In dulci jubilo | Carols from King's 2020

[@philipmadden7013]

"Oh, that we were there" indeed!

[@ellie8782]

That’s what my mum says every time we hear this carol

[@basseybassey1979]

Oh, that we were there. That is what I say whenever I hear this song.

[@deo.gratiaa2898]

1. In dulci jubilo, Let us our homage show Our heart’s joy reclineth In praesepio [in a manger] And like a bright star shineth Matris in gremio [in the mother's lap] Alpha es et O. [Thou art Alpha & Omega] Alpha es et O 2. O Jesu parvule [O tiny Jesus] I yearn for thee alway Listen to my ditty O puer optima [O best of boys] Have pity on me, pity O princeps gloriae, [Prince of glory] Trahe me post te. [draw me unto thee 3. O patris caritas [O father's caring] O nati lenitas [O newborn's mildness] Deeply were we stained Per nostra crimina [by our crimes] But thou hast for us gained Coelorum gaudia [heavenly joy] O that we were there. O that we were there 4. Ubi sunt gaudia [where be joys] If that they be not there There are angels singing Nova cantina [new songs] There the bells are ringing In regis curia [at the king's court] O that we were there. O that we were there. There are angels singing There the bells are ringing In regis curia [at the king's court] O that we were there. O that we were there. Deo gratia!

[@soupdragon151]

Words by the 14thC mystic and friar Henry Suso, according to legend the angels sung it to him

[@murageful]

@@soupdragon151 thank you for sharing I like this carol

[@marydonohoe8200]

Thanks so much for sharing the lyrics! I’ve always loved this carol but have never actually learned it.

[@belorianuskane1952]

Thank you 🎄🎁✨🎀

[@tomarmstrong1281]

It is not necessary to believe in the life everlasting in order to appreciate the side of our human nature which can produce such beautiful sounds. There is comfort there.

[@gabrielolaoluwa3610]

One of my favourite Christmas songs... Merry Christmas from Nigeria.

[@elizabethsohler6516]

You have excellent taste! Joyful Christmas.

[@blahfuckdig]

Blessings from Denmark !

[@paulmallett3576]

And a Merry Christmas to you, too, Gabriel, from Cornwall.

[@ds1868]

And a Merry Christmas from Cambridge.

[@pollyanne234]

Merry xmas frim England

[@savitriwijesinghe3282]

Oh my Lord i am in heaven. Listen to these beautiful voices.❤❤❤❤❤

[@fernandofarias5950]

Every year King's College's Carols renew the beauty of Christmas time. Merry Christmas from Brazil.

[@nancytrimm248]

Beautiful. Xxxx

[@jack300seidel]

I'm From Brazil too

[@corneliaarendsen1358]

Merry Christmas from Spain.

[@ianrandall482]

May the light of the Lord be with you every day. Love from Australia

[@stewartmccall6734]

my favourite christmas carol of all time superbly sung,,,,takes me back in time ,i sang it in school in the 1970s, beautiful song .

[@leedsman54]

I remember learning this at school over fifty years ago and it’s one of my favourites. It’s wonderful to go to an event like this in a building that’s hundreds of years old, the atmosphere is incredible,you can almost feel the past around you and the people who went before.

[@chinwo]

Can't wait for such a day!

[@samsonaikulolu7252]

Beautiful experience

[@murageful]

wow over fifty years!

[@hogwartsslytherin7605]

The greatest sound of the holidays...Without this group of talented young men it just wouldnt feel the same

[@lamsfamily5179]

Prayers for UK: peace, health and love always. ...From Hong Kong

[@ラベンダー-k2g]

Yes...祝大家聖誕快樂，身體健康!

[@ianrandall482]

Our prayers go out to our brothers and sisters in Hong Kong.

[@luisrieber8200]

The singing is beautiful, Hats off to singing Greetings from Germany

[@siphonongalo1392]

Good morning Luis

[@fleurlobo9625]

Truly an angelic choir. God bless u all for praising him with your beautiful singing. Praise the Lord.

[@Enelralene21920]

I always love hearing the choir sing this calming, spiritual carol.

[@Karlito1118]

This arrangement and this choir should be granted World Heritage status. I'm sobbing.

