Come ye sons of art (Henry Purcell) - Coro Ninfas do Lis & Orquestra Ars Lusitanae 

What a wonderful thing for young people to have heard such beauty that counters the modern garbage with which our ears are so frequently bombarded...

Absolutely wonderful! I keep coming back over the last several years, to listen to their voices and watch these lovely young women sing with passion and the amazing ensemble playing and supporting the choir. Bravo to the conductor for leading them and bringing them to all 300,00+ of us over the years! Almost brings me to tears. Thank you all.

What beauty. Young ladies singing with all their hearts swaying to the harmonies and rhythm of a man who lived three centuries prior. Purcell would have approved.

I stumbled on this absolute gem this morning in Estonia and I was moved to tears by the beauty of this amazingly fresh and innocent rendition of Purcell. It reminded me of my youth and the path of discovery of the beauty of the world. It brightened my day in the midst of hysteria and panic over C.

There aren't sufficient complimentary words in the English language to do full justice to this performance. I'll just write - truly superb.

Superlative performance. Excellent diction, enthusiasm and this non-English ladies choir is singing from memory. Thank you for brightening the day of this elderly choral singer. If music be the food of love, play on ....

This is my coronavirus quarantine go-to music now. It lifts my spirits here in the mountains in Japan. Thank you!

Purcell would have loved this. ‘With charming harmony unite’,it made me think of the words he wrote .

I have no idea where this event took place, but the young women making up the chorus were brilliant. Their voices have power and dramatic variation and they sung 'sound the trumpets' without trumpets and in the end I didn't notice. Great performance.

Purcell's music has always affected me on an intensely personal level, but this incredible performance is truly one of the high points of my life-long musical relationship with the composer (My wife and I made a point to visit his grave last summer when we were in the U.K.) My compliments to these inspired vocalists; we can see the joy of their own performance on their faces. And compliments also to the wonderful instrumentalists. And to think that I found this on You Tube by accident!

Je suis tombé sur cet enregistrement par hasard, il y a quelque temps. Je reviens l’écouter à l’occasion, toujours avec la même surprise et le même bonheur. Quelle clarté dans la prononciation, quelle précision dans les entrées et le rythme. L’enthousiasme et la spontanéité en ressortent avec éclat. Un véritable bijou. 💖

Speaking as an Englishman who has been aware of Purcell's magic for nearly sixty years I'd just like to say that I was delighted and moved to hear such an excellent interpretation from an amalgamation of young people from another culture. Well done, thanks, an best wishes to you all - keep on playing and singing! Music really is one of the things which binds us!

Très content de cette belle jeunesse, de ce dynamisme. Très belle interprétation.

Remarquable! Merci pour cette belle performance, c'est du travail de professionnel 😊

Merci pour cette fraîcheur et cette jeunesse d interprétation en ces temps si inquiétants. MERCI MERCI !!

What a sweet and delightful thing you have done here ! To be precise - Mister Purcell himself would have been delighted to give ear to your sweet tones. Like some of the others who have commented here, I've spent my life pursuing, making and surrounding myself with music - and today you brought me tears of joy. Keep making beauty in your lives, you are on the right path.

Voices of Angels. 🎼🎶💋💕👏👏

This was for me the first time to hear Henry Purcell's music, how enthralling and beautiful, such committed and enthusiastic artistry. Thank you to all these lovely young people, may your lives be fully and richly blessed, each and all.

Listening to this from Melbourne, Australia. Absolutely delightful ...! Surely, sublime music knows no bounds ... .who'd have thought that a contemporary Portuguese girls' choir could perform Henry Purcell so exquisitely, and with such youthful vigour. Bravissima, ladies ...!

Celestial! Angels Voices! Amazing Musicians! My gratitude for this eternal moment of Joy! Blessing to you all and keep up the good work! GRACIAS !

I just love everything about this. Such an animated and committed performance. Plus the way it is filmed! It captures for me the intimacy between the choir, orchestre and conductor. Beautiful!

singers who relax and enjoy themselves sound better that worried ones

Ongelooflijk mooi !! Tot tranen toe bewogen...

Such a gorgeous sound from such a lovely group ... and poor Purcell only lived until the age of 36

Très belle interprétation, très claire. Bravo aussi pour la qualité du son.

Accidentally ran into this video. What a beautiful - fresh - rendition of this Purcell classic! Beautifully done!

Contageous joy, just what we all need. Thank you ladies.

Everyone is clearly enjoying every minute of the performance, including me. A nigh on flawless rendering, the singing is so relaxed and full of joy. You all deserve an award of some kind, congratulations all round.

This is one of the first Baroque masterpieces that I listened to closely and repeatedly, with the arias sung by the greatest countertenors of the last 40 years. And I am so impressed and moved by this performance. It all - music - still lives.

