Loreena McKennitt - The Dark Night Of The Soul

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  • čas přidán 18. 01. 2009
  • From the album "The Mask and Mirror" (1994)
    Find this and more from Loreena McKennitt in the LM Store lnk.to/LMStore
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Komentáře • 568

  • @pbrn1729
    @pbrn1729 Před rokem +67

    I am sitting on a bench dedicated to the memory of my husband who died 4 years ago from brain cancer- waiting to hear from my doctor if my own cancer has returned. I cannot think of anyone better to listen to than dear Lorenna💕💕🤩🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

    • @TOMATO192
      @TOMATO192 Před 8 měsíci +6

      건강 하시기를 기원 합니다.^^

    • @user-xy7pn9bb8m
      @user-xy7pn9bb8m Před 8 měsíci +7

      ​@@TOMATO192 Health and Love to you and keep smiling.. all is well

    • @jonah7333
      @jonah7333 Před 7 měsíci +2

      😘

    • @SP-ny1fk
      @SP-ny1fk Před 7 měsíci +5

      Hope you are well

    • @pbrn1729
      @pbrn1729 Před 7 měsíci +8

      @@SP-ny1fk I’m doing OK-thank you 🙏🏻

  • @mauriziofolicaldi1479
    @mauriziofolicaldi1479 Před 2 lety +29

    The Celtic voice of Loreena its a magical blend of ancient style and magical legend of Celtic world and history of Scottish Higlands....a Legend without end...

  • @keithparker9527
    @keithparker9527 Před 10 měsíci +15

    At 73 years of age, it is
    not long since I've come across Loreena, who has such a wonderful voice. Her music is so enthralling. I just can't believe what I have been missing.

  • @Zylophila
    @Zylophila Před 14 lety +54

    I haven't hear anyone anything bad about Loreena. It's impossible! I love reading all the loving comments about her and her music, I feel the same. She makes the world a sweet place to live. My eternal gratitude goes to her.

    • @zennabella1676
      @zennabella1676 Před 11 měsíci

      A NICE COMMENT. I LIKE HER TOO. I ESPECIALLY LIKE HER SINGING THIS LOVELY SONG. IT DATES BACK FROM A LONG TIME AGO THIS TUNE.

    • @krussellgal
      @krussellgal Před 9 měsíci

      I agree! She's a treasure to rediscover! Here I am suddenly in thrall to her magnificence playing song after song. May you have a sparkling day filled with treasure.

  • @francescamorello539
    @francescamorello539 Před rokem +31

    One of the most beautiful words and music ever written on this planet. Loreena's voice is celestial ♡

    • @valeriughimpu5720
      @valeriughimpu5720 Před 6 měsíci

      💫🌌❤⛩️🌏⛩️❤💫🌌☀️
      💫Congratulations Loreena McKennitt💫⛩️🌏⛩️❤️☀️
      💫You are Divine Golden Light❤️☀️
      💫You are Infinite Love❤️☀️
      💫Your Presence Opens the Heavens❤️☀️
      💫You are so beautiful and Bright❤️☀️
      💫 Our True and Wonderful Goddess Full of Golden Divine Light❤️☀️Loreena McKennitt💫🌌⛩️🌏⛩️☀️
      💫Our True and Divine Empress Full of Light:
      To❤️ our hearts,
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      💫Our Spiritual Master💫❤️☀️Loreena McKennitt💫❤️☀️
      Infinite Love to You, Our Empress and Spiritual Master 💫❤️☀️Loreena McKennitt ❤️☀️
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      A❤️ inimilor noastre,
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      Iubire infinită pentru Tine, Împărăteasa și Maestra Noastră Spirituală 💫❤️☀️Loreena McKennitt❤️☀️
      💫🌌❤⛩️🌏⛩️❤💫🌌☀️
      💫Félicitations Loreena McKennitt💫❤️⛩️🌏⛩️❤️☀️
      💫Vous êtes la Lumière Dorée Divine❤️☀️
      💫Tu es l'Amour Infini❤️☀️
      💫Votre présence ouvre les cieux❤️☀️
      💫Tu es si belle et lumineuse❤️☀️
      💫 Notre Vraie et Merveilleuse Déesse Pleine de Lumière Divine Dorée❤️☀️Loreena McKennitt
      💫Notre Véritable et Divine Impératrice Pleine de Lumière :
      ❤️De nos cœurs,
      ❤️De Paix,
      ❤️De nos immenses mondes merveilleux 💫❤️🏆🌍🏆❤️💫❤️☀️
      💫Notre Maître Spirituel💫❤️☀️Loreena McKennitt💫❤️☀️Amour Infini à Toi, Notre Impératrice et Maître Spirituel 💫❤️☀️ Loreena McKennitt❤️☀️
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      💫Felicidades Loreena McKennitt💫❤️⛩️🌏⛩️❤️☀️
      💫Eres Divina Luz Dorada❤️☀️
      💫Eres Amor Infinito❤️☀️
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      💫Eres tan hermosa y brillante❤️☀️
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      💫Nuestra Verdadera y Divina Emperatriz Llena de Luz:
      ❤️De nuestros corazones,
      ❤️ Paz,
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  • @philipdonovan6510
    @philipdonovan6510 Před 6 lety +251

