O Thou Who Camest From Above : Rochester Cathedral Choir
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The choir of Rochester Cathedral sing the hymn O Thou Who Camest From Above. Charles Wesley's wonderful words are sung to the lovely tune Hereford composed by Samuel Sebastian Wesley who was born in London in 1810 so this year is his 200th aniversary.
This is one of the very few cathedral choir offerings I return to every so often. It offers a simple but expert execution of a fine choral tradition, by relatively few singers. For me, it’s head and shoulders above the ‘best’. Crazy!
Eternally one of my favourite hymns, and a reminder of the glories of the English choral tradition.
I just adore you boys! You sing like angels... So very beautiful and majestic, it touches the heart. Thank you, and may the Lord Jesus bless you and keep you. Love from Denmark
So well put. Perfect. 🙂
"Dear Lord, please give me back my first love, the fire of thy passion that burned once so brightly in my Spirit"
Amen - and let the flame burn for His glory
Amen - me too
Outstanding choir an absolute pleasure to listen too troubles have always been of the highest standard well done
Gosh, that brought tears to my eyes.
I just uploaded myself playing that but without a choir .
Amazing how well these people sing in harmony!
That was truly beautiful. Terrific job guy's.
This is what music in Heaven will be
When you've got the first line of a song in your head and you find the song on YT and discover that the whole song exactly voices what is in your heart. Thank you to the hymn's author, to Jesus, to the choir and to drwestbury.
One Voice,.....Thanks for sharing this beautiful song,..
In Him is the Glory...
Absolutely beautiful. Also, I can'tget over the stunning technical quality of vids nowadays!! It's all too amazing.
lately the modern Catholic church in some countries started to use modern music instruments/ modern organs (electones, etc), even keyboards in the Holy Mass. but one thing I believe, that the sound of the church organ is the best and cannot be changed with anything else :')
Melisa Natasha Mumek even the organ and the trumpet sound good together :3
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One one. Beautiful!
This hymn was just magnificently sung by the choir and congregation at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London as part of a ceremony honoring the life of Queen Elizabeth II. A very moving performance.
Wow, can you share the link? I would love to listen to it.
@@TodaEscritura...: Here is the link:
ruclips.net/video/yVQblvHDQdM/видео.html
The hymn starts at 40:54. Put on headphones 🎧 for that full cathedral sound. This link is from The Telegraph video feed. It has the best quality audio of several I checked.
@@marshallartz395 Absolutely heavenly. Thank you very much.
Beautifull, I love. I have the same hymn sung by the choir of Lincoln Cathedral, but this is in my mind better.
Pax et Bonum
wonderful
thank u
Thanks so much for uploading! God bless you!!!!
O’ thou who camest from above
the fire celestial to impart,
kindle a flame of sacred love
on the mean altar of my heart!
There let it for thy glory burn
with inextinguishable blaze,
and trembling to its source return
in humble prayer and fervent praise.
Jesus, confirm my heart's desire
to work, and speak, and think for Thee;
still let me guard the holy fire,
and still stir up the gift in me.
Ready for all thy perfect will,
my acts of faith and love repeat;
till death thy endless mercies seal,
and make the sacrifice complete.
''Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall proclaim your praise''. Liturgy sung in churches and cathedrals is the objective of singers to praise the Lord. Thank you my friend, beautiful.
Such a beautiful rendition. My favorite Wesley Hymn!
It's a excellent hymn for the Christian Church🙏✝️🙌
This is my favourite recording of this outstanding hymn which so magnificently marries words and music. The recording is unpretentious and beautiful. Thank you. Andrew Hall
@mimmorganist You may have looked up snoopy's site but I don't mind replying here. The words by Bernard of Clairvaux were put into English verse by Charles Wesley, in the 1700s. There are two usual tunes to this hymn. Every tune in English hymnbooks is known by a name and may be used for several hymns with the same number of syllables per line. The tune "Wilton" 88.88 (syllables) is by Samuel Stanley c. 1800. "Hereford" 88.88 (used here) is by Samuel Sebastian Wesley, mid 1800s.
This music upsets us, deep down to the roots. There is nothing to discuss here save to know where the pile of handkerchieves is.
