CE Winchester Cathedral Wed, 11th November 2015

[DracoM]

CE Winchester Cathedral



Order of Service:



Introit: For the Fallen (Guest)
Responses: Clucas
Psalms 59, 60, 61 (Barnby, Wesley, Tomkins)
First Lesson: Micah 4: 1-7
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: Eternal God, before whose throne we stand (Unde et memores)



Organ Voluntary: Fugue in E flat BWV 552 (Bach)



Assistant Director of Music: George Castle
Director of Music: Andrew Lumsden

[Magnificat]

CE Winchester Cathedral



Order of Service:



Introit: For the Fallen (Guest)
Responses: Clucas
Psalms 59, 60, 61 (Barnby, Wesley, Tomkins)
First Lesson: Micah 4: 1-7
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: Eternal God, before whose throne we stand (Unde et memores)



Organ Voluntary: Fugue in E flat BWV 552 (Bach)



Assistant Director of Music: George Castle
Director of Music: Andrew Lumsden

It will be good to hear the Winchester boys and men they haven't broadcast CE on their own for some time now. They always used to be on every year usually at St Swithun's- tide. Recent broadcasts have been as part of the Southern Cathedrals Festival with Salisbury and Chichester, if I remember correctly either live or recorded.

VCC

[DracoM]

Yes, August this year from Southern Cathedrals Festival, so not in their own right since October 2014.

[decantor]

Yes, August this year from Southern Cathedrals Festival, so not in their own right since October 2014.

Forgive if I'm mistaken, Draco, but I believe the Oct 2014 broadcast was from Winchester COLLEGE. The cathedral has not had its own broadcast CE since January 2013, according to my records..... almost three years ago.

By a strange coincidence, the voluntary on that far-off occasion was the Harris Flourish we've just heard from Southwell.

[DracoM]

Correct! Too cursory a check. Mea culpa.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[Simon Biazeck]

Hands up who was blubbing during the anthem? Right when the trumpet came in, for me! Beautifully done and a terrific tenor line up to the A on "prosper thou the work" too.

T & B at the opening of the Nunc were exquisite - engaged with the text and nurturing the sound in every phrase - really classy!

I thoroughly enjoyed all of it, except perhaps for the introit, which although beautifully sung, I have never rated; uneven and sentimental to my ears and not worthy of its apparent staying power. A pity there isn't a better setting out there somewhere - Matthew Martin... ? I may have a go myself!

Don't all shout at once, now!

[mopsus]

Hands up who was blubbing during the anthem? Right when the trumpet came in...

It's a fair cop - guilty as charged. But my favourite evensong broadcast on this date was one from King's Cambridge where they sang the Finzi Mag/Holst Nunc and VW's Valiant-for-Truth.

[ardcarp]

A pity there isn't a better setting out there somewhere

Try this one by Mark Blatchly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtV4Oc_jHY

Expect more blubbing.

It uses the trumpet as well.

[Simon Biazeck]

But my favourite evensong broadcast on this date was one from King's Cambridge where they sang the Finzi Mag/Holst Nunc and VW's Valiant-for-Truth.

Nice!

[Simon Biazeck]

Try this one by Mark Blatchly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtV4Oc_jHY

Expect more blubbing.

It uses the trumpet as well.

Ah, yes, thank you for reminding me. A very fine setting and the best sort of Parry/Stanford-esque pastiche. Very moving indeed and it has that sort of Edwardian stiff upper lip nobility which I think the text requires, but I guess I'm after a full choir setting.

[ardcarp]

But my favourite evensong broadcast on this date was one from King's Cambridge where they sang the Finzi Mag/Holst Nunc and VW's Valiant-for-Truth.

Yes, but we seem to be stealing Winchester's moment! This was a great CE, and I do very much like Howells in G...a most memorable 'tune' in the Mag Gloria. The balance was interesting. It certainly got the solo group in the VW well forward, but elsewhere the choir was a little distant...and the engineers did a few unwelcome cut-backs (e.g. in the Nunc, but in other places too.)

The trebles sounded great...lovely head voices...and they've got some fine sounding ATBs as well.
Thanks Winchester for a devotional and fitting 'Remembrance' service. Oh that the fractious world could take on board the sentiments of the 1st lesson:

Neither shall they learn war any more.

[teamsaint]

Yes, but we seem to be stealing Winchester's moment! This was a great CE, and I do very much like Howells in G...a most memorable 'tune' in the Mag Gloria. The balance was interesting. It certainly got the solo group in the VW well forward, but elsewhere the choir was a little distant...and the engineers did a few unwelcome cut-backs (e.g. in the Nunc, but in other places too.)

The trebles sounded great...lovely head voices...and they've got some fine sounding ATBs as well.
Thanks Winchester for a devotional and fitting 'Remembrance' service. Oh that the fractious world could take on board the sentiments of the 1st lesson:

Neither shall they learn war any more.

Thats a a good sentiment, Ards, but unfortunately the family of the head of the church of England are routinely involved in
Promoting arms sales the world over, so the immediate prospects of a meaningful lead from that direction aren't too good.

[ardcarp]

but unfortunately the family of the head of the church of England are routinely involved in
promoting arms sales the world over,

Really? You mean their swords are bent into another sort of shares? Tell us more.......

[DracoM]

Endorse ardcarp's every word.
Good choir, on the top of its game.