Advent Carols

[bach736]

that (Lloyd's Drop down ye heavens) was my [I]only[I] solo as a chorister - always been a chorus kinda guy!

Lloyd's setting is amazing - and Canterbury are doing it on this Wednesday's CE! Bit high for you though, I would have thought, SS. Anyway, shouldn't you be hibernating by now?

[secret squirrel]

Nearly everything is too high for me nowadays - I've been hibernating for about 4 years, now, in that regard, and otherwise getting prepared for the bleak mid-winter snow (if it ever comes.....!).

[Anna]

we've been having a discussion about advent on the other MB and it seems, general consensus of opinion, that Gibbons' 'This is the Record of John' comes out as the firm favourite of many.

[Don Basilio]

... and I said that hearing it on Sunday, made me think of Purcell in its setting of conversational English.

[DracoM]

Lloyd's "Drop down ye heavens" - yes, forgotten that. Once heard it in Ripon. Wonderful. Do hope we hear it again some Advent.

[Finzi4ever]

Lloyd's "Drop down ye heavens" - yes, forgotten that. Once heard it in Ripon. Wonderful. Do hope we hear it again some Advent.

Was the last sentence ironic, or just written before you posted Wed's music list from Canterbury...?
We were always very happy to sing it at the place of its in/conception.

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't think it's necessarily an Advent piece per se, but I listen to it every year at this time as the nights draw in to the Winter solstice: Bax's amazing setting of "This Worlde's Joie". Haunting Middle English poetry ("Wynter wakeneth al my care, Now thise leves waxeth bare...") from around 1300 apparently, and music which, once under the skin, is unforgettable...

[sigolene euphemia]

Caliban,

This expresses all

"cause a shiver of pleasure and anticipation."

Every year since I walked the aisle as a six/seven year old at the Lutheran church my Swedish Grandpa built in Lusk, Wyoming.

Music through advent delights me and also creates the solemn grandeur of the earth and the stars.


Gloria in excelsis deo
Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis
Laudamus te
Benedicimus te
Adoramus te
Glorificamus te
Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam
Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens
Domine fili unigenite, Jesu Christe
Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius patris
Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis
Qui tollis peccata mundi suscipe deprecationem nostram
Qui sedes ad dexteram patris miserere nobis
Quoniam tu solus sanctus
Tu solus Dominus
Tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe
Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris.
Amen.


Sigolene

[Nick Armstrong]

Sigolene



Caliban

[Lizzie]

I love the Tavener, 'How Shall This Be?'

When our combined Choirs sing it at the Advent Carol Service (last Saturday evening) with a small group at the High Altar beyond the Quire Screen, 'answered by the massed Choir from the West end, the whole back of my neck just prickles.
Very special moments of Advent for me.

Liz

[jean]

But then I stumbled on Jesus Christ the Apple Tree...and was fairly certain that was my favourite...

Listening again to the Advent carol service, I heard a trailer for the Choirand realised they'd done a profile of Elisabeth Poston last Sunday - you've just time to catch it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00w5qty/The_Choir_Eric_Whitacre_Elizabeth_Poston