CE Portsmouth Cathedral 30.xi.2016

[DracoM]

CE Portsmouth Cathedral 30.xi.2016
Feast of St Andrew


Introit: We wait for thy loving kindness (Adrian Lucas)
Responses: Bernard Rose
Psalms 87, 96 (Stanford, Atkins)
First Lesson: Zechariah 8: 20-23
Office Hymn: Jesus calls us o'er the tumult (Merton)
Canticles: Watson in E
Second Lesson: John 1: 35-42
Anthem: They that go down to the sea in ships (Sumsion)
Final Hymn: Hark what a sound (Highwood)


Organ Voluntary: Fantasy on 'Veni Emmanuel' (Leighton)


Oliver Hancock - Sub-Organist
David Price - Organist and Master of the Choristers

[light_calibre_baritone]

Looking forward to the Sumsion from the "cathedral of the sea" (their phrase)... Only good thing Sumsion wrote; bar the "have a banana" in Sumsion in G.

Always excited by Pompey as they have a fresh and young sound.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[Finzi4ever]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

I note from the cathedral website, the choir singing today is 'Cantate', their mixed youth choir. Jolly good it is too: very assured singing.

[Colonel Danby]

Lovely service at Portsmouth today, but the precentor was singing surely too high for comfort in the prayers: I'm probably going to be shouted down by others more in the know than I, but I couldn't work out a word she said. Sorry...

[DracoM]

Agreed, Colonel. Made the service feel sort of 'up there at the top end'. Slightly odd feeling.
Decent all-round singing, tho' men - unusually - were a bit remote at times.




PS: Just wish I didn't more or less every week have to ratchet up the sound after the CA announcement. This has been commented on a number of times before i.e. the very marked difference in sound between studio continuity / intros and the more distant sound of the actual broadcast content.

[ardcarp]

I was impressed by today's singing and enjoyed the CE immensely. The acoustics sounded very agreeable too. (I've only ever seen the building from the outside.)

I agree about:

the very marked difference in sound between studio continuity / intros and the more distant sound of the actual broadcast content.

...and about post #5

[oddoneout]

the very marked difference in sound between studio continuity / intros and the more distant sound of the actual broadcast content.

I'm glad it isn't just me....
I've found myself having to leap to the control box because of a sudden booming voice increasingly often - partly because I don't like it but also because I am pretty certain my neighbours won't either.

[EdgeleyRob]

Another reminder of how well Leighton wrote for the Organ too

[ardcarp]

Another reminder of how well Leighton wrote for the Organ too

[DracoM]

[BD92]

Only good thing Sumsion wrote; bar the "have a banana" in Sumsion in G.

Do you know In Exile? Great piece!

[DracoM]

Listened to Portsmouth again - good fresh sound. but sorry, still found precentor pretty tricky to understand.