    So I grew up listening and playing Hendrix and Pink Floyd and still to this day am in 3 bands gigging classic rock most weekends. After I designed up and built my new fretless guitar (to be electrically bowed, only) I wen't searching for music types that this very different guitar would be a compliment to. During my youtube searching I stumbled upon this video and recognized the name of the artist. Her music was always playing in bookstores where my wife and I would take our little children to read and pick out a book but, since being a book store the music volume was always kept very low. Still, there was something in me that the sound of her music had perked and I now would take the time to see who this artist was, afterall. After this song was over, I sat gazing at the screen asking myself "what did I just hear, and what just happened to me"? I literally played this song 12-15 times in a row waiting for the magic to wear off but, It only kept growing and growing on me. Somehow, Loreena McKennitt's music had awakened some musical sensibility in me that I hadn't even known was there. She is know one of my favorite artists, ever, and she is inadvertently guiding my direction with this new and very different guitar that I made and am very excited about where it will take me, musically. For a guy who has been playing classic rock for 40 years, this is a huge and extremely welcome, mystifying and refreshing departure. I am very grateful for Loreena for her dedication to her art and the inspiration and direction that has come my way as of a result. Thank you, and thank you again, Loreena. Sincerely yours, Phil Donovan

    • @willrichardson519
      @willrichardson519 Před 5 lety +5

      Wow, love that, how's it going?

    • @rickraborn1721
      @rickraborn1721 Před 4 lety +7

      At bit late for a reply but if you haven't looked at her other work, listen to her rendition of The Highwayman on Book of Secrets. Fantastic.

    • @DeboraNorton
      @DeboraNorton Před 4 lety +5

      You have a tender heart, I am glad she touched you in this way.

