Hark the herald angels sing

[ColinBurnside]

This was a wonderful performance the sound quality was very poor. I sang in St Anne's COI in Belfast supranno it deserves better recording quality. You all did a wonderful job. CGSNI.

[MrLamontSanford]

Awesome!

[88888888BBBBBBBB]

This is a wonderful hymn, and you can hear it anytime and not just at christmas.

[anzdf]

Las voces son hermosas y el video es excelente. Felicidades y gracias.

[tenorismo]

The winter light has now faded. The Candels now light the church. Its Christmass Eve .

[brd64]

Great Organ playing. Who was the organist?

[benoitmaur]

beatiful

[girardje70]

beautiful vidéo

[litehouse196]

Thank God for Jesus, He not only brought salvation but also inspiration for good musics like this, thus we the redeemed keep enjoying all round from freedom to peace within to physical expression and enjoyment of ourselves.

[VivaceSubito]

sqirtoyocp, please watch your language, don't curse. Anyway, the Herald Angels are the angels that announced Jesus' birth. "Hark" means listen. The song is in my head a lot too & thanks to Felix Mendelssohn for that, it is one of my favorite carols.

[sqirtoyocp]

are you saying i should LIKE school?!?!? but thanks anyway.

[sqirtoyocp]

THIS IS IN MY HEAD AFTER 3 HOURS OF PRACTISING IT AT DAMN SCHOOL!!! >=O But interesting words...Herald Angels? Hark? I don't understand THAT...

[000nour000]

HARK?! hark is, in this context, ''listen to'' ...

[HomegirlOfJezu]

Hark - listen to

the Herald angels - the angels who heralded (brought news of) the birth of Jesus Christ.

[VivaceSubito]

To Edders: Is it the Holst arrangement? I love the walking bass line in that. I give both my electronic keyboard & my acoustic piano a workout with Personent Hodie.

[VivaceSubito]

This is one of the few well-known carols I really love. All the other carols I really love are obscure (such as Personent Hodie, A Child Is Born in Bethlehem, Blessed Be That Maid Mary, Angelus Ad Virginem, & The Cherry Tree Carol). I live in America but I watch the KCC on YouTube & have several of their CD's. The Chapel is very beautiful. I wish there was a church like it in America.

[brassspitoon]

IN the USA, St. Thomas New York City has a choir school in the English tradition and the church is gorgeously neo-Gothic.

[VivaceSubito]

That is very pretty. Do you know if there are any churches with the Perpendicular Gothic style? With the fan vaulted ceiling, of course. I just yesterday discovered a church near where I live (in Virginia) with windows like King's College Chapel but the interior is ordinary, no fan vaulted ceiling. Is fan vaulting on the ceiling used in America?

[gondolacrescent5]

@VivaceSubito Fan Vaulting is rare--because it's an extremely expensive feature to incorporate into a building.

If it had to be reproduced in stone today by masons--on the same scale as at KCC, the extra cost would be around $500 million. Be aware, the cost to erect the twin steeples of Cologne Cathedral in the 1800's was equal to one billion (2009) USD.

I think in all America there's only one edifice with stone vaulting. The National Cathedral but even it's not "fan vaulting"-too expensive.

[KateFan]

The finest example of a van vaulted roof I've seen is Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. It's astonishing.