Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Lead me, Lord | The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford

[@TonyWatson-c2t]

A beautiful melody to bring home the meaning of the words. Lovely arrangement and strong voices. Haunting.

[@stevenbranyon6382]

A warm rich tone from Adult Women (without vibrato - Great!) and a full sound from the lower parts as well. A slow, deliberate tempo, not rushed or dismissive as other choirs tend to do. Thank you for setting the bar high on this wonderful, yet simple jewel of a work.

[@grabarnahamarby8000]

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[@grabarnahamarby8000]

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[@GeneralRenz]

There is definitely vibrato in this sound.

[@pebbles5450]

Theres def vibrator and it doesnt detract from the sound at all.. weird comment

[@brucejudithjohn7286]

A true accompanist - doesn't take his eyes off the choir/conductor! Such a dignified, sensitive rendition.

[@marymouse6244]

@@dpodsful It's just as likely that he learned from a good mentor.

[@beth7873]

Was thinking of this hymn this morning and found this video. Beautiful, sacred way to start the week.

[@lenmccabe4693]

The organist was awesome playing this song! Loved the choir and one of my most favorite hymns! Absolutely Beautiful!!!! Thanks for sharing!

[@lindaliestman4397]

Beautiful and rich. I especially enjoy seeing a young man play the organ so proficiently. In our area, many kids take piano lessons for a few years, and then give it up to play sports. Thus accompanists are becoming an endangered species and with it great choral music. Thanks for posting this.

[@Cheezyon]

I have watched many videos of this song, yet to see one as deliberate and beautiful as this. Thank you for this.

[@eugenengole3325]

I melt always when i sing or hear this song. Would love to be part of a choir again. I miss it.

[@helomaib]

Beautiful, and so meditative, as it should be. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@ruthblanchard7468]

♥️

[@JohnnyNorfolk]

Proper church music very well performed. Thanks for posting.

[@brianaw111]

Oh what memories, I sung this many times as a Soprano chorister back in the 1950's and then years later I sung a version written for Male Voice Choir, as a Baritone, I can still sing it from memory all these years later.

[@davidobrien9115]

Me too, at St Marys church in Luton in the eighties. It was the default song to be sung at weddings about half way through the ceremony and was guaranteed to make the bride cry.

[@MonikaCosson]

Complete perfection! I've died and gone to heaven.

[@florencexu8628]

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[@NickMVining]

Thank-you for posting this. I takes me right back to my school days when it was sung at the end of evensong in the chapel. I have not found another recording of such beauty and simplicity.

[@strengthenyourfaith]

I had the same experience!

[@mortonbelcher]

Wonderful! A suitable volume, a suitable speed, and and excellent blending of the singers... Thanks for sharing... Greetings from a citizen of the USA!

[@doreenmsnightingale7290]

Memories...little country chapel Shropshire, Sunday School Anniversary, we opened with this! 1950's.

[@susichie]

Beautiful! Good childhood memories of church choral music because I learned this in my children's choir at church when I was very young.

[@jerrie1935]

So beautiful.

[@dsmith4430]

best recording on youtube. Thank you for the beautiful treatment of this piece!

[@patricktimperley2118]

In my view this is the finest rendition of this piece available online, very lovely, and moving, and evocative - thank you so much!!

[@brookeggleston9314]

I would love to hear the Cambridge Singers do this piece! I would also like to hear it done with alto and soprano soloists, with choir, as it was originally performed.

[@ShelaghBluebell]

I love this anthem, so beautiful in it's simplicity of words but incredibly affecting in its variations of harmony. I sang this in a choir many years ago and will never tire of hearing renditions like this one, for the rest of my life. Thank you!

[@theonlycontessa]

Astoundingly great sound.

[@joshuavirender]

Beautiful and well balanced choir..............a big thanks to the Choir, Organist and the conductor.............God bless you all and keep performing.

[@ronninj]

Superb...sung today, All Saints Day by us - Lancaster Cathedral Ladies Choir. I so enjoyed your beautiful rendition here.

[@saraj132]

Have been lead to this rendition via a link on the newsletter of St Barbaras Church, Earlsdon Coventry. One of my most favourite hymns. Less is more..

[@christinecleal1352]

How lovely for these young people to have and use such talent! Doesn't sound much like we do it in Hermanus.

[@charverz]

Practiced it this week with our church choir. Excellent baritone/bass section.

