I am someone who has been in choirs and listened to choirs most of my life (80yrs) and this choir is for me the best in the world

I swear at 1:53 it sounds like you’re listening to angels singing. The composition is simply breathtaking. I absolutely love this choir.

Thanks for bringing so much love, hope and comfort to the world. Stellenbosch University Choir you are an incredible group of blessed humans! Much love.

I listen to this 31 years after I lost my best friend to ovarian cancer. This beautiful work of art had not been written yet, but I'm sure Margie would have loved this beautiful song. The choir is flawless.

Andre plays this choir like a finely tuned Orchestra Just Genius

My ideal rainbow nation. They make me so proud of being South African

This is the best choir in the world. What makes it even more spectacular is that it is a university choir, so member turnover is high, yet it continues to remain the best. Year after year.

Who is here 2020 and will still be here 2030

I found myself closing my eyes and just listening to the beauty of this arrangement. No words can describe the desire for these voices to be never ending...those soprano voices were filled with calming magic. All the reasons why this choir wins accolade after accolade are evident in this performance piece. AMAZING!

I have been following your work and am an avid fan. What fascinates me most about you is the fact that each year you get new members to join the choir, yet the sound remains exactly the same. Mr van der Merwe, you Sir, deserve the highest honor of the land! You are a genius!

Also someone who’s been in choirs all of my life, and continuously listens to different choirs. This is, by far, the best choir performance I’ve ever heard. The harmonies, dictation… it’s unbelievably amazing. 🙏🏻

Your voices are the feathers that make up the wings of the angel!! So perfect😩😱😍😍😍😍

It seems that God has brought some of his angelic host and messengers into the physical world through this choir; no way these voices are mere mortal voices🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🤧👼🕊🕊

Absolutely zero flaws...

Painfully beautiful. It seems you have no limits. You perform with exquisite beauty, but your harmonies speak of hope for your beautiful country's future, and when we look at you, we see the promise of Mandela's Rainbow Nation realized. You are the best choir in the world in many ways beyond your incomparable music.

The altos are giving me life 😍

This choir is like listening to angels on earth

If a rainbow was made of musical notes instead of colors, this is what it would sound like. But wait -- this choir IS a rainbow!

❤️❤️❤️They never dissapoint😍😍

There are songs to be sung beyond mankind.

Best conductor👌..... Best choir......

Spend all your time waiting For that second chance For a break that would make it okay There's always some reason To feel not good enough And it's hard at the end of the day I need some distraction Oh a beautiful release Memories seep from my veins Let me be empty Oh and weightless and maybe I'll find some peace tonight In the arms of the angel Fly away from here From this dark cold hotel room And the endlessness that you fear You are pulled from the wreckage Of your silent reverie You're in the arms of the angel May you find some comfort here In the arms of the angel Fly away from here From this dark cold hotel room And the endlessness that you fear You are pulled from the wreckage Of your silent reverie You're in the arms of the angel May you find some comfort here

One of the most beautiful performances I've ever heard. WOW. no words

So soothing... Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago from the Caribbean

I miss home😭😭🥺♥️❤️🌹. Stellenbosh University♥️🌹

Fully agree - they sound as if they are already in heaven. Haven't sung for a year thanks to lockdown....

NUMBER ONE SUPPORTER HAS ARRIVED!!!

Was hätte ich nicht alles gegeben, um damals in. DIESEM Chor singen zu dürfen!!!

Makes me emotional hearing people sing this way. They are magnificently beautiful and in the middle of the song the sopranos sound like chimes blowing in the wind. Everyone is perfectly connected. Well done guys. Brilliant.

Das muss ich auf Deutsch schreiben. Für diesen Klang fehlen mir einfach die Worte in Englisch. Wirklich unglaublich toll! Danke! Danke für das Hörerlebnis!

Stellenbosch bass is all I can say...🙌🙌🙌🙌

An amazing rendition of this song. The balance between being gentle yet impactful is truly masterclass. I don't know of any other choir who can pull off a song so beautifully with just the right amount of finesse, that it almost becomes painfully unbearable to listen because it moves you so much. Thank you! I am so proud to have been part of this choir and even more proud of how the legacy is still continuing from strength to strength, each time with a fresh burst of talented young men and women. I love you!

my last concert😍😢

What I love most about this choir is their commitment to the ensemble, the immersion of the self into the whole. I know of few groups as adept at it. Despite the individual talent, there are no primas or primos here. Their singing is all about the music and the power communicated by their communal effort. I submit that this is the primal but highest accomplishment of being human.

this Choir ..... no words for their excellence!!!

The harmony is just out of this world. You can feel the energy, the excitement.....Such a beauty to watch. They sound kinda scattered but their voices are still blending, I wonder how they do it ?

*The altos are making me immobile. What an angelic choir. Greetings from Ghana🇬🇭.* 😍😍😍

Really music unifies! Am happy to see both blacks and whites.. Colored.. Everyone producing one voice in this lovely music! This is a taste of heaven.

I can hear the flutter of the angels' wings ...

I follow this exceptional choir since years and he is always, always phantastic. If you see that these students change within the years, you know why this choir is through the times so good: It's André van der Merwe. Mastermind and one of the best choirmasters of the World. And also his arrangements are superb. Like this

With Love from Kampala, Uganda. Amazing voices

They sound like shimmering water. Absolutely mesmerising

What you did here 😭😭😭😭😭…. My late sister would have bawled her eyes out. A masterpiece.

