BBC Proms - Hubert Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2018
- More video from this Prom: www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewwrn3/p...
Malcolm Sargent instigated the tradition of the audience singing Parry's Jerusalem at the Last Night, in 1953. Parry's simple 1916 setting of Blake's words, in unison, was later orchestrated by the composer, but it is Elgar's expanded arrangement of 1922 which has held sway ever since.
(Last Night of the Proms, BBC Proms 2018)
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If you are English, this has to give you goose bumps. Invokes memories of when we were a proud nation.
I'm American and it gives me goosebumps. Nothing wrong with being proud of your country!
I grew up in Hong Kong and this definitely gives me goosebumps!
Nothing like putting a near/middle eastern city and deity on a metaphorical pedestal to make an Englishman feel patriotic for his nation... What's more English than venerating an Afroasiatic prophet, worshipping a Canaanite storm God and singing about building a foreign city in England and placing our nation under a foreign culture...
@@TPQ1980 to be fair it's not just ANY middle eastern city. There aren't many cities in the Christian tradition that have as much significance as Jerusalem.
I am Swedish and it also gives me goosebumps! Beautiful!
I remember as a nine year old singing this on the day of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Still makes me emotional after living in the US for 50+ years.
I know Jerusalem very well, because I went to a private school.
I don't know what school you went to, and for all I know, it may not have been a private school. But anyone who went to a private school will know Jerusalem very well.
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
In England’s green and pleasant land
At least nowadays the dark satanic mills are less dark and satanic and no way as quantitative as old paintings once portrayed English landscapes after the industrial revolution. All that remains of such buildings where live are old, deserted buildings bought out and never touched.
You missed the first verse!
@@OnlyGrafting I believe, in fact, the original author was not referring to the mills of the industrial revolution, but the universities, or something similar.
@@howtouploadinfullquality3638 he actually spelled it "Englands"
American here. This song really tugs on my heart strings. Partly because it's so near and dear to England's heart, but also because sometimes music is just so perfect it's really emotional. (Yes, yes, I'm a crier). When it gets to "Oh, clouds unfold" I invariably tear up. What a perfect musical phrase! I sang it in a concert once and could barely get through that part.
Fair play to you my friend!
I end up weeping too.
You should hear Paul Robesons version...what a voice, such timbre!
Parry was very reluctant to set it, because the first occasion was to raise funds for Fight For Right, an organisation to lobby the government not to seek peace with Germany. Parry was a (very) left-wing person who disliked the right-wing Fight For Right. He even suggest the organisers approach George Butterworth, but he'd left for France.
However, Parry wrote this, and when he showed it to the organisers he couldn't speak, but just pointed to "O clouds unfold!" as the passage that had really got to him.
To deaden the thought of writing it for Fight For Right Parry transferred the copyright to the Suffragette movement.
I have a similar feeling with the hymn " Abide with Me." I struggle, always, to get past "..... Oh, Thou Who Changest Not....` I wish Jerusalem was our English National Anthem.
It is an inspiring piece of music but sadly the sentiments expressed in the words have little place in the England of today.
So beautiful to see the people in the audience singing along
I hope this becomes the official National Anthem one day. It's an epic tune.
Was a memorable night , look of the colours from the top of Royal Albert Hall , red , yellow and blue
It's English National Anthem, not Britain's.
I don’t want any nonsense about Jesus in a national anthem.
@@Mardyfella Bitch it's not about Jesus lmao
@@Mardyfella it's not like the UK is a fucking Christian country ..... oh right it fucking is a Christian country and will stay that way
As someone who lives in the U.S., this brings me to tears. I love the U.K. and am tremendously grateful for all it has given to my country.
Chin up old chap! I can say with all honesty that Americans are proper decent people and know you'd be there for us in times of need as we would for you.
British history is American history.
You still owe us for that tea, though
You're our cousin! and all of you are much loved
I'm Italian and I lived in London for nigh on 40 years. I came to London when I was just 19, in the 60's. I always loved watching the various concerts and I rarely missed The last Night of The Proms.This has always been my favourite hymn and it always did, and does, give me goose pimples and bring tears to my eyes. And I think it would have made a second national Hymn, just like Va Pensiero from Nabucco would have made a beautiful second one for Italy.