[@jrfyt]

Thank you. Very beautiful blending of your voices and tempo.

[@fpsaraiva]

Beautiful!! 🙏🏻

[@mhastenreiter6291]

"Lead Me, Lord", Samuel Sebastian Wesley 1 Lead me, Lord, lead me in thy righteousness, make thy way plain before my face. For it is thou, Lord, thou, Lord only, that makest me dwell in safety. 2 Teach me, Lord, teach me truly how to live, that I may come to know thee, and in thy presence serve thee with gladness, and sing songs of praise to thy glory.

[@zxzllamazxz]

Simply beautiful! Thank you so much for uploading this.

[@noddy33]

Ah David Crown... was our conductor when i was in Reading Phoenix Choir. I miss that earnest expression and precise conducting. Legend.

[@ChrisSmith-xh9wb]

I have loved this sing since I first encountered it many years ago at a training course for the newly established Alpha Course at Holy Trinity Brompton. I have rarely sung it since , which is a shame. It should be a mainstay of all church worship repertoires.

[@salzwell25]

This touched my spirit.

[@carolclanton416]

incredibly beautiful!

[@choirman57]

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Thank you so much for sharing. Keep Singing! :)

[@georgewiley8630]

Lovely, lovely. Thank you.

[@popsfashions309]

Excellent!

[@TaylorRaborn]

A majestic and moving performance- thank you for sharing. It's a fine piece of music: our choir sang this at St. Barnabas on the Desert in Scottsdale, AZ this morning.

[@misssarahashplant31]

Beautiful

[@garyshermer]

Very beautiful. Thank you.

[@PoeCompany]

Thank you for sharing

[@stephenonomo4416]

Amazing 🎼 Lead me lord in thy righteousness. Amen👏.

[@7OrionBelt7]

This brings back many fond memories.

[@GeorgiosZaimis]

Awesome performance!

[@vocalcoachadonis]

Gorgeous interpretation! Seems like this is never done with a reverant tempo and dynamic contrast as this. Thanks!

[@Feathe3642]

So peaceful and beautiful ! 💕Thanks for posting this

[@merri-toddwebster2473]

A lovely, lovely performance.

[@7OrionBelt7]

One of my favourite hymns by Wesley.

[@adekolaadedeji128]

Marvellous!

[@lorettamahe6808]

beautiful

[@sdjacare]

Parabéns! Jovens talentosos, uma linda execução!

[@stephend7420]

Very nicely done. Thank you!

[@popsfashions309]

Great Job!

[@jacquimoran6312]

My first alto solo in 1992.

[@brookeggleston9314]

Mine in 1968!!✨✨✨

[@LoisAndersen]

just lovely ...honey for my heart

[@EnsembleVocalWesley]

Hey this is good!

[@ShirinAlbert]

Lovely...

[@garywait3231]

Having often both sung and conducted this lovely anthem, I find the tempo here a bit slow, but appreciate the excellent sound of this choir.

[@TheRuby47]

Best traditional english choir music I like it

[@raymondhorton9668]

Lovely!

[@enockboahen9227]

You have led me Heaven in thee. Magnificent performance

[@bruceyoung8073]

Just divine!

[@angeloterosgonzalez2201]

Gloria bendita sea el Señor con todos ustedes, grandes creyentes. Sinónimo de virtud es Salud, física y mental.

[@mwkoskamp1]

brilliant, beautiful

[@emmaier8478]

thanks a lot!

[@kateydempsey8894]

Melodic and moving

[@isaacsureshkumar8720]

An Alto solo?

[@brookeggleston9314]

Followed by a soprano solo after the choir repeats the alto text!✨ It was my first alto solo at St George's in the Stockade, in 1968.

[@anamjac6940]

Well said

[@ChristisKingOverMyLife]

Brings back memories.

[@URCDigitalWorship]

Might I use this lovely recording in an online service of the United Reformed Church in August? We have the necessary licences.

[@somervillechoir]

Yes, that's fine as long as you credit the performers (The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford; Robert Pecksmith, organist; David Crown, conductor) and/or include a link to the original video.

[@andybraunston4694]

@@somervillechoir many thanks! I will

[@doreenmsnightingale7290]

Lovely, slightly slow. We did it years ago in a Sunday School Anniversary in Shropshire, a village chapel. However I am a little worried about the 'safety' bit, ok but............similar to 'Praise my soul the king of heaven' -- 'rescues us from all our foes' I never sing that bit!!