    • @angelablackthorne3026
      @angelablackthorne3026 Před 4 lety +9

      Philip Donovan This a 15th Century religious mystery poem set to music.
      Written by a revered Spanish Catholic mystic, known to history as St. John of the Cross, or San Juan de la Cruz.
      it's the story of a lost soul being reunited with God in the form of the story of a young woman who steals away from her home into the night to be united with her True Love,
      a method by which many a plight was trothed, and many a marriage made in that time.
      Especially if a girl's family didn't favor her marriage to the man she loved as in Shakespeare's play of the star-crossed true lovers
      "Romeo and Juliet".
      It's haunting beauty arises from the beautiful expression of a transcendent love
      and the desperate night journey
      to achieve that longed for union.
      Loreena McKennitt's beautiful music and her ethereal voice do more than justice to the source material here; another marriage made in Heaven.
      So glad to hear a man say he likes it. You must have a beautiful heart.
      The dark night of the soul
      Upon a darkened night
      the flame of love was burning in my breast
      And by a lantern bright
      I fled my house while all in quiet rest
      Shrouded by the night
      and by the secret stair I quickly fled
      The veil concealed my eyes
      while all within lay quiet as the dead
      Chorus
      Oh Night, thou was't my guide
      Oh Night, more loving than
      the rising sun
      Oh Night that joined the lover
      to the beloved one
      transforming each of them
      into the other
      Upon that misty night
      in secrecy,
      beyond such mortal sight
      Without a guide or light
      than that which burned
      so deeply in my heart.
      That fire t'was led me on
      and shone more bright than
      of the midday sun
      To where he waited still
      it was a place where no one else could come.
      Chorus
      Within my pounding heart
      which kept itself entirely for him
      He fell into his sleep
      beneath the cedars all my love I gave
      And by the fortress walls
      the wind would brush his hair against his brow
      And with its smoothest hand
      caressed my every sense
      it would allow
      Chorus
      I lost myself to him
      and laid my face upon
      my lover's breast
      And care and grief grew dim
      as in the morning's mist
      became the light
      There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
      There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
      There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
      Loreena writes in the CD booklet about this song:
      May, 1993 - Stratford ... have been reading through the poetry of 15th century Spain, and I find myself drawn to one by the mystic writer and visionary St. John of the Cross; the untitled work is an exquisite, richly metaphoric love poem between himself and his god.
      It could pass as a love poem between any two at any time ...
      His approach seems more akin to early Islamic or Judaic works in its more direct route to communication to his god ... I have gone over three different translations of the poem, and am struck by how much a translation can alter our interpretation.
      Am reminded that most holy scriptures come to us in translation, resulting in a diversity of views.
      Music by Loreena McKennitt
      Lyrics by St. John of the Cross
      (San Juan de la Cruz),
      arr. and adapted by Loreena McKennitt
      From: The mask and mirror (1994).
      Live version: Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts (1995).
      The song can also be found on
      The journey so far - The Best of Loreena McKennitt (2014).
      ===> Original Spanish poem, translation and notes
      Two notes on the lyrics printed in the CD-booklet:
      The 2nd stanza has a misprint in the CD-booklet: the 2nd line reads "and by the secret star I quickly fled" but Loreena sings "... secret stair I ...".
      See below for some remarks on this 'secret stair'.
      Also the 5th line of the 6th stanza has a misprint: the CD-booklet says "From o'er the fortress walls" whereas Loreena sings "And by the fortress walls", but this is only a minor difference.
      The secret stair
      In a monastery, and St. John of the Cross probably lived in one, there is generally a night staircase, used by the monks to go to church at night from where they sleep (the dormitory), and in this way a monk could easily get out of the monastery at night. My first guess was that the poem refers to this night staircase and doorway with "secret stair". But fra. Emiel Abalahin, a Carmelite like John of the Cross, explained that the meaning is deeper:
      "Dark Night of the Soul," like much of John's poetry, is based on "Song of Songs" from the Biblical Old Testament, and also on much of the romantic poetry and lyrics of Spanish popular balladry of that time, i.e., 16th century. The "secret stair" has less to do with a staircase in a monastery, and more to do with the popular theme of lovers meeting for a late night romantic tryst. In order for this to be possible, the young maiden of the song or poem would have to sneak out of the house, by the "secret stair."
      John uses this as a metaphor for the soul in prayer who, by means of
      The Dark Night of the Soul is reunited with his God.
      -Jos van Geffen
      "The term "dark night (of the soul)" in Roman Catholic spirituality describes a spiritual crisis, a period of agnostic doubt and pain in the soul's journey toward union with God, like that described by St.John of the Cross...While this spiritual crisis is usually temporary, it may endure for a long time."- Wikipedia

    • @jawa6066
      @jawa6066 Před 4 lety +4

      Philip Donovan it’s been two years since you posted this . I too love hard rock Led Zeppelin , including Waites , Cash etc . I knew of her music and bought my friend a CD too . I watched this video and it seems like Loreena was singing to me actually singing to my soul. After watching the video I said to myself what just happened ? So I watched this over , over and over . It was like looking into a lovers eyes . She is amazing .. her music is angelic . A treasure . I believe I had a similar experience

  • @ORIOVALDO
    @ORIOVALDO Před 4 lety +107

    The Dark Night of the Soul (in Castilian La noche oscura del alma) is a poem written in the 16th century by the Spanish poet and Christian mystic São João da Cruz and a treatise he later wrote, which consists of a commentary on the poem.
    Loreena McKennitt turned the poem Dark Night of the Soul into music on the album The Mask and Mirror

  • @UncompressedWAVmusic
    @UncompressedWAVmusic Před 5 lety +113

    She is the artist that connects me to the divine more than any artist and I've been loving music from the 1950's to 2019 and have a huge, huge music collection. Loreena is the artist I would choose if I could only hear only one artist if stranded on an island for all time.

    • @johnasaro5841
      @johnasaro5841 Před 4 lety +7

      If there is a heaven her music would be playing

    • @elianesimoes2486
      @elianesimoes2486 Před 2 lety +5

      AGREE!I HEAR LOREENA FOR LONG TIME!HER SONGS ARE DEEP PEACE, LOVE AND LIGTH!I FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND OF THE ANGELS BECAUSE SHE IS DIVINE SHINE!🙏💚💛💙🤍💟🦋🇧🇷

    • @UncompressedWAVmusic
      @UncompressedWAVmusic Před rokem +2

      @@johnasaro5841 Sounds beautiful to my ears.

  • @davidcoufal8724
    @davidcoufal8724 Před 10 lety +44

    She is her own genre. She is her own class. She is heaven's greatest angle.

