CE Chichester Cathedral Wed, 3rd August 2016

[DracoM]

CE Chichester Cathedral

The Southern Cathedrals Festival: the girls of Winchester and Salisbury Cathedral Choirs; the men of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester


Order of Service:


Introit: Nachtlied (Reger)
Responses: Rose
Office Hymn: O God, by whose almighty plan (Surrey)
Psalm 119: 81-104 (Cooke, Pye, Attwood)
First Lesson: Isaiah 45: 1-7
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Wood)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 4: 1-16
Anthem: In exitu Israel (S Wesley)
Final Hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)


Organ Voluntary: Symphony No 3 - first movement (Vierne)

Timothy Ravalde: Assistant Organist
Charles Harrison: Organist and Master of the Choristers (at Chichester)





NB: this is a recording of a service taking place in the festival

NB x 2: Sunday repeat is at 2.45 p.m.

[DracoM]

Reminder of today's CE @ 3.30 p.m.
BUT
note repeat is at 2.45 on Sunday.

[DracoM]

Nicely judged, and well-disciplined singing.
Resolute and assured top line, men did their stuff when unleashed.
Comparisons are odious, but on the whole, but IMO this was perhaps a rather more carefully performed CE than at the Three Choirs.

[Finzi4ever]

I enjoyed this a good deal. I take Draco's point on its 'careful' performance, but better that than too splashy: all too easy with a combo of choirs unfamiliar with each other beyond their annual outings. Its restrained feel may well have suited the building and forces.
Particularly good to hear the too-rarely-performed in exitu; let's have rather more of the 'English Mozart' in pref to his son, S.S. Exultate Deo next?