The next time someone asks me why I put so much time and effort in singing with a chamber choir, I will just play this for them. THIS is the goal. THIS is the reason.

@emncaity

4 жыл бұрын

YES.

@pappamoomin1

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! It's kept me sane for over 30 years. 👍

@davidparkes1917

3 жыл бұрын

This to be honest

@gavinspray7457

3 жыл бұрын

❤🙏 verbatim x

@timothyandsherryblair7688

2 жыл бұрын

Yes ma’am. My sentiments. I just have to sing music like this. This is my happy place.❤️🙂

I love this. My brother died yesterday and whenever I watch this I'm reminded that he was on his way home and is home now. We're all on our way home. Thanks for this beautiful song.

@fevre_dream8542

5 ай бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss. I hope your memories together can bring you some comfort.

@RinikulusZy

3 ай бұрын

im sorry for your loss:(

@margaretkuwata6794

2 ай бұрын

Eternal grant unto him, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon him. May his soul, and all the souls of the faithful departed, rest in peace.

@derekbrower4475

Ай бұрын

Rip

This version isn't like other settings of The Road Home. Other settings have more momentum, more power behind each of the words, because other choirs have dozens of different voices to lend. But in this cover, there are only 8 singers, and the song comes across differently as a result. What was once a grand homecoming becomes a quiet contemplation about the ways we move through life, and not a single note is wasted. Every word carries so much more weight, and the spaces between phrases feel vast. But the sparse setting of this arrangement trades the scope of a larger choir for surgical precision - and every word feels so much more important as a result. What an incredible performance.

Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo Tell me, where is the road I can call my own That I left, that I lost So long ago? All these years I have wandered Oh, when will I know There's a way, there's a road That will lead me home Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo After wind, after rain When the dark is done As I wake from a dream In the gold of day Through the air there's a calling From far away There's a voice I can hear That will lead me home Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo Rise up, follow me Come away, is the call With the love in your heart As the only song There is no such beauty As where you belong Rise up, follow me I will lead you home Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo

@gppasini7620

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for adding the lyrics to your text. Beautiful

In high school, this song was the traditional song we sang every year, every graduation, and it meant a great deal to me. My senior year my choir teacher decided to change it and I never got to sing it at my graduation. I haven't listened to this song in years, but god does it make me tear up. Beautiful song and wonderful voices.

This is my favorite version of this that I've heard. And mainly because I realize I like the clarity and simplicity of a small choir singing it. Well, that, and the fact that these young people are terrific musicians. I'm a fan

Even if I had the voice or training to do this, I could never get through a song without choking up. Everything this group does is so primally gripping and pure. Well done.

This song brings me to tears every time, it was our senior send off song in high school, and we used to sing it hand in hand as a chamber group at our spring concert. ❤️❤️

@27mondo

3 жыл бұрын

Soon to be 67 year old man here. I tear up as well. Nothing I've heard through the all the years is as beautiful.

@m.i.l.a3302

2 жыл бұрын

I’m about to sing it in mine in like 2 weeks for the same reason 💕… & I got the solo💕💕

@christophercollette8375

Жыл бұрын

And over the years when I go back to my college singing reunions the text continue to hold even more relevance and resonance. What an absolutely stunning piece regardless of where any of us is in our life stage.

@Lardenoy

Жыл бұрын

@@27mondo moins, bientôt 66...idem ! 🥲

@nosenanmolla6961

Жыл бұрын

i’m singing this for my graduation in 3 weeks i’m so excited 🥲💗💗

You have the most heavenly and beautiful voices and bring hope to the world in these hard and uncertain times. God bless you all.

@emncaity

4 жыл бұрын

I think this very thing every time I hear them again.

@nilsnilsson8582

2 жыл бұрын

Yes these voices brings calmness and peace to our souls, God Bless You and may the Lord watch over you, now and forever.

we’re singing this in my select ensemble, it’s so beautiful especially when we sung it in the stairwell

my choir sang this beautiful song as our closer for our final concert with the our highschool director, who has been with my district for 7 years and will be leaving to go finish school himself. he had been with the seniors since their first year of middle school, and saying “goodbye” was undeniably difficult and hurtful. this piece is emotional, and it was downright gut wrenching when we sang it for the last time as a choir. these people were my family and i just am in love with the last couple of lines of this song. because, truly, there is absolutely no such beauty as where you belong.

‘There is no such beauty as where you belong’ ... truer words have never been spoken.

This song bought a tear to my eye. Made me remember my Uncle Ricky’s battle with Cancer. At least now, he is without pain. Now, he is “home”.

Andrea! Go get it! Lovely! Perfection all the way through from that seriously low note to Andrea's top note. What a way to start my morning.

Voces 8, I salute you. A singer of old, I am in awe of your effortless execution, time and time again. Superbly balanced sound and no hint of errors. Absolutely stunning. I sooo would love to hear you in concert in real life, whefn that returns.

