CE Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 24th February 2016

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of King's College, Cambridge



Order of Service:



Organ Prelude: Vater unser in Himmelreich BWV 683 (Bach)
Introit: Herr, gedenke nicht (Mendelssohn)
Responses: Byrd
Psalm 119: 1-32 (Atkins, Hayes)
First Lesson: Job 1: 6-22
Deutsches Magnificat (Schütz)
Second Lesson: Luke 21 v.34 - 22 v.6
Nunc Dimittis quarti toni (Palestrina)
Anthem: Denn alles Fleisch (German Requiem - Brahms)


Organ Voluntary: Duetto II BWV 803 (Bach)



Organ Scholars: Tom Etheridge and Richard Gowers
Director of Music: Stephen Cleobury

[Nick Armstrong]

Ohne the big one.....

[DracoM]

Have to say this seems in some parts slightly odd repertoire for KCC. Alongside Byrd and Palestrina, we have Mendelssohn, Brahms.........?
Do they have a new CD coming out?

[ardcarp]

Maybe a German theme? OK, Byrd and Palestrina, but then Schutz didn't oblige with a Deutsches Nunc, and AFAIK there aren't any Deutsches Responsorien*.

Anyway, I don't mind a mix-and-match CE.


*Before anyone finds some...and there are some....nothing that begin, O Herr öffnen du unsere Lippen.

[PeterboroughDiapason]

I wonder if the Brahms will be accompanied by piano duet.

[ardcarp]

I recently (well 2 years ago) heard the German Requiem done in the four-handed version. I was expecting not to like it, but was surprised how effective it was...not as a replacement for the full monty, but as a valid alternative. Apart from anything else, extremely handy for a choral society strapped for cash.

[Nevilevelis]

Re. the Brahms, it's right in the middle Cleobury's comfort zone. He recorded it some years ago with the chapel choir in the piano duet accomp. version. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deutsches-Re.../dp/B000I2JGEG

With the organ out of action, it's a perfect opportunity for it to resurface.

Interesting programme - looking forward to it.

NVV

[Wolsey]

[QUOTE=Caliban;542516] Ohne the big one.....

Facebook members should look here for more pictures of work on the 'big one'.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[DracoM]

Hmm.
Well...............personally not sure that was a terribly wise idea, but I shall be very interested in posters' reactions.

[jean]

Really did not care for the pianos, though I love them in the Rossini.

[ardcarp]

Chacun, etc. The arrangement was Brahms' own. Quite a novelty for CE. I haven't had a chance to listen yet, apart from a few snippets, so am unable to comment on the result!

[ardcarp]

I enjoyed this broadcast very much. It may come as something of a jolt to hear a piano in CE, but (as I mentioned in an earlier post) I find Brahms' own arrangement (4 hands, one piano) an effective alternative. The text seemed an entirely appropriate choice for Lent and I thought the choir acquitted itself well. I wish SC had not pushed the Palestrina Nunc along quite so fast. It was not perhaps quite different enough in character from the Mag (fulfilled old man Simeon cf ecstatic young Mary) but I felt the choir acquitted itself well in some varied and quite demanding music.

[Op. XXXIX]

It may come as something of a jolt to hear a piano in CE, but (as I mentioned in an earlier post) I find Brahms' own arrangement (4 hands, one piano) an effective alternative.

I knew about the Brahms arrangement for piano four hands, but confess that I had never heard any of it. A pleasant surprise, very affecting, almost mystical in its understatement.

Wonderful broadcast, thanks King's!

[jonfan]

Very enjoyable throughout. Was the miking closer to the singers than usual? The piano version of the Brahms is more suited to a less resonant acoustic; the piano sound just gets lost and doesn't support the singers properly. A fiendishly difficult chorus to keep in tune even in ideal conditions. Was occasional sour intonation because the singers couldn't hear the accompaniment? Long live the organ!