CE Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge [L] Wed, 25th Nov 2020

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge [L]


Order of Service:


Introit: How beauteous are their feet (Stanford)
Responses: Janet Wheeler
Office hymn: Give me the wings of faith (San Rocco)
Psalm 119 vv.73-96 (Elvey, Mann, Crotch)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 31: 1-9
Canticles: Judith Weir
Second Lesson: Matthew 15: 21-31
Anthem: Lord, thou hast been our refuge (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)

Voluntary: Prelude in B minor, BWV 544 (Bach)

Nicholas Dibb-Fuller (Trumpet)
Samuel Jones (Junior Organ Scholar)
George Gillow (Sir William McKie Senior Organ Scholar)

Graham Ross (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pp7c

[mopsus]

Interesting to compare Vaughan Williams' setting of Ps.90 with Bairstow's setting of (in part) the same text in last week's broadcast.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[mw963]

Well done to the young lady reading the second lesson for her outstanding sangfroid!

[Ein Heldenleben]

For those not listening live I was very impressed with how the reader of the second lesson Matthew 15: 21-31 kept going despite a a very loud alarm going off. Don’t think I’ve ever heard that before ...

[Ein Heldenleben]

Well done to the young lady reading the second lesson for her outstanding sangfroid!

Yes couldn’t agree more . You beat me to it partly because it wasn’t till I saw that the second lesson I was cutting and pasting was Thessalonians from the St John’s Advent service and Jesus’s miracle didn’t seem to tally with that !

[DracoM]

Echo praise for reader.
Particularly impressed by men in choir. Nothing easy in that service.

Did NOT care for the organ at all. Piece is of course very fine - one of my favourites - but on THAT organ....? Crumbs............

[oddoneout]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.
Rpt Siunday @ 3 p.m.

Not repeated Sunday, we've got the Advent Service to look forward to(or not as the case may be) instead.

[DracoM]

Yes, I have corrected it..........check back!

[Petrushka]

For those not listening live I was very impressed with how the reader of the second lesson Matthew 15: 21-31 kept going despite a a very loud alarm going off. Don’t think I’ve ever heard that before ...

Jumped up from my chair thinking it was my own fire alarm!

Agree with DracoM about the organ, sounded in poor condition to me.

[oddoneout]

Yes, I have corrected it..........check back!

I think we must have been posting simultaneously - I did check before posting.
Lots of live CEs to come it would seem, fingers crossed they all happen as planned.

[DracoM]

Depends if the Cantab Fire service want another evening out?

[ardcarp]

I liked the male voice opening to Weir's Nunc Dimittis. Classical organ (von Beckerath?) like many Oxbridge College organs is just not intended for Anglican accompaniment. As for the Bach B minor, very accurately played, but somehow over-articulated for that dry acoustic. No doubt it would have sounded wonderful in a German hallenkirke.

[jonfan]

I enjoyed both the Responses and and the Canticle settings, sung with confidence and with subtle emotion. Lovely declaimed psalm. Clare is a small chapel so everything seems very personal and intimate. There's nowhere to hide when the sound is so close but the ensemble singing sounded beautiful throughout. The VW was extra special with a wonderful build up from almost nothing.
The prayers and lessons were declaimed 'just so' with authority.
I think we may be a little harsh about the organ as again there's no resonance to help the sound or to mask the slightest discrepancy; there was just an occasional clash in intonation with the trumpet but nothing to spoil my enjoyment.
PS. The false fire alarm reminds me of a 'Messiah' in Huddersfield when the alarm went just before the choir sang 'There sound is gone out'. We had to go out though while the hall was checked before the performance continued.

[Petrushka]

I enjoyed both the Responses and and the Canticle settings, sung with confidence and with subtle emotion. Lovely declaimed psalm. Clare is a small chapel so everything seems very personal and intimate. There's nowhere to hide when the sound is so close but the ensemble singing sounded beautiful throughout. The VW was extra special with a wonderful build up from almost nothing.
The prayers and lessons were declaimed 'just so' with authority.
I think we may be a little harsh about the organ as again there's no resonance to help the sound or to mask the slightest discrepancy; there was just an occasional clash in intonation with the trumpet but nothing to spoil my enjoyment.
PS. The false fire alarm reminds me of a 'Messiah' in Huddersfield when the alarm went just before the choir sang 'There sound is gone out'. We had to go out though while the hall was checked before the performance continued.

One thing that was hammered into us when we had fire training during my time at work was never, ever assume the fire alarm is false. I would therefore have expected the service to have been immediately terminated and everyone evacuated.