  • @elianesimoes2486
    @elianesimoes2486 Před rokem +13

    I love this beautiful and serene song!It touch deep in my soul!Sometimes l cry because there are memories in my Life for long time!Loreena is like an angel on the Earth!I feel too much peace when heard her!God bless all the people here!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌻🌻🌻💛💛💛🌻🌻🌻💚💚💚🌼🌼🌼💙💙💙🌼🌼🌼🤍🤍🤍🇧🇷⚘️💜⚘️❤️🦋

  • @feuerspei8815
    @feuerspei8815 Před 2 lety +4

    This sounds like the memory of a memory that never happened. Like home. Like a movie you watched as a kid, or a game you played outside in summer or whenever. When you felt save and you still knew how to actually play, to forget that it isn't real, because it was real. The world wasn't.

  • @josephkavanagh7055
    @josephkavanagh7055 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I've loved Loreena's music since I first hear All Souls Night on the radio. I got the album not long after and still find her music very enjoyable.

  • @Starglance
    @Starglance Před 6 lety +29

    What a most beautiful song!
    I met Loreena in person today in Hamburg. What a wonderful and most friendly person.
    I love your music!
    Thank you so much!!!

  • @seangage9088
    @seangage9088 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Everything about this is so incredibly beautiful........

  • @LinaBandMillie
    @LinaBandMillie Před rokem +7

    Loreenas voice is so otherworldly ❤

  • @chrisjackson2345
    @chrisjackson2345 Před 3 měsíci +3

    the most beautiful love song ever written!

  • @dovahkiinkhajiitmaster6295

    I can hardly believe how incredible this song is. Every time I listen to this masterpiece I am stunned. The only word I can think of to describe this song is magical.

  • @robertsmith5257
    @robertsmith5257 Před 3 lety +7

    No one has a voice like Lorenna McKennitt. You can always recognize it and love it.
    As far as who wrote the lyrics, I don't care. She puts them to music and gives them real feeling. Knowing that she lost her fiancee to an accident helps me identify with the song, since I too am a widower.
    I have been through my own "dark night of the soul". It is a lonely place, but also a place of testing. You live through it and become a whole person again or you give up, cave in, and become some miserable simulacrum of a human being.
    I survived.

  • @stevencochran5301
    @stevencochran5301 Před rokem +3

    A night thou was my guide
    A night, 'mon loving fan for rising sun
    A night, the child, the lover, twithal belovèd one
    'Twas forming each of them into the other

  • @Catalystresource
    @Catalystresource Před 10 měsíci +4

    She was really big in her time but her celestial music is still beautiful and unique today

  • @sandpiperca4722
    @sandpiperca4722 Před 3 lety +10

    She is another reason I am a proud Canadian. And she became a star all by herself every step of her journey. Loreena, you should be very proud of what you’ve made of your career!

  • @maxtalbotrules
    @maxtalbotrules Před 12 lety +67

    John of the Cross had to have wept in heaven when he first heard this song.

  • @gagnepa
    @gagnepa Před 11 lety +32

    The most peaceful song I have ever heard. Lorena is wonderful.

    • @seamus2112ophelan
      @seamus2112ophelan Před 2 lety

      Give ‘Full Circle’ a listen as well if you haven’t already.

  • @alexiaevellyn
    @alexiaevellyn Před 5 lety +9

    So beautiful, makes me cry ❤

  • @EdYTub
    @EdYTub Před 2 měsíci +2

    Uma das mais belas vozes que já ouvi em toda a minha vida... Difícil encontrar palavras para descrever... Divina! 😍❤❤️🎶🎶🎶

  • @TDucinaltumT
    @TDucinaltumT Před 11 měsíci +12

    De un español que se conmueve al escuchar y cantar esta versión de la noche oscura del alma, una de las más altas expresiones de la poesía mística española. Una bellísima y conmovedora versión que me ha acompañado durante mi vida. Agradacido de corazon a Loreena por esta aportación. Cuando estuvo en Alicante le supliqué que cada vez que venga a España, por favor la incluya en su repertorio. Agradezco profundamente que pusiese las partituras a la venta. Hoy mismo la he cantado, conmovido por la sensibilidad que demuestra. Gracias de nuevo, Loreena, eres una compañía cotidiana.

    • @carloss8337
      @carloss8337 Před 2 měsíci +1

      De acuerdo. La estoy escuchando desde 1992.

    • @carloss8337
      @carloss8337 Před 2 měsíci +1

      San Juan de la cruz.

  • @placebo64
    @placebo64 Před 7 lety +20

    My God, what a voice!

  • @KateMagdalenaMusic
    @KateMagdalenaMusic Před 10 lety +32

    As holy an experience as I ever had watching someone sing. Extraordinary gift has Loreena.