[@hyewonchoi4983]

Merry Christmas everyone! - from South of Korea

[@lolao6291]

Merry Christmas to you too

[@XoXo-fx2kw]

Merry Christmas everbody! May God always blessed you with joy and happiness despite the pandemic that we go through together. I hope next year will be better and bright for all of us. Amen.

[@gwinniboots]

Thank you. It will be better, we will get our freedom back and celebrate. Happy Christmas and a good New Year. God be praised. 🙏🎄🎉🎶

[@presidentstaatshoofd473]

@@gwinniboots if only that were true. We will not get our freedom back without fighting for it. For now, the globalists are destroying our western christian civilisation and traditions as much as they can untill there is nothing left of it.

[@clintockmaconaghie3763]

Amen

[@davidgil1556]

Heaven is certainly not much different than this

[@RobertoLopez-zr7dk]

With an all white choir as well?

[@davidgil1556]

@@RobertoLopez-zr7dk best man for the job, anything else is racist

[@ggill2311]

@@RobertoLopez-zr7dk whts wrong with having all white choir?

[@ds1868]

@@RobertoLopez-zr7dk your comment is racist.

[@AlAcorn-tm6ks]

Been there have you?

[@Jasat2]

Merry Christmas everyone from Switzerland!

[@samthecutta4587]

Love from Barbados🇧🇧🙏🏾

[@カーレうどん]

Happy Christmas from Japan

[@shegelee]

Merry Christmas from Lagos, Nigeria

[@davidolien2828]

Thank you from Williamsburg Virginia

[@ravijoshua2048]

Thank you King's! This service renews hope in us all. Can't help but keep imagining (seeing?!) Stephen Cleobury. We give thanks to God for all those who now serve Him in another light and on another shore. Happy Christmas!

[@Maria-Elisabeth1978]

This are voices from Heaven. Oh god its so beautiful

[@patriciaowusu5424]

Marry Christmas from Ghana

[@josefantal]

From another WORLD...........

[@mercedesfloresmilara865]

Feliz Navidad desde Madrid ! 💕

[@otibiohjoseph2457]

Let us in the warmth of hearth go to Bethlehem and behold this great gift of divinity to mankind. But first let us pray 🙏. Merry Christmas from Ghana to everyone around the world

[@elizabethsohler6516]

Very sound advice!

[@worldeuro]

The event must go on! I'm delighted to see this during the pandemic as an annual watcher.

[@mrhacker7587]

Merry Christmas From Indian brother

[@jackmorrison7379]

To take nothing away from the skill of the choir and the gentlemen singers, and the acoustic of this grand Kings College space but I must say the sound team recording this did an amazing job. Every voice, every note, clear as a bell. Liquid gold for the ears.

[@splendidbonfire]

Wonderful. A glimpse of the world to come.

[@Knappa22]

Beautiful comment.

[@paperchain1239]

May the light of the Lord be with all if us.

[@Sara-wd1vq]

This is really beautiful i'm crying tears of happiness😢💖👍

[@quie-lima6841]

Merry Christmas to you all!🙏 ❤🙏 From NewJersey USA 2020

[@anneruthbarrett1930]

A joy-filled Christmas from Johannesburg

[@johnburch8433]

Wonderful melodious voices blended together

[@anneellis6445]

Well done all those keeping this tradition live in such challenging times. This is sublime and an essential part of Christmas for me and so many others. Thank you.

[@andromedamaxima1543]

the tradition of God survives any and all the times especially the challenging ones. Times are only challenging because people prefer to obey the laws of men instead of following the word of God.

[@KF-cx8bm]

People die of diseases which are not the laws of man but god

[@Lightharvest-dd2bf]

@@andromedamaxima1543 Hey! It's love and respect for our world and all its inhabitants. The "word" of God has inevitably been twisted to favor human "authority". So, revere and learn from whomever sets a good example, and be open to the perception we're all gifted with.

[@gwinniboots]

Beautiful!

[@izardbourbon8172]

Love it... merry Christmas from Indonesia

[@JimLaddie]

Marvelous! Happy Christmas from Scotland via Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.

[@paperchain1239]

And a Merry Christmas to you. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧

[@theaschubert4432]

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[@Fpstup]

Merry Christmas from the UK, peace be with you and stay safe and healthy in these troubled times.

[@JimLaddie]

@@Fpstup Thank you.

