Rejoice with gladness evermore

    It's been ages since we had any music on the blog, but Poulenc's Gloria was on the radio at breakfast this morning, and as it's so spirit-raising I thought I'd offer you a recording of the first part. (You can find the whole work here.)

    Then at Magdalen recently the choir sang the anthem Holy is the True Light by William Harris. I can't find a Magdalen recording, but here it is sung as beautifully by Christ Church Cathedral Choir.

Edited to add: apologies for the videos not appearing - all looked fine in draft and preview, but when I published the post something went haywire and the embedded clips were not right at all! I'll try to get them back, but the links above should work for now.

Later: the embedding seems to be working now, but I'll leave in the links for good measure.

Comments

[Georgina]

Thank you for the Poulenc. Uplifting indeed, as is his organ concerto, which always stops me in my tracks.

[Cornflower]

You're welcome, Georgina, and I like his organ concerto too.

[Lila]

Beautiful and uplifting!