Alan Green's moment is the best bit!

The 'group' is the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, directed by John Scott - and that can only be in England. The title of the work, the composer, the organist, the date and the fact it was performed during the choirs visit to Holland is all described. Therefore I cannot see what pertinent information is missing - except we don't know the location of the church/cathedral in Holland from which the broadcast came.

Agreed. Especially that feeble effort at 8'20". When we did it when I was a kid the foundations of the cathedral used to shake at this point. :-)

We should not be speculating as the reasons and in particular on the choristers ability - this does him a great disservice.

@@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic Well, something was wrong and whatever caused him to not sing the entire solo was a crying shame! The kid had a gorgeous voice!!

@@brookeggleston9314 I prefer it this way, personally. I've always opted for the 'Love one another' duet to be sung full, otherwise it doesn't balance very well if you have 1 treble vs 25 trebles (as is the case here). Wesley's premiere performance supposedly only had a choir of 10 trebles and 1 bass, so 1 treble vs 9 trebles would provide better balance than in this case.

Unlikely that he "couldn't cut it". But I agree with you that he should have been allowed to carry on the solo as written. The beauty of a solo voice balancing with the other trebles is just wonderful. Furthermore, the section before the treble solo is supposed to be a baritone solo. Over the years I have hear this piece done all kinds of ways: it is a shame it isn't done Wesley's way more often! It was a solo I used to sing when I was a cathedral treble and I am glad that our own Director of Choristers chose not to muck about with it. (And this is a bit slow, in my opinion).