Why that place is a 💩HOLE now sadly i got out of there and moved to Lancashire best thing i ever done..
One of the most beautiful songs ever conceived...lovely!
I'm an American who thinks this perhaps the most moving melody ever composed.
Oh..I beg to differ….I Vow to Thee My Country
It is.
It’s up there
There is a really great rendition performed by the choir of West Point, quite impressive!
@@michaelhayden725 Yes I've seen that. Wasn't it just?
Brings me to tears each time!
MBT yeah me to but for different reasons now.
I'm listening to it now and I have tears. Fantastic piece of music. Should be our anthem
This IS ENGLAND AT ITS BEST!!!😊😊Greetings from Argentina from an old St John's School student😊😊😊❤❤
The Falklands are ours!
Greetings from a Brit in Germany. Peace to you my friend. I'm currently feeling extremely homesick. I didn't want to believe it 9 years ago but truly, for a Brit, there is no place like home.
@@iwantlotsofcows I understand your homesick feeling and wish you a happy return to England as soon as you can!! Greetings from Argentina!!
St John's School Leatherhead?
I went there.
@@petercdowney No Sir, St'John's School at Martinez,Argentina!!,Greetings from an old 72 years old student!!
Hatred? Listen to the words. God loves us all and we should be happy for his grace.
@mandellorianyou need to read bible correctly. And btw uk is christian country. Period
Such rousing music and powerful words. As an English person, one cannot help but have a swell of pride, hearing this.
I'm a proud Scot, but love this and sing along to it with passion. Thank you good neighbours.
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So just a bit of history about Jerusalem, because it's actually quite an overtly political song. The lyrics are taken from the poem "And did thos feet in ancient times" by William Blake. The poem was actually the preface to an epic poem Blake wrote about John Milton, a legendary English author during the 17th century.
Blake was something of a revolutionary for his day, living between 1757-1827. He supported the French Revolution, opposed the class divide, and was especially critical of the rising industralisation of his era. This can be seen when he mentions the "dark satanic mills", which he believed were poisoning Britain's natural landscape, and causing death and misery for the many poor souls who worked in them. Blake was also deeply Christian, but in a quite unorthodox sense. He opposed the Catholic Church and the Church of England, believing them to be dogmatic and corrupt, and having strayed from the original teachings of Jesus. Contrary to many orthodox Christians of the era, Blake was anti-slavery, advocated sexual liberation and freedom, and opposed the many wars the British Empire entered into during his lifetime.
"Jerusalem" is as religious as it is political. Blake was not only asking for the Second Coming to grace the world, but he also saw it as a moment of divine and absolute political judgement. Cast down would be the corrupt kings, gluttonous aristocracy and sleazy barons of land and industry, and instead there would be liberation of the common folk, a new appreciation for God's land and nature, and the unshackling of bondage that many had to money, hatred, and political deception. It's as much a rallying, revolutionary call as it is a hymn.
I'm not religious, but there is still something awe-inspiring about Jerusalem. It's an image not of Britain now, but of what Britain could be: peaceful, egalitarian, free. It's also a far better anthem than God Save The King will ever be. One anthem cherishes the King, the other cherishes the nation.
Thanks for the explanation. I never understood the line about dark satanic mills til now 🙏🏻
The monarch is the symbol of the nation. Songs that overtly praise a nation have a tendency to whip up dangerous feelings: the words "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles," from the German national anthem, were notoriously misused by the Nazis. In the hymn (it is not an anthem) "Jerusalem," Blake fortunately avoids this danger.
Well said!
Well hes my hero then don't know about the Religious side of it though..
@@CAMROSS67Yeah they we're virtually sweat shops for the disadvantaged they even had children working in there as well.They we're very dangerous working with all kinds of poisonous elements and a lot of accidents happened in there especially to children..
