Herbert Howells: A Hymn for St. Cecilia | The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
Robert Pecksmith (organ)
David Crown (conductor)
Coventry Cathedral, 1 February 2014
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#musicvideo Fellow Choral Music Enthusiasts, The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, UK, has released a superb chapel-choir rendition of Howells: "A Hymn for St. Cecilia." Please 'like' and share on RUclips.
Herbert Howells: A Hymn for St. Cecilia

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Sing for the morning's joy, Cecilia, sing,
In words of youth and praises of the Spring,
Walk the bright colonnades by fountains' spray,
And sing as sunlight fills the waking day;
Till angels, voyaging in upper air,
Pause on a wing and gather the clear sound
Into celestial joy, wound and unwound,
A silver chain, or golden as your hair.
Sing for your loves of heaven and of earth,
In words of music, and each word a truth;
Marriage of heart and longings that aspire,
A bond of roses, and a ring of fire.
Your summertime grows short and fades away,
Terror must gather to a martyr's death;
But never tremble, the last indrawn breath
Remembers music as an echo may.
Through the cold aftermath of centuries,
Cecilia's music dances in the skies;
Lend us a fragment of the immortal air,
That with your choiring angels we may share,
A word to light us thro' time-fettered night,
Water of life, or rose of paradise,
So from the earth another song shall rise
To meet your own in heaven's long delight.

[@MrDavpet25]

Excessively beautiful!

[@choirboyfromhell1]

Wow...so there's a place in Oxford that has great acoustics! Beautifully done.

[@timothyjbenson]

Um... That's Coventry.

[@mrshartelavenue3]

thank you for posting - needed to practice this, very much enjoyed it.

[@mrshartelavenue3]

the diction is just sparkling!

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Благодарю!💐

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wonderful

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it grows on you!

[@GDO_755]

Hi very beautifully done :) Anybody can let me have this music sheet for Bb instrument? Thanks :) God Bless Youll :)

[@stephenhetzel8437]

Thank you so much. Looks like Coventry?

[@somervillechoir]

Yes, it's a live recording from Coventry Cathedral.

[@stephenhetzel8437]

@@somervillechoir thank you. It looked familiar.

[@neilcrawford-jones6529]

Isn't this rather slow? The words are crystal clear but the performance really lacks momentum.

[@jamesupton4996]

The organist looks like Elon Musk.