O Love | Elaine Hagenberg | PopUp Choir

[@steinarildespeland3796]

Absolutely a beautiful performance. The best I ever heard with this song! Thanks to the magnificent conductor and his skilled singers in this choir for a wonderful musical experience!

[@KenWAnderson]

Very commendable performance. I suspect that I'd enjoy this even more had I been present in the room. Recordings of live performances are so rarely completely true to all the finessed nuances that are discerned in the room. So, well done!

[@williamripley3192]

Exquisite music! Thanks for uploading for our enjoyment.

[@matthewb54]

What beautiful moving music. It was new to me when I sang it at a wedding yesterday. I just had to find a recording so I could listen to it. Isn't this choir superb?! Such a perfect blend and balance between the voices, and every word was clear. Well controlled dynamics and phrasing too, all supported by a sensitive accompanist. Sorry to be so technical, but these things are so important, and cannot be taken for granted.

[@markthemailman4567]

No need to apologize for your description. I appreciate what you said so very much.

[@Lavender0646]

Well if these are all midwestern singers that's why the vowel sounds are so clear.

[@ronnielee8759]

Beautiful words set to a beautiful piece of music that has been sung exceptionally well.

[@MsDancesongs]

O LOVE THAT WILT NOT LET ME GO (George Matheson) O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee; I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. O light that followest all my way, I yield my flickering torch to Thee; My heart restores its borrowed ray, That in Thy sunshine’s blaze its day May brighter, fairer be. O Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to Thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain, That morn shall tearless be. O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from Thee; I lay in dust life’s glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be.

[@oucutie1]

The George Matheson lyrics re-issued, this time with the melody by Elaine Hagenberg, This new melody is lovely (as was the original) of the traditional hymn “Oh Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go).

[@vtino4825]

Elaine Hegenberg's composition is truly beautiful. But why is it that only two from four stanzas of the lyrics are sung ? I have never seen any choir group sang the whole stanzas with this more recent composition. George Mattheson wrote a lyric that is deeply meaningful and very Christ-centered when read as a whole.

[@nancyauman5323]

So lovely