CE Worcester Cathedral [ Three Choirs ] July 26th 2017

[DracoM]

CE Worcester Cathedral July 26th 2017
Three Choirs Festival


Order of Service:


Introit: Round me falls the night (Edgar Day)
Responses: Peter Nardone
Office Hymn: Angel voices ever singing (Angel voices)
Psalm 136 (Lloyd)
First Lesson: Isaiah 33: 2-10
Canticles: Festival Service (Thomas Hewitt-Jones - new commission)
Second Lesson: Philippians 1: 1-11
Anthem: The Lord is my Shepherd (Stanford)
Final Hymn: Sing praise to God who reigns above (Palace Green)


Organ Voluntary: A Worcester Fantasy (Ian King - new commission)


Organist: Christopher Allsop.
Sung by the Cathedral Choirs of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester directed by Peter Nardone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08yrxxz

NB: please forgive such early posting

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[Philip]

If you want to follow the Hewitt Jones canticles there is a score here.

http://ftp.rscmshop.com/Flipbooks/CM1146/mobile/index.html

[Pulcinella]

If you want to follow the Hewitt Jones canticles there is a score here.
http://ftp.rscmshop.com/Flipbooks/CM...ile/index.html

Many thanks for posting this link.

[DracoM]

No-one else listen?

Conservative programme in a sense - H-Jones canticles / Day introit probably would not have frightened too many horses, but some tricky entrances navigated with some confidence. Forces maybe just a tad too big to bring out textures?
Oddly boxy acoustic too - not what one associates with Worcs.

[cjba]

The acoustic was odd in the building too - we had around 500 in the congregation, completely filling the Quire and Quire Aisles.

[DracoM]

Aha! I did wonder. Thx. And of course rather more than the usual quantity of robed singers as well............

[mopsus]

I imagine it was like last year's in Gloucester (which I attended) and the congregation contained many of the 3 Choirs Festival Chorus, along with other visitors (the evensongs at the 3 Choirs Festival are particularly popular with the Dutch). So the hymn singing will be particularly strong. I found being in the congregation at an evensong at the 3 Choirs feels a bit odd if you are in the chorus; the music is conducted by the people who conduct the concerts, but you are not obliged to follow their beat or sing in tune.