Another absolutely beautiful and touching piece added to my play-at-my-funeral music selection. My funeral will basically be a Voces8 concert 😅

@rkrieg18

Жыл бұрын

my dad (100+!) just died 2 days ago, this is for him. I trust your funeral is only a 100 years from now, sweetie...☺

@alfonzodavis1446

Жыл бұрын

I just added it to mine I know I don’t fit the norm but I whole heartedly feel the passion in this music and you can feel the emotions in every part. This is a art in its truest form

@mgeuleinstsear

Жыл бұрын

@@alfonzodavis1446 Yes, they are just incredible ♥️

O Ireland my dear, from North to South, from West to East, God Bless You!

We had the honor of using this piece/arrangement in the film, "We Shall Not Die Now", which features new interviews with Holocaust survivors, made for the 75th anniversary of the ending of WW2. It plays during the final sequence when survivors, now in their nineties, returned to Auschwitz to march shoulder to shoulder with their grandchildren and great grandchildren. Amazing piece of music and sung so beautifully by Voces8.

@thefarsideofforty4012

4 жыл бұрын

That movie is on my Amazon watchlist. This song seems very appropriate.

@thefarsideofforty4012

4 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to let you know I watched the film. It was beautifully done. Thank you for sharing these stories.

my first guitar ,baught by my dad,at age 11 was a classical,ive been a musician and singer / artist / writer since before even that ,my dad too.a pianist organist choirmaster and irish , who found a calling to the priesthood at 45,retired now at 92 but still a musician. recently i baught a rare yairi classical in a state of disrepair,baught originally from an irish gypsy for 10 pounds.ive been lovingly restoring it ....and gave it its first recording session only last monday.like the sentiment ,metaphorically and litterally its been like a homecoming for me too.!! one never loses these roots ! mine in choral music as a chorister.and through jazz, singer- songwriter and so much more. a very heartfelt thankyou to the voces for their continuing and moving musics !!! the voice ...the most primal sound this planet posseses ❤

Singing the solo part in a chorus, I can say that this is perfection.

Yes, my road home to my loveones is bright and I will soon meet them again. God Bless You!

Of many fine performances of The Road Home on YT, this is one of the most beautiful - with such restraint, without any showiness, and superb phrasing allowing the silent pauses full expression!

Andrea, that note at 2:25 ripped my soul out.....I'm an old fart but I'm yours forever more

Let it soar over top, Andrea. Carry me away. This is an old video, but this song is part of their new release this week. Euan Williamson has replaced the second tenor here.

Moved to tears. Heavenly beautiful.

Whenever I hear a song for the first time, if it’s sung by Voces8, their performance sets the bar and I can never enjoy the original more… it’s a good problem to have.

Exquisite as always. Each of you is a gift from God. Thank you for sharing your extraordinary talent, skill, and knowledge.

That lovely 'lass' from Harrogate......simply reminds me of home....Yorkshire. 💓

I am piano accompanist for a community choir and we are doing this at the moment. Glorious music and performed here to perfection. The words always affect me deeply, with their sense of longing.

Just came across this! Beautiful! Arrangement ! You guys nailed it!!! Loved it! It brought me so..... much joy! Recently loss my wife to cancer, this helped ease the pain! That's the power and magic of choral music! Thanks gang! Northern MN. Boy Eric

@judithstanding2474

3 жыл бұрын

Bless you, Mary. 💜😢

Such beauty in music!

Sounds to soothe our souls in these turbulent days. Perfection.

When i hear Voces8, it feels as if time was suspended for a while..... and that is an amazing feeling.

You bring me to tears in the most beautiful way each time you sing this❤️🇨🇦Thank you for your healing gifts! My husband and I (46 + years)! Feel this captures our gratitude fir one another.

Beautiful! Andrea's voice is "other worldly"!

@mikestubbs1708

3 жыл бұрын

That top note allows me to touch Heaven!! brilliant!

I am waiting for the day I get to sing with the Angels of Heaven. That is where I will gravitate to.❤️🙏✌️

Soft when it should be. Most excellent. Thank you.

Choirs are Nutella for the soul.

@stefanwalicord2512

3 жыл бұрын

Facts ☝️

I’m singing this in choir and I can’t get over the soloist and specifically at “as where you belong” so so so beautiful and moving

Grazie mille. Quando vi vedo e vi ascolto dimentico tutti i problemi che mi attanagliano.

The amount of emotions a song like this can make you feel when done this well is absolutely incredible. Stunning job!

Ohhhh...Darn....I am soooo hooked with these marvels of the human voice I can't resist! It's like a food you eat that's bad for you but you indulge anyway. This is MUCH better, it is food for the soul that is life giving for you! The human voice was the first musical instrument long before there was music and still is an original with each of us. These folks have shown us in this era what the voice is as a musical instrument, not just a way to produce connected sounds. Not only do you get your mind enveloped with that quality of time stopping sounds but your heart skips a beat when you are immersed in the sound...it stops, because you are above of the corporal state, gets immersed then realizes it needs to beat . We must enjoy them while we can..... they are an extreme rarity, once in a century or more. My soul is extremely indebted to their artistry, I am alive knowing that there is still beauty that is produced by humans, souls incorporate! My hope still lives for such beauty!

thank you for fueling my quarantine cries. beautiful.