Me encanta. Me hace feliz. Me transporto a lo sublime del estado de mi alma. Gracias por este regalo de Dios. Felicitaciones

Listening to this wonderful concert here from the tropical Mountains of Colombia/South America. Amazing! Thanks a lot !!! ❤

Interprétation pleine de fraîcheur. Bravo les filles !

Absolument magnifique !

What a joyous performance! Wonderful to see and hear young people so utterly engaged with music-making! Bringing the past to life!!

What lightness, what freshness in this interpretation, I rediscover this work of Purcell. Thank you.

These girls sing with joy and confidence.

Lo que más me gusta de esta versión es la alegría y gusto por la obra de cada una de las chicas del coro . Me encanta, lo puedo escuchar una y otra vez.

So amazing to hear such beautiful voices in the midst of the pandemic lock-down. I appreciate that it was sung so beautifully by a Portuguese choir in my birth tongue. I have tears of joy. Muito obrigado!

Very nice singing, a delightful sound! A relief to see actual choruses singing together, and not just as a "virtual" choir.

Super schöne Leistung, toller professioneller Klang und Ausdruck. Ein besonderes Lob auch an die Solistin mit ihrer sehr schönen klaren Stimme!

Magnífica interpretação, feita de sensibilidade e força dramática! Parabéns a todas e todos envolvidos.

This rendering of Purcell's music is so charming, full of elegant beauty and lightness. It is just gorgeous.

Brava! This is thoroughly magnificent. Having sung this at the University of Arizona in graduate school many years ago, along with the baritone solos, I didn't even know there was a girls choir arrangement for this. You have a marvelous group and what a treat especially during these times in our world. Lots of love to you all, and I hope this finds you in good health! :-)

I can't think of better way to put the current Corona virus problems out of mind than to see these young people singing with such joy and talent.

This music clearly conveys Purcell's respect for Queen Mary.👸 It's so cute how they drink water between songs!🥤

Good afternoon from Athens Greece, this is an extraordinary performance, congratulations to Coro Ninfas Do Lis and orchestra ars Lusiatanae and of corse the conductor!

the voices of girls are rare and a joy to listen to, i thank you all !

muito muito bem :-))) parabens x 10

It's so beautiful and comforting. Thank you! Obrigada.

The best english composer ever...

I have listened and have watched this video more than 50 times.this is performance of youth,confidence,colored characters and artistic innocence.God bless this young ladies .

Others have said it all: sheer joy: incomparable.

An excellent performance. Nothing better than Purcell performed by this group of young people during this time of C19. Really lifts the spirit. Thanks for posting.

Well, I’ve listened to many choirs in my life and this is definitely one of my favourites. Such a lovely, fresh and invigorating sound. An inspiration to us all! Really looking forward to hearing more of your work. Wonderful orchestra too, and such a professional presentation. First class in every way. So glad I discovered this video!

Wonderful to hear this modern rendition of Purcell's great ode. I was brought up on Alfred Deller's prformance from the 1950s, I could never get these tunes out of my head and used to sing them aloud while driving my car. This all- female choir is superb and the otchestral playing sensitive and vigorous. So glad I found it.

What an utterly charming piece! Purcell is best with a twinkle of joy as well as mastery and these girls hit the nail on the head with their fresh and haapy style.

Beautiful performance, thanks for the experience...greetings from Hungary. ❤

Extraordinary. As a student of baroque music, i've heard this piece at least a hundred times in a variety of performances, live and recorded- and none better in its total aesthetic success than this one, the arrangement is good but the discipline, enthusiasm and special quality of the young women's voices make this really exceptional . What did Goethe say: the feminine lifts us up. Thank you Coro Ninfas and orquestra.

For me, one of the best recommendations of RU-vid in recent years. Thank you all for this fresh and joyfull performance. I enjoyed every minute of it!

Simply exquisite. Flawless timing, and singers who so obviously love the music. Conducted impeccably - thank you so much.

Love how the choir sways to the music. They have taken this incredible music to heart and really feel the dance like joy of England’s greatest composer.

Wonderful..These girls get the experience of great music *very* well-performed, that they take away with them for the rest of their lives. Bravo! (+Booo!..to all those thumbs down)

The first notes already revealed that this performance is extraordinary. So warm , bright, and enlivening. When the girls choir began, their soulful clear sound lifted my heart. Unique and extraordinary!

This has moved me to tears of joy - forget fears, celebrate life!

Joy indeed. The clarity and freshness of this performance. What a wonderful antidote to these troubled time we live in. Muchissimas gracias.

S+U+P+E+R+N+A+T+U+R+A+L !!! ... God bless all these girls and musicians in a MAGNIFICENT performance!

Excellent choir! Beautiful performance of an English Baroque classic!

Simplesmente maravilhoso. Parabéns a todos os envolvidos! Purcell e a Rainha Mary teriam adorado essa apresentação. Um abraço do Brasil!!!