  • @eduardovieira4596
    @eduardovieira4596 Před 7 lety +64

    how someone can thumbs down this? People without soul...

    • @doniellestenson5231
      @doniellestenson5231 Před 7 lety +14

      Eduardo Vieira 36 people need to immerse themselves in the natural world . Where they must use their every sense. Then they will truly understand.

  • @bobbelles8440
    @bobbelles8440 Před 8 lety +84

    By the Gods and Goddess, she has the most incredibly beautiful voice, I have listened to her for hours on end and yet never have tired of her talent.

    • @Gnosarchist
      @Gnosarchist Před 4 lety +6

      ironic invocation. this song is inspired by a Christian theologian and poet

    • @allisgrace1313
      @allisgrace1313 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Gnosarchist Indeed a Doctor of the Church. May you come to know the true source of this beautiful gift, as I was given the grace to, ten years ago, when my husband and I left the god and goddess to follow Christ through His Church. What an amazing journey it has been! May God bless you!

    • @escapistfromhell1543
      @escapistfromhell1543 Před 4 lety +1

      I grew up listening to her music. There is no artist of our days that can even compete with her

    • @MinecraftRick
      @MinecraftRick Před 2 lety +1

      @@Gnosarchist There's nothing that says music of one faith cannot give something to a listener of a different faith.

    • @Gnosarchist
      @Gnosarchist Před 2 lety

      @@MinecraftRick Never said the obverse.

  • @Mpeznaranja
    @Mpeznaranja Před rokem +2

    I have seen you twice in Madrid and both concerts were AMAZING, you made me cry. You were the favourite singer of my beloved uncle and I just love you for that because every time I listen to your music is as if I am with my uncle again. You keep him alive. Thanks for that. You are magical. I love u Lorena

  • @ericlaperle1978
    @ericlaperle1978 Před 5 lety +13

    Every single one of her songs tells a beautiful story, I love it

  • @BillRemski
    @BillRemski Před 2 lety +5

    Loreena gives me many reasons to live. Blessed Be.

  • @Themountains4Ever
    @Themountains4Ever Před 6 lety +4

    For several years I have listened to Loreena , With every song I feel the Magic her voice has always touched my soul I love her songs and voice.

  • @agapoula
    @agapoula Před 13 lety +1

    Thank God for Loreena..I live in Greece my dearest Loreena...i was in your concert last year...I will never IN MY LIFE forget the atmosphere in that concert of yours..we were ALL out of this world...PLANET EARTH IS SO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU LOREENA!! WE LOVE YOU HERE IN ATHENS GREECE!!!!

  • @hottunasandwich
    @hottunasandwich Před 15 lety +10

    Loreena really knows how to facilitate participate in and lead one on a deeply spiritual journey

  • @fr.5915
    @fr.5915 Před 2 lety +2

    LOREEENA IS MY FAVOURITE, I DONT KNOW WHAT SHE IS UP TO, AM NOT THE KIND TO SAY THIS AND ,THAT,I CAN ONLY SAY YOUR VOICE AND THE ART THAT YOU CREATE GOES TO MY SOUl, deeply, it also is a testament of ancient times, a powerful cry out, of the nordic spirit

  • @RN-ml6uw
    @RN-ml6uw Před 8 lety +17

    Music of my soul

  • @yonipujapoet5104
    @yonipujapoet5104 Před 4 lety +4

    I've followed Loreena for more than 25 years, fell in love with her harp first, her first release had no vocals; I knew her voice would be myztical, fell in love with her voice immediately, and longed a lovers kiss upon the lips of her melodies.

  • @dennyii5292
    @dennyii5292 Před 7 lety +24

    When "The Mask And The Mirror" came out, I was OBSESSED with it, could not play it enough. It was and still is a magical journey to be experienced.

    • @SMWfamily
      @SMWfamily Před 6 lety

      Same.

    • @gregmead2967
      @gregmead2967 Před 6 lety +3

      It's the only album I've ever bought simply from hearing it over a music store PA system. That was the first time I every heard Loreena. "Magical" is exactly it.

    • @Fear_the_Nog
      @Fear_the_Nog Před 5 lety +2

      I heard it when I was 13. I'm 34 and still obsessed with it. Her music is just magick pure and simple

  • @georgeshepherd1008
    @georgeshepherd1008 Před rokem +3

    This is a beautiful piece of music

  • @carloss8337
    @carloss8337 Před 4 měsíci +2

    San Juan de la Cruz. Thank you Loreena.

