CE St Pancras Church, London 15.v.2019 [L]

[DracoM]

CE St Pancras Church, London
The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music


Order of Service:


Introit: Seek the peace of the city (Bernard Hughes)
Responses: Sarah Cattley
Psalms 59, 60 (Christopher Batchelor)
First Lesson: Exodus 33: 1-23
Office hymn: O praise our great and glorious Lord (St Matthew)
Magnificat: St Pancras Canticles (Joshua Ballance)
Second Lesson: Luke 3: 15-22
Nunc dimittis: St Pancras Canticles (Roxanna Panufnik)
Anthem: The heavens declare the glory of God (Deborah Pritchard)
Hymn: Praise to the holiest in the height (Chorus Angelorum)

Voluntary: The word was made flesh (Alex Woolf)


Leon Charles (Organist)
Christopher Batchelor (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00051gx

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[Nevilevelis]

I was very disappointed by much of this - a waste of resources. Superb musicianship and fine voices on display as ever, though!

[DracoM]

I fear that this is the regular CE I am usually in no rush to hear. But today I did catch a deal of it.

Voices? Hmm......well........sorry, but those sops........BBC Singers-style on a not very good day maybe? IMO only.


Sorry - maybe I'm just out of the loop on these kind of settings / style of perf.


Q: What I puzzle over is how much of the repertoire of this annual CE is / is actually likely to be heard again in cathedrals and places where they sing? Or elsewhere? Because much of it would take an age to rehearse and most foundations simply do not have the time, do they? Maybe someone far more in the mix could tell us that?

[Y Mab Afradlon]

Q: What I puzzle over is how much of the repertoire of this annual CE is / is actually likely to be heard again in cathedrals and places where they sing? Or elsewhere? Because much of it would take an age to rehearse and most foundations simply do not have the time, do they? Maybe someone far more in the mix could tell us that?

It's not just this festival. I remember some of the commissions from Michael Nicholas' Norwich Contemporary Festival only receive one performance. I think its accessibility as well. Ive written to composers over the years requesting perusal score of music included in these broadcasts and the chants. Some composers have responded and thanked me for my interest but others haven't given me the courtesy of a reply to an e-mail that costs nothing. I've even sent stamped addressed envelopes which haven't been returned. I do however think that the Festival deserves the annual visit and the growing number of scores that have been submitted by the call is testimony to the opportunity it gives for composers to showcase their work each year not only during this broadcast but during the week that the festival occurs and in the ever growing churches that participate.

[DracoM]

Curiouser and curiouser...............