St Paul's Cathedral | O for the Wings of a Dove | 2015
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2015
- This wonderful live performance is by the Choir of St Paul's Cathedral. It was conducted by Andrew Carwood with Simon Johnson on the organ. The treble soloist is Gabriel Ali.
Apart from his oratorios perhaps the best known and most popular of Mendelssohn's small-scale choral compositions in the English-speaking world is Hör mein Bitten (Hear My Prayer). It's modern popularity stems from a very famous recording made in 1929 by the boy soprano Ernest Lough with the choir of Temple Church of the Mendelssohn-approved English version of the hymn and to this day it's seen as a vehicle for gifted trebles. I've no idea how many recordings of 'O for the wings of a dove!' (O könnt’ ich fl iegen wie Tauben dahin) there are floating round the place but I suspect it's rather a lot.
Mendelssohn composed it between May and July 1844, it's a paraphrase of the first seven verses of Psalm 55 and is the canvas on which Mendelssohn engages in some very expressive word-painting. It's in two parts which resemble a recitative and an aria - the aria being 'O for the wings of a dove!' It's a beautifully crafted piece of music which amply repays the time spent listening to it in its entirety. I love how he uses the chorus to emphasise the poignancy of the text by repetition and elaboration, and how he uses them as a background to the aria. (Saturday Chorale)
The photo montage is a montage of a number of services at St Paul's including the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
Beautiful memory of a great song
The most beautiful voices excel with this amazing hymn , I love to listen to this and have done since I first heard this song when I was 10 , 61 years ago.
No one will ever excel the heavenly voice of Ernest Lough .
I sang this solo while in the All Hallows church choir of Tottenham in the1960's.
What a lovely piece of spiritual music.
My dad used to sing this. Thanks for posting it.
We used to sing this song at Kingston College.
Beautiful singing❤.
Sung in Doncaster Minster decades ago
We are practicing this lovely hymn in our local choir, and I had to listed to this superlative voice to absorb all its beauty.
I sang this in the school choir in Vasco, Cape, , South Africa in 1949.
Beautiful. I remember singing this with the Bangor Cathedral choir as a boy so many decade ago. Church music is the gift that keeps giving for a lifetime.
Wow! How Cool to have a former chorister in our midst! If you see this comment, it would be awesome to receive a reply from you. I think my favorite recording was performed my young Master Anthony Way of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir from the BBC adaptation of Joanna Trollope's novel "The Choir". That was my first exposure to this marvelous song. Nicholas Whitcomb with the Choir of New College, Oxford did an outstanding job with "Hear My Prayer/O For the Wings of A Dove"
@@user-gu4dh3du2x Very happy to reply. When I began there, the choirmaster and organist was Dr. Lesley Paul - a lovely man. After that we had 'Howell' (sorry, can't remember his first name but he was a fine gent too), and then Andrew Goodwin, another fine fellow. i was blessed that the Cathedral sent me and three other boys to the Royal School of Church Music at one stime, (in Lampeter I think). We did do a BBCshow at some time but that's long lost. Even now, 55 years later, i thrill to the sound of Stanford's Te Deum, the Magnificat and the Psalms. May you be blessed with the lifetime of joy that Bangor Cathedral gave me. Keith.
@@KeithRowley418 It would be so awesome to be able to hear Stanford's Magnificat in G live and in person. I'll bet those are NOT easy songs to master or that famous top C in Allegri's Miserere. I wonder if the young boy Roy Goodman of King's College Choir had any clue how famous he would become because of that very solo?
@@user-gu4dh3du2x Who knows? But the disciplines we learned helped to steer the course of my life. Tuesday PM: Choir practise. Thursday PM: Choir practice and evensong. Friday PM: Choir Practice. Sunday: 2 services, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. We elarned to read and love music and we were actually paid for tghe privilege! I was one of 4 leading choristers. And we had such fun!!! I'll bet that on top of those magnificent bookchelves in the vestry, there are still empty beer and cider cans from my day! The cathedral and its music were also my place of refuge from a fairly difficult home life. I still thank God for that. Have a wonderful day wherever you may be.
@@KeithRowley418 I always had thought that a choristership was something that would create life-long memories. Think about the choirs that get to tour all over the world. Memories are created that last a lifetime.
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Gorgeous! Thank you for posting!
Marvellous.
Excellent Gabriel ! Shame like me your voice does change but continue with your singing 👍
i have a 1973 vinyl 45rpm disc of this sung by MICHAEL WARD.
Beaytiful
First heard this in film Hue and Cry (1945)
Remember singingthis in Doncaster choir many years ago
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helped me with my piano!
Not a patch on Ernest Lough , sorry !
Can only imagine the holy angels of heaven singing tour the Heavenly Father. Thank you for this. :) Blessing.
so bootyful
Resting point
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Why is he screaming?
Philistine.
kk, if you didn't like that, try this: ua-cam.com/video/uUY6-DpP700/v-deo.html
What a shame you are totally ignorant!
Why are you stupid?