CE Lincoln Cathedral Wed, 18th May 2017

[DracoM]

CE Lincoln Cathedral


Order of Service:


Introit: Exsultate Deo (Palestrina)
Responses: Philip Moore
Office Hymn: The Lamb's high banquet we await (Ad cenam Agni)
Psalm 89 (Camidge)
First Lesson: Hosea 13: 4-14
Canticles: Darke in F
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15: 50-58
Anthem: Welcome sweet and sacred Feast (Finzi)
Final Hymn: Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah)


Organ Voluntary: Introduction and Passacaglia (Alcock)


Organist Laureate: Colin Walsh
Assistant Director of Music: Jeffrey Makinson

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[DracoM]

Good lusty singing, strong solos, highlight for me the Alcock Intro and Passacaglia.
Pity about the axing of the hymn. Maybe an underestimate of how long the psalm was to take?

[antongould]

I liked the Finzi but then I am incredibly biased .......

[mw963]

My hearing is shot to pieces at the moment by a cold, but I enjoyed what I could "make out". Sounded good.

After being so rude about last week's voluntary I concur with DracoM, I'm sure the illuminati will tell us that Alcock couldn't write for a toffee but it made for a reflective introverted dignified but ultimately triumphant end, fitting perfectly with an Evensong of this sort.

[DracoM]

Presumably played by the estimable Colin Walsh as well?

[Vox Humana]

I'm sure the illuminati will tell us that Alcock couldn't write for a toffee

I'm not sure he knew how to play one.

[Finzi4ever]

I liked the Finzi but then I am incredibly biased .......

...so am I, perhaps unsurprisingly

[EdgeleyRob]

Me too

Op 27 can be had,used,for less than 2 quid inc p&p

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00006RHPP/ref=tmm_acd_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1495124081&sr=8-9

[Finzi4ever]

Me too

Op 27 can be had,used,for less than 2 quid inc p&p

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...5124081&sr=8-9

Any right thinking Finziite will already have this excellent CD and will have paid for it fully! (You will no doubt have guess(t) that I am somewhat pro-Johnian...)

[antongould]

Any right thinking Finziite will already have this excellent CD and will have paid for it fully! (You will no doubt have guess(t) that I am somewhat pro-Johnian...)

Apologies Finzi4 but I have followed ER's advice as I only have £1.80 of this month's pocket money left .....

[Finzi4ever]

Good lusty singing, strong solos, highlight for me the Alcock Intro and Passacaglia.
Pity about the axing of the hymn. Maybe an underestimate of how long the psalm was to take?

I don't think this broadcast has received anything like the plaudits it deserves.
I do like the Moore set of Responses and they were performed here with real dynamism and verve: so often the V&R are just busked. Not here: they were as key to the service as the canticles and the (aaaaaahhhhhhh) anthem.
Psalm singing and word painting in the very best tradition.
Thank you all at Lincoln.

[antongould]

I don't think this broadcast has received anything like the plaudits it deserves.
I do like the Moore set of Responses and they were performed here with real dynamism and verve: so often the V&R are just busked. Not here: they were as key to the service as the canticles and the (aaaaaahhhhhhh) anthem.
Psalm singing and word painting in the very best tradition.
Thank you all at Lincoln.

Agreed

[ardcarp]

Agreed too, having just heard it on i-player. Great dynamic control and phrasing in the Finzi and, of course superb accompaniment on that organ so eminently suited to that repertoire. The whole choir seemed to settle into everything 'to the manner born' from the Responses onwards. As for our Walter, a fine musician and composer of his day.

[Nevilevelis]

Me too

Op 27 can be had,used,for less than 2 quid inc p&p

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...5124081&sr=8-9

Have yourself another dose of live Finzi: the Magnificat !

http://trinitycollegechoir.com/webcast/20170521-choral-evensong/