Jerusalem by Hubert Parry

OK, with a piece I want to share today things seem complicated: my life for it, hardly one of a hundred musicologists would know what I mean, presenting the fact that one famous stamp-collector, a few of whose findings can be found under the bulletproof glass, once said this song is a better national anthem than the one already established in his country. As all of this resembles rather a convoluted plot of a film like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia than something to intrigue a rapt pianist or vocalist, I will say differently: a piece I’m talking about is Jerusalem by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry and that stamp-collector is no one other than George V who was a King of the United Kingdom back in days.

With lyrics taken from William Blake’s poem, Jerusalem is a very special song – it has been unofficial hymn of England for decades. Download it here: Jerusalem (And did Those Feet in Ancient Time).