CE Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban [R] Wed, 29th Jan 2020

[DracoM]

CE Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban
(recorded on 22 October 2019)


Order of Service:


Introit: The holy Son of God most high (Hurford)
Responses: Rose
Psalm 142, 143 (Hylton Stewart, Aktins)
First Lesson: Hosea 5: 1-7
Canticles: Gloucester Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 10 .14 – 11 .1
Anthem: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace (Joubert)
Hymn: All people that on earth do dwell (Old Hundredth)

Voluntary: Exurgat Deus (Hurford)


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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ds47

[DracoM]

Reminder - today @ 3.30 p.m.

[mw963]

The psalms don't get any faster at St Alban's do they...? That said, sung with incredible control and clarity of diction.

[ardcarp]

I think the opening organ piece was by Hurford too. It's a meditation really, and I used to play it e.g. during communion. Can't lay hands on my copy right now.
Enjoyed the broadcast...a pity it wasn't live though. A BBC 'two for the price of one' I think.

[subcontrabass]

I think the opening organ piece was by Hurford too. It's a meditation really, and I used to play it e.g. during communion. Can't lay hands on my copy right now.
Enjoyed the broadcast...a pity it wasn't live though. A BBC 'two for the price of one' I think.

Does anyone know why the lessons broadcast were not the ones listed (and appointed for today)?

[DracoM]

Pass - took me a bit by surprise as well. Could the Beeb have published the Order of Service NOT expecting a different one? But at the actual session, readings were changed?

Otherwise....? Odd.

Pity, because I thought it was a cheerily and comfortingly well-sung service - whatever the readings?

[RAC]

Yes, it was Meditation - the 3rd movement of his Suite 'Laudate Dominum', the final voluntary was the last movement of the Suite.

[Miles Coverdale]

Does anyone know why the lessons broadcast were not the ones listed (and appointed for today)?

The CE production team prefers to use the Additional Weekday Lectionary, which is not the same as the standard Common Worship lectionary. I believe that the reason for this is that the AWL readings tend to be a little shorter than the CW ones and, more importantly, do not run in a continuous cycle. This means that, as each reading stands on its own, you don't have to have heard the ones from preceding days for the reading to make sense.

[organista]

The CE production team prefers to use the Additional Weekday Lectionary, which is not the same as the standard Common Worship lectionary. I believe that the reason for this is that the AWL readings tend to be a little shorter than the CW ones and, more importantly, do not run in a continuous cycle. This means that, as each reading stands on its own, you don't have to have heard the ones from preceding days for the reading to make sense.

If people click on the link in the first post they will see that the correct information for all the music and the readings is there. The only thing that isn’t listed, curiously, is Truly the Lord is in this place (Hurford) which incorporates 2 verses of the last hymn (first and last).

[oddoneout]

If people click on the link in the first post they will see that the correct information for all the music and the readings is there. The only thing that isn’t listed, curiously, is Truly the Lord is in this place (Hurford) which incorporates 2 verses of the last hymn (first and last).

Well there was an office hymn that isn't listed. Is the Hurford 'Truly is the Lord' that rather jolly item that preceded the last hymn? Coupled with the usual nonsense of the psalm setting details(why can't they get this right in the full details when it's correct in the summary?) this was a worse than normal service info in my view.

[organista]

Well there was an office hymn that isn't listed. Is the Hurford 'Truly is the Lord' that rather jolly item that preceded the last hymn? Coupled with the usual nonsense of the psalm setting details(why can't they get this right in the full details when it's correct in the summary?) this was a worse than normal service info in my view.

I don’t understand what you mean. The listing here :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ds47

is totally correct, except that it fails to list Hurford’s Truly the Lord.

[ardcarp]

Is the Hurford 'Truly is the Lord' that rather jolly item that preceded the last hymn?

The jaunty Truly the Lord is in this Place (7/8 time?) is actually a cunning countermelody to All People that on Earth do Dwell.

[oddoneout]

I don’t understand what you mean. The listing here :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ds47

is totally correct, except that it fails to list Hurford’s Truly the Lord.

Just listening to the repeat, and relieved to find I wasn't imagining things - "We sing the office hymn, Teach me my god and king".