VOCES8: Lully, Lulla, Lullay - Philip Stopford
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- VOCES8 sings Philip Stopford's setting of 'Lully, Lulla, Lullay' in St Stephen's Walbrook Church, London.
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
O sisters too,
How may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling,
For whom we sing,
By by, lully lullay?
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
Herod, the king,
In his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might,
In his own sight,
All young children to slay.
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
That woe is me,
Poor child for thee!
And ever morn and day,
For thy parting
Neither say nor sing
By by, lully lullay!
Lully, lulla, lully lulla
By by, lully lullay
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
By by, lully lullay
This song got me through a recent miscarriage. I listened at least 20 times a day and grieved. This song spoke to me. I felt connected to the process of saying goodbye to a child that would never grow up. You all sang it beautifully. You captured the nuance of sounding strong in the midst of a horrible ordeal, yet overcome with grief. Thank you so much. It may not sound like much, but your gift really helped me in a very dark time.
👐👐👐👐 im sorry to hear this. I hope that you continue to find peace and healing. 🦋💙🦋
❤️😟
God bless you.
My prayers are with you, please know that. I can't give words of healing, I can only let you know that you have my support, love and prayers. 🙏❤️
It sounds monumental to me. God give you peace.
For 25 years my school had a very good choir and 5th grade teacher who was one of the best musicians I will ever know this was one of his favorite pieces and we sang it every year at one of our special Christmas productions as of this fall 2024 I am one of the last 50 sum students who had him fully. this year we told our new choir director that no matter what we would sing this song at Christmas in his honor.
Mass of the ages got me here. How hauntingly beautiful
And MOTA is one of the most beautiful documentaries I've ever seen. So haunting the begining of episode 3
Same
LYRICS & EXPLANATION:
An ancient Carol from Coventry, reworked in the 21st century.
British composer Philip Stopford composed this version of the Coventry Carol in 2008.
The original Coventry Carol dates from the 16th century and was traditionally performed in Coventry as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors.
The rocking lullaby tells the story of the Massacre of the Innocents - when, after the birth of Jesus, King Herod ordered all male infants under the age of two to be killed.
It's sung though from a mother's perspective, as a beautiful lament for her doomed child.
The words are:
Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Lullay, thou little tiny Child,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
O sisters too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling for whom we do sing
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Herod, the king, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might, in his owne sight,
All young children to slay.
That woe is me, poor Child for Thee!
And ever mourn and sigh,
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Thank you for the words. It makes this hauntingly beautiful song very meaningful
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Thank you for all the information. Your comment is soooo underated....Thank you☺️
Thank you very much! This is the information we all love to get.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us, it enhances the song to understand it’s origin.
I've never heard a soprano with such control and clarity. The men are steady throughout and it's difficult to detect any breathing. Beautiful work.
America should get a full-time queen and Queen I ought to be that soprano.
Andrea Gaines is a wonder.
I listen because of the exquisite sound of them breathing out.😊
I vote this the best performed/recorded version of this song in existence. The acoustics are exquisite and the balance between men and women is perfect. World class voices on display here.
Something about this choir. They're just something else. Absolutely breathtaking.
They are incredible.
You said it. See separate comment above (or wherever it ends up). Just saw them live in a stroke of luck so huge I don't think anything in my musical life will ever match it. Not even close.
And they are also all very friendly and accessible. I have the chance to sing with them every summer at the Milton Abbey summer festival for 7 years now and it's a blast. This year it was cancelled due to the pandemic and that's a huge moment of my summer missing
Yes I find it equally breath taking. But lets hope they don’t lol
we sang this in choir last year for adjudication. the most beautiful piece ive performed to this day.
The most beautiful, moving, emotional song I have ever heard. Brings tears and gives me goosebumps everytime. Praying for all the innocent children all around the world. May our beloved Lord and the Holy Mary protect them all.
I just realized at the end those really long high notes are almost like screaming. Like anguished screaming as a mothers child is killed
Yet still so beautiful
We should all support these musicians. Through their artistry and craft - in normal times or pandemic terror - they give us light and beauty. They make us better, so we owe them.
I’m not catholic but I love catholic and orthodox hymns their so beautiful
@ 3:40 final soprano descant captured perfectly in passing by cameraman - props to the crew for a beautiful production.
I love all their voices especially the soprano. Her voice is soft, gentle, clean, and clear.
Hauntingly beautiful piece and rendition, and the soprano solo is otherworldly.
I can’t stop listening to this.
Unbelievable - Lets pray for peace as long as we are living - How could it be done better than through such a wonderful soulful vocal performance
I return and listen to this on a weekly basis. This is the best rendition I have ever heard. Hauntingly beautiful! Well done!
