LiveConnections Presents: VOCES8 (FULL CONCERT)

British ensemble VOCES8 takes a cappella chamber singing to a new level. Called “impeccable” (Gramophone) and “slickest of the lot” (BBC Radio 3), the 8-voice ensemble performs everything from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary commissions and popular arrangements. The program featured works by Bach, Byrd, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Simon and Garfunkel, Ben Folds, Jonathan Dove, Kate Rusby and more.
In addition, VOCES8 employed their unique “VOCES8 Method” of music education, which uses rhythm and sound to enhance the development of numeracy, literacy and linguistics. They worked with LiveConnections’ school and community partners in a series of workshops, and were joined at the concert by special guest choirs from C.W. Henry School, a Philadelphia public school; Our Lady of Confidence Day School, which serves teens with intellectual disabilities; and Germantown Recovery Community, which serves adults receiving mental health, therapeutic and recovery services. It's part of LiveConnections’ "A Song Everyone Can Sing" initiative, focused on accessibility and inclusion through singing.
The concert is presented by LiveConnections, a nonprofit in residence at World Cafe Live. "These aren't your typical collaborations. LiveConnections creates synergy between unlikely bedfellows" (Philly Magazine). Our critically acclaimed LiveConnections Presents concert series features collaborative concerts that cross musical boundaries, with adventurous artist pairings, brand new commissions and unique community participation.
For more information visit liveconnections.org.
Recorded live on March 4, 2018, at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

LiveConnections has to be ashamed about this sound quality!

[@tommytuggle6958]

There is a comment to acoustics. If the room doesn’t resonate like a four hundred cathedral, it isn’t good enough for this group. I am so totally impressed with beautiful individual voices and their blending.

[@vKarl71]

THis is such a fantastic choir. I have no idea how World Cafe Live managed to give them such an abysmal recording.

[@Gumpa10]

Can join saying "I am the luckiest" by having heard and been blessed by the music of this group.

[@nicolasgombert8551]

what an aweful acustic! they did a fantastic job considering this! much respect!

[@honeysoi]

Agree. This is a sacrilege. They have to be one of the greatest vocal ensembles in the world to make this gig audible despite a room that would far better fit to an open space office.

[@lelapatrick4768]

Love this group so much!

[@jbondy6395]

I attended this concert, and the amplification was horrible, with distortion from a large speaker overhead. At intermission, I asked for it to be turned off, which improved the sound a lot. Acoustically, they were great! The venue left a lot to be desired, but to accommodate all the kids, they needed the space. I'm still glad I went. I'll never forget Danny Boy.

[@AndrewLumsden]

Only a self-righteous, arrogant, sound engineer (who evidently knows nothing about how to mic up such an ensemble) would think that VOCES8 are incapable of filling, what looks like to be a small hall, with dreadful acoustics, and need to be amplified, then not adding any reverberation. This is surely the worst recording of the group anywhere on KZbin. A few more lights would be a bonus, too.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

@@AndrewLumsden I agree!

[@staffanolofsson8201]

VOCES8 suddenly have lost all of their carisma, due to a very bad sound uptaking.

[@collidingforces9589]

I love it and I Love them! Beautiful just beautiful.

[@corlisscrabtree3647]

Thank you

[@sandynwlv]

What a wonderful, inspirational concert! I am going to miss Jonny so much!

[@wacawlubinski5218]

Wspaniały koncert. Gratuluję.

[@jeanluccapri1538]

Wow so beautiful.

[@elkehenrichs642]

Das ist Seelenfutter pur🤗! Dankeschön für die wunderschöne Aufzeichnung!🌿❤️🏵️

[@stjacquesremi]

I love this group! they inspire me a lot

[@arianahurt5852]

they are goals

[@janicejardiolin26]

Bravo!!!

[@STEFANOBUSCHINI1]

MERAVIGLIOSI

[@pamelacorbett8774]

Glorious, esp. the Palestrina.

[@user-sorakarakitahito]

愛があるかどうかわからないが、後でゆっくり聴くつもり。本当！

[@dewest225]

Love the Swingle Singers throwback at 41:20!

[@MrJdsenior]

I would really like to hear a recording of you guys sans all the post processing, but through good studio microphones and environment. I have a feeling it would be spectacular. I liked the "Swingle Singers" (I got it before you said it) piece.

[@brentedwards4725]

There are MANY recordings of Voces8 on KZbin that are studio recordings...and they are absolutely fantastic. This is by far my favorite: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6jHlqSMor2ffs0

[@gramps2matt]

I'm watching this on November 3, 2018 on the night Voces8 is performing in Detroit, Michigan Blake's hometown. Since I'm unable to attend the concert this is substituting quite nicely. I hope Blake will take the opportunity to introduce his fellow choristers to some of our fine cuisine while here like Buddie's Pizza and Lafayette Coney Island. It's your duty as a Detroiter Blake. Welcome to Detroit Voces8. I'm sure the audience at Christ Church is having a wonderful evening. Oh and up load the full concert to KZbin as well.

[@user-nh8be9kg1y]

わんだほー❤

[@yuehchopin]

danke

[@kikivolauvent1]

Everything was nearly unbearably beautiful BUT 'I'm the luckiest' threw me.... I understand why this song is being asked for all the time!

[@user-xe3be7wd1i]

💙💛

[@davidhinton8654]

the Fisk Singers pieces make one wonder what “serf songs” would have sounded like

[@yvonnemason9137]

They sound amazing despite the merciless acoustics that expose every dodgy note and tuning for most groups. Not Voces8. They are still bang on!

