CE Chapel of Keble College, Oxford Wed, 20th Nov 2019 [L]

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of Keble College, Oxford


Order of Service:


Introit: Love bade me welcome (Judith Weir)
Responses: Leighton
Psalm 104 (Turle, Alcock)
First Lesson: Zechariah 8: 1-13
Canticles: Service No 2 in E flat (Wood)
Second Lesson: Mark 13: 3-8
Anthem: Ave Maris Stella (Matthew Martin)
Hymn: Sing we to the blessed mother (Abbott's Leigh)
Antiphon: Salve Regina (Plainsong)

Voluntary: L'Orgue mystique (In Assumptione B.M.V: Paraphrase-Carillon), Op 57 No 35 (Tournemire)


Benjamin Mills (Organ Scholar)
Matthew Martin (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bf6p

[ardcarp]

Just to set the scene (if anyone hasn't seen the Chapel) have a look:

https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/chapel/

It's an impressive Victorian Gothic Oxford Reform Movement building with patterned brickwork outside and sumptuous decoration inside. It has forward-facing pews rather than 'chapel-style' seating. Holman Hunt's Light of the World hangs in a side chapel...and is surprisingly small when you see it in the flesh.

http://www.williamholmanhunt.org/light-of-the-world/

The Chapel has a good acoustic, and was used often by Schola Cantorum of Oxford for its concerts. It had an electronic organ when I was last visited (several years ago) but now has a large-ish Tickell pipe organ.

https://www.tickell-organs.co.uk/specInfo/opus75.php

[Ein Heldenleben]

Now That’s one of the pre- Raphs I wouldn’t mind owning...

[DracoM]

Entering the chapel is both shock and delight.
I remember my very first moment in there as I had done no research beforehand at all!

[DracoM]

................or " 'Kebble' College Oxford" as the R3 Sunday afternoon link presenter has just pronounced it!!
Sigh!

[Ein Heldenleben]

................or " 'Kebble' College Oxford" as the R3 Sunday afternoon link presenter has just pronounced it!!
Sigh!

Oh dear. It would have to be Choral Evensong and a world famous Victorian Divine wouldn’t it?

[Wychwood]

................or " 'Kebble' College Oxford" as the R3 Sunday afternoon link presenter has just pronounced it!!
Sigh!

I can't believe I'm reading this about R3 continuity. Let's hope the announcer doesn't have to introduce a CE from Gonville & Caius.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30.
LIVE from "Kebble" College Oxf - according to R3 presenter.

[mw963]

Reminder: today @ 3.30.
LIVE from "Kebble" College Oxf - according to R3 presenter.

What - you mean that they've failed to pronounce it correctly TWICE in a week, in spite of what was written here on 17th Nov? And there are people on here who tell me that the current bunch of "presenters" is a huge improvement on the "stuffy" delivery of the announcers of yesteryear.....

Anyway, lovely tone thus far, and I've just noticed who the Director is - no wonder it's so good!

[Keraulophone]

I've just noticed who the Director is

...but not for long:

https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/new-precentor-and-director-college-music-appointed

[Y Mab Afradlon]

I wasn't looking forward to the Psalm after the live Edington broadcast which confirms the rumour that it was a spoof. Both chants very well pointed and sung with great clarity by the choir. Other music was also a pleasure to hear. They recorded another service for future broadcast which we can look forward to in the new year.

[ardcarp]

I enjoyed the service. I was sorry they didn't do a slightly more enterprising Mag and Nunc, especially as they seemed to have time in hand. We heard a real old Anglican regular...but maybe it was a nod to MM's new post, at one time held by a certain C. Wood.

[jonfan]

A beautiful service with lots of delicious moments to savour. A lovely setting of Herbert’s poem to begin, confidently sung with clarity of text. Clarity, plus urgency, permeated the psalm too. There was a sense of forward momentum propelled very often with a pronounced crescendo on the reciting notes. Mag, Nunc and the anthem stunningly sung. Stand out for me is the lovely sound of the top line, appropriately so for a Marian themed CE. Fantastic organ voluntary crowning the whole, with ideal sound balance throughout the hour. Looking forward to hearing the CE also in the can.

[ocarina]

What - you mean that they've failed to pronounce it correctly TWICE in a week, in spite of what was written here on 17th Nov? And there are people on here who tell me that the current bunch of "presenters" is a huge improvement on the "stuffy" delivery of the announcers of yesteryear.....

Anyway, lovely tone thus far, and I've just noticed who the Director is - no wonder it's so good!

Surely all radio3 presenters scour these forums daily to pick up handy hints on how to be better presenters (and people in general)...

[DracoM]

As if.