CE Chapel of New College, Oxford 2.xi 2016

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of New College, Oxford
All Souls' Day
Archive 12.i.2011 recording of a liturgical performance

MOZART'S REQUIEM IN D MINOR K.626

Jonty Ward (treble)
Hugh Cutting (alto)
Guy Cutting (tenor)
Jonathan Howard (bass)

The Choir of New College
European Union Baroque Orchestra

Director: Edward Higginbottom.

[vinteuil]

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... now this is one I shall try to be here to listen to!

[light_calibre_baritone]

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... now this is one I shall try to be here to listen to!

Why wait? http://www.newcollegechoir.com/mozar...ecordings.html

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[oddoneout]

I greatly enjoyed this robust reading of the Mozart, and thought the solo treble in particular was excellent. Did get a bit thrown by the fact it was Eucharist rather than Evensong and so was a less familiar form of service to me now.

[ardcarp]

Higginbottom was (is) a genius. He brings such life to his performances. Difficult to work out how he did it. Tremendous musicianship, a knack with voices, scholarship, and...willing to take risks! I thoroughly enjoyed the broadcast, even if spoken words from the English Eucharist seemed a tad out of place.

You can get the CD (and others) here:

http://www.newcollegechoir.com/novum.html

[oddoneout]

even if spoken words from the English Eucharist seemed a tad out of place.

Indeed. I'm afraid I did have to resist the thought 'cut the cackle let's hear the music'(now where have I heard that sentiment before....) I'm not a lover of the modern form of words(or practice - no, I don't want to have someone invade my personal space in the name of peace) and in this instance would have preferred the gravitas and sonority of the old form.
But, the music rises above such things as far as I'm concerned, thank heavens.

[mw963]

I- no, I don't want to have someone invade my personal space in the name of peace)

We had an elderly (and rather grand) friend who would remain steadfastly on his knees with head down praying when the wretched "peace" arrived; few dared bother him. Quite right too.

[oddoneout]

BTW, it's a small thing but perhaps it would be an idea to lose an 'i' from the date? Doesn't matter too much in the current week, but might cause confusion later on?

[DracoM]

Noted.
Date of the original tx correct.
Thread title amended.

[ardcarp]

We had an elderly (and rather grand) friend who would remain steadfastly on his knees with head down praying when the wretched "peace" arrived; few dared bother him. Quite right too.

Yes, it's something about being a Brit that makes one embarrassed by such intimacies.

[Miles Coverdale]

Perish the thought that people should do as the bible says in 2 Corinthians 13, 12 and 'greet one another with a holy kiss'.

[Don Basilio]

And indeed what Justin Martyr was expecting all Christians to do at the Eucharist. The peace is not a trendy innovations (unlike the Book of Common Prayer) but a primitive symbolic action properly restored. Holy Communion is not only with our Lord but with our fellow worshipers.

[ardcarp]

I hesitate to wade into deep theological waters, but were we not bidden by Our Lord Himself to 'pray as if in a closet' ?

Anyway, as the faintest of believers, I'm not unduly bothered. Comradeship and fellowship can only be a Good Thing. We can't help our inhibitions I suppose..

[jean]

...were we not bidden by Our Lord Himself to 'pray as if in a closet' ?

No, we are to pray actually in a closet:

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...

But by praying in church we have already gone against that injunction.