CE Salisbury Cathedral 25th May 2011

[Finzi4ever]

Well said, DM, I concur in all you say. I think we need to add Salisbury to our shortlist of top psalm chanters these days. I liked the pace as it was never anything less than assured, dynamic and confidently done; greatly accomplished word painting in the accompaniment too. I did feel the recent warm temperatures had affected the superb Willis tuning more than a little, however. Just me?

[Finzi4ever]

P.S. -the exception being that wonderful clarinet moment early in "Give us the wings of a Bullock"

[ardcarp]

Psalms taken at a heck of a lick, weren't they! But really positive and busy.

Just right for me.

The Harris voluntary was a stormer!

I thought the Willis (I must admit I wasn't focused on the tuning) made all the right noises for that perticular CE...to the manner born.

The whole thing was quite a sing. I love the Mathias canticles. The Mag is what you'd expect from him, but the Nunc is really quite beautiful. It requires some very sustained singing which is hard for a small choir such as Salisbury.

I thought the final hymn was a rare old rollick...and I suspect any 'raucousness' you detected, Draco, wasn't the choristers. Everyone was joining in...including a fruiy-ish soprano, I would guess.

A really enjoyable CE, so Salisbury.

[Keraulophone]

If you are referring to Regent CD 349, it gets well reviewed by me too. Magnificent stuff - and the splendid last track was previously entirely unknown to me. If you had a hand in it all, thanks and congratulations are in order. (No disrespect to the organist, but I would have preferred the Festival Te Deum to the Vittoria P & F.)

Yes, that's the one... glad you liked it. Advance Democracy was new to me, too. The American words are very much of their time, but that's the point of the piece, and the final chord is spread in the same way as the last chord of the Gloria of Stanford in C (evening), which happens to resound well in our building.

Enjoyed the Stanford from Salisbury, along with the Bullock classic - we don't hear these traditional gems of the repertoire on broadcast CE often enough these days, when many DoMs are intent on giving an airing to something new (a laudable aim in itself as long as 'the' quality threshold has been passed).

[Y Mab Afradlon]

Back to the broadcast enjoyed the canticles very much and the Bullock. A setting of the Te Deum can always fill in vital minutes in a broadcast as opposed to a Priest vicar searching for additional prayers. Interesting to see from the Edington website that we will be treated to the Victoria Te Deum in their broadcast in August.