CE Chapel Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge: Wed, 23rd May

[DracoM]

CE Chapel Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
The Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice


Order of Service:


Introit: Come Holy Ghost (Attwood)
Responses: Tallis
Psalms 114, 115 (Haydn, Alcock)
First Lesson: Genesis 15
Office hymn: O love divine (Handel)
Canticles: Wesley in F
Second Lesson: Romans 4:1-8
Anthem: Have mercy, O Lord (Mozart)
Hymn: Rejoice, the Lord is King (Gopsal)

Voluntary: 'Gauntlett' Voluntary in G (Wesley)


Michael How & Luke Fitzgerald (Organ Scholars)
Geoffrey Webber (Director of Music)

[ardcarp]

The music list is a bit unhelpful about which Wesley is which.

[subcontrabass]

According to the Festival programme it is only Samuel: https://www.cambridgeearlymusic.org/...the-voice.html (scroll down to 11th May)

[Finzi4ever]

The music list is a bit unhelpful about which Wesley is which.

either way it hardly counts as 'early music'

[DracoM]

........nor Mozart, Atwood, Handel.........surely?
Bit weird?

[ocarina]

"The term Early Music generally refers to Western-style music written between 1250 and 1800 embracing Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical. It can also refer to a historically informed approach to the performance of music, both from this period and from later times ..."

http://www.ncem.co.uk/?idno=1130

[Vox Humana]

The definition of Early Music is very sloppy. It could certainly do with tightening up, especially now that HIP is beginning to encompass people like Vaughan Williams and Parry. Early Music and HIP are not synonymous. That said, it would be interesting to hear a period performance of Evensong as it might have been in Sam Wesley's time - although I'd be surprised if that's what we get. We'll see.

[subcontrabass]

The definition of Early Music is very sloppy. It could certainly do with tightening up, especially now that HIP is beginning to encompass people like Vaughan Williams and Parry. Early Music and HIP are not synonymous. That said, it would be interesting to hear a period performance of Evensong as it might have been in Sam Wesley's time - although I'd be surprised if that's what we get. We'll see.

We have once or twice had Psalms sung from 18th century chant books, rather than from the form of Anglican Chant invented in the mid-19th century. That was a refreshing change.

[ocarina]

Yep not my definition and I’m unsure about conflating HIP with early, but this definition may partially explain the music list here. I suppose the H in HIP implies earlier than now. Maybe in future they’ll be recreating all male cathedral choirs to sing a HIP Howells Gloucester. I’ll get me coat...

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.
It's a recording.

[ardcarp]

Geoffrey Webber is noted for his wide choice of repertory for Caius Chapel Choir, and I suspect all the items in today's CE were carefully chosen to be representative of a particular era in Anglican Church Music. This CE obviously fitted in with a theme from the Cambridge Festival of which it was part...though as Vox pointed out, the word 'early' is a loosely applied term. Apart from anything else, there was a nice demonstration of the evolution in psalm singing, showing how metrical psalms were one of the antecedents of what we now think of as 'hymns'.