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Track(s) taken from CDP12105

Thine be the glory – Maccabaeus

First line:
Thine be the glory
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Wells Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer (conductor), Rupert Gough (organ)
Recording details: November 2003
Wells Cathedral, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: August 2004
Total duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor), Robert Quinney (organ)

Reviews

‘The Wells Cathedral Choir again shows its stuff—and it's glorious … because of this choir's sturdy, full-bodied singing, both exuberant and reverent, and its natural, sensible, unaffected phrasing and enunciation. Hymn lovers need no encouragement or further discussion; these inspiring texts and timeless tunes speak for themselves’ (Classics Today)
The history of this hymn is entirely bound up with the tune. John Wesley mentions its use for a hymn in 1787. Handel only wrote three hymn tunes, all for Charles Wesley’s words, one of which, to ‘Rejoice the Lord is King’ has become very popular. This tune, however, was planned to appear in Handel’s oratorio Joshua (1747) but he transferred it to Judas Maccabaeus (1746) where it became the chorus ‘See the conquering hero comes’. There was a German Advent hymn to the tune by Friedrich-Heinrich Ranke. Budry, who was from French-speaking Switzerland wrote his hymn ‘A toi la gloire, O Ressuscité’ for the tune in 1884. Richard Hoyle translated it in 1923 for the first edition of Cantate Domino, the hymn book of the World Student Christian Movement, in which circles it became very popular. It first appeared in a British hymn book in the Methodist Hymn Book 1933, and few hymn books are now without it.

It is based on the gospel accounts of the Resurrection, with a passing allusion to Thomas’ doubt in verse 3. The repeated ‘victory’ can be traced to St Paul in 1 Corinthians 15: 57—‘But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.’

from notes by Alan Luff © 2004

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Rejoice, the Lord is king!
Studio Master: CDA68013Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
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