CE Guildford Cathedral: Wed, 18th June 2014

[Miles Coverdale]

Are they still from Lanesborough?

When I was there it was a combination of Lanesborough and the Royal Grammar School.

[chitreb]

Are they still from Lanesborough?

Quote from the Cathedral website:
"The boy choristers of the Cathedral Choir are all educated at Lanesborough School, the choir school for Guildford Cathedral."

[DracoM]

As I thought, then.
They sounded in robust good health.

[Keraulophone]

Perhaps it is a little surprising that the 'very special clergyman', being one of the foremost experts on the English church organ, and author of 'The making of the Victorian organ', should have chosen to be a residentiary canon of a cathedral not especially noted for its own instrument, although at its heart does indeed lie a Victorian organ from a Baptist church in Shipley, Yorkshire.

[Beancounter]

Not sure I buy that logic: parts of the Middle East weren't ravingly Christian till certain disciples and their Messiah turned up

[Triforium]

Well done everyone!

When I was there it was a combination of Lanesborough and the Royal Grammar School.

Same here, but most were from Lanesborough.

[ardcarp]

A late post, I'm afraid, due to broadband problems, but may I just say what a fine CE that was from Guildford? The repertoire was brave for a live broadcast and I thought they acquitted themselves with distinction. I have never heard Guildford 'in the flesh', so to speak, but thinking back to previous broadcasts I think this was the best.

[Finzi4ever]

Quite agree: I really enjoyed this and have probably LA-ed more to this one than many others recently.

[mopsus]

We did rather get the 'clergyman's voice' in the prayers, but sometimes the spoken voices in CE are actually hard on the ear, which I find worse. And at least he didn't use the phrase 'week by week' which I hear only in sermons, but in about half of the sermons I hear. Or 'becoming the person God intended us to be' which is the popular phrase of the moment.