CE St Pancras Wed 14th May

[DracoM]

CE St Pancras
London Festival of Modern Church Music



Order of Service**:



Introit: Come, let us sing for joy / Antony Pitts
Responses: Leon Charles
Canticles: St Pancras Canticles / Roxanna Panufnik
Anthem: Anthem for All Saints / Alexander Campkin


Voluntary: Exsultet / Phillip Cooke



** At the time of posting, the BBC Choral Evensong website has no details of the service at all. I have had to get what you see above from the Festival's own website. It did not contain details from the lectionary, nor name the forces singing, nor either conductor or organist. Apologies.

[mercia]

I have this from an online TV & radio guide, but can't vouch for its accuracy


Live from St Pancras Church, as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.

Introit: Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord (Antony Pitts) (first performance).
Responses: Leon Charles (first performance).
Office Hymn: The sad apostles mourn him slain (Solemnis Haec Festivitas).
Psalm: 80 (Christopher Batchelor).
First Lesson: Isaiah 22 vv15-25.
Canticles: St Pancras Service (Roxanna Panufnik) (first performance).
Second Lesson: Acts 1 vv15-26.
Anthem: Palms of glory (Alexander Campkin) (first performance).
Final Hymn: The highest and the holiest place (Matthias) (first performance).
Organ Voluntary: Exsultet (Phillip Cooke) (first performance).

Christopher Batchelor (director of music)
Leon Charles (assistant organist).

[DracoM]

Many, many thanks.

[a] why on earth can't the BBC R3 / website's own 12 yr old apparatchiks support the programmes by checking out such details for us?
And
[b] excuse me, but you just might think that the Festival's own website would hold the details mercia has kindly dug out from another source? I mean, they are supposed to be publicising their own events!!!

Pah!

[subcontrabass]

Many, many thanks.

[a] why on earth can't the BBC R3 / website's own 12 yr old apparatchiks support the programmes by checking out such details for us?
And

The information IS on the Radio 3 website, just not where it is needed. It appears in the "Future Choral Evensong Schedule" at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp7r

[DracoM]

Well, I tried the link you kindly placed for us and it yielded nothing at all except what I had already found, and took me on a circular tour of links. Still, thanks to mercia


As the R3 CE page is currently set up you go round in circles clicking for 'Future programmes from the Festival' back to a CE page that tells you to click this link to 'Future programmes from the Festival' - and that's it. Erm...........??

I was merely trying to alert the BBC authorities [ha!] that they've screwed up. The Festival site has no details of readings, organist names nor conductor, nor what is first performance. Which, to say the least, is a bit odd given that websites are usually there to publicise the events and try to encourage people to take a further interest.

I also tried to email The Choir to tell them............no response.

[mercia]

if you scroll down the page of the link provided by subcontra there is all the information I provided about St Pancras, plus details of the music for 21 & 28 May* plus the locations for CE up to 27th August.

* even more information now, obviously periodically updated

[DracoM]

My thanks.
But, that accepted, as subcontrabass says, the basic fact is that it is not lodged on the Choral Evensong page as upcoming CEs usually are.

[Gabriel Jackson]

The Festival site has no details of readings, organist names nor conductor, nor what is first performance. Which, to say the least, is a bit odd given that websites are usually there to publicise the events and try to encourage people to take a further interest.

Actually it does state which pieces are having their first performances. Is it normal for website to give details of what the lessons are, or who the organist(s) are? Many don't.

[EnzoElgar]

The listing posted by mercia is accurate with the exception of a missing acute accent over the 'e' of Léon Charles' name. Evidently there is a technical glitch with the episode page for this week's broadcast (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0435cbw) which I'm sure will be fixed very shortly now that it has been highlighted.

As subcontrabass has pointed out, the listing can be found on the front page of the Choral Evensong webpages (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp7r). Indeed, this home page carries the episode listings long before the individual episode page appears; in fact, since mercia posted that the listings for May 21st and 28th are available there, the listing for June 4th from Portsmouth Cathedral has also been added.

[DracoM]

Q: will more people comment on the difficulty of getting the details of the CE than talk about what we actually hear?

[EnzoElgar]

I see the episode page has now been corrected: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0435cbw

[DracoM]

Reminder today @ 3.30 p.m.

[DracoM]

Just idly wondering how many of those first perfs would get into the repertoire.

[subcontrabass]

Just idly wondering how many of those first perfs would get into the repertoire.

My thoughts:

Introit possibly - might be more useful as a setting of the Venite at Matins.

Responses possibly

Canticles almost certainly not - they came across to me as concert pieces rather than as something to be used within a liturgical context

Anthem doubtful - nothing remarkable (but that could be said about some of the "standard repertoire")