I sang this for the first time for my Christmas Concert in fourth grade. Every time I heard it, I cried. I don't know why. It just sounds like a sad song to me, especially starting at about 0:17.
Terry was the organist and choirmaster of Westminster Cathedral in London. This was a carol he wrote rather in the style of an Irish parlor song, mostly to appeal to the largely Irish congregation he would have had at that Roman Catholic cathedral.
This piece by R. R. Terry (I believe he was an unknown Roman Catholic composer?) was used in the movie, "Black Narcissus, 1947" It was where I first heard it(1966 when I was 11 years old. I searched for it many years!
I Just think that even if the composer wanted the tempo to be as it is, it would be more effective if taken a little slower throughout and the rit at the end of the lines be less obvious.
@WATBerlin and by the way, mankind's (MANkind? how more backward could you get than that?) ancestors might be primates but they were not simians. but perhaps yours are simians.
Found this thanks to Black Narcissus. Thanks God that things like this can exist... So much beauty...
Me too. It was used so beautifully in the movie I had to go find it. :)
I sang this at boarding school in 1962 , never heard it since .as a musician now ,its my all time favourite carol , beautiful !!!
All this and heaven, too...THANK YOU for posting these gems! This is just the sort of thing out world needs...bless you!
So beautiful! makes me cry!!
Thank you Mr Carling, our music teacher at the Marist, Manchester, approx 1974, for introducing this to his pupils.
This is King's at their polished best. They do this sort of thing so well.
Lovely carol, beautifully sung in that incomparable building
@Markymark1300
When I heard this song in that movie I fell in love with it immediately!
I couldn't stop rewinding it!!!
My absolute favourite.
me too! its both melodic and sublime
I sang this for the first time for my Christmas Concert in fourth grade. Every time I heard it, I cried. I don't know why. It just sounds like a sad song to me, especially starting at about 0:17.
Awsome my church choir sing that Christmas anthem awsome
Terry was the organist and choirmaster of Westminster Cathedral in London. This was a carol he wrote rather in the style of an Irish parlor song, mostly to appeal to the largely Irish congregation he would have had at that Roman Catholic cathedral.
Yes, his collection 'Twelve Christmas Carols' from which this comes has been extant in the Cathedral for many years.
This piece by R. R. Terry (I believe he was an unknown Roman Catholic composer?) was used in the movie, "Black Narcissus, 1947" It was where I first heard it(1966 when I was 11 years old. I searched for it many years!
Heard it in BLACK NARCISSUS a couple of weeks ago! So lovely I had to find it, too. Thank goodness for UA-cam!
Wunderschön gesungen ❤
i love this piece of music ive got three versions of it
Great I remember singing this in Chester Cathedrel when I was 11. Haven't sung it since :(
Beautiful .
A beautiful carol :)
Please keep posting these!
Is anyone else here because of Black Narcissus? (1947)
SGG Christmas 2014
Harrison I believe... well it is now, don't know what it was originally.
Too fast!! No time to savour the beauty of this carol.
to conductor looks like hes dancing to dubstep
I Just think that even if the composer wanted the tempo to be as it is, it would be more effective if taken a little slower throughout and the rit at the end of the lines be less obvious.
RR Terry's ancestors are actually Jewish.
@WATBerlin and by the way, mankind's (MANkind? how more backward could you get than that?) ancestors might be primates but they were not simians. but perhaps yours are simians.
OK this is bad I am in a church choir my self and a school one but even there voice is just so natuarly high it sounds