Great performance. Pianist is outstanding!

03:03

This is a GREAT performance. Well done Mr. Wagner on preparing your excellent church choir.

Our constitution and country was inspired by God.

Espectacular tocayo

Excuse me, do you have the communion services?

1:22 0:45

0:34 all gen 0:43 for he 1:05 and his mercy 1:10 fear him 2:06 He rem 2:49 Gloria

Great performance and special recognition to the accompanist! Kudos also to the soloist and the drummer--love the enthusiasm.

Those Tenors answering those amen with alleluia just kills me, especially the last time when they hold the last syllable while the rest of the singers pause. Genius compositional gesture. So beautiful.

Thank you! Really helpful, esp at 0.75 playback

Hello, would you happen to have the whole piece for Tenor 1? Would be much appreciated, thanks in advance!

I didn't go flat!!!

01:20 Start Tenor :)

just something else!

I had the great luck to belong to an undergrad chorale concert tour/sightseeing trip to central Europe. We took a day trip to Berchtesgaden, Germany, which was where Hitler's retreat, the Eagle's Nest was located. We gathered on a stone terrace, which I've seen in old WW2 films of Hitler and Eva Braun---- and we sang an acapella version of this to the Bavarian hills. How proud--- triumphant--- we were to proclaim He that ruleth over Men *must be just!*

Most helpful,

This year makes 10 years I sung this song with my high school choir my sophomore year. Sweet memories…

Simply gorgeous

This is the best of the live versions on KZbin by far - the baritone is very good. The studio recording with Donald Sweeney is unsurpassable.

Beautiful! Why did it just fade out?

If anyone can listen to this and not cry, they have no soul.

I wish the latter part of this piece did not undergo an "enharmonic switcheroo" at 1:10 in this video. F# becomes Gb, but it really shouldn't. It should continue as F#. I do not think Randall Thompson wanted the singers and orchestra to drop 23.46 cents at 1:12 time stamp. But it seems he did this to prevent the use of double sharps and even a triple sharp in the rest of the song. The problem is that the visual component is lost on most people because I don't think most people realize this change and why it all of the sudden becomes all flats written even though it should be sharps sung still. Having the piece start in G major and end in Fx major is more fitting for the text. It starts with David at the end of his life as king of Israel. Saying these things, he is at once acknowledging the truth of how a king should rule over men, while simultaneously admitting that he did not live up to this standard perfectly, while also simultaneously prophesying of the 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ on the earth, where He WILL live up to this standard because he is God Almighty manifest in the flesh. It would make sense that at 1:12 the pitch would start to drift upwards more and more as the righteous King and his reign was described more and more. And by the end you are where you started but 23.46 cents higher in pitch yet the notes are also more settled "on the earth" in that they are written lower on the staff, F's being written lower on the staves than G's. The Kingdom of Heaven on the earth. The seed of David on the throne, just as God had promised millennia before.

Thank you so much!

Tenors holding that last note.

I'm curious to come across this. I was a boy treble in the Chichester Cathedral choir when we recorded the Treasury of English Church Music Vol 5 in 1966. The Magnificat was included in the recording but this, the Nunc Dimittis was not. In fact I have no recollection of recording it and I don't recognize the tenor voice, but it was a long time ago!

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Wow. Thank you.

I really love this!

I always loved playing this.

1:58

Outstanding spirit! Thank you.

Sounds like something I did in high school, in the early 1960s.

One of my all-time choral pieces of music. Did it in high school, in the early 1960s, as well as about a half dozen church choirs! Beautiful music!

Wow, Dan, so beautiful, and great to hear the Reuter accompanying.

Dan, this is beautiful! The background, the words on the video, the song....voices...everything!! Bravo!

I sang this with the Charles Wesley Youth Choir under the genius direction of Dr. John Dressler at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. I was so very blessed to be a part of this magnificent assembly of musicians! Blessings to all! =^..^=

this is breathtaking. who is the soprano?

Love this!

I remember singing this with my choir! So fun!

I like the bells! :)

Thanks for that. Is there a pdf of the pages you used, very useful to have a word by word translation?

Mu

Wow I've never come across this before! How fantastic!

Estoy muy Feliz por que la Boy a Cantar😇🐼👑😄🎓

I remember playing this piece in orchestra with our choir. CHILLS

I used to commute over an hour to work each day, eastbound in the morning. I would think of this song each time the sun rose to blind me on my commute (as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds...) :-)

a memory here: our beloved Choir Director Willard Johnson (Kellogg HS): wrote, arranged, and exposed so many of us to wondrous choral music such as this. Forever grateful, Mr. Johnson!

Surely you have to tell us which choir, and when?

I sang this song for honor choir!! It was so fun~~!