Video Information

• Choir: RSCM course in Canterbury
• Piece: Blest pair of sirens
• Composer:  Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
• Conductor:  Martin How
• Voices:  SATB and organ
• Genres: Classical, Sacred, Cathedral Music
• Introduction by Martin How, followed by
  Blest Pair of Sirens by C H H Parry
  
  Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy,
  Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse,
  Wed your divine sounds, and mixed pow'r employ,...  moreIntroduction by Martin How, followed by
  Blest Pair of Sirens by C H H Parry
  
  Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy,
  Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse,
  Wed your divine sounds, and mixed pow'r employ,
  Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce;
  And to our high-raised phantasy present
  That undisturbed song of pure content,
  Aye sung before the sapphire-coloured throne
  To Him that sits thereon,
  With saintly shout, and solemn jubilee,
  Where the bright Seraphim in burning row
  Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow,
  And the Cherubic host in thousand quires
  Touch their immortal harps of golden wires,
  With those just Spirits that wear victorious palms,
  Hymns devout and holy psalms
  Singing everlastingly:
  That we on earth with undiscording voice
  May rightly answer that melodious noise;
  As once we did, till disproportioned sin
  Jarred against nature's chime, and with harsh din
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