  • @marafilipia732
    @marafilipia732 Před 10 lety +8

    what a remarkable singer!!!!!!!!!!!!one of the best voices i have heard in my life!!!

  • @THR33STEP
    @THR33STEP Před 4 lety +7

    She is also incredible live in concert!!

  • @alvarofernandes6988
    @alvarofernandes6988 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Álvaro A perfeição do Amor está nessa cancao

  • @julianlewis1792
    @julianlewis1792 Před 3 lety +89

    Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
    And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest
    Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled
    The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead
    Oh night, thou was my guide
    Oh night, more loving than the rising sun
    Oh night, that joined the lover to the beloved one
    Transforming each of them into the other
    Upon that misty night in secrecy, beyond such mortal sight
    Without a guide or light than that which burned so deeply in my heart
    That fire t'was led me on and shone more bright than of the midday sun
    To where he waited still it was a place where no one else could come
    Oh night, though was my guide
    Oh night, more loving than the rising sun
    Oh night, that joined the lover to the beloved one
    Transforming each of them into the other
    I lost myself to him
    And laid my face upon my lovers breast
    And care and grief grew dim
    As the mornings' mist became the light
    There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
    There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
    There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair

    • @davidbehrens4418
      @davidbehrens4418 Před 2 lety +7

      Serene and surreal.

    • @nickmacau
      @nickmacau Před 2 lety +5

      Thank u bro

    • @wildrosecece
      @wildrosecece Před 2 lety +4

      Thank you

    • @elianesimoes2486
      @elianesimoes2486 Před 2 lety +4

      IT'S BEAUTIFUL!I LOVE LOREENA AND YOUR SONGS!I FEEL TOO MUCH PEACE!GOD BLESS THE ALL HERE!🙏🙏🙏💚💚💛💛💛💙💙💙🤍🤍🤍🇧🇷🌹❤

    • @Neirean
      @Neirean Před rokem +5

      Lovely, though you missed the chorus -
      Within my pounding heart
      Which kept itself entirely for him
      He fell into his sleep
      Beneath the cedars all my love I gave
      From o'er the fortress walls
      The wind would brush his hair against his brow
      And with its smoothest hand
      Caressed my every sense it would allow

  • @switzerlandful
    @switzerlandful Před 3 měsíci +1

    Amazing... her voice drew me into a place of peace... why?

  • @bradleylaford1526
    @bradleylaford1526 Před 2 lety +2

    Swarthy & Beautiful to say the least... Gorgeous Music... Awestruck...

  • @annoula8919
    @annoula8919 Před 15 lety +2

    What I love most about this video is her eyes. I can see the emotion of every word she says, in her gaze.

  • @carlosgutierrezmarin6607

    Divina ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @carolinareguerofullier6595

    Momentos de verdadera calma con el corazón llenito y con ganas inmensas de agradecer tanta TERNURA. GRACIAS por compartir tanta belleza. ¡FELICITACIONES!

  • @edilaniaplabio3837
    @edilaniaplabio3837 Před 3 lety +14

    É impossível não ouvir e sentir que existe algo dentro do nosso passado que volta com tanta força.

  • @Massivo07
    @Massivo07 Před 8 lety +48

    Um profundíssimo poema de São João da Cruz sobre a viagem da alma e a união com Deus o criador. E uma melodia de tirar o folêgo. Soberbo.

    • @betef.3179
      @betef.3179 Před 8 lety +4

      Agree. Adoro! Muito bom. Não canso de ouvir.

    • @carlosm.devasconcelllos3939
      @carlosm.devasconcelllos3939 Před 3 lety +3

      Palavra que estou meio perplexo de ouvir a Loreena com suas referências pagãs ir buscar tão linda inspiração em um dos santos que mais respeito dentre os verdadeiros servos de Deus pai que é esse discípulo de Santa Teresa De ávila. Muito bom ver isso.

    • @vitalsegmaringa9404
      @vitalsegmaringa9404 Před 2 lety +1

      @@carlosm.devasconcelllos3939 nos últimos três meses estou lendo obras dos santos carmelitas, Santa Tereza D´Avila(Livro da Vida, Caminho de Perfeição e Castelo Interior), Santa Terezinha (História de uma Alma) e agora comecei a ler São João da Cruz (A Subida do Monte Carmelo), e essa música mesmo em inglês, conseguiu dar a sensibilidade do poema de São João.

