Share Your Favourite Hymns! :musical_note:

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Another of my favorites is this rendition of Ave Maria by the late great Chris Cornell. I’ve been told that he was raised Catholic. May he find the peace he couldn’t find in this life.

 
At his Dad’s funeral, this was the Hymn that the coffin was carried out to. This was because his Dad had sung on the original recording - you can hear his powerful voice coming through. Only funeral I’ve been to that the deceased sung himself out.
 
Es kst ein Ros’ entsprungen (Lo, how a rose e’er blooming). Often sung as a carol during the Advent season, this is actually a hymn by the seventeenth-century composer Michael Praetorius. I have never heard anything else that approaches its sense of mystery, wonder, and tear-inducing beauty. Here is the finest recording of it I know:

 
That’s a good one. Unfortunately, the people around me at Mass don’t think so when I belt out the high note.
 
Here’s one that I almost forgot about. It’s not one of the standard Christmas Season songs you hear. In the 60s, we sang it in our High School Choir A Cappella, when it was still called a Christmas Concert on Long Island. It was one of my favorites and I can still remember my tenor part. I have the music and someday I will teach it to my music ministry and sing it again.

It starts out quietly and starts to build at around 2:05 to a dynamic crescendo, then ends in a whisper. Love it.

 
Another Ave Maria, this one by Gustav Holst, performed by the women’s choir at the Wells Cathedral School.

 
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I’ve got two.

Classic Hymn: Byzantine arrangement of Salve Regina used by the Knights Templar on the Crusades


Modern Hymn: Canticle of the Turning

 
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Modern Hymn: Canticle of the Turning
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Modern words, old tune.

I spent way too much time in the world of Celtic music and dance to ever be able to hear anything but “Star of the County Down” when I hear this song.

Here’s a lovely version of the original. To keep with the theme of this thread, I’ve chosen a concert that is performed in a church.

 
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Dvorak’s version of Fac ut Portem.


I couldn’t find one with a good religious thumbnail.
 
Some that I don’t believe have been mentioned:

St. Hildegard - O Rubor Sanguinis (Oh Ruby Blood)

Love the words (translation):
"O ruby blood, which flowed from on high
where divinity touched

You are a flower that the winter
of the serpent’s breath can never injure."

Palestrina - Kyrie

I’m sorry I don’t know how to make the videos appear in my post :confused:

Side note: I learned these in my Freshman music class of all places! 🙂

Edit: Only This I Want -
 
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