It’s just stunning
How can something like this exist and people not know about it?
Stroke of luck to find it on Spotify
It appears that I have a bona-fide obsession: I've listened to this on repeat about 20 times and have been listening for about an hour and a half. I just can't get over it. I don't know if someone should send help or join me.
It is a haunting yet beautiful piece of music. Look up it’s origins sometime, and it may touch and haunt you even more.
I'll join you. It sets the most beautiful mood
@@letsnotgothere6242 Me too. Listening to this after the death of someone close. Music delivers where words fail.
This melody is an earworm, like Pachelbel's Canon. Just go with it. It's so much better having this banging around in your head than commercials and top 40.
joined
This sweet yet somber lullaby played in my head while seeing the Pieta in Rome last year. Very powerful. Jesus’ entire life pointed to the Cross and the Blessed Mother knew that her heart would be pierced yet still beautifully and joyfully ponders. This song portrays this paradox so perfectly.
Thank you for your rich comment. May God bless you!
Certainly captures the mystery of life, the Cross and suffering.
Diction, Vowels, Balance, Rhythm, Intonation, etc etc.....perfection
I am always near bursting into tears with this song. I was born on the day of the Feast of Holy Innocents, which I learned after age 50. I often cry with this beautiful hymn, which will last for as many days as music remains on the Earth. My church choir recorded it during Covid outdoors in a parking garage and it's equally beautiful and haunting. Bless us.
I held my first grandchild for the first time yesterday and this song kept resonating in my heart. Her precious cooing is somehow entwined in these gorgeous tones! ❤ Stunningly beautiful!
Dear Voces 8,
Thank you! This is my all-time favourite song in your entire repetoire of - all my 'favourites'!!!
The words and music, and your combined musical skills in performing them, in this wonderful space - spaced out in the circle as you are - and all singing out into God's world (within and beyond the physical space) - this message of utter pain, evil and grief, yet, with an equally complete assurance & message of hope that "where two or more are gathered together in my name, there am I in [your] midst!".
Truly a song and message for us all, for eternity!
I was delighted (finally) to get to see and hear you in person in Buxton (Derbyshire) just a few days' ago, & to say hello!!!
I am still savouring the experience!!
Thank you all, for all you do to bring such moving, and uplifting experiences through music, words and voice.
Your - forever - Aussie fan, (in 'sunny!!' Buxton (not!))
Darcey xxxxxxxx
PS: Get well soon Andrea - your stand-in was fabulous, but you are simply my personal best of the best!!! (& heart-throb!!)
PPS: I discovered that I'll be singing as a 'real (low) bass' with the Halle choir at the Proms (later on the same day (Sunday 21 July), when you will all be singing your own Proms (while we are travelling down from Manchester!!!)
We are saying farewell to our much loved Sir Mark Elder, & singing a specially commissioned choral work by Sir James MacMillan: we love it, and hope to sing it with joy and love and fond forever-memories. (It will be broadcast live on BBC 4 TV!! (I'll be the good looking (fe-male) singer among the 'male' basses!!!)
I do hope you may get to see and hear us: we'll be giving of our best!!
I was legit crying like I haven't cried in a long time.
My soul ached for these children.
How did they burst out in tears while singing this?!!! it's so sad.
Why do most Christmas Carol's make me cry? Powerfully beautiful.
i be askin myself the same thing. and i dont know the answer.... when im alone with certain music is the only time I can cry
@@_215JuiceCredo che la nascita di un bambino porti sempre con sè commozione. Un bambino e' un dono del Cielo, le nostre lacrime di gioia ringraziano il nuovo esserino, augurandogli una vita bella🎶🌿🌟
@@_215JuiceSame!
A recent devastating loss led me back to this performance which I first heard about a year ago. Heartbreakingly beautiful and so emotional, perfection in vocal music. I cried and was comforted.
Simply my favourite song in all the world sung by my favourite vocal group in their ultimate member combination ever!!! Thank you.
Beautiful rendition of this carol.
Being a male growing up in the culture I was raised in, I struggle to let out my emotions through crying. Reading the lyrics and listening to this song gives me the ability to cry that otherwise I wouldn't be able to do. Thank you for the spiritual and emotional release. Your choir is a gift!
I a, so glad that tjos helps you. It I also love how it puts everyone in a calm like state, I sang this for my choir [saprano two] and seeing that everyone was calm and peaceful, they keep talking through out the whole thing but when we preformed this song it was silent. So happy it helped you!
