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Fairest Isle, all Isles Excelling, Seat of Pleasures, and of Loves; Venus here, will chuse her Dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian Groves. [4] In Dryden's song, the goddess of love chooses the Isle of Britain over her native Cyprus; in Wesley's hymn divine love itself is asked to choose the human heart as its residence over its native heaven.
Charles Wesley's hymn "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" was first sung to Purcell's music for "Fairest Isle", and in places echoes its lyrics. [8] In 1770, when David Garrick staged a version of King Arthur deprived of many of Purcell's songs, particularly those in the act 5 masques, "Fairest Isle" survived the cuts. [9]
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Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, set to Blaenwern, was sung at the wedding blessing of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles and it was also selected as one of three hymns sung at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, [3] the others being Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer, set to Cwm Rhondda, and Jerusalem.
O Love, I Give Myself to Thee for female chorus and organ; O for a Closer Walk with God for chorus and organ; Then Come, All Ye People, Carol for chorus and accompaniment; The Lord Is My Shepherd for chorus and organ; Love Divine, All Loves Excelling for chorus and organ (1964); from The Good Samaritan; Tantum Ergo, Anthem for bass solo, chorus ...
He also composed several hymn tunes, and some of these are still to be found in Anglican hymnals, with "Love divine, all loves excelling" being popular at wedding services. [17] Other parish music followed with a congregational Te Deum in C which was regularly sung at Magdalen on Sundays and a verse anthem "Sing a song of praise". Two more ...
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Eleven Songs for Susan (2007), for mezzo-soprano & chamber orchestra; Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007), for voice & piano; Songs Old and New (2008), for soprano & orchestra; Four Sonnets of Shakespeare (2008), for tenor & piano; Sonnet 144 (Two Loves I Have) (2010), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, & piano