#17 O Come, all ye faithful arr. David Willcocks King's College Cambridge 2009

[pookerville]

And this is the most thrilling part of the 9 Lessons and Carols service, because it sums up all that this service preaches.

[adonelahi]

Oh my God this brings me to tears.

[yasir8376]

yeh in Quran very discuss about prophet Jesus he is our prophet but not son of God reproach our priests they changed holy Bible we must at once study holy Quran plz plz we are in wrong way find the real way Jesus wasn't son of God impossible God is not human he don't have son we must to worship just one God who sent for his human prophet Jesus plz study Quran

[AndonElahi]

@yasir8376 Mohammed was a false prophet.... Please don't ruin our Carols with Islamic Fascist lies... And Yes God became human, Do you know why? Because He is God, and He can do what ever the hell he wants...

[allonespirit1]

this reminds me that all my little daily concerns are really very impermanent and maybe not so important in the long run. Merry Christmas everyone, and thanks for posting this. this is my favorite carol. Love the arrangement.

[Accolyte101]

I am Brit a long way from home in South America, this makes my heart soar....

[MVR326]

breathtaking...if this doesn't move ones Christmas Spirit, then I dont know what does

[AndonElahi]

Maginficent!

[brtkeating]

inspiring and lovely.

[gotham61]

I remember singing this descant when I was a choirboy.

[adonelahi]

Breathtaking... God's Music!

[DrunkCanadian3]

Somebody cleaned up the audio in this one: /watch?v=EiJhJIYbVQ4 MUCH better....

[amyringerpink]

ultra gorgeous touching my heart with joy!

[MrDLTP]

I have a cd of Kings college choir of the nine lessons & carols, bloody marvellous, especially the descants, no one can do it better... than kings. I hope the 2011 one will be televised on this side of the pond..

[RockenMusicLuver]

Oh Come All Ye Faithful, 2me is the Very Heart of the Very EVE OF CHRISTMAS, I grew up with this FAVORITE CHRISTMAS EVE' Hymn. I'm an OLD TYMER  but this is MY FAVORITE OF ALL EVE OF CHRISTMAS HYMNS.

[agnosticcc]

No one does this "choir" thing better than the British!

[OldPost661]

The sound quality of this video is awful (tons of compression), but what marvelous music. In a thousand years of trying, nobody will ever top the Willcocks descant for 'O come, all ye faithful.' It never grows old. Stephen Cleobury's first 'O come' descant was excellent. The second one (premiered in 2010) was simply bizarre. I hope we don't have to hear that one again this year! Willcocks or Cleobury 1.0, please!!!

[whaleswolex]

we shall be using this version at this years 2011 Carol of Nine Lessons, to be accompanied by the Trumpeters of Buckingham Palace..here at the Cathedral

[spiritdei]

@whaleswolex Which cathedral?

[whaleswolex]

@spiritdei Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Lagos, Nigeria

[Benqmicrosoft]

Verry nice.

[IrishandJazz]

You will find that same floor pattern in Amiens Cathedral ... same tiler ?

Yes, descants wouldn't be the same with girls' voices ...

[Kansasman4Jesus]

O come let us respect Him. ... O come let us obey Him. ... O come let us all serve Him. Christ the Lord. (That is how) Well give Him all the glory. Yes give Him all the glory. He merits all the glory, Christ the Lord. Now ask Him into your life., Yes, ask Him into your life, please ask Him into your life. I make Chri-ist my Lord. Have you made Him your LORD? ... All HE wants for Christmas is you. ... :-)

[manthasagittarius1]

@Kansasman4Jesus Thanks for the elaboration on the theology, friend. But you know, it doesn't fit the tune. Let it be what it is, and meet it where it is, for all that it is.

[IrishandJazz]

You'd have wonder how those gothic structures don't fall apart (all those centuries) with the force of those organs ... Great architecture right enough

[march131958]

My God in Heaven. This is so majestic and beautiful...How does one react to this music? Being a former organist,this sends me.

[mynewaccountyay]

Jizzzzzz

[resultant64]

Aslo countertenor is called male alto...

[resultant64]

Yes without the arrangement I don't feel its Christmas.. really beautiful...

Also stephan's arrangement is interesting too...

[ezekiel4835]

Brilliant! Glorious praise! It's so good, too, to hear the old Willcocks arrangement, with what I regard as the best descant ever written for the carol. Thanks to Cleobury for using it (after a very long spell).

[BearAZ]

@ezekiel4835 Not only the best descant ever composed for it, but the most inspired free harmonizations too!

[eddylaga]

I really likes this choir, very wonderful voices. They are singing a song for our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless all of you. Merry Christmas. From Eddy Anak Laga Anglican Church Diocese of West Malaysia. Malaysia.

[wingrove07]

Willcocks is a genius, end of!!

[josparkes1]

Beautiful as always, like being in Heaven !

[1ExtraChrispy1]

Please forgive my ignorance... but if it's King's "COLLEGE"... why are the soprano parts sung by boys that are a good 10 years away from ever seeing a razor?

Seriously... I mean, by "college", I infer "post high-school", or, "older than 18 years of age". Does "college" mean something else in England? Really not trying to start a fight here; just looking to clear up some confusion on my part.

[DarkwingsWoW]

@1ExtraChrispy1

The word college is usually used for post grad school but can also be used instead of the word school aswell.

You have to remember that this is a boy choir, hence the young boys and that this choir is the official boy choir of Kings College, hence their name. So name and actual place or status of something does not always follow a logical path when it comes to English and England.

[ThinkingFox]

@1ExtraChrispy1 The younger members of the choir are educated in King's College School and receive scholarships from King's College. The younger boys are there to sing the soprano and alto parts of the songs as girls are not recruited into the choir (by tradition). King's College is one of the 31 colleges that forms the University of Cambridge.

[cellist2010]

@ThinkingFox sorry to correct you but the boys don't sing alto. the male choral scholars sing countertenor. small thing but never mind

[cublhammond]

I sung in Kings and it was amazing with the Cambridge Diocese Choirs Festival of Music. In awe of the music and the building built around years of tradition!

[Rayventears]

@cublhammond Listening to this on Youtube, a thousand miles away, it sounds amazing, and how I wish I could be in the very room you sang it in, I imagine it would be a million times better, celestial sounding, even. :)

[000nour000]

lol Stephen, jumping about! legend!

[3NUNS]

@000nour000 : I believe the great German conductor ... the name will come to mind ... was a jumper !

[3NUNS]

@3NUNS Karl Bohm

[000nour000]

@3NUNS lol brilliant! i'm in CUMS Chorus, under Stephen, he's a total legend!

[MusicPredominates]

@000nour000 : Could you please oh please give me a helping hand and send me a hardcopy post card. I live in Melbourne Australia. The days when Melbourne and its suburnbs duplicated the choral and classical eminence of mother England have gone for ever. The churches with their magnificent stained glass windows and two choral services per Sunday have been diminshed to where the congregation now sits in the choir stalls.

[000nour000]

@MusicPredominates lol sorry, what do you want a postcard of? Kings College Chapel?