We have Schubert as the absolute songwriter of all times, but Purcell as the songwriter who could … .. “cloak insipid words in significant music” (Encyclopaedia Britannica/J. A. Westrup) But when such words are sung by superb human voices … or human? … aren’t these the voices of ‘Ninfas,’ or Nymphs? Spirits of nature? … they become VERY interesting … and this piece, is witness of that … the choir, all young Portuguese ladies, is EXCEPTIONAL!!! And it looks so normal, just a bunch of girls in casual t-shirts … and yet, I have never heard such beautiful swinging singing joy before, and with such perfect dynamic! It sounds as if they alone are soundproofing the whole room …

I was never a huge Purcell fan until I heard this. Perfect. Bravo to the Ninfas, the conductor and the orchestra.

celebrate this triumphant day when the queen's celebration is song by a chorus of females - bravo!

From Australia... Bravo! A performance that belies the youth of those performing. I hope we are blessed to hear them perform for many years to come and to share their journey as they reach their full potential.

Purcell, un des plus grands génies de la musique Baroque....Hélas, décédé trop jeune....

Brilliant ,largish group,a 'foreign' music,and quick tempo. Thank you,for the best experience.

I also stumbled over this and am blown away by the quality of the singing it bought me great pleasure, I hope these young women 3 years later still also get joy from watching their performance and the pleasure they still give to others. well done to the choir director who helped produce something special.

What a wonderful performance! I really do congratulate you all. I have rarely enjoyed Purcell so much . . . and I'm sure Henry Purcell himself is smiling in some musical heaven (and not a little flattered and amazed). You girls sang with such commitment and obvious pleasure. And your English diction was excellent. I could hear every word. I was seriously impressed. I am an Englishman who has known (and sung) Purcell practically all his life. My very first experience was the composer's opera 'Dido & Aeneas' (composed for a girls' school in Chelsea in about 1683). It was deeply touching to hear a Portuguese choir of young women sing the not-so-young music of my own country. Thank you. And give my love to Lisbon! A great city which I hope is coping well with the current pandemic (Purcell, as a boy, would have lived through the terrible London plague of 1665).

Beautifully done by everyone! Such wonderful music and especially appreciated during this pandemic time. How could I not subscribe? Best wishes to all from Northern California, USA.

Une belles interprétation vivifiante. Du pure bonheur ! Merci

Merveile music Angelique et sublime, Bravo!

Marvelous, a thoroughly modern interpretation of these wonderful words, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you!

C'est une des plus belle interprétation de l'oeuvre d'Henry Purcelle que j'ai endentu. Interprété avec grâce et joie, c'est vraiment un moment de plaisir

In this way sing the angels. But conductor and players deserve the utmost praise as well.

Clicked on the bright colors, stayed for the exquisite performance. Beautifully done. Besides your obvious excellent skills, you have a wonderful and unique presentation - bright, warm, relaxed, and inviting - a nice change from the usual stiff blacktie approach. I've enjoyed watching your other videos; looking forward to more. We need more of this joy during these uncertain times.

The oboe section seemed particularly good and the orchestra as a whole was of a good quality and well directed.

Among the best one can find on RU-vid, thank you !

Nicely done; young people playing and singing serious music professionally in a down to earth setting.

Simply magnificent. There are no words to describe this beauty. This made my day in this inferno of quarantine. Thanks. Gracias. Obrigado

I just cannot stop listening.

Increible ! Maravillosas !

Wow, what an extraordinarily beautiful, emotional and joyous performance it warmed my soul during this dark time.

Congratulations, I hear the sound of so many flowers and very very well conbined. God bless you all !

Maravillosa música, exquisita interpretación. Gracias

Such joy and life......sweetly sung ..... early music purists will probably get their knickers in a twist over lots of things .....”bid the virtues” was probably the most accurate to original score sung...... lovely ..

A truly amazing performance. The lilting rhythms and exquisite melodies of Purcell perfectly captured by this remarkable ensemble. Utter simplicity in layout and execution by Coro Ninfas do Lis & Orquestra Ars Lusitana. You have lifted my morning. Thank you

La frescura y entusiasmo de estás jovencitas es lo más cercano a los trinos de las aves. ¡Bravo ninfas, orquesta y director! Saludos desde México.

Holy cow that soloist is amazing

On ne trouve pas de phrase pouvant qualifier cette sublime interprétation de haut niveau et de très grande précision.Merci et félicitations pour l' immense travail Sans oublier les techniciens pour les superbes prises de vue et de son de très haute qualité Cordialement

I'm late to this party but not too late to commend this vivacious and wonderful performance. I'm very familiar with the work and the energy, harmony and enunciation are first class. And no sheet music or words either. Loved the orchestra, too, particularly the wind and continuo. The rehydration stops were cute.

quelle magnifique énergie, superbe interprétation, ma dose de soleil en toutes circonstances💛💚❤🧡💙💜

LOVED IT!!!! Super super loved it!!!!