
I Vow to Thee, My Country: Performance and original piano arrangement by Kate Kwok (2015)
Composed (1921) by Gustav Holst & Sir Cecil Spring Rice
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Copyright Information
The composition is in the public domain; however, the copyrights to the recording and arrangement are held by Kate Kwok.
The composition is in the public domain because it was written in 1921 and the composers, Gustav Holst and Sir Cecil Spring Rice died in 1934 and 1918, respectively). However, if you use this song, you may get false matches in Content ID systems (like that used by YouTube) to other existing recordings. You should appeal false matches by providing information showing that the COMPOSITION is in the public domain (the year the song was written and the years the composers died) and showing that you are allowed to use this specific original recording and original arrangement (you can do this by giving the link to this video as well as the link to the featured guest series (shown at the top of the description).
Gustav Holst based this song on the Jupiter movement of his symphonic work 'The Planets'.
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Recording Information
The song was recorded on 3 August 2015 at the Creative Media Studio at SKH Lam Woo Memorial Secondary School in Hong Kong (Kate is wearing the school's summer uniform). Music recording and video recording and production by longzijun.
More videos by Kate
She has arranged and recorded Feast of Starlight by Howard Shore (from the sountrack to the Hobbit):
She has also recording a cover of Taylor Swift's Breathe
Cover version:
Piano-only karaoke track:
As Kate mentions at the end of the video the song is well known in Hong Kong because of a recent advertising campaign (The Path of Love series) by Solvil et Titus.