CE: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Wed, 19th Aug 2020 [L]

[DracoM]

CE: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
The Gesualdo Six.


Order of Service:


Introit: Night Prayer (Owain Park) – first performance
Responses: Piers Kennedy
Psalms 98, 99, 100, 101 (Plainchant, plainchant, plainchant, Kerensa Briggs)
First Lesson: Isaiah 45: 1-7
Canticles: Fauxbourdon Setting (Byrd)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 4: 1-16
Anthem: Quemadmodum (Taverner)
Prayer anthem: O Lord, support us (Henrietta Moran)

Voluntary: Benedictus sit Deus Pater (Thomas Preston)

Ben Giddens (Organist)
Owain Park (Director)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ls7y

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m and it is LIVE.

[Keraulophone]

today

Eh?

[DracoM]

What the pandemic does - totally disorientates me / time of day / day of week / identity/neighbourhood.................

.....sincere apologies.

[oddoneout]

What the pandemic does - totally disorientates me / time of day / day of week / identity/neighbourhood.................

.....sincere apologies.

Good thing you've got the forum to provide some re-orientation?

[DracoM]

True reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[DracoM]

As good and lucid a CE as we have had in many a month - IMO. Loved the introit.
If the 'residency' were to be all of this standard and inwardness, then sing on in M-i-t-F, I say.
Minister just a tad shouty - not really in synch with the very quiet music around her, but maybe there was a big congregation?
Or she was trying to out-do Trafalgar Sq?

[jonfan]

Beautiful restrained, balanced and controlled singing. The old and modern interweaved in a timeless fashion that made the music just hang there, especially noticeable in the psalms. I particularly enjoyed the Owain Park Night Prayer and the setting of Newman's blessing. A lovely dramatic touch to walk away in the Tallis Canon. The whole service emphasized the falling of darkness in a quite tangible way, which came over in the spacious acoustic, even with the sirens receding in a satisfactory way!
Can we have the Six again soon please?
Everyone deserves a pint after that terrific programme. Was that Gareth Malone reading Lesson 1 or a sound-a-like!!?

[DracoM]

[hmvman]

Beautiful restrained, balanced and controlled singing. The old and modern interweaved in a timeless fashion that made the music just hang there, especially noticeable in the psalms. I particularly enjoyed the Owain Park Night Prayer and the setting of Newman's blessing. A lovely dramatic touch to walk away in the Tallis Canon. The whole service emphasized the falling of darkness in a quite tangible way, which came over in the spacious acoustic, even with the sirens receding in a satisfactory way!

Agree with all of that, jonfan. A beautifully enjoyable listen - and superbly engineered too.

[Bella Kemp]

Wonderful

[mopsus]

I've especially appreciated having the full psalms for the day on these broadcasts.