Your Favourite English Anthem

[MrGongGong]

Caleb Jarvis wrote things?

He wrote quite a few settings of text and some organ pieces as well as
the Mass for the inauguration of the Liverpool Metropolitan cathedral

[jean]

I should have known that - but I only knew him as a choral director some people didn't like very much.

I don't think the Met performs his mass much these days. Is it any good?

[Chris Watson]

I don't think Harris Faire is the Heaven has been mentioned.

I think I covered that one! I'm always fascinated, by the way, by the number of years between Faire and Bring Us.

[MrGongGong]

I should have known that - but I only knew him as a choral director some people didn't like very much.

I don't think the Met performs his mass much these days. Is it any good?

We used to sing it every week in the choir I was in (he was the organist) so it was a bit "overdone"
I'll look it out again and see
He taught me music theory and I wasn't aware that he wasn't liked by some , to me (as a 13 year old) he was a slightly eccentric and softly spoken chap.

[ahinton]

Harris Faire? Dunno about that. Ferris Tile's the one for me; it ought to be the National Anthem (at least until Scotland goes independent, if indeed it does).

[Finzi4ever]

Lo, the full final, (well I would choose that first, wouldn't I?)
For lo, I raise up, & I saw the Lord - both for lines like: "I will stand upon my watch" & "and his train filled the temple".
The big Elgar ones, Give unto, Great is & Spirit of the Lord.
Parry Songs of Farewell & the Greene version of Lord let me know mine end.
Boyce verse anthems like, O where shall Wisdom & By the Waters
Bring us,
And I saw,
viri Gallilei

Anyone else liked themed evensongs?
Ayleward Responses
Brewer in D
Crossing the Bar
Ho, every one that Thirsteth
Weinen, Klagen ...

I think you get the idea & you might want to add some Brahms to go with the Liszt voluntary

let's hear some more ideas, albeit in a new thread if appropriate

[Hitch]

I don't dip a toe into the Choir Forum very often as I know there are people here much more knowledgeable than I am but I thought I'd start a thread on the English anthem some of which were great favourites during my time as a chorister in the 1960s.

My all time favourite is O Thou the Central Orb by Charles Wood. It was a terrific sing as a treble and it's still a firm favourite as a listener.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-XVJK_f4uA

What other favourites and memories are there out there?

This excellent thread led me to trip over O Thou the Central Orb by Orlando Gibbons, a work unknown to the Hitch household. The Amen is transcendental.

[Nick Armstrong]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the anthem which (to mix a range of metaphors) completely dissolved my sang-froid and reduced me to rubble more than any other ever has (it was in the final Evensong of my undergraduate life) was Edgar Bainton's "And I Saw a New Heaven".

Still a huge favourite (along with many others mentioned here).

[moeranbiogman]

Vox Dicentis - Naylor
Just love those fanfare-like chords on 'clamavi!'

[Nick Armstrong]

Vox Dicentis - Naylor

Yes, that's shivered my timbers more than once!

[Rolmill]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the anthem which (to mix a range of metaphors) completely dissolved my sang-froid and reduced me to rubble more than any other ever has (it was in the final Evensong of my undergraduate life) was Edgar Bainton's "And I Saw a New Heaven".

Ahem, see my post #22 - but you're welcome to share it

May I also second Finzi4ever's choice of Maurice Greene's "Lord let me know mine end", hauntingly lovely.

Has anyone yet picked Tallis's "If you love me"? 2 minutes of perfect simplicity.

[chitreb]

There's not much already listed that doesn't still thrill me.
My own top anthems that come to mind are:
Bring us O Lord God - Harris
Beati quorum via - Stanford
Te Lucis Ante Terminum - Balfour Gardiner
Let all mortal flesh - Bairstow
Blessed be the God and Father - Wesley
Veritas mea - George Malcolm

[Nick Armstrong]

Ahem, see my post #22 - but you're welcome to share it

[BBMmk2]

This is rather difficult! I will post later!

[alycidon]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ [Wesley]