I love this song very much. My choir teacher always brings one choir performance to us a week to view and answer questions about the performance, and why we like it. I thought some of the higher notes in the song sounded angelic.

Amazing song and y’all made it even better! Y’all should do Only In Sleep by Esenvalds. It’s sort of the same style as this song and would sound incredible I’m sure.

@nyiadraper955

4 жыл бұрын

They should do the heavens flock by Esenvalds, as well!

@royaboagyedjan4632

4 жыл бұрын

I had the same feeling when I was listening too

@tomlupien4896

4 жыл бұрын

Stars, by Eriks Esenvalds, would also sound wonderful if they did it. He incorporates resonant crystal goblets in his score (filled with water for certain pitches) and the dissonances are exquisite.

@kipjohnson

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomlupien4896 Good news for you, they have already done it. It's on their album "Lux."

So beautiful. Nothing better.

Our church choir sang this song and I cry when we sing it. Thanks for the beautiful performance!

The beautiful pure human voice, so nice to watch the singers in far better casual dress...... Thank you all*

Voces 8 の曲の中で一番好きな曲です！これ以上のヒーリング・ミュージックは見つかりません！天上の音楽です。そして完璧な，美しすぎるハーモニー❣️

This is my favorite song.. choral perfection

Beautiful sound!! Words are ambiguous. Who are we following: where is home? Why should we follow you? WHERE is this home to which you are leading us? Haunting sounds, tempted to follow, but no clear information about where we are going!!! "I go and prepare a place for you; and if I go, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there you may be also!!!" LOVE, JESUS

One of the best interpretations of this song here on KZread. great!

Deep and sweet. I count on you to lift my heart!

This music bring tears to my eyes!

I had the opportunity to listen to this in person. I felt it from my head to my toes. I will never forget the feeling of this moment

Everytime i 'm gonna listening for Voces 8 songs , i remain without words . Favolouses .

Such perfection.

Such perfection, for free. What more could one possibly desire?

so beautiful - thank you!

Gratitude...so beautiful

That bass!! What a gorgeous low tone 🤍✨

This was the song I sang at my graduation with my choir and I cried

Cada vez que les escucho, más me aficiono y me apasiona este joven grupo polifónico. Felicidades!

Im glad i listened to this very inspirational song interpreted by very angelic voices. Something to ponder deeply during these trying times.

Speaks to the soul. This will be my sendoff song at close of service I heard the voice and followed the road home.

OMG THEY JUST BLEND SO PERFECTLY I LOVE IT

Brings me to tears every time.

Sublime musique, Divine, que cela fait du bien à l.âme 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

My friends, this performance was the perfect tonic for my troubled and weary soul. Thank you and God bless you all!

Honestly this song is so beautiful and I’m glad I’m learning it in my chamber choir in my high school

May God bless you for singing and perfecting this masterpeice!👌

Amazing! Thanks, again, guys. Watching from Wyoming.🌹

How wonderful! Voices and arrangement are so beautiful! Reminds me of a CD called The Glory of the Human Voice. I wish you all the best in your career.

Sublime, as only Voces8 can do. Wonderous

Amazing👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Brazil love 💙💙💙💙

If Paulus had only written this one piece it would have still marked him a great contemporary choral music composer. Fabulous

So Dramatic! Love from Italy

Heavenly.. Thats just how i can describe this

simply beautiful.

Stunningly beautiful

I want this played at my funeral.

Ангельское пение на земле? 🕊️💞🙏

このどこまでも美しい曲がとにかく大好きです❤️！素晴らしいハーモニーとメロディ・ライン。一糸乱れない見事なアンサンブル。Voces 8 ならではの完成度です。私はこの曲を大切な人を失った人によく送ります。帰天の歌にも思えるからです！

Love it as always!

You guys are amazing! I hope all is well for you and your families in quarantine. ❤️

I forgot, your musicality is off the chart!

I am singing this in the high school choir! I sing Soprano 2!

@sarahmiddleton6781

2 ай бұрын

real me too

@dannycatlover929

Ай бұрын

oh em gee me too

You really had to go and record one of my favorite all-time pieces. 😢 So unbelievably beautiful.

this song is amazing i love love love it somehow it ended up in my metal playlist and i thought that was funny

So angelic! I love you! ❤

Glorious singing. I do however wish that ALL CHOIRS who post on KZread would also include the names of composers! It helps the rest of us who might want to perform this music with our own choirs! In this case, this beautiful piece is by the American composer Stephen Paulus.

What a beautiful song

This song is so beautiful. I love it. So well done. And how apropos it was to be used at the end of the documentary "We Shall Not Die Now".

Прекрасно !

Simply super stuff, so many thanks !

So wonderful! Thank you so much for making my day! I would really like to hear you sing the Scottish song ‘The Parting Glass’! I’m sure it will sound amazing!

Bravo!...❤️

This is such a beautiful rendition of this song! We sing this song at graduation every year the seniors take the first line then we all join in! Irs beautiful and listening to this makes me think of that!

@sharkyaxo5529

2 ай бұрын

My choir does I mean

You guys are truly amazing !!!!

Werden wir morgen im Gottesdienst zum Ewigkeitssonntag singen 💝