Jesus himself wept, so don’t be afraid to let those emotions come out when you feel the need.
In manlier cultures of old, crying (when there was a legitimate reason) was not a shameful thing for a man. Losing their temper was seen as much more shameful. Pick a book from the XIX century or older; you will see that the heroes sometimes cry, but they never give themselves to anger no matter the circumstances. The villains, on the other hand, are prone to fits of blind rage at the smallest provocation.
Beautiful beyond words.. warmed my heart ..
This is absolutely gorgeous! I love Philip Stopford's music. VOCES8 are outstanding!
There must be fools that run around on RUclips clicking "thumbs down" randomly on whatever they come across because there is no way, unless you're utterly tone deaf or just plain malicious, that a person could honestly find this anything less than deeply, hauntingly beautiful!
It's bots unfortunately, but you're correct
I had the luck 45 years at school really to study english church music at A level (passed Grade B)
You are the new perctionists!!!!
4:19 the bass’ Db with the tenors’ C create one of the most beautiful dissonances i’ve ever heard
That is so lovely it hurts.
Mastery at so many levels. And serious thanks to the recording engineers for doing this justice....
This song is so simple, yet not very easy. You have to sing with a hollow sound and a straight tone which can be hard. They did a very good job. So crisp, clear, powerful, yet gentle. And nice dynamics and emotion 👍
Yes vibrato strictly forbidden !😉
I love this make me cry sometimes but knowing there safe in heaven and where they belong love ur children and protect them
Magnifique, merci beaucoup ! ❤
My favorite setting of this carol, sung by my favorite choral group. Deceptively simple in construction, ridiculously difficult to pull off to this level. Wonderful
My goal is to build a small ensemble of passionate vocalists like Voces8. I absolutely love to listen to and sing choral music of every era.
Go do it! My best wishes for you!
Same here, it's been hell finding singers interested and even mildly competent in this style.
It would be fun to be in a group singing these songs.
I’d certainly be interested! That’s been my dream too! 😃
go for it, bro!
These people can sing. Absolutely fantastic.
This song just help me to carry on during hard times, loss of autonomy and intense pain. It sounds like an hymn for hope. When I lose faith in humanity that kind of songs that travels through space and time touch my soul. Thank you deeply for this priceless feeling, angels voices.
Exquisite
My choir director told us we were doing this piece for our Christmas concert this year and showed us this video. I teared up. I'm so so excited to learn and perform this!
Ayyy. Our madrigal choir is singing this this season. And it’s sooooo beautiful
Ayyy you talking about St Henry Chamber
My Acapella group is singing this and I’m so excited to perform it
Its such a beautiful song 😊
So beautiful; this brings me to the brink of tears every time I hear it. Thanks to Eleanor for singing the descant so effortlessly; you float to the high "Ab" magnificently and flawlessly, while not rushing it. Thanks to all for the exquisite performance. Many thanks to you and Mr. Stopford for bringing the pain behind the biblical text to memory in an awesome and simply wondrous way: it causes one to think and meditate. I'd give you a thousand "likes" for this performance if I could. God bless you all.
So beautiful. Thank you..
The most perfect singing group I have ever been blessed to hear.
I love that church. The altar is by Henry Moore.
I sang this song in a choir and I was fighting to hold back tears I managed to not break key but it was very difficult .one of my favorite songs
If you are in any kind of pain listen to VOCES8, it will definitely heal you. Wow!!!!!!!!!
Oh, Matt that's true. Even I was the member of the University Chember Choir - Voices 8 are really excellent, we can feel their souls and hearts. Thanks.
So miss singing in choirs; this is a stunningly beautiful piece, superbly done.
My school choir did this and we sang it for our Christmas concert and a few of us sang it at the March For Life. This is the best song in the world!
Thank you this song speaks to me of love and loss and grief we avoid talking about at Christmas. It also speaks of hope...
on Christmas 2023 we see the same horrors that happened thousands of years ago. How heartbreaking 💔
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
Beautifully stunning.
Such lovely sounds echoing through my heart. I was so disappointed to hear the screaming advertisement from RUclips before I could adequately think to pause the play. Please RUclips... rethink what you are doing with these obnoxious advertisements and do not desecrate the solemnity or sanctity of the after-moments of performances such as this miracle of sound. Think harder about what you do. But thank you VOCES8 for sharing this with us.
Absolutely stunning performance and arrangement.
The usual flawless ensemble and intonation by VOCES8, which should not be taken for granted, but this is also some brilliant camera work, making the singers seem to spin even as they stand still ( I had to wonder if it were more difficult to be singing separated and facing away from each other.) and beautiful use of the late afternoon sun through one window to highlight the singers.A gorgeous video!
