This is the record of John
Orlando Gibbons Lyrics


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Drop Drop Slow Tears Drop, drop, slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet Which…


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Comments from YouTube:

Lynne Price

I think this has to be one of the greatest English anthems ever composed. It's wonderful when performed with a broken consort, too.

Richard Forshaw

I love the 5 part homophonic sections- there’s an arresting ‘fullness’ about them.Also, wonderful imitative counterpoint throughout.
‘Oh clap your hands’ is a regular in many choirs.
Rodgers Covey- Crump is a ridiculously high tenor with a wonderful name, and such a joy to listen to.

pbrin

Perhaps one of my all time favorite pieces sung by an awesome choir. THANK YOU! I became aware of it mnay years ago when at a choir festival at our Cathedral in Houston. Our soloist was an amateur but superb. It is now embedded in my being.

hbthomson

I grew up at Christ Church Cathedral. What a fine music program!

Carol Mutinda

Beautiful! One of my favourite Advent anthems

F. Hugh Eveleigh

What a glorious anthem by a composer who mastered his craft of marrying words and music so perfectly at a time when English polyphony was at its height.

Mary Kränsel

A favourite hymn (of many) and one of the best recordings of this - thank you!!

Coach Garcia

Along with "Bless the Lord, O My Soul" from Rachmaninoff's "Vespers/All Night Vigil", Gibbons' "This is a Record of John" is the most beautiful few moments of choral music.

RML Bobby D

Beautiful piece with exceptional singing.

Music Teacher

I've just studied this piece for my analysis project as part of my undergraduate degree - it's a wonderful piece. @mattmarcucci1 the music is in the original key (F major) but the score in the video is in the modern printed key (as in the English Church Music series books). It is transposed up a minor third today so to allow for a falsettist to sing the solo part, whereas the original asked for a contratenor - as performed in this version.

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