JERUSALEM (AND DID THOSE FEET) - CATHEDRAL ORGAN SOLO - JONATHAN SCOTT

[@christopherandrews2594]

A stunning performance as always from this exceptional organist. Simply the most English of hymns

[@williamwarnold6737]

That will lift your spirit on a dull day.👍

[@charlottejet4338]

My favourite hymn. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

[@bhigdaddymark]

ESPECIALLY when played so superbly!

[@e-1074]

dude you should hear it on a pipe organ in real life, my church played it yesterday as the closing hymn and holy smokes, you can feel it in your chest

[@charlottejet4338]

@@e-1074 As a trained organist, I have played it many times. The key to playing hymns is to play the words, not just the music.

[@paulmaudsley2219]

Same here

[@tashreeqcorejansen8520]

If I am ever fortunate enough, I'd love to learn how to play this masterful instrument. Mind blowing.

[@OperaNut]

Just wonderful - my absolute favourite hymn. England’s green and pleasant land perfectly captured by Tom’s videography, too. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@janetbuffaloe1912]

Oh my i just love them both. I'm truly ble

[@rbk2745]

I am brazilian but this hymn makes me think i am a real enghish in heart. I love it.

[@debsg2024]

Me too. 🫡

[@25rodrigomg]

Me toooo!

[@Geoplanetjane]

Ya for sure

[@oluwaseunonolaja6545]

Me too😊

[@brucewilliams8714]

On my visit to the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, as I explored I sang these words of William Blake celebrating the legend of Christ visiting this area (in the years not recorded in the Bible). "And did those feet...." It was a misty morning giving the legend an extra air of plausibility.

[@debsg2024]

Certain songs are already in the DNA of the British people, God Save the Queen, Nimrod, Jupiter's most famous snippet (G. Holst), Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar), and many others. Very good taste. 👍🙌🎶🇬🇧❤️

[@mrfixit0273]

There really is no limit to the immense talent you gentleman have. And boy did you make that organ sing! Harrison organs and Scott brothers duo are the perfect combination. The 32’ reed … WOW!

[@deborah85728]

Brought tears to the eyes and strength to the old limbs ! Bless you

[@kentbloxham3826]

The most Jubilant version I have ever heard! Thank You Jonathan

[@janetlindley4465]

Absolutely fabulous. Thank you Jonathan and Tom. I sang along beautifully too. 🙂🙂

[@markfox6596]

Excellent.. I'd love to hear Greg Lake sing with that accompanyment.

[@geriatricyclist1950]

Another superb solo organ piece which goes straight to the heart- thanks Jonathan and Tom.

[@normanwoods2279]

This wonderful tune sends shivers up one's spine. "And did those feet in ancient times" blissful.

[@davidcastillogocher371]

The registration is perfectly selected!

[@andrewcrossley2448]

What a wonderful organ and setting.

[@mariadesa1434]

I thought it was all wonderful! The landscape and the cathedral are amazing! The music is simply divine! Congratulations to you two!

[@macronencer]

Wow. Final school assembly every term, we sang this - while one of our music teachers played it on the organ. Brings back some strange memories because this was late 1970s Bristol so my recollections of the traditional atmosphere of my school are blended with those of the streets of the city and the heyday of punk rock!

[@ricardogatica344]

Magnificent sound, eminent organist, absolutly wonderful!!!!!, thanks Jonathan

[@dark_magic_9474]

Magnificent!!!

[@kevinklein4471]

This piece touches a deep part of my soul. I am an American with deep Scottish roots. This is one of my favorite pieces to play and listen to. Jonathan and Tom Scott have created a musical and video masterpiece! Still have goosebumps. Thanks for sharing.

[@carolpredeth9866]

Fabulous rendition Jonathan & gorgeous views Tom!! What a wonderful way to end the day! Thank you both for that.

[@alancordwell9759]

I shall be singing this with the choir tomorrow for a wedding at church!

[@andrewgreenwood8554]

Must be the best performance of Jerusalem I have ever heard. Mind you, those who like hearing well played hymns at Ripon should listen to their resident organist, Tim Harper. Look at the 22 May service at around 47 minutes in or the introduction to the 2022 Candlemass service. Mindblowingly wonderful.

[@AdirondackRuby]

Beautiful! My favorite version of Jerusalem is by Emerson Lake & Palmer.

[@katydickson5547]

Such a beautiful hymn. Thank you for this Jonathan 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍. Thank you Tom for the fantastic photos that went with this hymn. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍.

[@janetsimmons5264]

Hi this is special to me. Jerusalem. Had to sing in a junior choir. A very long time ago. Thank you. Fond memories. From Janet x

[@highlife0586]

Just beautiful.

