Choral Evening Prayer from Buckfast Abbey, Devon 22.vii. 2015

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  • DracoM
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    • Mar 2007
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    Choral Evening Prayer from Buckfast Abbey, Devon 22.vii. 2015

    Choral Evening Prayer from Buckfast Abbey, Devon
    Exon Singers

    Feast of St Mary Magdalene


    Order of Service:



    Introit: When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house (Tallis)
    Responses: Plainsong
    Office Hymn: Sing we all the joys and sorrows (Plainsong)
    Psalms 30, 32, 63 (Plainsong, Purcell)
    First Lesson: Zephaniah 3: 14-20
    Canticle: God be merciful unto us (James Burton)
    Second Lesson: John 20: 11-18
    Homily: The Rt Revd Dom David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast
    Magnificat (James Burton) - first performance
    Lord's Prayer (Léon Charles) - first performance
    Motet: Ave Maria (Palestrina)
    Final Hymn: Mary, weep not, weep no longer (Tantum ergo)


    Organ Voluntary: Scherzo (Duruflé)


    Jeffrey Makinson (Organist)
    Richard Wilberforce (Director of Music)
  • jean
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    • Nov 2010
    • 7100

    #2
    I don't care for what they're doing to the plainsong.

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    • mopsus
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      • Nov 2010
      • 829

      #3
      I presume the reason for doing the Purcell in C major was so as not to have too low an alto part. When I sang with the Exon Singers they used to several counter-tenors alongside women altos. What is the balance this year?

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      • DracoM
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        • Mar 2007
        • 12993

        #4
        Originally posted by jean View Post
        I don't care for what they're doing to the plainsong.
        How would you like it done, jean?

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        • Op. XXXIX
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 189

          #5
          Enjoyed the service, particularly the opening Tallis.

          Interesting to hear the final hymn. (I have run across the tune in another hymnal where it was called 'Corinth'.) Perhaps some organists here would agree that it is a bit awkward to play!

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          • jean
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            • Nov 2010
            • 7100

            #6
            Originally posted by DracoM View Post
            How would you like it done, jean?
            My comment referred not to the plainsong they did straight, but to the Canticle, which I now see was a composed piece based on a plainsong psalm tone rather than a psalm tone with added drone. Either way, I'm afraid I didn't like it much.

            The Tallis Salvator Mundi should sound passionate and yearning, which it hardly could with such matter-of-fact words.

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