CE Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London [R] Wed, 23 Dec 20

[DracoM]

CE Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London [R]
Recorded 15 September 2020


Order of Service:


Introit: O Emmanuel (Bob Chilcott)
Responses: Leighton
Psalms 114, 115 (Bairstow, Hylton Stewart)
First Lesson: Isaiah 7:10-15
Magnificat (Arvo Pärt)
Second Lesson: Matthew 1: 18-23
Nunc dimittis (Paweł Łukaszewski)
Anthem: Hymn à la Vierge (Villette)
Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel)

Voluntary: Trivium (Arvo Pärt)


George Nicholls (Organ Scholar)
Rupert Gough (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qklb

[DracoM]

Today @ 3.30

[jonfan]

This was a beautiful service, very limpid singing as befitted the gentle canticles, anthem and voluntary.

[DracoM]

Rpt this afternoon at 3 p.m.

[mopsus]

Just caught up with this one. I liked the arrangement of 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel' which I find often drags a bit. (Certainly better than one recent broadcast outing for this hymn, when a tin-eared member of the congregation insisted on bawling out the 'Rejoice!' refrain each time half a second before the choir got to it. There are some advantages to having no congregation present.)

[Magister Chori]

Just caught up with this one. I liked the arrangement of 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel' which I find often drags a bit. (Certainly better than one recent broadcast outing for this hymn, when a tin-eared member of the congregation insisted on bawling out the 'Rejoice!' refrain each time half a second before the choir got to it. There are some advantages to having no congregation present.)

This arrangement is by John Rutter, from the 1st set of his "Twelve Christmas Carols".

[ardcarp]

This was a beautiful service, very limpid singing as befitted the gentle canticles, anthem and voluntary.

I only just caught up with this CE and I agree entirely, jonfan. Obviously very carefully directed to produce an almost meditative quality. All the more impressive reading that it was recorded in September, when students must surely have just begun term.