O Thou the Central Orb - Wood

Charles Wood's O Thou the Central Orb.

Sung by the Sixteen

Category:

Music

Tags:

• choral
• choir
• the sixteen
• harry christophers
• o thou the central orb
• anthem
• central orb

[benssun]

Thanks for posting! It's a great bass line.

[musicamaxima]

@JustOccurred2Me The tenors sing as you say, not as printed in the video.

[JustOccurred2Me]

Simply beautiful. A small point though, could you check the tenor part around bars 19-20 ("..soars above") - as sung, "soars" runs C-Db-F then "above" runs Eb-Db-C. I remember singing it this way too although I don't have the score to hand.

PS - @bakelitetim & @RevolutionManJP - the tenor line is pretty good as well !! Wood knew how to get a good crunch out of his lower gentlemen.

[bakelitetim]

I always love singing this, as @benssun said it has a really good & fun bas line to sing!

[RevolutionManJP]

What a powerful and rich rendition! What a great way to start my day! And I must agree with @benssun the bass line is particularly great! :)

[ardwurk]

Absolutely wonderful. Sang this once with the RSCM Festival Choirs in Canterbury Cathedral about 30 years ago. Never forgotten it. Thank you for posting it.

[OrbiliusMagister]

Glorious music. The musical commentary to the words "soars above" is simply wonderful. at 0:57 you can hear an overtone sounding high Bb above the Gb to add flavour... priceless!

[makp87]

Wow. Thank you so much for this! Improved my day tenfold.

[admirallordk]

Splendid, this genre of music is underated and undaerplayed becuase of coure it takes a full performance to get the effect and churchs are unable to do that never mind recordings, well done morphthing1 for sharing with us these wonderful songs.