A truly glorious and uplifting piece that is an absolute joy to sing, and deserves to be better known. This recording remains the gold standard against which I measure my own performance. Thankyou so much for sharing it: Difficult to imagine this was so long ago!
Psalm 90: LORD, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, Thou art God from everlasting and world without end. Thou turnest man to destruction; again thou sayest , Come again ye children of men; For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as a watch in the night. As soon as Thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up and withered. For we consume away in Thy displeasure, and are afraid at Thy wrathful indignation. For when Thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told: so passeth it away and we are gone The years of our age are three score years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to four score years, yet is their strength but labour and sorrow. Turn Thee again O Lord at the last. Be gracious unto Thy servants. O satisfy us with Thy mercy and that soon. So shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. And the glorious Majesty of the Lord be upon us. O prosper Thou the work of our hands, O prosper Thou our handiwork.
This work was sung last November at an Evensong service at the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris to commemorate the 100yr anniversary of the Great War. Very moving piece sung by the Cathedral choir during the Eucharist. Vaughan Williams was one the finest masters of the Anglican choral tradition!
We sang this when I was a freshman in the Gettysburg College Choir, oh, so many years ago! It has remained one of my favorite choral pieces ever since...lovely to hear it again!
It's an amazing piece, and I have been in tears listening to it. My choir - Whitehall Choir, based in Victoria in London - is performing it on 9th July in an all-VW programme. I have the privilege of singing the baritone in the solo chorus...
Just beautiful. Our church choir is singing this piece this coming Sunday. Now if we just had, let's see, a cathedral, a massive organ, a bunch of superbly-trained boys, etc., I'm sure we would sound exactly like this recording!
Marvellous! Our parish choir is about to attempt this piece as part of the centennial ANZAC Gallipoli commemoration. Wonderful but a little intimidating as I contemplate singing it!
Snippets just came to me this morning and I had to look it up. (I sang this at BTHS West in our concert choir's "And Then There Was Song" spring concert, 1972.) Loved the grandeur of this recording! Now, I want to hear ours on the 33 1/3 LP!
@@jungjinbaek James O'Donnell (Organist and Master of the Choristers) was on sabbatical at that time, so Robert Quinney (Sub Organist) was temporarily promoted for a few months.
A truly glorious and uplifting piece that is an absolute joy to sing, and deserves to be better known. This recording remains the gold standard against which I measure my own performance. Thankyou so much for sharing it: Difficult to imagine this was so long ago!
Not recorded nearly enough. Beautiful piece and a pleasure to perform.
I just heard this on BBC Radio 3 and I thought it was beautiful and i'm 15 :P
Psalm 90:
LORD, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the
world were made, Thou art God from everlasting and world without end.
Thou turnest man to destruction;
again thou sayest
,
Come again ye children of men;
For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday,
seeing that is past as a watch in the night.
As soon as Thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep
and fade away suddenly like the grass.
In the morning it is green and groweth up,
but in the evening it is cut down, dried up and withered.
For we consume away in Thy displeasure,
and are afraid at Thy wrathful indignation.
For when Thou art angry all our days are gone;
we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told:
so passeth it away and we are gone
The years of our age are three score years and ten,
and though men be so strong that they come to four score years,
yet is their strength but labour and sorrow.
Turn Thee again O Lord at the last.
Be gracious unto Thy servants.
O satisfy us with Thy mercy and that soon.
So shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.
And the glorious Majesty of the Lord be upon us.
O prosper Thou the work of our hands,
O prosper Thou our handiwork.
This work was sung last November at an Evensong service at the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris to commemorate the 100yr anniversary of the Great War. Very moving piece sung by the Cathedral choir during the Eucharist. Vaughan Williams was one the finest masters of the Anglican choral tradition!
We sang this when I was a freshman in the Gettysburg College Choir, oh, so many years ago! It has remained one of my favorite choral pieces ever since...lovely to hear it again!
It's an amazing piece, and I have been in tears listening to it. My choir - Whitehall Choir, based in Victoria in London - is performing it on 9th July in an all-VW programme. I have the privilege of singing the baritone in the solo chorus...
this is one of the most moving pieces that I have had the privileged to perform
Just beautiful. Our church choir is singing this piece this coming Sunday. Now if we just had, let's see, a cathedral, a massive organ, a bunch of superbly-trained boys, etc., I'm sure we would sound exactly like this recording!
Perfection is hard to get. Here you have as close to that as possible
Was very lucky to perform this piece under Simon Carrington a few years ago. Phenomenal composition.
What beautiful voices all the children have!
Marvellous! Our parish choir is about to attempt this piece as part of the centennial ANZAC Gallipoli commemoration. Wonderful but a little intimidating as I contemplate singing it!
Beautiful! Thanks. I love Vaughan Williams music.
Snippets just came to me this morning and I had to look it up. (I sang this at BTHS West in our concert choir's "And Then There Was Song" spring concert, 1972.) Loved the grandeur of this recording! Now, I want to hear ours on the 33 1/3 LP!
Perfect.
Outstanding!
Très belle vidéo
Sublime
Who is the Baritone Soloist ??
I think Jonathan Brown
Who's conducting?
Robert Quinney -
@@xtrahandz Was there any special reason he conducted at this occasion?
@@jungjinbaek James O'Donnell (Organist and Master of the Choristers) was on sabbatical at that time, so Robert Quinney (Sub Organist) was temporarily promoted for a few months.
@@MS-19 Thanks. I'll miss him next week at the funeral.
@@MS-19 How do you know this was the case? Just curious
VW's best work.