VOCES8: Nesciens Mater (Jean Mouton)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- VOCES8 sings Jean Mouton’s masterpiece 'Nesciens Mater' at the VOCES8 Centre in London. The performance was part of the group's Live From London 'Christmas Cracker' concert.
Tickets available here: page.inplayer....
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Nesciens mater virgo virum
peperit sine dolore
salvatorem saeculorum.
Ipsum regem angelorum
sola virgo lactabat,
ubere de caelo pleno.
TRANSLATION
Knowing no man, the Virgin mother
bore, without pain,
the Saviour of the world.
Him, the king of angels,
only the Virgin suckled,
breasts filled by heaven.
Jean Mouton's Nesciens Mater Virgo Virum was published five hundred years ago this year - in 1521. I am sure he would be touched by Voces8's skilled and sympathetic rendition, half a millennium on.
Voces 8 is on another planet. This recording is chill-inducing, absolute sublimity. Gold standard.
An absolutely spellbinding rendition of a particularly beautiful Renaissance Christmas motet. Just when you think Voces8 can’t get any more wonderful …
Superb. Is there a better vocal group on the planet, I say no.
NO!
They are hands down the best. 🙏🏼
Well, not by a big margin, but I think Huelgas Ensemble is in a league of its own. Not in every kind of repertoire but in franco-flemish polyphony - hell yes. Even Paul McCreesh said once that this is how the Renaissance polyphony should sound. Check, for example, Gradual from Richafort's Requiem: ruclips.net/video/byoZq1cjbfc/видео.html
This shows the delicate craft of VOCES8. I play this regularly as it is incredibly beautiful and soothing. I can now pick out each part and ride the different streams within the whole.
All performers are excellent in this. However, Katie’s beautiful voice, assurance, and intermingling lead brings this work to a subtle, though magnificent focus.
This motet is a quadruple canon, fashioned to represent the earthy and heavenly choirs (8 parts total).
How music can be so academic yet wondrously beautiful is quite the conundrum!
How is it that this amazing group has less than 200k subs? Should be in the millions.
yes it should, but...most people don't like classical music, most classical music fans don't love early music, most early music fans focus on the Baroque, most early music fans don't like sacred music, half of the sacred music fans don't like Renaissance Catholic music, some of the purists that do don't like VOCES8, because they try to 'mix and match' so, the field narrows surprisingly quickly, it seems to me :(
What Laurie said. But thank God they do what they do!
The alto voices are especially stunning here ❤️
There are so many words to describe this performance - perfectly balanced harmony, pure bliss, aural poetry.
This thought has come to mind many times - VOCES8 has magnificent sound engineers.
I used to think the magic was significantly on the sound engineers until I saw some videos where they are singing with another choir live and quite informally without any apparent preparation and still it was quite perfect, including the massive presence of the basses. They are just impossibly good, we have to live with that
VOCES8. just has magnificent sound, full stop.
Sublime. My favorite vocal group.
moi aussi
amazing how just eight voices sound like so many more-just spellbinding:)
I have to admit I'd only ever heard this being performed by a full choir and orchestra and thought that performance was the best, but this rendition has blown my mind! As an ex-chorister of many, many moons ago, this performance has to rank as one of the most superb pieces of Choral Music I've heard. I cannot add to the comments already made, except to add, how can just 8 voices produce such a crystal clear and balanced sound that produced tears of joy and utter calmness! Beautiful!!!
Jean Mouton is my favourite polyphony composer. His Salva Nos is also fantastic, especially when you're familiar with its Cantus Firmus.
I second that emotion
Simply beautiful, Such a gorgeous song. Merry Christmas and joy be with you!
Congratulations. Beautiful interpretation.
I really admire your ensemble, beautiful flexible voices .... I adore the voice and timbre of the mezzo-soprano Katie Jeffries!
Merry Christmas and long live the music !!!!!
