St Davids Cathedral [A] Wed, 27th May 2020

[DracoM]

St Davids Cathedral [A] Wed, 27th May 2020
First broadcast 27th May 2009


Order of Service:


Introit: Lift up your heads (Mathias)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms: 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 (Garrett, Goss, Purcell, Knight)
First Lesson: Numbers 23 vv.13-30
Canticles: St Davids Service (David Briggs)
Second Lesson: Luke 8 vv.16-25
Anthem: O clap your hands (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: Sing praise to God who reigns above (Palace Green)

Organ Voluntary: Final (Symphonie en Improvisation) (Cochereau trans. Scott Whiteley)

Simon Pearce (Assistant Organist)
Alexander Mason (Organist and Master of the Choristers)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jgc4

[DracoM]

Now that is a BIG sing!

[jonfan]

This should have been Festival week in St Davids and most likely a live Evensong. I remember attending this particular service in 2009 and being totally impressed with the quality of the top line, girls from age 8 to 18. I think the Briggs was a Festival commission and this would be its first performance.
[This might also have been the occasion when a lawn mower set off outside during the broadcast and the Dean sent an emissary to shut it up!]
Hope the Festival, and the choir in a broadcast CE, are back in action in 2021.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30p.m.

[Strigoi]

Fantastic Magnificat

[DracoM]

Alert, disciplined, and organised singing. A pleasure.

[jonfan]

Wonderful to hear the clear, steady declamation of the precenter, Dean Jonathan Lean, who also took a full part in the tenor section. The acoustic sounds quite intimate with very little resonance. I think later broadcasts have created more bloom to the sound from the cathedral. Great organ voluntary to round things off. Prayers for musicians that resonate today. An uplifting experience which makes one wish to haste back to West Wales when the time is right.