[@peternaryd_operasinger]

Absolutely fantastic Jonathan!😁👏👏👏👏

[@terryr.sublimeorganmusic]

Wow!! Awesome views & video, Tom! 🤩 And the anglophile 🇬🇧 in me was certainly awed by that performance. 💥 👏👏👏👏👏 💥 (Second only to the time I sang God Save the Queen 👑 when you played it in Bridgewater Hall) Thanks so much for sharing & posting the words. ❤ ♥️🎹🎶

[@Wanamaker1946]

….magnificent

[@kentbloxham3826]

Tom, fantastic Visuals, Brilliant

[@Bailey2006a]

Beautifully played…life-affirming performance .

[@bhigdaddymark]

Another SUPERB performance on yet another superb Harrison & Harrison with absolutely magnificent videography to go along with the majestic playing and organ. Thank you Jonathan and Tom for this brilliant video of yet another monumental English hymn (you all have the BEST and most stately hymns EVER) that's a favourite that I must learn (I'm an amateur) to play. Brilliant and BRAVISSIMMO!

[@rogiervanl]

The legendary Vangelis also has a beautiful version of Jerusalem, but I was searching for an organ only version and found this!

[@lenanielsen5903]

Thank you for this beautiful Hymn Absolutely wonderful organ sound

[@vewilli]

Wonderful!

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Excellent! So much for the 'organ reform' movement.

[@geriatricyclist1950]

amen amen AMEN

[@NoewerrATall]

Goosebumps! What else can I say? Bravo!

[@schroedingersdog7965]

Thank you, Tom and Jonathan; for that superb rendition. And, as other commenters have mentioned, thanks for including the lyrics.

[@Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz635]

Brillant 🌹

[@itamarbar9580]

I have faint memories of singing this in elementary school choir, and I really liked this song! I led alto at the time.

[@eugenetrollip751]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@43pier12]

Grazie, Maestro.

[@JimmyS.25]

Wow. Simply astonishing. This beautiful wall of sound... It simply makes you tear up.

[@joshuasanchez7577]

BRAVO! NICELY DONE!

[@joanmetcalfe5038]

Simply amazing, Tom, how much variety you’ve included in 3minutes 13 seconds of filming! I’m a born-and-bred Lancastrian but love everything about North Yorkshire. The shots of Ripon and beyond are for me the perfect background to Jonathan playing ‘Jerusalem’ in this beautiful cathedral. Thank you!

[@derekgrant3761]

Love this piece! I first came across it when I was 12yo. Had to sing it at school assembly and this was in Australia. Loved it then and still do!

[@bethdudley8563]

Beautiful!

[@Chrl_wbb11]

Thank you so much for making this KZbin channel you inspired me to play the organ so far I have managed to play in the malmesbury abbey but just thank you

[@jorgitoviejoamigo2736]

From Spain, thanks a lot

[@jorgitoviejoamigo2736]

From Spain, I can not to thank enough this wonderful video. Being from another country, I recognise the power of this anthem, it brings yourself nearer to Divinity.🥲

[@friendsofstedmundschurchfa3301]

Wonderful Bravo and thank you for sharing 🙌👏👍👍

[@NakedMuso]

Great instrument expertly played as we have come to expect. The BBC could do with a few lessons off Tom though regarding mikes & placement etc.! Nice one Tom.

[@d.schoepflin2247]

Thank you Jonathan and brother Tom for your parts in this awesome video and sharing it here on KZbin!

[@roncytron7883]

A reference recording! Thanks for this.

[@timothykandel169]

Oh, so tremendous!

[@charliewilliams4961]

Please excuse my language but this is fooking brilliant.

[@stylusfantasticus]

YES !!!!!!

[@mandyofmarymac]

Although i was born in the US, my entire family (both sides), came here in the late 1800's from mostly Scotland and England, I still feel a deep and abiding love for our "home country", so a performance such as this really stirs my soul. Thank you for the wonderful playing and beautiful photography (including the text). I think I'll watch and listen a few more times and try not to weep.

[@mandyofmarymac]

If I may, I'd like to thank you two for providing a very welcome distraction from the daily news. I go to your site, and feel a real calm on a stormy sea. xx

[@7649angel]

Magnificent! Thank you.

[@johnfranks9602]

Again fabulous, what a great choice of stops again , infact what a great organ. Everything clearly defined, the building reverb henancing the performance , once more you got the microphones placed nicely Tom, what a great performance, many thanks again both.

