Gothic Cathedrals of England

Some clips I've edited together from the BBC documentary 'How To Build A Medieval Cathedral', showing the majestic architecture of the gothic cathedral and supreme skill of the medieval stonemasons who built them.
The first piece of music is the Chorale from the Easter Cantata by J.S. Bach in an orchestral arrangement by Leopold Stokowski, performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Stokowski.
The second piece is the Choral andante con moto from Symphony No. 2 'Lobgesang' (Hymn Of Praise), by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus conducted by Claudio Abbado.

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[thegreatbasher]

That was truly wonderful. Such majestic and beatuful buildings. I have been to some of them and would love to visit more. I love church architecture and cathedrals in particular. One thing to point out though. Not all of these are actually gothic in the construction. For example Lincoln and Ely were both started and mainly built in the norman style. But they both had varying degrees of addied changes during the gothic period. Ely had the Lantern and Lincoln other parts more widely.

[LampoCastor]

@thegreatbasher

You are absolutely right to say that not all of the cathedrals are strictly gothic,( for example Durham, one of the finest Norman/Romanesque cathedrals in Europe). Even with Durham, the towers we see now, though part of the original conception, were not built until the gothic period proper, the central tower rebuilt in the 15th century. As you point out cathedrals like Ely contain elements of Norman and later gothic.

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[koos1981]

What is this music on this video? It has "Christ lag in Todesbanden" in it, but who wrote it? It has a gist of Bach...

[LampoCastor]

The first piece of music is J.S. Bach from the Easter Cantata. Full details of the music used, including orchestras etc, can be found under 'more info' in the box to the right of the video.

[Cyrodiilic]

Lovely video!

The Cathedrals in this country always amaze me.

[ChEwAbLeLiGhTiNg]

My history homework -_-

[GRANBESTIA]

someone tell me but i believe that at 0:34 those columns are the ones from the movie ELIZABETH, the first one not ELIZABETH THE GOLDEN AGE

[Lewis3947]

One day I hope to build a Cathedral.

[rahotep101]

Nicely done. Some corrections: the exterior shot at 2:38 is not Salisbury, it is Norwich. Also 6:22 is Lincoln, not York Minster.

[storm476]

how many of these are ther to wonderfull they are

[krPeter2010]

stripped as they are.

[ourDC888]

Beautiful, thank you!

[KriBlackRoson]

Cantata BWV 4, I love it, I'll never forget it, it was my first experience as solist with orchestra *.*

Maestro Mendelssohn, cómo dejarlo de lado, mi Lied favorito es creación suya...

bravo, amazing!

[abstractjem]

@0:28 kinda looks like 4 giant cyclops,but it's all good lol

[Bridport6705]

There are some errors, a picture of York Minster nave whilst at Norwich, Norwich Cathedral spire when it should be Salisbury, a picture of Wells when it should be Salisbury.