My Dad was ordained at Rochester cathedral in 1965.
Very nice voices from the boy trebles and continued with the whole choir. It brings me back 65 years when I was one on those boy soprano`s / trebles.
one of my Favorite Methodist Hymn Godbless the World Methodism
thank you, drwestbury. An excellent rendition indeed!
@Stormonnormon
Wasn't aware that I did!
My Mum’s favourite hymn and one we sang at her funeral a little while back.
Gosh, that brought tears to my eyes. I just uploaded myself playing that but without a choir :-)
I love their cut ruff! Thank for wonderful Rochester Cathedral Choir video
voci d'Angeli
LET THE PRINCE OF PEACE BLESS NORTHERN IRELAND... WE HAVE UNITY IN CHRIST
Great decant.
Beautiful
My favourite hymn. In dark times of pain and uncertainty this hymn brings solace. Wesleys, grandfather, grandson: a blessed sharing.
@mimmorganist I have provided the answer to this on my own recording of this.
I have to say, I prefer this to my effort!
can someone help me get the music script
The sacrifice is complete. Jesus said his sacrifice was finished on the cross. My books on Lulu talk about this.
Very very nice. A pleasure to hear, especially the unaccompanied verse. (RHD 1963 - 1971 Head Chorister Leeds Parish Church)
Hmm, that does sound worrying. The church shouldn`t choose political sides but encourage to do the right thing.
Thanks
What a fab sound this choir made such a shame the new director of music prefers unattractive harsh voices
I could listen to this liturgical hymn twenty four hours seven days a week, it is no beautiful and lovely. Listen to the words, heaven on earth. Hallelujah!
It is absolutely divine....' and make the sacrifice complete'
Very nice voices from the boy trebles and continued with the whole choir. It brings me back 65 years when I was one on those boy soprano`s / trebles.
What a banger! We’ve encouraged you along, we’ve tried to be strong, now you’ve done it 💪🏼💪🏼
What Pentecost service would be complete without this one?
Yep indeed Charles's boy Sam composed of the tunes to his hymns.
I'm curious about their unique collars, which make them look really elegant and traditional. But, to be honest, I don't think it is suitable to do some singing, because it kind of looks preventing the movements of their mouths. If they are keeping it as their noble choral tradition, please forgive my ignorance. Thanks for the great performance and a serene moment.
mi yu well actually I’m a chorister currently at Rochester cathedral and we have to wear the ruffs and they’re a bit itchy but they don’t effect our singing and they don’t make it hard to move our mouths, they just feel normal lol
What's not to like, you 40 Philistines?
The kid @0:26 was really feeling this hymn.
Magnifique 😮🎉
@choirboyfromhell1 Nope I'm doing my A levels elswehere
Where can I get "Give me oil in my lamp"
Hereford's always a winner....
Lovely choir! Does it still exist?
Very well done,excellent arrangement.
@kkwi6613 I count six men, so there's probably two.
Clarification : WESLEY
I feel like I'm flying.
@SnorkyO Guess you graduated with honors.
wonderful...
:D troubles!
Inspiring for sure, nothing even remotely can be found in Islam to equal this.
+Steve Cakouros Right on Steve!
Stop being insecure dude. Just enjoy the music without putting other cultures down
I agree that this is deeply, deeply beautiful. Yet I also wonder what I'm losing out for being unable to appreciate its equivalent (if any) in Islamic culture. Our differences are a source of endless wonder and enrichment.. if anything, we should be seeking to explore and to understand, and simply delight in being able to return home to what we find familiar. Without pointless and unhelpful comparison.
Any God or supreme force would disapprove of this toxic comment
I agree that this is inspiring, and very different at least to anything found in Islamic culture. However, I don't agree that "Our differences are a source of endless wonder and enrichment" as Halcyon Tide says. Our differences are a source of concern and worry. We can't all be correct in our beliefs concerning the relationship between the Creator and Mankind. One religion is right and others are essentially wrong , or at the very least incomplete, no matter how energetically we try to believe otherwise. Seek the truth above all else. Seek it without ceasing. Pray without ceasing.
off topic !
For josh Trebles fill better now !
