Choir of St John's College - English Choral

[hiroshi2020]

Oh how triumphant! Beautiful! Beautiful!

No words can explain how beautiful this is!

[SiLoJayLo]

God Is Gone Up - We performed this piece for Radio 4's "The Daily Service" (led by Canon Noel Vincent), back in the 1980s. I was a tenor in the Senior Choir, @ Bakewell's Lady Manners School. The intro is particularly rousing. Listening to this makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck!

[TJATJA1982]

I'm on both of these. i can hear myself at any rate. sometimes!

The older I get the more i enjoy Stamford. Finzi is great from any age. He's enjoying a bit of a renaissance right now.

[simonb4wolves]

Yes this is one of my favorite choral songs of all time, Its always makes my hair stand up on the back of neck when i sing it with my choir St Peter's Collegiate church choir, wolverhampton,m stunning piece

[boltonbrowne]

God is gone up with a triumphant shout!

The Lord with sounding trumpets' melodies.

The Lord with sounding trumpets' melodies.

Sing praise, sing praise, sing praises out,

Unto our King sing praise, SERAPHICWISE!

Lift up your heads, ye lasting doors, they sing,

And let the King of Glory enter in!

[boltonbrowne]

Yup, "God is gone up" is just one of the best choral pieces I've heard to this date!

I remember singing it at Winchester Cathedral with Andrew Lumsten as Director.

[treblechoir99]

Oh yes me too, It's awesome. You singing with Winchester, as boychoir or Lay Clerks? I understand It's important period for you.

[boltonbrowne]

I was a visiting boy treble in 2001 from St. Thomas's Lymington. I serve as an acolyte at Winchester, not as a cathedral chorister, LOL

[treblechoir99]

Anyway, you have a great experience as young chorister, very nice moment.

[Dhbrydon]

I sang at Queens College Cambridge with Sir David Wilcocks as my chior director.

[TheRealmsOfGold]

I'm not sure how to reconcile these two pieces. Finzi is definitely in the tradition of Stanford, and their music is similar, Finzi's being just a little more 20th century, harmonically. But, while I really don't like "Justorum Animae," I get an enormous kick out of "God is Gone Up." Maybe it's because "Justorum Animae" is kind of pointlessly pretty, while "God is Gone Up" is just EPIC.

Nice recordings, too, very stylistically appropriate.

[treblechoir99]

Absolutly, a very good qualifying for the word'Epic', it's strong feeling. Good point, thank's.

[TheRealmsOfGold]

*grin* Strong indeed. During our very first rehearsal of "God is Gone Up" this past week -- my choir's just starting to learn it -- a thunderstorm broke right on the recapitulation. Right as we sang the words "God is gone up..." at m. 88 (Tempo I), a huge flash of lightning and room-shaking thunderclap joined in the chorus. It was awesome!

[treblechoir99]

Wow lol God has to answer. It's a particular experience, I'm sure.