CE Edington Priory Wed, 21st August 2019 [L]

[DracoM]

CE Edington Priory [L]
Edington Festival of Music within the liturgy


Order of Service:


Introit: Veni Creator Spiritus (Stephen Aston)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm 106: 1-12 (Day)
First Lesson: Isaiah 49: 1-7
Office hymn: Veni Sancte Spiritus (Plainsong)
Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton)
Second Lesson: 1 John 1: 1-10
Anthem: Seek him that maketh the seven stars (David Bednall)
Hymn: Light of the minds that know him (King’s Lynn)
Antiphon: Salve Regina (Plainsong)

Voluntary: Toccata on King’s Lynn (Francis Pott)


Alexander Pott (Organist)
Matthew Martin, Jeremy Summerly, Peter Stevens (Conductors)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007rjm

[PeterboroughDiapason]

It might be sooner than you think!

[DracoM]

Idiots flourish and apparently I lead them. Thx.

[DracoM]

Today, Wed @ 3.30 p.m. And it's LIVE!

[Y Mab Afradlon]

As an ex Cathedral Choral Scholar and Singing man the Organists I worked with constantly attempted to get us to develop a style of singing in speech rhythms that reflected the text of each psalm that they had pointed and chosen a chant. Listening this afternoon I must admit that I found nothing to support that principle and even though the text was familiar to me I would hope that listeners around the globe wouldn't feel that this was reflective of the current trend in Cathedrals, Colleges and Churches. If it was an experiment then it did nor succeed. I was relieved that they decided to chant the first dozen verses instead of the whole psalm. Something of a hybrid of Christ Church Oxford's long needless emphasis on vowels and New College's skippy triplets so beloved of Ashfield's Psalter. If you believe what's going round on social media that it was a skit on the way that New College supposedly chanted the psalms then shame on those whose decision this was for destroying what was otherwise a fine evensong.

[Keraulophone]

If you believe what's going round on social media that it was a skit on the way that New College supposedly chanted the psalms

The conductor has refuted this suggestion. This studied approach must have been a festive experiment. The first time I heard psalm-singing employing other than conventional 'speech rhythm' was at Christ Church Oxford under Simon Preston in the 1970s. However, after the first few hearings, his magical control of those young voices and the intensity of the word-painting took this listener into a world never before experienced and rarely encountered since. Fortunately we have a few precious recordings to remind us of that special time.

[Y Mab Afradlon]

The first time I heard psalm-singing employing other than conventional 'speech rhythm' was at Christ Church Oxford under Simon Preston in the 1970s. However, after the first few hearings, his magical control of those young voices and the intensity of the word-painting took this listener into a world never before experienced and rarely encountered since. Fortunately we have a few precious recordings to remind us of that special time.

I agree, I saw a copy of the Psalter that was used during his time and by his successor Francis Grier and it was heavily marked up in such a way that the singers were able to react accordingly, lines under syllables that were emphasised, dots underneath words that required motion towards the next emphasised syllable etc. I would argue that the psalm singing at Christ Church at that time ranked alongside anything that was produced in Cambridge or any of the Royal Peculiars at that time.

[Miles Coverdale]

Well, thank goodness they only sang the first 12 verses. I don't think I could have stood all 46 sung in that utterly bizarre way. How anyone would think that was an effective way of communicating a text is beyond me.

[Pulcinella]

According to the Festival Brochure, the service sung on Tuesday 20 August was recorded for future transmission.
October's BBC MM suggests that this will be on 2 October.

Prelude: Allegretto (Movement 3 of Sonata in B flat major, Mendelssohn)
Introit: Upon your heart (Eleanor Daley)
Preces and Responses: Julian Thomas
Psalms: 12 (Morley), 13 (Battishill), 14 (Stanford)
OT: Proverbs 2, 1--15
Magnificat in E (Watson)
NT: Colossians 1, 9--20
Nunc dimittis in E (Watson)
Anthem: Thy word is a lantern (Purcell)
Hymn: Light's abode, celestial Salem (Regent Square)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV546 (JSB)

(With apologies to DracoM for stealing his thunder/spoiling the anticipation?)

[Pulcinella]

I appear to have puzzled DracoM by posting advance notice of a future broadcast here.

I hope others are grateful for the advance information and are not as confused as he is.
Naturally I intended the information to appear in its normal format in due course.

Apologies again to DracoM.

[underthecountertenor]

I appear to have puzzled DracoM by posting advance notice of a future broadcast here.

I hope others are grateful for the advance information and are not as confused as he is.
Naturally I intended the information to appear in its normal format in due course.

Apologies again to DracoM.

Can't see how anyone could be puzzled or confused by your post, but there we are. I see no harm in the heads up, and this seems as good a place as any to post it. Doesn't preclude the usual separate thread in due course, after all.

I'm not sure when it started, but it seems that the norm may well be now for the BBC to record an evensong for future broadcast on the Tuesday evening before the live broadcast. Certainly I know of one cathedral where this will be happening in October.