@mimmorganist : Then convert to Protestantism straight away. Much safer than Romanism for the former theology speaks of Eternal Life granted before the foundation of creation. Rome a mere extension of pagan Rome and scarcely any difference.
King's School Rochester, a home of evil
too fast !
shum urate e bukur.
This Wesley hymn is harmonically weak. Fluidly broken, the fourths do not lead to a harmonically strong fifth and tonic. Study your modes and reconstruct the passing tones, and you will arrive at a more harmonically pleasing result. Elementary here, VERY elementary! Has this person actually proceeded beyond grade 2 Harmonie?
"Has this person actually proceeded beyond grade 2 Harmonie?"
Are you for real? lol
What the heck?
A good video. I enjoyed the singing very much.
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+Goggle P I disagree, this is one of the most beautiful settings for wonderful words. Put aside you 'learned comments' and listen to the words.
Actually a very lovely sound from this choir; clear and unpretentious. Not familiar with this hymn, methinks not of the very highest quality as far as Protestant hymn tunes go.
+gwalaus Sorry to read your opinion that this beautiful tune attached to such deep and wonderful words is not of the highest quality. Personally, I have found both the words and the music deeply moving.
Agree to disagree. I think the melody wanders a little aimlessly, but I am no expert in harmony. I enjoy it all the same, and appreciate your opinion.
" . . . harmonically weak. Fluidly broken, the fourths do not lead to a harmonically strong fifth and tonic. Study your modes and reconstruct the passing tones . . . Elementary here, VERY elementary! Has this person actually proceeded beyond grade 2 Harmonie?" (Goggle P)
According to the Oxford Companion to Music, Samuel Wesley's church music "is of a high order. He had the highest ideals. His musical influence was perhaps the most lofty and the most powerful the Anglican Church enjoyed during the nineteenth century."
So, study music history a little, before presuming to pass judgement on a superior musician.
You comments are not about the music; they are about you, troll. Get back under your bridge.
I'm not certain who is alleged to be the troll here - Clive or "Goggle P" - but (and I have never before posted a comment on one of these usually amazingly daft internet threads) I felt it was important to note that, in twenty years as a professional musician, I have never seen such idiotic and musically illiterate nonsense as "Goggle P"'s bizarre critique of this very fine hymn tune. "Goggle P": your comments are completely unintelligible pseudo analysis and you have no idea what you are talking about.
+Clive Govier Now can you explain this to me again??? Who are you to be so critical, listen to it again and again and maybe your hard heart will soften.
Daniel Webb Oh, but I am sorry, didn't know that we were dealing with experts here. Maybe I am lucky to have three minutes of musical training, that way I can enjoy this music and not criticise like Clive and you, but who can argue with a "professional with 20 years of training". Those "professionals" scare me, they are too high up there, and I don't believe a word of it. I don't think that you have the love for music, I judge by the way it makes me feel and lifts me up out of the earthly drudgery. But a halfwit I am not, I am certain about that. Now it's your turn again. . . . . . . . . . Knowledge comes by hearing, did you know that?
+junglemonkey Strewth! Let me try to explain. Somebody hiding behind the name "Goggle P" made a series of absolutely ridiculous criticisms of this very fine hymn tune, which I love and admire, and did so purporting to understand harmony, which he/she plainly does not. Clive Govier then, quite rightly, disagreed with Goggle P, quoting from the Oxford Companion to Music. Someone replied to his post, accusing him (I think) of being a troll. I weighed in, supporting Clive and - like many others here - expressing astonishment at Goggle P's comments. You then replied to that post and you seemed to think that it was Clive who had criticised the hymn tune. I pointed out the error and AGREED with you that just listening to the tune should confirm that it's lovely and that it is not a matter of technicalities. So I am on your side - "knowledge comes by hearing" is exactly right. The "halfwit with three minutes of musical training" is "Goggle P", not you, though I shouldn't have been so rude about him/her and I apologise. You have simply misunderstood who is criticising the tune and who is defending it. I assure you that I do have a love for music, as well as being technically trained in it! Please continue to enjoy this tune and all other fine music you hear. My best wishes to you, "junglemonkey"!