CE Hereford Cathedral Wed, 10th Jan 2018

[DracoM]

CE Hereford Cathedral


Order of Service:


Introit: Jesus richte mein Beginnen (Bach)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms 53, 54, 55 (Martin, Rimbault, Hervey)
First Lesson: Amos 3
Office Hymn: The race that long in darkness pined (Dundee)
Canticles: Brewer in D
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 2
Anthem: Reges Tharsis (Sheppard)


Organ Voluntary: Dieu parmi nous (La nativité du Seigneur - Messiaen)


Peter Dyke (Assistant Director of Music)
Geraint Bowen (Director of Music)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l25vx

AND it's live!

[DracoM]

Posting this tx early
[a] because it's live and I am just glad for us all!
[b] judging by Hereford's available webcasts, they are in pretty goof form at the moment.

[ahinton]

Posting this tx early
[a] because it's live and I am just glad for us all!
[b] judging by Hereford's available webcasts, they are in pretty goof form at the moment.

Wonderful instrument there! Pity, though, that it's short compass manuals and pedals...

[subcontrabass]

Posting this tx early
[a] because it's live and I am just glad for us all!

The current schedule ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp7r ) shows seven live broadcasts during the next twelve weeks, three unspecified archive recordings, and two pre-recorded services.

[DracoM]

Sorry - I've just accessed the link you give above, and I cannot see how you found out what's happening in the next TWELVE weeks??? Do advise.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry - I've just accessed the link you give above, and I cannot see how you found out what's happening in the next TWELVE weeks??? Do advise.

Scroll down the page and in the grey section is a list running up to 28 March...

[ardcarp]

Pity, though, that it's short compass manuals and pedals...

It was Roy Massey's aim (and a worthy one) to keep the organ as near its true Willis state as possible. See my post under 'The Organ'. (Too nerdy for The Choir, except to say that the 1970s Harrison rebuild was largely funded by Bulmer's Cider...IIRC)

[DracoM]

Reminder: today@ 3.30 p.m.

[ahinton]

It was Roy Massey's aim (and a worthy one) to keep the organ as near its true Willis state as possible. See my post under 'The Organ'. (Too nerdy for The Choir, except to say that the 1970s Harrison rebuild was largely funded by Bulmer's Cider...IIRC)

It's still a pity, though, especially as the splendid instruments at St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey and Cathedral, St. Mary Redcliffe et al have full compass manuals and pedals and, as a consequnece of there being sufficient numbers of fine full compass instruments around, some composers will inevitably be drawn to taking advantage of those "extra" notes. OK, this issue hardly affects what might be termed "standard repertoire" organ works but, since the Hereford instrument is up there with the best of what might be thought of as "English Romantic organs", it would be so nice if that extension could be done, although I suspect that the reason that it wasn't in Massey's day might have had more to do with cost than with his desire to retain the instrument's Willis characteristics (à propos which do you know if any Willis instruments per se were ever built with full compasses? - I'm not an organist and have scant knowledge of such matters!)...

[Finzi4ever]

CE Hereford Cathedral

Order of Service:

Introit: Jesus richte mein Beginnen (Bach)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms 53, 54, 55 (Martin, Rimbault, Hervey)
First Lesson: Amos 3
Office Hymn: The race that long in darkness pined (Dundee)
Canticles: Brewer in D
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 2
Anthem: Reges Tharsis (Sheppard)
Organ Voluntary: Dieu parmi nous (La nativité du Seigneur - Messiaen)

Peter Dyke (Assistant Director of Music)
Geraint Bowen (Director of Music)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l25vx

AND it's live!

Yes, O yes: that's the way to do it! Fantastic, Hereford, as always! Huge thanks.

[ardcarp]

Agreed , and great to have a live broadcast...with one to follow next week. Lovely singing from Hereford.
I enjoyed most of all the Sheppard...oh, and the Messiaen. I'm not a great fan of 'blood and guts' canticles, though can understand why maybe they wanted to play safe so early in the term. (I always think of Ps. 22 v.12 in such pieces!)
Shame the opening announcement 'crashed' the start of the introit.
But an enjoyable and trad cathedral evensong. My thanks too.

[DracoM]

The Sheppard most certainly does not sing itself, and all parts worked very hard to keep the excitement and energy dynamic.
Some of the intervals are deceptively straightforward on the stave, even if they repeat themselves in a usefully formulaic way, but they still have to be sung, to be pitched, keep coming, and are exposed, You need particularly a top line boys or girls who have the collective guts to go for it and keep everyone on track.

Hereford is not a particularly big cathedral choir which means nowhere to hide and everyone has to take responsibility. They did and the Sheppard was the highlight of the service for me. Credit as ever to the enterprising Geraint Bowen and all his singers.

Liked the strikingly worded prayers too. I don't often comment on them on these threads, but today, they will have spoken to and for many.

[mopsus]

Did anyone else get some short breaks in transmission early on?

[DracoM]

Tiny blip early on - muffing up of presenter / cathedral handover? - and a failure to go straight back to the choir after the second lesson - seemed a bit distant for a few bars.

[subcontrabass]

so early in the term.

According to the cathedral music list that was the choir's first service after the Christmas break.