  • @louisebester1660
    @louisebester1660 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Lorena has an incredibly unique voice! Her beautiful low notes and then the sweet high register is just lovely. Love het music ☺️😁🤩🤩

  • @jongoodman4622
    @jongoodman4622 Před 2 lety +3

    Loreena, Thank you for all that you do, your music is wonderful, and so touching, Thanks again for sharing your wonderful talent

    • @lydialas4452
      @lydialas4452 Před rokem +1

      @Hello Jon how are you doing

    • @jongoodman4622
      @jongoodman4622 Před rokem +1

      @@lydialas4452 I am doing well. I am listening to Loreena Mckennitt while writing an essay about a play I just read. The play is called The Humans. How are you?

  • @user-fe3yy3jf4e
    @user-fe3yy3jf4e Před 24 dny

    She wrote this her self ❤ singing like a angel 😇

  • @ivanpisarev1449
    @ivanpisarev1449 Před 3 lety +2

    She is my absolutely favorite singer for more than 20 years! Great voice, amazing sound ever!

  • @nomoreturningaway1459
    @nomoreturningaway1459 Před rokem +2

    Swept along on her voice, I breathe.

  • @62rosangeladoro
    @62rosangeladoro Před 8 lety +19

    LORENA McKennitt UMA CANTORA FANTÁSTICA!!!
    SEMPRE COM MÚSICAS DE EXCELENTE QUALIDADE E SONORIDADE FABULOSA!!!
    ABRAÇOS,
    ROSANGELA D'ORO

  • @w67bv2cxm
    @w67bv2cxm Před 7 lety +13

    How in the world can it be that she was so beautiful 20 and 30 years ago, and she is even more beautiful today. What be this sprite ?

    • @willrichardson519
      @willrichardson519 Před 5 lety

      Mae'r Cernyweg yn eu galw piskie.
      In Cymraeg as I didn't find it in Cernyweg, bar the last word that is the Cernyweg spelling.

  • @Tessietots
    @Tessietots Před 15 lety +1

    You take the words right out of my mouth. This song it carries me places, stirs me, captures me. She is warm, and love... I adore her.

  • @quantessenz
    @quantessenz Před 2 lety +2

    If you are still searching for angels anywhere else than here, you have not fully ended your spiritual search yet.
    Beautiful voice,
    beautiful text,
    beautiful song.
    (And just my opinion)

  • @SantiagoGarcia-od5gr
    @SantiagoGarcia-od5gr Před 9 lety +17

    Excelsa melodía matizada de musica sublime, sentimiento místico y una desbordante y lírica voz, como la de la ésta formidable cantautora canadiense.

  • @ben196145
    @ben196145 Před 8 lety +2

    If there ever is an angel on this earth it has to be Loreena and her beautiful voice, thanks for a wonderful career wishing you and your loved one a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

  • @cre8ive_intentions
    @cre8ive_intentions Před 4 lety +2

    My favourite singer. 🙏🏻💗💕💗

  • @CommercialAtrophy
    @CommercialAtrophy Před 12 lety +2

    What a talented woman..

  • @fredericrike5974
    @fredericrike5974 Před 2 lety +1

    Ms. McKennitt- may your voice and poetry follow me for all the rest of my life. For, in it, lies hope, longing, sorrow, joy, life and even death's door and promise. What a great gift we receive from each merely perfect performance- I begin to think a glimmer of why the Druids composed their long histories in the poetry of their language, and think they must have given much out as you have! FR

  • @louisejffisher4630
    @louisejffisher4630 Před rokem +1

    Beautiful album ~ one of my faves ~ xxx ~

  • @TheresiaSwiebel
    @TheresiaSwiebel Před 3 lety +1

    Very beautiful dear Loreena I love this song Thank you!

  • @withintemptation71
    @withintemptation71 Před 15 lety +2

    Vous avez vraiment une très belle voix, et vous jouez magnifiquement bien !
    J'adore vos musiques, vous avez une grande âme Celte !
    All the Best for You.

  • @constantinefadhili5132
    @constantinefadhili5132 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Each time am lost in myself she gives me strength when I listen to this piece of art. Just awesome 😢❤

  • @nicolasdelaforge7420
    @nicolasdelaforge7420 Před 2 lety +1

    This is so brilliant and never heard of before in song, guenuine major poet.
    Oh night that joined the lover
    To the beloved one
    Transforming each of them into the other
    Upon that misty night
    In secrecy, beyond such mortal sight
    Without a guide or light

  • @falimirski
    @falimirski Před 10 lety +5

    Should be played at every funeral - extraordinary song of passage.

  • @TONY...GTB6
    @TONY...GTB6 Před 2 lety +2

    It's amazing how such beautiful music is obscured by music without a whole lot of substance.