[@Markofrespect]

I guess Wesley used safety in the same way as Rupert Brookes did: “Safety” a poem by Rupert Brooke Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest He who has found our hid security, Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest, And heard our word, "Who is so safe as we?" We have found safety with all things undying, The winds, and morning, tears of men and mirth, The deep night, and birds singing, and clouds flying, And sleep, and freedom, and the autumnal earth. We have built a house that is not for Time's throwing. We have gained a peace unshaken by pain for ever. War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

[@doreenmsnightingale7290]

Lovely thank you.

[@Lexicop2]

Wesley took the text from Psalms 4 and 5, v. 8 in each case. "Safety" was David's term (4:8; Hebrew "betach": security, safety), so perhaps you should address your worry to him.

[@Lexicop2]

Wesley took the text, including "safety," from Psalm 4:8 (opening of anthem from 5:8), so I guess he used it as David used it.

[@doreenmsnightingale7290]

Beautiful.

[@darcybrummett7004]

This is exactly how my Church choir sings it.

[@fenellawarden7148]

😊

[@tfbot214]

How slow is this !?!?!?!?!?!

[@aberjed]

agreed the tempo is a tad on the slow side

[@jseiver]

It's supposed to be this speed, haven't you ever heard this song before?

[@TomBradleyOfficial]

What arrangement is this?

[@somervillechoir]

It's Lionel Dakers' edition from "The New Church Anthem Book" (Oxford University Press, 1994).

[@amaresmohamedi2017]

ohh dam that was good ohh omg

[@amaresmohamedi2017]

😢😢

[@musicteachjw]

The first hymn I remember at Howard University chapel-/ 1953-4. I was 4

[@guylaurie819]

Wow - absolutely faultless.

[@vocalcoachadonis]

I'm sorry, but this conductor must conduct this group at gunpoint because they are so very well-behaved! lol I'm sort of jealous! :-)

[@TheChorister51]

Just well disciplined.

[@emmaier8478]

Male singer in the first row... farthest to the right... is that you, Orly Watson? I sang with you in Univ College's performance of Mozart's Coronation Mass in the winter of 2012. Ed Whitehead, my former Hertford College Choir choirmaster, knows you... I'm on Facebook. Wishing you all the best.

[@orangeblubber2181]

A quintessential English hymn....

[@jackcharlesdoublebassist3617]

Altos with the exposition: lee me law (gibberish) Full choir: lead me law (heresy; whom Paul said were foolish Galatians whom had returned to the law) Consonants matter!!

[@edwardchalmers7070]

The emergency anthem! (When the planned anthem wasn’t up to scratch) RMS 1970’s

[@johnholmes912]

a tad on the slow side

[@lloyddaniel2532]

It sounds very Protestant! Lovely!

[@williamwaynflete6336]

It sounds very Catholic! Lovely!

[@lloyddaniel2532]

And yet it's Wesley's music, ironic, isn't it...

[@missasinenomine]

Psalm 5:8 + 4:8b

[@hughmackay5925]

As I expected. Dignified and proper English church music. Modern writers of drivel take note

[@aberjed]

When it comes to choral writing , Wesley is the equal of mendelsohn

[@benjamin-hughmackay2094]

Yes, many would think so, including me. This anthem is just sublime. Short and simple, yet very effective.

[@Lexicop2]

You might also hold him the equal of Mendelssohn.

[@georgesopdeweegh5036]

Hugh Mackay h

[@lacase111]

Great performance and hymn, but no music performed with a sincere heart as worship to God is drivel, modern or otherwise.

[@barbarahd3130]

Cherubini credo

[@barbarahd3130]

2:25

[@barbarahd3130]

Cherubini credo

[@barbarahd3130]

Cherubini credo.

[@viluz26vivs57]

Katsuaki Knocked Kingdom

[@clam0391]

Nice to hea Nice to hear the singing; but choirs look and sound better when they are not holding books. This is a short and easy piece that every memberof this choir can memorise without difficulty

[@grabarnahamarby8000]

Gttret

[@bobsmodelrailways]

Lovely piece. A bit flat from the sopranos; a bit tired, I suspect. Nice pace.

[@gsteward2688]

So slow

[@viluz26vivs57]

Lead me lord dang uanrod Jesus nuaroh from Kuya kanzcusy Raboadamin Wodduaki Bongheksoevethe respecting

[@roisinmc7442]

Beautiful