Well I'd just like to say it was absolutely lovely to see the return of the Proms LEGEND (Sir Andrew Davis) in 2018. I cannot believe more of the comments dont mention him. He is the conductor I remember from my childhood years watching the proms with my parents. No other conductor since him has conveyed the same energy and delightful eccentricity as he does on the last night of the proms. I was sad to see him step away years ago, but over the moon to see him return.
Sending goosebumps all over when I hear this..
Best ever
Let's not forget to give William Blake the mention he much deserves.
The guy was my hero for the things he stood up for and this is why the BBC BANNED this in 1971 because this hymn is also political.He stood up for the poor and was anti establishment and backed the French revolution hated slavery and didnt want us in any WARS or the spread of the British empire with us colonising other lands and massacring there natives and he was very deep Christian
Greetings from Kansas City, USA!
Regardless of any political/historical views, does anyone here realise how astonishingly inspiring and dynamic composition and poem this is?… (and that comes from a non-UK folk from Greece who just loves music)
It's funny you ask that. One thing that makes it such a good national anthem is that it seems to genuinely cover the political and social spectrum. You are liable to hear it at Labour party conference as well as that of the conservatives. trade unions like it and so do public schools. churches and sporting events. It can even serve as a protest song. Obviously the lyrics has explicitly religious imagery, but it can be appreciated as poetry. I'm really not one for flag waving patriotism, but even I have to admit it has an effect when sung in a crowd. Singing the royal anthem is a formality and it's a bit weird to get too excited about it. Jerusalem and the other unofficial anthems of the other home nations are different.
I'm American, but this is hands down the most gorgeous song I've heard in a solid five years.
You'll never hear anything better. Brings tears to my eyes with pride. Outstanding.
I remember this from the closing scenes of Chariots Of Fire. Never knew the title of the piece. Thank you for sharing.
We need to make singing this mandatory. Best wishes from Scotland.
Greetings from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia
Beautiful and moving. One of my favorite hymns, to listen to and to sing.
I love the enthusiasm of our conductor! He really puts in!
Lovely!!!! Stunning performance by the orchestra , the choir and the crowd. I love the words too. Javi (Valencia; Spain)
Brilliant arrangement by Sir Edward.
2yrs later what has become, however we are still here always will in our Promised Land.
God Save Our Queen and Our Country.
From UK 🇬🇧
Magnificent. Composed by Parry and stunningly arranged by Elgar.
Which came first? The music or the lyrics?
@@Psmith-ek5hq The words are from a poem witten by William Blake in 1804. Hubert Parry set the words to music in 1916 and it was fully orchestrated in 1922 by Sir Edward Elgar.
Glad the BBC have kept this online, last thing I’d expect from them.
This song always resonates with me!
Warm thanks and greetings from Sweden!
Love my England ❤
Proud to be Eng 1:13 lish. This is our song and we should never stop playing or singing it. Still gives me goosebumps. Awesome.
Best poem ever set to music. 🎶
oh my god brings lump to my throat.
I miss Andrew David. His tenure at BBCSO was the best we’ll ever see.
I love this song / so powerful 👏🏽👏🏽
Just grand! With all the people present and elsewhere brought into it! Goosepumps and shivers!
Instant goosebumps.
Fabulous, simply fabulous
quelle belle unité d'un peuple pour chanter ensemble ce beau choral .avec en prime l'orgue phénoménal du Royal Albert hall à la fin !!Impossible de voir ça en France hélas ,3fois hélas!!!En Allemagne éventuellement.
A very big thank you for this beautiful rendition. Greetings from India.
I love my country so much, what has happened to our ever so great country😢
Kingdom, should I say
Why is this not our National Anthem? It says everything that England stands for and represents.
because, in truth, it stands for what england used to represent
This is an anti-capitalist hymn to words by an occultist. You sure that‘s what England represents?
@@michaeljunger169 maybe a word change should do it. I think satanic could be changed into ungodly
Because it’s only about England, not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
@@largeman7243 similar geography and ancient experience. Could easily be changed from “England” to “Britain” for usage as the national anthem
Amazing
I cry every time I hear it
Goosebumps every time
I remember singing this hymn at school before a Monday assembly yet all out of tune teenagers still felt great
I am an American. And I have never before heard this music! It seems so well known by the English...