Repertuar godny Mistrzów. Dziękuję serdecznie. PL
Inexpressibly beautiful. As Aldous Huxley wrote:
From pure sensation to the intuition of beauty, from pleasure and pain to love and the mystical ecstasy and death - all the things that are fundamental, all the things that, to the human spirit, are most profoundly significant, can only be experienced, not expressed. The rest is always and everywhere silence.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley “Music at Night”
WOW!
wait to go , Al
Absolutely beautiful piece of music and incredible singing!
A favourite piece of Christmas music: for years, I've listened to the Monteverdi choir and JEG but you folks top it definitely. This needs to be sung in a larger, empty church with resonance :)
This is the most beautiful I've ever heard (and I did several times this evening!). Brilliant. Heavenly. Perfect. Touching me deep inside. You are angels. Masters. Make me happy. God bless you all!
This should be Voces8's signature piece! The emotion emanates forth from each singer. On most Voces8 selections I attempt to sing along, yet on this one I am too emotionally overcome to partake. A true 'Masterpiece' performance, and one I treasure!
Music full of beauty - wonderful singing!
Thank all of you for lifting our spirits, as well as lifting & brightening any environment that 'hears' your lovely voices. ♥️
Merry Christmas. 🎄
What can I add to the perfect eulogies of other listeners? Makes one forget what’s unpleasant in this world. Superb voices!!!
Your music helps me through some very difficult times, thank you.
Magnifique ! bravo, 8 Voces, vous êtes les voix des anges !
Tres beau et inspirant!
A glimpse of heaven. Thank you. ❤️
It sounds beautiful even in August 🙂I´m melting... but not from the heat!
An absolutely stunning performance of this beautiful music. Also an excellent recording. Thank you all.
Tout est merveille , dans l'âme , le cœur et la voix .....Les mots me manquent tat je suis comblé par ces beautés sublimement interprétées comme la pureté de ces visages si
So wondrous and beautiful-brings me to tears every time I listen to this-thank you Voces8 you're amazing!
Voces8, you're unique harmony of 'angel'voices, also in this song Nesciens Mater brings us Mother Mary in our heart (again), it opens our doors and gives us the pure love, peace, gratitude and equality in our brother- and sisterhood. Voces8, you have to sing this song in every country > peace on earth! 🙏
I'm always mindblowing by the clarity of your voices together ! That's when we hear this that we know you have a very deep relationship ! Many bravo !
So sublime. So perfect. Thank you all. Watching the beautiful faces singing as one. Does it get better? No, it does not.
this is real ensemble singing in style.... thank you
Exquisite! Thank you 👏👏👏💖🌹
🕊🌟🕊
ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING
🙏💜🙏
💜🎵💜
As always a perfectly sung motet by Voces8.
Balance, intonation and timing are meticulously well done. I don’t know any better choir as this 8 voices group of singers.
DIVINAL.
I've always been very fond of the performance of this work by Henry's Eight. But this rendition tops it, easily. What a clarity, what a balance in the different voices. Thank you so much.
Voces 8 are my favourite vocal ensemble and the competition is stiff..there are so many wonderful ones Kings singers chanticleer . But what does it for me is the the combination of male and female and maybe just a bit of subjective partiality! I like their personalities and have enjoyed them online during the pandemic. They came out to Australia and performed at my local concert hall Ukaria.
Beautiful! Thank you for all of the incredible music you share with the world!
Please record Mouton's Hodie Christus Natus est soon! It's a real gem and in need of a great recording!
This is absolutely sublime. Am I in Heaven or still on Earth?
Good piece. But there are better ones from Lassus, Gesualdo, Byrd, Palestrina or Dufay.
One of my early renaissance favourites, thank you!
Thank you for an absolutely wonderful performance🍃
We of course miss Eleonore, but we warmly welcome Molly, who with her is shown that Voces8 is as excellent as ever.
Possibly the best-looking vocal ensemble south of Rochdale.
Frankly I doubt that I will ever hear finer or more moving singing.
Worthy of Heaven its self.
Merry Christmas 🎄 everyone, and peace to all.
