CE St Peter’s Eaton Square, London [R] Wed, 28th April 2021

[DracoM]

CE St Peter’s Eaton Square, London [R]
BBC Singers

Recorded 23rd April 2021


Order of Service:


Introit: Evening Prayer (Joanna Marsh)
Responses: Shephard
Psalms 136, 137, 138 (all set by Ghislaine Reece-Trapp)
First Lesson: Genesis 2: 4b-9
Office hymn: Lord of all hopefulness (Slane, arr. Barry Rose)
Canticles: Maida Vale Service (Ben Ponniah) (World premiere)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15: 35-49
Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (Shephard)
Hymn: How shall we sing salvation’s song? (Llangarron)

Voluntary: Five Liturgical Inventions (Alleluia) (Togni)


Rachel Mahon (Organist)
Joseph McHardy (Conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vhgc

[ardcarp]

Looks like an interesting music list

all set by Ghislaine Reece-Trapp

Any links to The Sound of Music?

[Ein Heldenleben]

Looks like an interesting music list



Any links to The Sound of Music?

Not that I can see from her website though , in her addition to her successful career , she does have some interesting th8ngs to say about the lot of the female organist ..

[vinteuil]

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... and we have psalm 138 -

"Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off... "

I wonder how that goes down in Eaton Square...




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[ardcarp]

I suppose 'von' in von Trapp is indicative of nobility, so maybe not out of place in Eaton Square. In the car today I did have an idea....



Anyone spot the tune?

Health warning: using this chant may cause nausea, even vomiting.

[Keraulophone]

Anyone spot the tune?

Do-Re-Mi - which Julie Andrews sings in B flat. The key of G led me off the scent towards l got plenty of nuttin’, and the kind of needy chap the residents around Eaton Square will no doubt have been praying for.
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[Bryn]

Which side of Eaton Square is St. Peter's, the fashionable or the unfashionable?

[vinteuil]

Which side of Eaton Square is St. Peter's, the fashionable or the unfashionable?

... neither. It's at the north-east [Buckingham Palace] end (as opposed to the south-west [Sloane Square] end).

(a very Anglican solution to any Lady Bracknell query... )





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[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[Keraulophone]

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... and we have psalm 138 [/I]

I wonder how that goes down in Eaton Square...

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...but we didn’t have the last three verses of the previous psalm. Usually it’s only the final verse involving child-throwing that is omitted. Presumably the typical resident chef in Eaton Square always remembers to put Edam on the shopping list. Intriguing and effective chant to this one.
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[Vox Humana]

....but we didn’t have the last three verses of the previous psalm. Usually it’s only the final verse involving child-throwing that is omitted..

Is that so? The excision of the various 'unchristian' verses in the psalter as recommended in the 1928 prayer book, as adopted in the Oxford Psalter (on which many cathedral psalters seem to be based), do include the last three verses.

[vinteuil]

... The excision of the various 'unchristian' verses in the psalter as recommended in the 1928 prayer book...

... fascinating - I didn't know that.

So in the 1920s a bunch of Anglican theologians and academics got together and said -"Well we know that Jesus, probably a rabbi, knew His Psalms, and could have perhaps said "Me and My father don't really think these particular verses sound very nice so they should be dropped" - but He obviously forgot to do so, so it behoves us in England in 1928 to make good His deficiencies, and we so recommend..."

quite extraordinary





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[jonfan]

I enjoyed the variety of music and new compositions, especially the Marsh and the Shepherd. The Singers adjusted their style to that of a church choir with their usual professionalism.

[Keraulophone]

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Ye choirs of new Jerusalem and the Responses were a lovely tribute to the recently departed Richard Shephard. It was a pity, though, that we missed the trumpeter in the anthem, not indicated as optional in the score:


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One would have thought that the combined resources of the Beeb and such a well heeled Parish could have provided for the requisite instrumentation. The trumpet's pensive meanderings at the start (see above) and its final gleaming blast cannot sound so effective when played on an organ.
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[Vox Humana]

I wonder why Shephard didn't follow the phrasing of the (unsung) words in the trumpet part? And doesn't the printed score instruct the trumpet to sound 'a lontano', or something similar?