VOCES8: Ring out wild bells - Jonathan Dove

VOCES8 records 'Ring out wild bells' from Jonathan Dove's song cycle 'The Passing of the Year' at Abbey Road Studios. The track appears on the group's new album, EQUINOX.

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O Earth, O Earth, return!

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the time;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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[martycrow]

Beautifully done. Pared done buy feeling expansive. Surely a way to approach each New Year. Focus on the fuller minstrel inside each of us. Out with mournful rhymes! Have a good, a better one, y'all. Peace!

[leajams]

Glorious!!! It’s a tradition of mine to hear this piece at the end/start or the new year. Happy 2022!

[Joggelschorsch]

This is how recording really looks like. Love it

[chazharrison]

Surely as the composer was playing the piano, it was the way he wanted it to sound !

[AnthonySmitha]

Great performance! I don't know that I like the piece itself, but your artistry with it was precise and it emphasized the inner beauty of the composition.

[lizzieorlow]

Don't forget to credit the original author, Alfred Lord Tennyson!

[rachelkayofficial]

one of my favorite pieces i’ve ever sung

[danielfry]

It is a very keyboard-driven piece, but piano a little heavy-handed at times from a balance perspective.

[CeramicQuill]

The piano sounds like an anime fight scene

[jeremybates]

Francisco and Dene, this video is about tower bells, which are extremely loud and percussive. Perhaps you've never heard English change ringing, and do not know what this piece is meant to evoke? A light touch would be inappropriate.

[brucecampbell]

I believe that is Jonathan Dove at the piano?

[jeffkokes]

whoever mixed this is fired... wonderful arrangement tho

[The_Barefoot_Bass]

But why not mentioning who is the pianist?

[franciscocosta]

piano is overwelming the voices, it should have been turned down a little. unless that was the point, but i doubt it

[denekaraus]

Francisco Costa, below, had it exactly correct. Not only is the piano too loud (which could be a mixing problem) but his touch is way too violent....he's not up against a 150 voice in sensitivity.

[RA-zlik]

Why do they sound a bit like they're underwater? Some kind of weird filter?

[FavreianVengeance]

The tempo on that piano is way too fast.

[dustinroofes]

Please take this is an experiment - don't go on following that track;
doesn't point out your great artistry nor your voices