Dieser Chor ist unglaublich schön lauschen zu dürfen❤️🙏

Wow,the Rainbow side of South Africa.Beautiful voices and well sung.Well done to all concerned.

Thanks for healing our broken hearts 🙏

This is medicine to my soul! 💛

It's hard to find adequate words to describe how the choir sang this beautiful song. Well done!

🥲2024 and these melodies still slap

No, i am not crying . Wooow

This is the background music in heaven

When I listen to this choir😢 Thy take me on a ocean trip on my 🚣 alone thy make sit alone and cry and cry mahn i love each and everyone's voices thy are good💛 wish oneday thy will come to Namibia🇳🇦

WOW! IMAGINE WHAT IMPACT ALL OF THEM MUST HAVE IN THE ETHER IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD IF THEY PUT ALL THEIR THOUGHT AND EMOTION IN THAT SONG AND IF THEY COLLECTIVELY SEE THE ANGELS IN THEIR MINDS EYE! IT MEANS THEY BRING THE ANGELS CLOSER! OUR COUNTRY REALLY NEEDS ANGELS TO MAKE EVERYTHING OK!

Always getting chills from them they're indeed the best ❤🇿🇦

I'm here for the sopranos...... I've never heard such a beautiful melody that's made by the those sopranos...... what a masterpiece

I got here accidentally. Oh my! Woww. Im looping this to sleep

WOW!! JUST ABSOLUTELY WOW!! IF THIS ISN'T HEAVEN...THEN WHAT MUST BE? Indescribable...these young people are literally singing alongside and with their guardian angels for something so heavenly and so beautiful to hear!

The unknown voice at 2:44 is amazingly soft and superb.

After what we have seen today in South Africa this helps calm the soul. Hope the Chief & his troops listen and learn. Hate & Violence Are Not The Way.

I am absolutely enthralled with this choir. When I listen to them, I find myself lifted ot of myself ! Watch the faces and expressions of these beautiful young people.Somuch is sadly do wrong about our country, but this is one thing that is so right.

Long-life dream, to sing this in choir! It's SO BEAUTIFUL!

Melhor coral que ja conheci. Que vivam 200 anos. André van der merwe é simplesmente o melhor regente de todos os tempos. Todas as apresentações deste coral são magníficas.

The best rendition I heard of this song👌🏼

I need to witness these angels sing in front of my eyes and ears after this pandemic!

The Conductor is so amazing

Incredible the amount of peace brought by this song, God bless your country! Greetings from Romania 🇷🇴

Okay this choir is the far best choir in the world...

Am feeling like gates of heavens are opening and angles are singing 😭😭😭

The Bass and Tennor did this whole art justice.

Such a beautiful, sensitive and evocative arrangement. Superbly sung, as always.

Thank you Stellenbosch for bringing us this choir 🙏...

Se existe uma expressão artística, que faz o *Fluido Cósmico Unversal* vibrar, e preparar para as adversidades da enfrentar, é a Música! Parabéns para o Regente & Canto x Coral! 🙋🏾‍♀️🇧🇷🌻🌻🌻... 🕊 🤝🏾

So wonderful. Thank you very much for your magical voices. From Niamey/ Niger 🇳🇪

This was played at my beautiful mother’s funeral service; sang so perfectly ❤

If I close my eyes, I can imagine angels singing.

This is how I imagine the Angels in heaven sound like 🌹🙏🇬🇧

It flows, it just flows....magical. bravo!

My favourite choir.angelic voices

Glorious music, and the heartfelt comments here wonderfully unfold the glory. This tiny grace note - among the most touching aspects of sharing this is the swaying of the singers' bodies - stalks in a breeze - not, I think, choreographed, just flowing in the Ruach/Breath/Spirit, stirring with the sound and emotion and truth in holy love. Glorious academic ensembles - and this is the epitome - are like a deciduous fruit tree - the leaves fall, the fruit is picked, and presently new blossoms appear, the leaves and fruit recur. Grace embodied, singing. Bow and hand to heart to Andre', and glory to God.

This song healed my first heartbreak

I'm in tears😪

Brilliant. This is by far the best choir in the world.

this is honestly and if not literally the most comforting song I have ever sung ❤thank you André.

I swear I could feel the angel.

This is exactly why they classified as the best choir in SA

O melhor coral que já ouvi! Vozes melodiosas! Acho que são anjos cantando!❤❤❤❤

Mis my Universiteit!!

One of the most beautiful choirs. Thank you from Canada

World class! Love you so much.

Oh my God i wish I could be there to learn more songs you guys are so awesome and amazing choir i ever heard this is just perfect for you love you all ❤️💖😁😍

The chimey sound they make is amazing.

My favourite choir besides my own ;))

Your conductor is Bliss always pure vibes 🔥🔥🔥💯....

I did not want them to stop

This song gives me goosebumps! Angelic sounds!

I no nothing of a choir or it’s functions......I do know a sweet sounding melody and the beautiful harmony of voices, this touches my soul. Thank you to all those who produced this and especially the singers....🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏

I feel like I'm hearing the song for the first time. Mr. Van der merwe your interpretation is exquisite. Hit me in the heart

Watching for the third time with tears in my eyes.

Best choir always....you guys are.just wowww

My soul healers🥺😭♥️🙌🏼