CE St Luke’s Church, Chelsea, London 30.x.24 [R]

[DracoM]

St Luke’s Church, Chelsea, London 30.x.24[R]
From St Luke’s Church, Chelsea, London.

Order of Service

Introit: Afferentur regi (Bruckner)
Responses: David Trendell
Office hymn: Love divine (Airedale)
Psalms 147, 148, 149, 150 (Stanford, Stanford, Stanford, Stanford)
First Lesson: Baruch 5 1-9
Canticles: Stanford in C
Second Lesson: Mark 1 1-11
Anthem: Ecce sacerdos magnus (Bruckner)
Hymn: The day thou gavest (Joldwynds)

Voluntary: Symphony No 4 in E flat major (Scherzo) (Bruckner, arr. Rupert Jeffcoat and Jeremy Summerly)
Rupert Jeffcoat (Organist)
Jeremy Summerly (Director of Music)

[jonfan]

A good full on Stanford and Bruckner fest. I enjoyed it immensely. Not sure if the Scherzo arrangement for brass and organ worked, but it was certainly fun.

[DracoM]

[Serial_Apologist]

The graveyard at St Luke's was our playground when I was at a local day school aged from 4 to 7. From what I recall the church itself had either been bombed during the war or was ostensibly permanently closed. At any rate I remember it as being in a state of magnificent neglect - it wold have made a great site for a horror movie. The precinct I remember as being tarmaced over, with the gravestones lined up against one of the perimeter walls.

[ostuni]

Andrew Mellor commenting on the broadcast, on X/Twitter today: Playing 'jazz hands' ornaments and reaching for ostentatious, glittery registrations during the psalms is something most of us organists got out of our systems in our early twenties. It trashes the stability and repetition that IS Anglican chant. Yuk.

[mopsus]

The pointing of the Gloria differed in all four psalms (the last one though used Stanford's setting with its extended fourth quarter). A Summerly speciality as he's also done it when broadcasting from Edington.