CE The King’s Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle [L] 22.v.24

[DracoM]

CE The King’s Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle [L] 22.v.24

Order of Service:

Responses: Howells
Psalm 136 vv1-12 (Atkins)
First Lesson: Job 3 vv1-26
Magnificat: Latin Magnificat in B flat Op 164 (Stanford)
Second Lesson: Romans 2 vv1-16
Nunc Dimittis: Wood in B flat
Anthem: I saw the Lord (Matthew Martin)
Final responses: Ferial (Naylor)

Voluntary: Flourish for an Occasion (Harris)

Luke Bond (Assistant Director of Music)
James Vivian (Director of Music)

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3 p.m.

[James Vivian]

I hope it is tomorrow else they will be singing without me...

[DracoM]

R3 schedule states it is CE on 22.v.24 @ 3 p.m. Unequivocally..................!

[justanorganist]

....which is tomorrow....today is 21.v.24....at least for another 15 minutes or so........ unequivocally.....

[Pulcinella]

I wonder if Draco lives in a different time zone to the rest of Cumbria/UK?
That might explain why the weather he reports is never what the BBC site predicts.

[DracoM]

Cumbria is very odd geographically and ref weather: western coasts wracked by fierce Irish Sea winds and gales, it's often first landfall in England for most / many trans-Atlantic broken / breaking complications, the hills / mountains of Cumbria can be sharp, high with plateaux / channels that slope / accelerate/ switchback gales, rain / snow.

The BBC's forecasts include ' North West ' - which we here cynically reckon reveals the weather solely for the streets leading to / from cafes / shops etc for BBC studios / weather 'experts' to live out their days.

[DracoM]

Dislike the CE: it was above all a CONCERT - yes, very decently sung and played, but fundamentally a concert.

[jonfan]

This ticked all my boxes today. Terrific singing, the Stanford Mag Wow! A CE of the year so far for me. Thank you!

[Choral Enthusiast]

The choir and organist were brilliant from start to finish. I really needed that after reading the sad news of SJV and the sad goings on at Winchester Cathedral. This service, and the standard throughout, was a reminder of why our choirs are such precious assets.

Thank you to everyone at St.George's Chapel, Windsor

[smittims]

I thought the anthem: 'I saw the Lord', by Matthew Martin, a splendid piece, much better than many a contemporary work by some better-known and more highly-praised Radio3 composers .

[Finzi4ever]

This ticked all my boxes today. Terrific singing, the Stanford Mag Wow! A CE of the year so far for me. Thank you!

St George's up to its very best; every bit as brilliant as the Christopher Robinson era.

[Chris Watson]

Dislike the CE: it was above all a CONCERT - yes, very decently sung and played, but fundamentally a concert.

Define Concert

[Pulcinella]

Define Concert

I don't want to put words into Draco's mouth as he's perfectly able to respond himself, but I think that at least part of the problem is the enforced BBC presentation style, which does indeed give the impression of a concert rather than a liturgical (and regular) event that you just happen to be listening into.
So perhaps more a criticism of that than of the service/singing itself?

[DracoM]

Yes: presented as if a concert, and I very specifically complimented the singing etc.