It is. Many of us would like it to be our "English National Anthem." Not to neglect God Save The King - which is the National Anthem of the United Kingdom.
We learned the song at school. Like Land of Hope and Glory... which you should listen to...Blake was an English poet so he was read in Eng Lit classes. The audience probably knew the song by heart.
It was my school's song, we'd sing it in the major assemblies. Haberdashers Adams.
Well the Brits have been singing it for over 100 years
Fantastique.
ENGLAND 🏴 anthem , how we need this now in times of corruption
I know right, why hasn't England got its own parliament yet it's beyond me
Joe Shimwell the british parliament is the english parliament
Beautyyyyyy, yesssss
Magnificent cricket from this man!!! 😄😉
I associate this song with The Ashes 2005 heavily
Irish American here. its should not me move me as it does.and yet every time I hear it I can not stop from weeping.
" Give me my sword"
Yep.
My wedding hymn
GUYS PLEASE!! It’s just music and very beautiful music! For the love of god can you all please relax!!!🙏🙏🙏
Margi Mcfaul it really isn’t just about music anymore. It’s not national flags being waved at this supposed celebration of nation it is flags representing political ideology’s. bbc has politicised an old national tradition. This is hugely divisive. You might not of noticed but judging by the comments most people did notice. I would try and get used to it if I were you because these days were ever the bbc goes division and anger follow, and will do until they get privatised.
Your reply put me to sleep 💤
It is beautiful music. But music has a way of stirring the heart and soul and inspire it.
Magnificent!
It is not Parry's Jerusalem, it is Blake's. Parry set Blake's epic words to music a hundred years after Blake died. Parry was landed-gentry, Blake was a pauper.
My School Hymn 😍
Same I couldn't stand singing the blloody thing but when you get older it's more palletable to the ear
Le second hymne Britannique ? Grandiose !
I'm an American but feel my roots in this moving song. My ancestor came with William the Norman from what's now France. His descendent came to America on the Mayflower. I feel very French and English, in addition to American. Yea Proms!
This Yankee learned about "Jerusalem" from watching "Chariots of Fire."
Long live England
I LOVE THE ELGAR ORCHESTRATION
Our green and pleasant land. How I love you so.
Hereabouts stands the Iconic Ingleborough and if ever a land form evokes this wonderful piece then Ingleborough is it.
Why is this not your national anthem, England? This is brilliant!
It's a socialist anthem, the words are taken from a poem written by William Blake in which he is critical of the new found capitalism in the industrial revolution. Despite having a patriotic air to it the song is actually anti-establishment.
andy young fair point. I live in the United States so it’d be weird if we only sung about California or Texas.
Rachael Hewlett ah I see. That William Blake has a way with words though
@@McGriddle69 It'd be like having either "Chester" or (even worse) "Dixie" as an anthem.
It actually is Englands anthem constitutionally but obviously due to the UK and the royalists God save the Queen is the one used.
‘Jerusalem’
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.
Beutiful 🎶🎶🎶 👊
I may be a proud American, but the British do anthems better than we do. 😄
ENGLISH. THIS IS AN ENGLISH SONG 🏴 FOR ENGLAND 🏴.
I just looked up the difference between English and British. I didn’t know that ‘English’ refers only to England and ‘British’ refers to Great Britain in general. I wonder how the Scots feel about that.
@@charlescoleman5509 Most Scots and a lot of Englishmen 🏴 like me want Britain to be ended so England and Scotland can both be independent country’s.
@@nick-her9275 Makes perfect sense to me. Greetings from a naive American. :)
@@nick-her9275 , I'm also an Englishman and although I love the UK, Scotland will someday have to be allowed to 'go it alone', even though I think that Scotland will be much the lesser for it!!. England makes up 86% of the UK's GDP, Scotland a mere 7%. We live in a huge world, and I guess the Scots are eventually going to have to be allowed to 'try it their way', but I'm pretty sure that eventually they will come to realise just how much they have given up by leaving the union!. Yes, I know that they hate the Tory's, many English folks do too, but in the world as it stands, a union of our two nations is needed, irrespective of what Nicola Sturgeon and he SNP say!. Scots are currently part of the 5th richest nation on earth, England's 86% will still keep it pretty high up there, but Scotland's mere 7% will see it's standing in the world plummet..
