I was debating whether to include this in the other thread on the changing face of broadcast evensongs, but will keep it separate.
I was wondering when the last time an Upper voices Evensong was broadcast? Looking back through my archive of recordings, I can find a boys' voices Evensong from Gloucester in 1985, and a broadcast from Bramdean School in the 1990s, but apart from that, nothing.
I was also thinking it would make a refreshing change for such a service to be broadcast (though it might require some padding to take it up to a full hour), as there is some fine upper voice repertoire, both old but increasing newly written. Quite a few Cathedrals and other choral foundations do have midweek CEs sung by one of other of their top lines alone as a regular feature, and it would be good to hear some of the new settings composed in recent years (a rather fine recent recording by Ely Girls of new Mag&Nunc settings is a good example of that).
Doubtless the various practical issues and constraints of the early Wednesday broadcast time (and all the prior rehearsals and soundchecks) might make turning this idea into reality just that little harder.
I was wondering when the last time an Upper voices Evensong was broadcast? Looking back through my archive of recordings, I can find a boys' voices Evensong from Gloucester in 1985, and a broadcast from Bramdean School in the 1990s, but apart from that, nothing.
I was also thinking it would make a refreshing change for such a service to be broadcast (though it might require some padding to take it up to a full hour), as there is some fine upper voice repertoire, both old but increasing newly written. Quite a few Cathedrals and other choral foundations do have midweek CEs sung by one of other of their top lines alone as a regular feature, and it would be good to hear some of the new settings composed in recent years (a rather fine recent recording by Ely Girls of new Mag&Nunc settings is a good example of that).
Doubtless the various practical issues and constraints of the early Wednesday broadcast time (and all the prior rehearsals and soundchecks) might make turning this idea into reality just that little harder.
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