Share Your Favourite Hymns! :musical_note:

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blackforest said:
I grew up listening to John Michael Talbott.
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I like his songs also. “Holy is His Name” is my favorite. I was able to invite him to our church for a concert in the late 80s. He was as calm in person as he seems to be when singing a recording.
 
oops, can’t believe I forgot this favorite: 😊
"The King of Glory"

 
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This was our recessional today. Our new cantor is a wonderful young man who was in RCIA with me. He’s making these hymns come alive for us!

Make Your Home in Me

 
A beautiful setting of the Lacrimosa, but unfortunately only the first few measures are actually by Mozart, up through about 0:56 or so. The rest of the movement, and of the Requiem proper, was completed by his student Süssmayr, at the request of Mozart’s widow.
 
Ever since college, I’ve found it amazing that this Requiem is attributed to Mozart, even though so much of it was composed by someone else!
 
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Ever since college, I’ve found it amazing that this Requiem is attributed to Mozart, even though so much of it was composed by someone else!
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When I was a boy, round about 1979 or so, I heard a live radio broadcast from Berlin of the Mozart Requiem. I remember the American soprano Catherine Gayer took part, and the conductor was Christoph von Dohnanyi, but the other performers I can’t recall. The reason I remember the performance is that it did not include any of the non-Mozartean additions, so it stopped in the middle of a phrase in the Lacrimosa, where the composer left off in the manuscript score. Very dramatic! It was like seeing Mozart die right in front of you. Ever since, I have searched for recordings that follow the manuscript in that same way, but alas, none seem to exist.
 
Here is the concluding anthem, I will magnify thee, o God my King, from the oratorio Belshazzar by Händel. Belshazzar, the dissolute, drunken, blaspheming king of Babylon, has been defeated and killed in battle, and the effete Babylonian forces have been put to rout by the invading Persians. Cyrus, the Persian ruler, has put Belshazzar’s mother Nitocris and the Jewish prophet Daniel under his special protection, and the two rulers join the newly liberated Israelites in a hymn of praise to Jehovah. The text appears below. Maureen Lehane is Cyrus, Felicity Palmer is Nitocris, and the Stockholm Chamber Choir are the Israelites, with the Concentus Musicus of Vienna conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, in this extract from a recording of the complete oratorio made in 1975.

(CYRUS)(Maureen Lehane)

I will magnify Thee, o God my King,
And I will praise Thy name forever and ever.

(NITOCRIS)(Felicity Palmer)

My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord.
Then let all flesh give thanks
Unto His holy name forever and ever.

(CYRUS, NITOCRIS, and the ISRAELITES)

Amen.

 
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Gertabelle:
Ever since college, I’ve found it amazing that this Requiem is attributed to Mozart, even though so much of it was composed by someone else!
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When I was a boy, round about 1979 or so, I heard a live radio broadcast from Berlin of the Mozart Requiem. I remember the American soprano Catherine Gayer took part, and the conductor was Christoph von Dohnanyi, but the other performers I can’t recall. The reason I remember the performance is that it did not include any of the non-Mozartean additions, so it stopped in the middle of a phrase in the Lacrimosa, where the composer left off in the manuscript score. Very dramatic! It was like seeing Mozart die right in front of you. Ever since, I have searched for recordings that follow the manuscript in that same way, but alas, none seem to exist.
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That sounds amazing! Maybe I’ll just stop the performance right there next time I’m listening to it.
 
I really enjoyed that. It was a lovely background to reading the Psalms.
 
Glad you enjoyed it! It’s one of my favorite pieces. Händel himself liked the main theme so much, he used it in half a dozen other works. He knew a hit tune when he heard one!
 
I thought it was really familiar!!

I love Handel, especially the Messiah… ❤️
 
Yes, he’s one of the greats, all right. Most people only know Messiah, but he wrote many other oratorios, as well: Belshazzar, Jephtha, Saul, Esther, Samson, Athaliah and Alexander’s Feast, just to name a few. He also wrote forty operas, keyboard music, and lots of chamber and orchestral music. Can you tell I’m a Händel fan? 😁
 
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