[@debsg2024]

"And did those feet in ancient time... " 👣 🗣 Beautiful music and lyrics. A strong candidate for a possible England national anthem in the future. It will be?! 🤔 Jonathan, congratulations. This one could not be left out of his musical repertoire. And you, Tom, who communicates more with your beautiful images, are getting better every day. 🎥 📸 🇬🇧🫡

[@bengunn99]

Should be our national anthem. Far far better tune than GSTQ. Far far far better. But it will never happen.

[@amangogna68]

Amazing music and player !

[@micheljoberton5325]

MAGNIFIQUE👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💞💞💞

[@eileenstevens9429]

So very beautiful ❤️ Thank you Jonathan!

[@gerardbedecarter]

Beautiful playing and video.

[@ritavw-s4093]

Lovely ❤️

[@luluforlenza4148]

😍 this hymn!!!💚💛💚💛

[@ThomasMagri-w8p]

very good jonathan 👍👍👍👍

[@miriamcaraquitena]

Very nice! Thanks!♥️😘😘♥️

[@g.k.failla9389]

Magnificent sound. Beautiful videography by Tom. First heard this played while watching the video of H.R.H. Prince Philip's funeral. (I eagerly await a livestream concert from the Cathedral). From Chicago, U.S.A.

[@WimGelok]

Well done!

[@willortiz3547]

Although I am not British, this is one of my favorite Hymns! Your performance is beautiful, Jonathan! Thank you for sharing this wonderful video performance! Best regards, Will Ortiz

[@dianethomas2279]

We sang this at an all girls school in Cardiff in the 50’s . The verse starting with “bring me my bow of burning gold” always moved me beyond belief. I am an avowed atheist but it still has the same effect. The marriage of lyric and music is exquisite.

[@anjasalentijn145]

Hello!! O wow!! Cold shivers down my spine! I feel really excited about this wonderful performance and filming. Thanks brothers! With Love from the Netherlands.

[@davidibbett7393]

Tim, I was teaching a lessons on secondary dominants and lo and behold- you appeared! Thanks for the friendship and inspiration

[@vestastreeb657]

Beautiful sound and sight. Thank you both❤️❤️❤️

[@MrFossil367ab45gfyth]

Keith Emerson made a version of this song using his synthesizer.

[@noelallsop8810]

Thank you Jonathan for that glorious rendition of our "other Anthem'

[@epincion]

'Our' being England only

[@tcharles2466]

Magnificent, as always, Jonathan (Tom's contribution surely must be a 'given' by now)! I know you don't have the time to respond to 'comments', but can I say that it's always good to see those 'shiny' black shoes on the pedalboard - unlike quite a few other very talented and skilled organists who choose/find it easier to perform in colourful/jazzy socks! Perhaps it's a generational/'aesthetical' issue for me? However, it's only through KZbin that I am aware of these things! Best wishes to you both, as ever!

[@johnellis3244]

So much good music out there and you recorded this!

[@epincion]

Big Queens Jubilee celebration at Ripon this weekend thats why

[@johnellis3244]

@@epincion Like I said so much good music out there - she is the queen of Great Britain not just England. Especially at this time as the union is falling apart a poor choice of music!

[@epincion]

@@johnellis3244 I don't disagree with you. This hymn has sadly become very jingoistic.

[@dolvaran]

Love to hear what you could do with 'Who Would True Valour See'.

[@gmfamcdonald1465]

And, what about "O Valiant Hearts"?

[@dolvaran]

@@gmfamcdonald1465 I'd like a Pound for every verse of that I've either played or sung!

[@MrQwint22]

The Vox Humana rank always confused me because it dosn't sound much like a human voice, but here I can hear it. A beautiful rendition of a beautiful song well played indeed!

[@Video7Rose]

I never heard this before! What a lovely, impressive piece! Jonathan played it so beautifully, and Tom keeps topping himself with his filming! The views, inside and out, are magnificent! Thank you, both! 🌞🎹🎵

[@musiclover148]

Somebody went to a lot of trouble to give us all the specs of the organ! Thank you. I have mulled over several possible interpretations of the poem but am still a bit hazy. If anyone knows for certain, can you please tell me what Blake was on about? As an American fan of horse racing, I first knew the name Ripon as an English racecourse without knowing it was in Yorkshire. Later, when I heard the Crawley girls say, "I'm going into Ripon," I was astounded. In the course of Downton Abbey, the characters referred to several other place names which I knew as horse racing venues, including Pontefract, York and Catterick, where they went to a motorway instead of the racetrack. There was at least one other which doesn't come to mind.