Clearly comes from Heaven. Stunning, stunning, stunning..................
And peace to you too:)
@@rodneyrigby7865 Very many thanks.
Davvero un' interpretazione impeccabile! Trasmette tanta emozione! Grazie
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful music.
what a beautiful piece. perfect treat for this finals season :)
What a marvel! I wish I could listen to you somewhere one day, your performance is always moving for the effusive harmony. Thank you so much for the stream of emotions you give me.
Fantastycznie !!! 👏👏👏❤😍
Everything they do is top notch!!!! Bravo!
Good evening здравствуйте очень хорошая песня прекрасное исполнение мне очень понравилось большое спасибо всего вам самого доброго с уважением и наступающим рождеством христовым вас thanks very much goodbye
♥ It sounds great as ever.
I was blown away hearing this, it is beautiful x
We are intelligent matter.
Matter comes from background of universe.
Language comes from matter.
When words came out, Narrative took shape, and no collective intelligence might have existed without Narrative. Narrative is consubstancial to language.
Birth of Narrative remained Mother Earth virgin.
Word made (our) world, and Word still have to change the world.
Keep going!
Jean Mouton's Nesciens Mater Virgo Virum comes from background of universe 😉
This rendition is not only inspiring, it is elevating. Thank you
Incredible - as ever. Thank you V8
Angel's Harmony! Amazing! I wipe tears from my eyes...
Wonderful performance 👏❤️❤️❤️
Pure Joy.
Maravilloso arreglo coral y maravillosas voces , muchas gracias. Muy feliz navidad 2021
Vous êtes vraiment incroyables. Merci de tout coeur.
Дуже дякую! Молодці!
GORGEOUS !
So very beautiful, what can i say, geweldig! (Dutch) and the girls look great
Simply beautiful 👍
Pure Heaven ❤
Magnifique!!
🙏❤🧡💛💚💙💜🙏
Beautiful interpretation! Thanks!
Gli unici figli di Albione che adoro. 😍
This is awesome. Old music is new music. - Many thanks.
So. Much. Resonance.
Could anything be more beautiful
Stunning!
Bravo !
excellent!
caspita che bravi e che bel canto
Danke für das Stück
Breathtaking
Absolutely gorgeous! Thank you VOCES8 for this performance. May God's blessings be upon you! 🙏🏼
As always amazing and so very very helpful in this dark Pandemic...Thank you From the bottom of my heart
Gorgeous!
Just beautiful! Bravo. (I'm still not quite used to seeing a 6"3" soprano....)
Fantastisk fint!
Beautiful.
Thanks again, soo good🤗💫
Que decir? Esta dicho todo... Felicidades.
Bravissimo! Merry Christmas.
I always think, when hearing this performance and how good it is, just how good were the performers at the time of writing?
Thank you!
Utterly sublime.
Let's hope we hear much more Mouton in 2022, his quincentenary.
Maybe I've missed this comment on other tracks, but would the videographer(s) care to reveal what cameras and lenses they use for these excellent videos that I love so much?
Sure thing Mark; we use Panasonic S1 and GH5S cameras with a combination of Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 and LUMIX 14-140mm f/3.5 lenses. Glad you enjoy the shots.
I recently heard this motet for the first time in a recording by Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir. Beautiful. This performance is faster, more sensual. Not sure this version quite captures the mystery in the second last verse, 3:19 plus, that Gardiner and Phillips (Tallis Choir) achieve.
so listen to something else
This reminiscence of the night of the Nativity starkly contrasts with the unglamorous reality of the original event. The music is exalted and ethereal ; the childbirth and its surroundings were uncomfortable, messy, ugly, smelly, loud and probably not "without pain." Incarnation was not easy or pretty and it didn't get a lot easier or prettier. It was the planting of the Seed in the mud, not the First Fruits of the harvest. That comes later, praise His Holy Name. Merry Christmas to all, along with the ultimate fulfillment of its purpose.
I like the sound this video makes.
Wonderful