Easter Day Festal Evensong Worcester Cathedral March 27th 2016

[DracoM]

Easter Day Festal Evensong March 27th 2016
Worcester Cathedral



Order of Service:



Introit: Now let us sing (Ben Parry)
Responses: Philip Moore
Psalm 105 (Attwood, Ley, Woodward, Moorse)
First Lesson: Isaiah 43: 15-21
Canticles: Stanford in B flat
Second Lesson: Luke 24:13-35
Homily: Canon Dr Michael Brierley
Anthem: Light of the World (Elgar)
Hymn: Alleluia, alleluia! hearts to heaven and voices raise (Lux Eoi)
Te Deum in B flat (Stanford)


Organ Voluntary: Acclamations (Langlais)


Christopher Allsop (Organist)
Peter Nardone (Director of Music)

[cjba]

And you can catch our Easter morning Eucharist too, on Radio 4 at 8.10am, on the iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b074vvvx

Introit: Alleluia Psallat (Worcester Fragments)
Hymn: Jesus Christ is risen today
Setting: Little Organ Mass (Haydn)
Gradual: This joyful Eastertide (Wood)
Hymn: I am the light whose brightness shines
Communion: Lord of the Dance (arr. Willcocks)
Hymn: The day of resurrection
Organ: Symphonie VI/Finale (Widor)

Christopher Allsop (Organist)
Peter Nardone (Director of Music)

[ardcarp]

...and very good it was too. I enjoyed Willcocks' 'Lord of the Dance' arrangement and thought, hmm, would I like to be a treble starting it off on a high-ish note at 8 o'clock in the morning after the clocks had gone forward? They did so well. Look forward to CE on i-player.

[jean]

I loved Alleluia Psallat this morning, and was wondering if it deserved a thread of its own, but it fits nicely on this one!

[ardcarp]

Yes, and how unusual for Radio 4 to begin Sunday Worship like that. It had a 'sumer is icumen in' feel to it. Referring back to #3, even worse to be a tenor at that hour in the morning.

[jean]

I presume the music is the choice of the institution itself - some are much more uncompromisingly R3-like than others.

[ardcarp]

A cracking choral evensong for Easter Day! Trebles that can really hit the ceiling with a trad head voice. How good to know that this sort of choir still flourishes.
As an aside, there is a really bizarre picture on Worcester Cathedral's Facebook page of two finely garbed clerics playing croquet on he lawn of the Easter Garden.

https://en-gb.facebook.com/Worcester-Cathedral-131264053618635/

[DracoM]

Yes, total treat. Agree with ardcarp. Those trebs know how to do it.

[Finzi4ever]

Only just heard this & loved every minute, apart from the technical sound problems at start of the anthem - what happened engineers? The psalm was especially invigorating: great chants and accomp.