Has there ever been vocal music better/more beautiful than what this group produces? I think not. What a joy and blessing, and a healing of heart, to listen.
I just re-watched this many times again tonight while trying to catch up on some work. The entire piece & performance is magnificent and simply world class... but then the descant comes in at 3:40 and nothing else matters anymore. It happens every. single. time.
Your voices are holy, a comfort, a calming. I wish all the other noise of the world besides nature could be turned off so the ears of the world could hear this music and be healed. Thank you for contributing to the healing of the world. I love the Coventry Carol, I never heard this version. I wonder how god-like you must feel with voices that come out of your throats sounding like this, it's such a gift to you, and to all of us. PS. I respect the fact that none of you scratch your face or fidget, if I were one of you I would have such a hard time standing still with my arms at my sides, that is a talent too!
I am beyond words, beautiful.
Just what I needed to go to bed tonight. Thank you.
We sang this in choir
Voces8 --- exquisite sensitive choral singing that comes from each one of your souls. Absolutely a personal listening experience every time you sing. Seamless glorious sound beyond words. This is a beautiful composition that is sung with sincerity and a command of musical interpretation, blend, pitch, lyrics and dynamics. Thk you!
My school is currently practicing this song in music class for our upcoming concert. So far, it sounds pretty much just like this. Nice job 😃👍
THE ENDING GET ME EVERY TIME!
ME 2!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exquisite on every level. Each voice is beautiful. The fact that you sing absolutely in sync while facing AWAY from each other astounds me. The acoustics of the church are luscious. High accolades to VOCES8 recording engineers for their wonderful capture of these voices!
This is exquisite
Kyle Reese: (reciting John Connor's message) Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist...
How am I seeing this in 2021, a beautiful piece that was released on May 24, 2019 and today is May 31, 2021… so beautiful ❤️❤️
Heard this for the first time at midnight mass tonight at St. Aphege Church in Solihull and was just like wow....what is this? After googling it its actually an ancient carol from just down the road in Coventry re-arranged by Philip Stopford recently. Really beautiful, the chord changes in the chorus just sound soooo good. This group do it very well. Already my favourite carol and the first time I think I've ever paid attention to choral music.
beautiful
They have to be literal angels. There is no other explanation. I am in awe
Takes my breathe away!!!
Oh my goodness.... this is just so lovely.
No matter how many times I listen to this and watch you sing it, my heart is stirred to wonder that something so beautiful exists on this earth.
This is the only Christmas choral work by another composer that I wish I had written myself! It is hauntingly beautiful and so deeply moving.
Sorry, it's mine! ;-)
@@philipstopford Ha! I have a beautiful recording of your carol performed by some of my former pupils/choristers from the Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool. I look forward to singing/directing it again when people can get back together.
Absolutely stunning.. Wow
THIS IS beautiful, gives me shivers. A very emotional song, I felt the emotions before I knew what it really was about!
I wish I can listen to this live ahh I love this song it has so much sadness and purity TT
Close my eyes and feel magic everytime i listen to this wonderful angle voices. Gives me a kind of power, let me cry and feeling good at the same time. It`s like a cleaning of my soul. Thank you for this!
This haunting arrangement and flawless execution by Voces8 helped me to understand this carol in a whole new way.
Beautiful piece. Stunning performance.
Great acoustics enhance the most beautiful vocals.
Not even close to perfection. This IS perfection. 👌💖
That is frighteningly beautiful.
Thank you all.
Holy, Holy, Holy. Bless VOCES8.
That feeling of having your head & heart rest for a while. Where you are safe and you can just enjoy the moment. To me feels like: I’m in between trees and sunbeams are falling from everywhere, it’s still dawn but the sky is clear. I have arrived at my destination almost. It’s that perfect step before arriving, where the storm is gone (struggle to keep moving on your journey) but you are enjoying the last part without having to move on to the next phase, so you rest at that moment.
Exquisite . Bravo!🙏👏👏👏
Breathtakingly beautiful
Philip Stopford + Voces8 = heavenly bliss!
Stunning as ever, thank you for bring such beauty into the world
Beautiful simply beautiful voices like angels :'(.
A very true sad tale re-written , but such a beautifully sang harmony that brings an undertone of reflection of how things used to be, Those day's are OVER,
Nevertheless we must not forget the innocent pay so many times for those who are consumed with power and insecurity.
A wonderful haunting reminder sang and arranged so well ,
It is Beautiful .
D..
Semplicemente meraviglia allo stato puro fantasticiiiiiii.