[@jeanluccapri1538]

This is so challenging.

[@Kendra567]

Here for music appreciation class 😭 help

[@woodwardwoodworks]

Blake Morgan rocking the Rutherford B Hayes look.

[@supawels3627]

Hier sind aber sehr merkwürdige Akustik - " Experten" unterwegs. Endlich mal eine stimm-orientierte Aufnahme ohne den künstlichen Nachhall - Brei. Oder war ich zuwenig in der Disco und hab mir dadurch mein natürliches Gehör erhalten ??? (Nur so nebenbei: ich hab seit meinem 10. Lebensjahr in vielen Chören mitgesungen. Das einzige Mal im "Creamcheese" in Düsseldorf habe ich diese Lärmhöhle nach 5 Minuten auf Nimmerwiederhören verlassen, um mir mein Gehör nicht kaputtmachen zu lassen. Das ist mir offenbar gelungen. )

[@LifeforArt]

Unfortunately I had to stop at 12:00. There was a resonance from the room or the amplification system that ruined the whole concert.

[@jeanluccapri1538]

So Blake left voices8?

[@chipfire]

I thought the harmonica solos lacked conviction.

[@aytounrichard]

Would benefit from a sound engineer who knew something about recording sound

[@wendycarter5718]

Shame about the venue and the recording ! They managed to make this truly amazing group of singers sound a little ordinary. Not their finest hour !!

[@supawels3627]

Eleonore hat heute ein ganz besonders inniges Timbre.

[@andrewrahn5908]

The dissonance makes it sound like it’s out of pitch. The voices are over singing against each other, which makes it sound like a competition in a master class.

[@teuteulevrai]

i'm here bcz of jacob collier

[@MrJdsenior]

Interesting, can you explain? Did he link this or something. This group is fantastic. If you want to hear another, and haven't heard them, go give the Kings Singers a listen. ;-)

[@bentleyboy67]

@@MrJdsenior they sang on his song Home Is

[@MrJdsenior]

@@bentleyboy67 Very cool, thx, I will have to locate that. :-)

[@ellengreenlaw8839]

Homeward Bound- needs to be more beatnic and not so churchlike. All in all VOCES8 is wonderful.

[@piernicofe2214]

i cantanti sono eccezionali peccato l'acustica scadente

[@fingerhorn4]

What a shame that this excellent group and the promoters chose the WORST VENUE POSSIBLE for this concert. A dark, souless, BONE DRY room called World Cafe Live, where the stage is constructed perfectly to be just about the most unmusical accoustic it is possible to design. A tiny stage surrounded by ambience-free absorbant materials that completely destroy any chance of reflections, natural reverberation or warmth of tone. You might as well have put this choir in a giant egg box and closed the lid. It is the WORST accoustic I have ever heard from any stage. What on earth was Barnaby Smith thinking?

[@Waldlaeufer70]

You are absolutely right! A beautiful church with great acoustics would have been much better.

[@franciscoortega1749]

Yes incredible! This is the first time I hear them without the special effects/ amazing acoustics they always have.

[@quickfoxxes]

Of course, acoustics are a major negative in these performances, but at least we can relish in the known excellence of these supurb musicians, as a group, and individually. Nonetheless, we can be grateful to have this video record of the concert.

[@supawels3627]

Diese selbsternannten Akustik - "Experten" diskreditieren zugleich VOCES8. Denn diese sicher äußerst kompetenten Klang - Kenner haben sich die Aufnahme sicher auch angehört und für gut befunden. Kritik hat oft mit Wichtigtuerei zu tun wie beim " Musikkriker" von Georg Kreisler. Da heißt es im Refrain: "...weil ich unmusikalisch bin."

[@Mikhail_Ph]

Рахманинова так ну нельзя затягивать! Вы че? Звукорежиссёры, вы где? Такой коллектив на два микрофона? Жесть, ребята. Нельзя так.

[@andrewrahn5908]

Pitch is out with newest. She does not nail it. Someone needs to critique recording. Use a tuning fork. Suggest she pitch it A444. It makes Andrea sound out when she is always in pitch. Close only counts in horse shoes

[@joselopetegui]

Only two Mics....it's not dificult to capture the sound, and you did it....IT'S HORRIBLE !!!!!!

[@mrReaby]

Indeed, 2 mics...and yet, we have only one channel of audio; it is in mono. How I wish it was in stereo.

[@joselopetegui]

​@@mrReaby , I hear to much compression and a extrange and noisy equalization. This kind of music doesn' support compression. Mono or Stereo should sound correct

[@jeanluccapri1538]

Sorry I guess not.

[@giovaluci]

Perché hanno aggiunto quel coro scadentissimo? Hanno rovinato il concerto dell'ensemble vocale migliore al mondo in assoluto.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

What a NASTY sound in this uptaking. I feel sorry for VOCES8.

[@mikebryant5223]

This recording absolutely has to go. Can you imagine what someone whose introduction to VOCES8 was this video would likely do? I can - they'd probably click off and ignore every other VOCES8 video on KZbin and miss some of the finest vocalising they'll ever hear. I'm as dedicated a VOCES8 fan as you'll ever find, and I could only stomach about five minutes of this horrible recording. Absolute shit, and World Cafe Live has some serious gall posting it.

[@giovannirimini3837]

pessima acustica, peccato!

[@staffanolofsson8201]

The sound is horrible! Sorry for VOCES8.