CE Edington Priory Wed, 24th August 2016

[DracoM]

CE Edington Priory

The Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy
Feast of St Bartholomew


Order of Service:


Introit: Mihi autem nimis (Plainchant)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalms 91, 116 (Plainchant)
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 18: 15-19
Office Hymn: Exsultet caelum laudibus (Plainchant)
Canticles: Andrews in D
Second Lesson: Matthew 10: 1-22
Anthems: The Twelve (Walton)
Mihi autem nimis (Francis Pott) - new commission
Final Hymn: Saints of God! Lo, Jesu's people (Sussex)


Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody No.1 in D flat (Howells)


Organist: Simon Bell
Conductors: Jeremy Summerly, Matthew Martin and Peter Stevens

[DT1]

The Edington Festival Website and printed publicity indicates that the Canticles are by Paul Drayton for New College Oxford. The BBC website says Andrews in D. Has there been an update?

[DracoM]

Copied Order of Service from BBC website, so.............??? Your guess is as good as mine!!

[Nazard]

The Edington Festival Website and printed publicity indicates that the Canticles are by Paul Drayton for New College Oxford. The BBC website says Andrews in D. Has there been an update?

Are you not singing in it this year, yourself, sir?

[DracoM]

Can anyone explain? I tried to email Edington Festival only to discover that it cannot be accessed except via javascript and CloudFlare. How I get round that I have no idea.

Seems a pretty extreme step to prevent potential visitors from getting in touch with Festival Director to ask advice / info!!!!

Hmm.

[DT1]

Are you not singing in it this year, yourself, sir?

As it happens it is The Andrrw canticles.

[DracoM]

My thx.

[Miles Coverdale]

Can anyone explain? I tried to email Edington Festival only to discover that it cannot be accessed except via javascript and CloudFlare. How I get round that I have no idea.

Seems a pretty extreme step to prevent potential visitors from getting in touch with Festival Director to ask advice / info!!!!

Hmm.

It's an anti-spam measure. You need to have Javascript enabled in your browser to get the email link to work. There are more user-friendly ways of protecting an email address from spam, but there we are.

[DracoM]

Yes, thx, and it is as you say......got while talking to a few friends since posting.
But seems a bit bizarre for the central office of a serious music etc festival to make things difficult for wannabe customers?
Hey ho.
Maybe they've had major hacking probs?

[edashtav]

Acrostic Hymn

The hymn for Saint Bartholomew which I expect to sing this morning in Christchurch Priory is an Acrostic poem. Not great verse, perhaps, but a great reason to start a line with "Laved"!

[DracoM]

Reminder: today on R3.

[Fons Bonitatis]

Goodness. That was extraordinary...

[DracoM]

Why?

[DT1]

Very fine broadcast though I do say so myself. 'The Twelve' is an exceptionally hard piece usually prepared for many weeks in advance and not in rep in many places. To get it together in a few short festival days was very impressive for the boys. Highly accomplished performance from the treble soloists, lower voiced soloists and canticle soloists. Very tight and commuted all round.

Second year running that the feed was taken from further back and a hint of reverb added int to avert the dryness of the priory church.

[Nevilevelis]

Very fine broadcast though I do say so myself. 'The Twelve' is an exceptionally hard piece usually prepared for many weeks in advance and not in rep in many places. To get it together in a few short festival days was very impressive for the boys. Highly accomplished performance from the treble soloists, lower voiced soloists and canticle soloists. Very tight and commuted all round.

Second year running that the feed was taken from further back and a hint of reverb added int to avert the dryness of the priory church.

Were you involved?

I'm afraid I have some reservations.

Pitch in the tutti plainsong psalm verses was consistently flat (soloist was fine). Could they hear the accomp. well from where they were standing? The organ tone sounded odd to me... overtones in evidence on the B-flat chord, though little or none of this may have been acutely evident on site. The style in the chant introit was a little soporific and mannered for my taste, but I appreciated the effort to phrase musically and strive for a meditative quality in the sound.

I agree the choir did very well on The Twelve, but I'm less and less convinced by the piece; clumsy voice-leading and Walton's cheesy cliché harmony now grate on me I'm afraid. I have sung it many times, by the way, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. I appreciate many folks like it very much though, and what else, apart from polyphony would fit the bill on this occasion?

I thought the canticles were very successful; a fine treble soloist and the mixed choir was very good.

The feed from further back was appreciated, but we lost some clarity, especially in the final hymn. I'd like to hear a consort in this acoustic. The intimacy afforded by solo voices may be more appealing.

Most of that sounds rather negative, I'm sorry, but I did enjoy listening to it. I have done many similar broadcasts, so I do appreciate the effort that goes into them.

NVV.