CE Chapel of King's College, London Wed, 17th June 2015

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of King's College, London



Order of Service:



Introit: Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui (Palestrina)
Responses: Gareth Wilson
Psalm 89 (Wilson, Hogins, Wathorn)
First Lesson: Judges 6: 6-16
Canticles (Gareth Wilson)
Second Lesson: Matthew 5: 13-24
Anthem: Ego flos campi (Clemens non Papa)
Hymn: All my hope on God (Michael)


Organ Voluntary: Organ Sonata - Allegro giocoso - second movement (Bairstow)



Senior Organ Scholar: Graham Thorpe
Director of Music: Gareth Wilson

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[ardcarp]

I enjoyed this CE from a very accomplished chamber choir. Here we had an example of singers with mature-sounding voices blending [dare I use the word?] and balancing to make a most pleasing ensemble.. David Trendell must have been a hard act to follow, but Gareth seems to have stepped in in exemplary fashion. I enjoyed his canticles too...challenging range for the sopranos....which were refreshingly novel.

[DracoM]

Big sing, LONG psalms, not quite 15th evening, but weighty.
Top heavy, BUT the top were good and carried everything.

[ardcarp]

Off topic, but VCC will be like a cat with the cream next week. St Albans

[Op. XXXIX]

Must say that I REALLY enjoyed this broadcast. By the psalm I was hooked.

Thank-you King's College, London!

[subcontrabass]

Off topic, but VCC will be like a cat with the cream next week. St Albans

And it is advertised as "Boys and men" on the Cathedral website

[mopsus]

If you enjoyed the sound of this choir you might like this lunchtime recital by the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir conducted by Paul Spicer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xq9lb . It includes the Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor and Finzi's Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice. I was particularly impressed by the diction in the Finzi. [Disclaimer: I sang with this choir a couple of times in 2014]

[ardcarp]

I heard it too when it went out. Indeed a warm sound and a well-directed choir. Personally I like the VW Mass to sound a bit more 'ethereal', but they made a good job of it.