[@SmithBrookHollow]

Merry Christmas from New England!

[@richardmacaulay1056]

Merry Christmas from Nova Scotia

[@NatanaelEstebanRainMontecinos]

Feliz Navidad¡¡

[@ellooku]

One of my favorites after Good King Wenceslas. Merry Christmas from Nigeria.

[@crwydryn]

This IS Christmas,and no one dare disturb me whilst I'm lost in this enchantment and beauty.

[@TheAscoltati]

Merry Christmas from Sydney

[@rheailiarome2287]

Listening to Carols from King's has been part of my Christmas tradition for more years then I care to remember and it is always beautiful and heart warming at this most meaningful time of the year. 🙏

[@timdaines1527]

couldnt have put it more simply and succinctly.

[@alisonbonar1613]

My favourite choir.

[@oblongowl]

Sublime. Miraculous. The combination of the greatest architectural masterpiece of the world with the culture of western civilization at its very peak expressed through songs giving praise to the glory of god.

[@KF-cx8bm]

Wow so many disturbing suggestions here!!!!!!

[@ds1868]

@@KF-cx8bm Sounds refreshingly correct to me.

[@KF-cx8bm]

@ds1868 good for you, I stand with my previous comment

[@alohajoe98]

Merry Christmas to all, from Honolulu, Hawaii.

[@kinobskzksekkd7263]

Bonita canción de los niños Saludos desde México tepic nayarid shalom adonay

[@brownmullins]

I have a new confidence in the new King's Singers and director. Love counter singers. David Hurly will always be 'the big shoes to fill.'

[@fbenbow2197]

There are angels singing nova cantica. A new and fresh Playlist in heaven. Sounds fine to me

[@nandorblue]

Beautiful! Daniel Hyde, first time I see him leading the choir.

[@jamestrager551]

He directed in New York at Saint Thomas before being called to succeed Stephen at King's. Wonderful with tye boys.

[@ds1868]

@@jamestrager551 Daniel Hyde was previously organist at King's. He is simply returning home.

[@jamestrager551]

@@ds1868 Dan was at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford when he came to us in a search that followed the sudden death of John Scott.

[@ds1868]

@@jamestrager551 Daniel was previously organ scholar at King's and graduated from the University of Cambridge. The academic hood he is wearing is MA (Cantab). I don't care what he was doing in NYC, he has come home and we are very pleased to have him back.

[@AnjaHuebel1]

So moving. Congratulations to the extremely professional choristers and the wonderful Kings Singers! This is truly a year to remember!

[@GeorginaDent-Jefferies]

Beautiful at anytime of the year to uplift the spirit and focus. It’s humbling and recharges my battery immediately and brings about a sense of calm 🙏

[@itatreeneetee]

Happy Christmas folks...love from Nigeria

[@the.minerat]

Just beautiful, marvelous, overwhelming, ... Merry Christmas to you all!!

[@Richie016]

Angelical, Rejoice! and welcome Lord's spirit.

[@CyclingUpsideDown]

This year's Carols from King's introduced me to The King's Singers. I can't believe I never knew about them before. Amazing voices.

[@markmcpherson1385]

For those that believe heaven does not exists, think again… Certainly for me, this is a heavenly sound. Beautiful carol makes the heart and soul melt. Truly one of the best pieces ever composed and sung..

[@dewbottle]

Merry Christmas and thank you x

[@MosesIyoha]

It's so wonderful. Heaven will be beautiful and nice.

[@waltgunchak1647]

Bravo! Merry Christmas From the USA!

[@davidnickson6274]

my favourite carol

[@elizabethsohler6516]

You have good taste!

[@maicohann1658]

Have a calm christmas everyone☺️ Thanks for your gift of peaceful music🎁🎅 from Japan

[@joesoy9185]

I am looking forward to seeing the whole broadcast on the BBC tomorrow, Christmas Eve. I'm sure it will be excellent. As every year, it will be the start of my Christmas Celebrations. A Merry Christmas to one and all!

[@seeriktus]

The loss of long-time Stephen Cleobury AND Covid, and somehow Kings still performs!

[@markswintonorganist8227]

When a choral director moves on or retires, he or she will be replaced, so there's no question of not carrying on. It was just the same in 1982 when Stephen Cleobury succeeded Philip Ledger. Covid posed a greater challenge to carrying on, but thanks to the King's Singers, and contingency planning in the midst of the pandemic, that challenge was overcome - and magnificently!