Beautiful. This needs to be resurrected (excuse the partial pun) and played at events.
Born in the US of A, but this song makes me want to return to the Mother Country.
I so wish England would encourage remigration from wherever our people may be.
Go asap👍🇬🇧
@hardstyle905Neither is your Royal Family.
I hope one day I’ll be able to go to the Proms.
Same here fellas
It's not my kind of thing because I get bored very quickly..
The Vangelis version is sublime.
Chills
It's such a beautiful thing to see Britons singing with such patriotism. It's kind of rare these days.
Wow !
There are so many beautiful national songs around the world. I love the Welch National Anthem, Land of my Fathers. This song Jerusalem should be the British National anthem. And for Australia, I Am Australian. I don't know what I would choose for my country. America the Beautiful possibly. Who knows.
Land of my Fathers is, as you point out, the National Anthem of Wales, whilst Scotland has an `unofficial` National Anthem in `Flower of Scotland.` The British National Anthem is God save The King. Now, since `regional anthems` appear to be quite acceptable under UK (British ) Law / English Common Law, I see no reason why England may not have its own National Anthem in - to be specific - `Jerusalem.`
ENGLISH ATHEM you mean not BRITISH ATHEM..
Thank you BBC for not bending to pressure, fearlessly showing the flag of Taiwan in the audiences. God bless England
Oh fuck off. This has nothing to do with Taiwan. It better not be in the audience.
If only Mr WILLIAM BLAKE was here now listening to this ??
FOEVER ❤
Long live his Highness Richard the Lionheart
I couldn't bear this conductor!
What did he do to you? 😐
elp version is GOLD.
Agree, it's moving to hear a thousand voices in unison but Greg captured that grandeur with a single voice, utterly wonderful and all fundamentally moving pieces are perfectly capable of giving birth to many, many interpretations without losing their essence.
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To all my fellow Americans wondering why something this tear-in-your-eye wonderful isn't the national anthem, I'll say... "Battle Hymn of the Republic?" We're not one to talk.
Should be Englands national anthem.
banger
DESIRE TO CRUSADE INTENSIFIES
It's about building up England. Not about dying for a small stroke of land in the middle east. Let's not bring the crusades into this, the lefties already want to ban this song anyways
@@Bellg We most certainly don't; this is a leftist anthem. Any leftist who seeks to ban this hymn is simply self-defeating.
@@lauriemoore7220 This is not a leftist anthem or a right wing anthem. It's an English anthem writen. No political part of side owns this song.
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As a proud Irish nationalist, this absoljtely should be England's national anthem.
this reminds me of high house prices.
is should remind you of jesus christ
it enhances, not reminds because i dont forget..@@copyrightcharacter1166
Till we have built Jerusalem in our green and pleasant land !
I remember, 40 more years ago, after watching the movie, Chariot of Fire, my girlfriend asked me maybe we should be Christians.
2 years after, her younger brother, only 6 at then died, her whole family became believers, but I was stupid enough refuse to, she left me with full of disappointment.
30 years after, when I was 55, I heard the Voice and started to look for Lord.
I sincerely believe Lord is mighty, HE has good plans for every one.
"And what rough beast , its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" [The Second Coming -- W.B. Yeats]
That's what I always said.
If not the National Anthem, then surely the National Hymn, only challenged by I Vow to the My Country.
This ist soo english that it colonize my Computer! Great, amazing! :)
Glory To King Jesus! I ask if people haven't, to read the four gospels. There, you will find the truth and the truth will set you free. God does indeed love you abundantly
I love this music it makes me feel that Jesus did visit England with his father Joseph.
Lols 😂😂
You mean uncle… Joseph of Arimathea 😊