CE Birmingham Cathedral: Wed, 19th October 2016

[DracoM]

CE Birmingham Cathedral



Order of Service:


Introit: Jesu, the very thought of thee (Harry Grindle)
Responses: Byrd
Psalms 98, 99, 100, 101 (Attwood, Ouseley, Barnby)
First Lesson: Hosea 14: 1-7
Office Hymn: O Trinity of blessed light (Creator alme)
Canticles: Antony le Fleming
Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 4: 1-8
Anthem: The Wilderness (S S Wesley)
Final Hymn: Soldiers of Christ, arise (From strength to strength)


Organ Voluntary: Sonata No 2 - third and fourth movements (Mendelssohn)


Assistant Director of Music: David Hardie
Director of Music: Canon Marcus Huxley

[EdgeleyRob]

Yet another wonderful Organ piece.

[light_calibre_baritone]

Yet another wonderful Organ piece.

Shame about the anthem! But then Victoriana has never floated my boat... Maybe Brum's performance can change my mind.

[Dafydd y G.W.]

Shame about the anthem! But then Victoriana has never floated my boat... Maybe Brum's performance can change my mind.

Pre-Victoriana actually. First performed in 1832.

[ardcarp]

I did hear on the grapevine that this may be Marcus Huxley's final broadcast. Does anyone know if this is so? (Apologies if I am wrong.) He has certainly given long and loyal service to Birmingham, and is the only DoM I know of to be made a canon of the cathedral.

Nowt wrong with The Wilderness. It needs some good solo voices though. I always feel Wesley could have extended the final fugato...it all ends rather suddenly after a relatively substantial piece.

[Keraulophone]

Marcus Huxley'...is the only DoM I know of to be made a canon of the cathedral.

That may be true of Birmingham Cathedral, though James Lancelot is a Lay Canon of Durham Cathedral.

[subcontrabass]

[QUOTE=ardcarp;583272]I did hear on the grapevine that this may be Marcus Huxley's final broadcast. Does anyone know if this is so? (Apologies if I am wrong.) He has certainly given long and loyal service to Birmingham, and is the only DoM I know of to be made a canon of the cathedral.
QUOTE]

His retirement in August 2017 has been announced. See https://birminghamcathedral.contentf...tion_Pack_.pdf (page 2)

[Philip]

Peter Gould was made a canon at Derby before he retired a couple of years ago.

The Wilderness is great, the structure of it is a bit bizarre but an absolute indulgence. In my book Ascribe edges it but they both hold a place in my heart.

[DracoM]

Nudge: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[Finzi4ever]

Peter Gould was made a canon at Derby before he retired a couple of years ago.

The Wilderness is great, the structure of it is a bit bizarre but an absolute indulgence. In my book Ascribe edges it but they both hold a place in my heart.

Both better to sing than hear, I fear

[light_calibre_baritone]

Pre-Victoriana actually. First performed in 1832.

Well done you!

[Y Mab Afradlon]

Recent research by the likes of Peter Horton has unearthed metronome marking made by SSW which were not included in the Novello scores that most choirs sing from. When they are observed they seem a lot slower or faster as the case may be.
Some of you may recall the version of The Wilderness edited by Geoffrey Webber from Caius some years ago which produced similar comments http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...ighlight=Caius

[Gordon]

#12 ble' rwt ti wedi bod yn cuddio ers 2010!?

[Dafydd y G.W.]

#12 ble' rwt ti wedi bod yn cuddio ers 2010!?

Yng ngwlad bell: ac yno efe a wasgarodd ei dda??

[Dafydd y G.W.]

Well done you!

Chronological pedantry aside, the Wilderness is very unlike most Victorian church music. Contrast Goss's setting of (more or less) the same text.