  • @federicozertuche
    @federicozertuche Před 8 lety +1

    Tengo muchos años de ser un aficionado a la buena música, y el descubrimiento de Loreena McKennitt es para mi algo maravilloso y único. Es una artista extraordinaria: con una voz excepcional, educada y hermosa, excelente compositora e intérprete. Investiga y conoce muy bien la tradición musical de varias culturas y países. Se rodea de músicos excelentes y tiene un repertorio fabuloso, aparte de los grandes poemas que elige para hacerlos canción. ¡Bravo!

  • @hugomondelaers3928
    @hugomondelaers3928 Před 10 lety +2

    Dearest Loreena!
    Since you sing all your marvelous songs like a heavenly goddess, you must have the greatness and the absolute beauty in your heart of a very great artist. Thank you so much for being you.

  • @marcoscalderon2584
    @marcoscalderon2584 Před 7 lety +6

    verdaderamente una voz espectacular y relajante!!! me encanta esta señora

  • @marsharupe8112
    @marsharupe8112 Před 11 lety +4

    This is my favorite Loreena McKennitt piece. Such beautiful work.

  • @Alysh5
    @Alysh5 Před rokem +1

    May 2023 till enjoying this masterpiece

  • @Fluke_Starbucker
    @Fluke_Starbucker Před rokem +2

    Loreena is such an attractive and talented woman, WOW!😍

  • @melodie348
    @melodie348 Před 3 lety +1

    Merci du fond du COEUR. 🐝🐝🐝♥️♥️♥️

  • @diello2979
    @diello2979 Před 3 lety +1

    So beautiful🍀🙏🍀

  • @juansierraarjona5413
    @juansierraarjona5413 Před 8 lety +3

    La voz mas bella. I love you, Loreena

  • @luke144
    @luke144 Před 2 lety +1

    Too beautiful!

  • @Tessietots
    @Tessietots Před 15 lety +1

    Oh Gosh I love this song! and Loreena! God has blessed you with such talent Loreena, thanks so much for sharing it with us. Much Love

  • @erzas556
    @erzas556 Před 6 měsíci +1

    This is a lullaby for old souls…

  • @JLavlis54
    @JLavlis54 Před 5 lety +2

    In this world there are some singers who "enrich" our souls. Loreena Mckennitt is one of them with her amazing art! Lovely!

  • @mikenned
    @mikenned Před 13 lety +1

    She has an otherworldly beauty, both in her art and her person. It's not contrived or forced, but seems to come naturally. That's a rare thing in these days of commercialization and pretentiousness. Thank God.

  • @jerzjurkiewicz2674
    @jerzjurkiewicz2674 Před 5 lety +3

    Absolutely charming.

  • @paulminervino8298
    @paulminervino8298 Před 3 lety +1

    What a remarkable girl. Between listening and watching her perform this piece I'm just so smitten and struck by Loreena. Her videos are so very good but don't contain enough of Loreena herself, but rather very tasteful and artsy images of this and that. I'd much rather just see her after watching this.

  • @terrancewilliams5486
    @terrancewilliams5486 Před 10 lety +1

    This woman is an AMAZING singer! I wish she was more renowned for her beautiful voice

  • @dekassini
    @dekassini Před 15 lety +6

    La canción más hermosa que jamás he escuchado!!! GRACIAS Loreena!

  • @CommercialAtrophy
    @CommercialAtrophy Před 11 lety +5

    That is so beautiful.

  • @rtemisaurofhemisofhegoddes2070

    Such a touching and amasing artiste in all capacities! She is hauntingly exquisite and most lovely. I send her only the warmest, softest and grateful regards for the beauty she invokes in her carefully woven tapestry of love, piety and savouring her bliss. Such a Goddess she be!

  • @nilsonborazo1601
    @nilsonborazo1601 Před 5 lety +3

    Simplesmente Magnifica eu Amo Loreena volte para o Brasil sera sempre bem vinda

  • @fungossilvestres1731
    @fungossilvestres1731 Před 8 lety +12

    Que linda voz. Carrega uma magia... Magnífico

  • @jerzjurkiewicz2674
    @jerzjurkiewicz2674 Před 5 lety +1

    Amazing, simply amazing 🙂

  • @annettemuyal2262
    @annettemuyal2262 Před 6 lety +11

    Bravo!!!! Me dá tanta paz. É uma obra de arte 💜💜💜

  • @adamwey2673
    @adamwey2673 Před 2 lety +2

    I was never able to feel music as she does. it's truly amazing

  • @jerzjurkiewicz2674
    @jerzjurkiewicz2674 Před 5 lety +2

    This just touches the soul. Sublime.