[@epincion]

In the first part of the poem Blake is referencing an ancient myth that Jesus himself visited the British Isles (Glastonbury to be specific). This is just one of a number of such visitations to other European nations that were part of the highly superstitious world of myths in medieval society. These grew because in the New Testament we hear of Jesus birth and early childhood and then nothing until he appears as an educated adult (probably in his 30's) and starts collecting disciples. Its in this unknown period of Jesus life that the medieval world put together fanciful ideas of Jesus travelling widely in Europe. The second part is an elegy to a lost supposed buccolic past (the green & pleasant lands) that Blake (a very mystic poet) feels are being swallowed by by the Industrial Revolution with its 'dark Satanic mills'. It was a time of massive social change and dislocation with England changing from a mostly rural world living by the rhythms of an ancient society to an industrial nation with new towns and cities full of factories belching smoke and surrounded by shanty towns of dispossessed poor in a sea of absolute poverty & working under terrible conditions. Parallel with the industrialisation of England went a process known as the 'clearances' whereby the landed gentry who legally owned all the land forced tenant subsistence farmers off rural land in order to build vast agricultural estates and not coincidentally to force a supply of cheap labour to the mines and factories that they also owned. When you watch Downton Abbey be aware that that gilded world of a fantastic estate was made possible by a pyramid of terrible injustice. Blake's poem was a call to arms for social justice and also for a return to 'old ways' - the latter being somewhat due to looking backward with rose tinted spectacles at a supposed golden age that really never existed as Blake imagined.

[@musiclover148]

@@epincion Thank you.

[@petercdowney]

If you went to a private school in England, there is an absolute 100% guarantee that you will know Jerusalem very well.

[@neuralwarp]

Almost any school with a history over 25 years long.

[@garypotter1985]

Yeah us public school idiots only got, Whole world in his hands, Give me oil in my lamp and Who put the colours in the rainbow. But least we got to yell them out at the top of our lungs 😂😂

[@MagiTailWelkin]

We sung this at the end of nearly every school assembly at King's (The Cathedral) School, Peterborough.

[@puppy1584]

We sang this song at our girls school back in the fifties and sixties…secondary modern school! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@lordenoch0]

When I perform this piece I do it "Chariots of Fire" style.

[@DennisLiewDennis]

Jerusalem by Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918)🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the Holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills? Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire. I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@michaelnavez7130]

❤️❤️❤️

[@pellazhararalis3910]

A flawless performance of an outstanding arrangement. Will the score available for purchase after the next website update?

[@tovlirami1711]

💙💙💙💙💙BRAVO💙💙💙💙💙

[@stachusw7173]

I’m wondering if you could play Mozart’s „Non piu andrai” from „Mariage of the Figaro”. I’ m playing it on piano (my own arrangement) and I think it’ ll sound better on organ. Btw. good evening from Poland!

[@derekbleeker4307]

Please play Holy City Vera Lynn sang it

[@mattsmithlon]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@saintjoanofarc3688]

I’m from America how did this song come to be Englands national anthem

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

​To @Jjjj Llll and Saint Joan of Arc: What you have to realise, is that the other 'devolved nations' don't really count, so no-one cares what *they* think(!)

[@geriatricyclist1950]

@Jjjj Llll Its best described as a "religious song", or maybe a "sacred song". Carries tremendous emotion for many people for a range of reasons. Me included. From another Aussie this one with Scottish and English roots.

[@geriatricyclist1950]

@Jjjj Llll you did well.

[@geriatricyclist1950]

@Jjjj Llll and @offshoreorganbuilder LOVE Welsh singing... every time I meet someone new who is Welsh first dopey Q I ask "do you sing??" Majority do!!!!!

[@geriatricyclist1950]

@Jjjj Llll Killing myself laughing... that thought about Welsh had never crossed my mind!!! You read the papers of the 20th C- eisteddfodau were huge in many places. Still popular many cities. Sang tenor in local choir in Queensland Eisteddfod in Maryborough Qld about 20 yrs ago (my "musical" home town where I still play pipe organ). Finale all the men on stage (about 200) for Welsh National Anthem (in Welsh) and Cwm Rhondda - spine tingling. Then ladies joined (about 400 packed by now on Brolga Theatre stage) for the Hallelujah Chorus which I know. Utterly memorable.

[@harryrashford6196]

FEAR GOD HONOUR THE KING

[@vinyalonde]

Big English organ doing what a big English organ does best.

[@funkdubbpe]

🇵🇱

[@beachman8106]

To me the sound was muddy. It was a mishap mash of heavy organ chords which did not allow the melody to ring out. Very poor recording technique and very poor acoustic environment. My score 4/10.

[@gerhardrohne2261]

what awfull mean registration most of the time...