What is your favourite hymn? (thread borrowed from Mumsnet)

Yes, you got the right one, duppy. It is BWV 78. Now all we need for the proper sound is a boys' choir and the accompaniment on a harpsichord. ;-)

Baggy oh yes! God save the king! And green, yes we used to sing that on remembrance Sunday . I always had difficulty with the last line
And we shall meet again!

Granny-a that is beautiful. So sad.

Glad to see you back. Hope you pick up soon.

There are some beautiful pictures on this video of the Handel coronation one.

Kings really looked liked kings back in history, didn't they?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj65u_VY0uM&feature=fvwrel

Of coursejingle grannya probably wont know who whatis is.

Sorry not very good grammar

Marvellous video thanks

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkObnNQCMtM

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings. Choral.

I find this the most stunning piece of music.

It's not a hymn though - hope you don't mind whatsup

She will now.
Thank you Glass.

Ohhh its not a secret is it jingle (foot in mouth)

Butternut that link doesn't work. Think they must have taken that down from you tube.

Never mind. I've found a really nice one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g

No - course it's not Glass! That didn't come out quite right did it?!

I meant "thank you". Like, really. See?

I gotta knock off here now. My head is going a bit funny.

My head went funny years ago

Thanks for that link, whatsup. Lovely.

What a pity the other one didn't work - it is the Coral which I most adore.

Oh, I didn't mean to put a really sad one like that.

I only looked at the David Beckham bit.

Sorry for the downer.

Here is the choral one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkObnNQCMtM

Jing. I think that's wrong!

Effblinder that is one of my favourites too! For hymns I like 'God Be in My Head' (very short but beautiful - we used to sing it at the end of the school day) and 'All People that on Earth do Dwell'. I do love a good hymn but don't like modern church music, I'm afraid. Bit set in my ways.

Found it and just downloaded it, whatsup.

Nice thread.

For Artygran. Sung by the best.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qif2rfBmcTA

Drawing back the curtains I think of ,"Lo, already on the hills,
The flags of dawn appear"
Why are modern hymns so banal and the words don't fit the tune?
Give me Hymns A & M every time.

Can't find one with voices singing, but this is a music only version apricot

www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/h/thykcobk.htm

remember school assembly,singing 'Eternal father,strong to save ----for those in peril on the sea'.Always a few tears because in wartime some girls had fathers at sea.
Also 'I vow to thee my country'
Was in a church choir in my teens.
I like 'Be still my soul' Is that Finlandia (Sibelius)?
and the easter hymns with lots of Allelulias.