...just wow. thankyou
Just watched/listened for about the 97th time. Still wept.
Exquisite! Young people making such beautiful music gives hope that this troubled world has a better future coming, and harmony indeed can rule in this world and in our souls; Godspeed
MAGNIFICENT!!! Right down to the height of the music stands. WOW!
God bless you all, VOCES8❣️ I turn to you when my heart is heavy. You bring me peace and comfort. Thank you so very much ❤️
These people have the voice of angels! x
Moved - first to tears, then to action. Stunning.
Breath taking thank you so much for sharing your beautiful performance x
just wonderful. i cant stop listen to it one day after another ... very very nice ... love the soprano also very much
I've never heard this done so well. Bravo.
Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.
It was the late Prince Philip's funeral that led me to hear this music. It was one of the songs he selected to be played at his funeral, and it was indeed played at the Windsor Castle.
if this doesn't dig deep into your soul and stir emotions.. you're not human
this is the sound of Heaven!
Thanks Joseph - a very heavenly sound from a gift of God...
Thats why its called Eternal Light
Tears..sublime beauty
I find it impossible to describe in words how much this blows me away. Awe-inspiring, sublime, perfect, holiness personified, truly inspired by God, pure beauty, ecstasy and SO much more. Thank you SO much. You are beautiful. Praise God for evermore! 👍😇
Beautiful rendition. 😊
Awesome
This so absolutely beautiful and It got me bit emotional
I love singing more tbh and I also the instrumental
For my 97 year old mother who just departed this life. Lux Aeterna!
Eternal rest grant unto her, Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her! And through the mercy of God, may all the faithful departed rest in peace. Hail Mary, Full of Grace… Amen.
And may our Lord Jesus Christ and all the angels and saints, especially Our Blessed Mother, comfort you and pray for the repose of your dear mother’s soul. Amen. God bless you, Sister!
This always reminds of remembrance sunday which commemorates all those who died in WW1 and WW2 it always brings tears to my eyes when I think of all the young men who died in such awful scenes,
Listening to the Royal band playing it at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day is well worth the effort and expense to get there.
Ich liebe es. Dankeschön
this has me sobbing every time i hear it-glorious
🌸🌸🌸🥰ありがとうございました❣️
This was played at a family member's funeral, such a powerful piece of music
Overwhelmingly beautiful! ❤️
Amazing!
Superbe!
Maravilhoso!
Sound of heavens!
Thank's for this eternal moment!
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I would like to have this recording played at my funeral.
Perfect!
This is quite magical ! Thanks a lot for an amazing piece! Her voice is perfect, sadly she left the group😢
The sound is incredible!
Andrea the soprano 1, is still with V8