Have you heard two hymn tunes for a single hymn text?

In October 2023, the Organ Historical Trust of Australia (OHTA) conference was held in the Riverina and surrounding regions. There were a total of 60+ conference participants from all over Australia, NZ and even the UK. This video highlights the hymn singing from St. Michael's Cathedral and Calvary Hospital Chapel in Wagga Wagga. Organists: Dominic Perissinotto and Mark Quarmby.
0:00 | Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (BLAENWERN/HYFRYDOL)
4:06 | Thou Whose Almighty Word (MOSCOW)
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[@mspg2]

Oh those Welsh tunes - melt your heart - glad my Face Book friend Mark Quarmby was there too. Wonderful singing.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

This is a really great quality singing and hymn playing! Bravo!❤

[@james.flores]

Thank you. It was an enjoyable conference.

[@DCTOnline]

The transition from Blaen to Hyfrydol was amazing!! And the impromptu harmony and descants - incredible!

[@james.flores]

I was pleasantly surprised! I’d be too scared to do this myself though 🫣

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Nice James! And a reasonable full house!

[@james.flores]

It was nice to be surrounded by such enthusiastic singing 🙂

[@grahamtwist]

Wonderful, lusty singing - as one might expect from such an august body of church musicians. But in my sixty plus years of hymn singing, this is the first time I have ever heard a switch from Blaenwern' to 'Hyfrydol' for the last verse (and managed with great expertise!). Both melodies are examples of great, Welsh hymn tunes with 'Hyfrydol' (which means delightful or melodious) coming first in about 1844 when the composer, Rowland Huw Prichard, was still nineteen years old; 'Blaenwern' (the name of the farm near Llanybydder where the son of the composer was sent to convalesce) was composed in 1905 by William Penfro Rowlands. 'Hyfrydol' is associated with quite a few famous hymn texts; I have only ever heard 'Love Divine' sung to 'Blaenwern'.

[@james.flores]

Apparently there's also a third tune that can be used for the text! That would have been quite cool :)