[@elizabethsohler6516]

That's because this is not simply the work of a particular group of people. This service is a work of God. It brings joy to people all over the world every year.

[@renatamiguel997]

Desde o Brasil. Muito bonito!!!

[@jessejojojohnson]

That penultimate verse is a vision of beauty. Thank you.

[@dantegabrielittesor4483]

You bring such joy to my heart! Thank you and God bless you! From Spain with love!

[@jason2182]

Thank you for this, hopefully I'll be able to come next year!

[@samsonaikulolu7252]

1:19 - 1:23 , 2:34-2:44 some of the best sounds I’ve ever heard in my entire life

[@beaugarcon88]

I was thinking, "Ah this person likes the same sounds i do!" That and the part where they begin saying oh That we were there, culminating in the final time they say it at the end with the triple note rise at the end. Sublime.

[@kennethelekwachi8463]

Especially the Tenor at 2:34 - 2:44. Dude took me to tears with the expression

[@samsonaikulolu7252]

@@beaugarcon88amazing really

[@franciscolima5793]

Muito lindo PARABÉNS FantÁstico BRAVO 👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷❤🥰

[@DavidSL64]

Exquisite sound!

[@NZealandKiwi]

proper lush, merry christmas all

[@elvira9961]

so beautiful.

[@trevortomah8508]

Beautiful, peaceful and comforting, thank you for sharing the wonderful choir music, may GOD bless all.

[@kevinjohnbourne]

Music like this makes you realise what is really important in space & time

[@sapphire270]

I wanna sit inside there and listening the singing 😊

[@viviancorrea2910]

Wonderful music !!!! Merry Christmas from Brazil !! Vivian - São Paulo.

[@shadmenjae343]

Beautiful hymn.

[@murageful]

We will be presenting this carol during our carol service. Beautiful done.

[@joshuakampamba9061]

I remember listening to this singing in January of 2022❤ " Oh, that we were there'

[@walefalmeida]

Feliz Natal!!!

[@pat8212]

Sublime.....pure magic in an awful Covid-ridden time....take pleasure from this and be glad to listen and watch.

[@facitenonvictimarum-2245]

Merry Christmas from Northern California, USA 🇺🇸. I look forward to seeing the whole choir perform again, with Scholars AND Choristers, after the pandemic is over and life gets back to normal.🎄

[@ds1868]

@facite et al The balance is perfect, given the chapel is without congregation. The senior choristers are in attendance and the gentlemen are absent due to Government instructions. The King's Singers here are all ex-Kings and are simply superb. The cohesion of the ensemble speaks for itself.

[@markswintonorganist8227]

@@ds1868 Technically, only the original line-up of King's Singers in the 1960s were ex-King's - since then, replacement members have come from other backgrounds, though always carefully selected for their musical capability.

[@james_loney]

Absolutely stunning

[@luisrieber8200]

Merry Christmas and may God bless you

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

Very beautiful

[@asitaamerasinghe2315]

Merry Christmas, from Sri Lanka! The choir sounded absolutely gorgeous despite the regular tenors and bases not being present. ❤️

[@jessicapaton3467]

I don't think I've ever clicked on a video so quickly. How fitting it be my favourite carol. Merry Christmas everyone.

[@elizabethsohler6516]

You have good taste!This is a beautiful one isn't it? I knew it as "Good Christian Men Rejoice" when I was growing up but I don't think the English bears much resemblance to the Latin

[@kukuhwidiatmoko]

So beautiful!

[@xtrahandz]

Solace to the soul and joy to the heart.

[@colinmcgregor6384]

Beautiful. Thanks for this and have a happy, peaceful and safe Christmas everyone. 🎄

[@ritahorvath8207]

This is so beautiful. Thank you . ♡

[@lidiaziolkowski3965]

Beautiful❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JaquieDanielsMusic]

I was introduced to this carol when I sang it with my 6th form choir - a great arrangement. I'm catching up with the broadcast on Christmas Day as I missed it on Christmas Eve ☺️

[@uchechukwuokolo9299]

Beautifully rendered. Love it.

[@anight6881]

Beautiful Church