Easter Day CE Abbey Church of St Alban April 1st 2018 (L)

[DracoM]

Easter Day Choral Evensong Sunday, April 1st 2018 (L)
Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban

NB: 3 p.m.

Order of Service:


Introit: O Sons and daughters (Walford Davies)
Responses: Smith
Psalm 114 (Bairstow)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 37: 1-14
Office Hymn: The day of resurrection (Ellacombe)
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Luke 24: 13-35
Anthem: Let all the world (Leighton)
Hymn: Light's glittering morn bedecks the sky (Lasst uns erfreuen)


Organ Voluntary: Symphonie No 5 in A major, Op 47 (Final) (Vierne)


Tom Winpenny (Assistant Master of the Music)
Andrew Lucas (Master of the Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zn8l5

[jean]

So it isn't going to be that mysterious recording of Keble College after all.

[ardcarp]

To clarify (I think)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp7r/broadcasts/upcoming

[jean]

Yes, that does clarify!

I expected the Keble recording to be on Easter Day because the Victimae Paschali is the sequence for Easter. We do get O fillii et filiae here, but while it's an Easter hymn it's not part of the liturgy.)

[DracoM]

Crikey, I know I can sometimes lose the plot, but I do TRY - I put the BBC's programme link on the Easter Day Order of Service page.

Not sure what's all this' Yes, that does clarify' thing?

[jean]

See #10 - #13 here.

[mw963]

Apart from my own personal bete noire, whose awful after-taste was thoroughly cleansed by the final hymn and the voluntary, that was a very very enjoyable Evensong.

I assume the girls are a bit older than some choirs...? I'd come to the conclusion that it wasn't boys, but only just as it were, a very smooth lovely sound.

And Mr Winpenny, there was an almighty yell of BRAVO!!! from me at the end of the Vierne! I was only thinking a couple of days ago that we hadn't had any Vierne as a final vol for ages, well you repaid that omission abundantly, fabulous playing. Absolutely brilliant.

[Y Mab Afradlon]

This from the current service list at St Albanshttps://www.stalbanscathedral.org/do...and-april-2018 shows that Girls and Boys are listed.

[mw963]

Ah, maybe I didn't listen properly to the back anno. I thought it said the girls, but I was in such raptures after the Vierne that no reliance whatsoever can be placed on what I heard, or what I thought I heard!

[ardcarp]

but I was in such raptures after the Vierne

...it also struck me that the sound-engineering for the organ voluntary was extremely good. Great clarity through the cans.

[DracoM]

Vierne was highllight for me.
Boy/girl mix good, altos very strong.
St A's has far more sense of place than came over in this broadcast. Sounded oddly empty.

[underthecountertenor]

I assume the girls are a bit older than some choirs...?

The girls leave their choir at the same age as the boys leave theirs. Then there is the option for all of joining the Abbey Singers (who sang with the lay clerks for the Easter Morning broadcast on Radio 4 yesterday).

[underthecountertenor]

St A's has far more sense of place than came over in this broadcast. Sounded oddly empty.

The nave was pretty full, so I guess it must have been the mic placement.

[DracoM]

Relatives of mine were there and confirmed how full it was - agreed. Hence my murmur of surprise at the impression gained on R3.

[underthecountertenor]

Relatives of mine were there and confirmed how full it was - agreed. Hence my murmur of surprise at the impression gained on R3.

Impressive congregation numbers at every service yesterday. The 10 am Eucharist (which was not broadcast) had by far the biggest congregation