Myn Lyking

[wfbrown1234]

Goodness, I think I last heard this when I was about five (50 years ago). The melody must have sunk in deep, because I had quite a flood of emotion hearing it just now. Almost cried at how beautiful this is and how it was right there in memory but forgotten. The perfection of the voices, the melancholy combined with joy, the Middle English lyric, the wonderful organ melody, the awesome dignity of it all.

[jsilence418]

Beautiful .

[metronova94]

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.

[lichtbroeder]

@metronova94 I had the same reaction when I first heard this sung, in the film Black Narcissus.

[jenethehottie]

@WATBerlin lol. now i realize you are nuts. i ought not to be wasting my time with a delusional and depraved person like you. dream on dude.

[jenethehottie]

@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.

[jenethehottie]

@WATBerlin whew! that's much preferable than to an anti-semite like hitler and you.

[jenethehottie]

RR Terry's ancestors are actually Jewish.

[lichtbroeder]

@jenethehottie And this carol honors the birth of another man who was Jewish. Seems fitting.

[Dan1124444]

i love this piece of music ive got three versions of it

[megfashion]

we gotta sing this at church...

the lyrics are like written in old language (hehe i cant explain it better than that...)

like darling is derling.... its confusing!

it sounds amazing though :)

[MaySerafina]

Enchanting

[choirhampster]

I think that's Robert Quinney on the organ.

[Markymark1300]

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!

[wftjet]

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.

[pharaoh731]

@Markymark1300

When I heard this song in that movie I fell in love with it immediately!

I couldn't stop rewinding it!!!

[KDF9andTD1A]

One of my regrets is not staying to get into the Kings College Carol Service, I was in the queue, but it was so cold I went on to my grandmother's home instead.

This is a favourite carol of mine.

Is the organ a Willis?

[gooseholla1]

Harrison I believe... well it is now, don't know what it was originally.

[Fozzymaple]

The organ at Kings is Harrison, and was for a long time preceeding the Harrison rebuild Hill, and befor that, I can't remember, but it was NEVER a Willis

[Anglicantreble]

I would love to own this documentary/carols service!! Would you happen to know where I might find this exact one? (not the 2000 version) Thanks so much for posting these!

[elton1981]

Great I remember singing this in Chester Cathedrel when I was 11. Haven't sung it since :(

[voxceleste8]

All this and heaven, too...THANK YOU for posting these gems! This is just the sort of thing out world needs...bless you!

[abbeyman02]

This is King's at their polished best. They do this sort of thing so well.

Lovely carol, beautifully sung in that incomparable building

[15hotel]

Love the organ part.

[merseymoo]

Please keep posting these!

[theatom2000]

Very nice singing, voices, good video. Thank's for this moment.