CE Ripon Cathedral [R] Wed, 19th Jan 2022

[DracoM]

CE Ripon Cathedral [R] Wed, 19th Jan 2022
First broadcast 21 January 2015


Order of Service:


Introit: O nata lux de lumine (Tallis)
Responses: Ayleward
Office Hymn: Tis good, Lord, to be here (Carlisle)
Psalm 106 (Mann; Goss; Armes)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19: 9b-18
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Mark 9: 2-13
Anthem: Blessed City, heavenly Salem (Bairstow)
Hymn: Jesu, these eyes have never seen (Nun danket all)

Voluntary: Nuages ensoleillés sur le Cap Nègre from 'Promenades en Provence' (Reuchsel)


Tim Harper (Assistant Director of Music)
Andrew Bryden (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0506m01

[ardcarp]

Can anyone provide current information about the school from which Ripon choristers are drawn? I seem to remember that there was some talk of its closing. Is there an arrangement with another school?

[DracoM]

https://riponcathedralschool.org.uk/

Weirdly, t'other day, I tried to email them but their email address was rejected - odd?

[Keraulophone]

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/27-july/news/uk/ripon-choir-school-closes-in-debt

Ripon Cathedral Choir School closed down a decade ago (see above), while Ripon Cathedral School is a different institution, with no mention of the cathedral choir on their website.

[DracoM]

Yup - confirmed that with a parent.

[ardcarp]

It appears there is still a CE Primary School called Ripon Cathedral School.

https://riponcathedralschool.org.uk/

Seems a pity it doesn't educate choristers, and frankly rather a lost opportunity.

[DracoM]

Reminder~ today @ 4 p.m.

[DracoM]

Strong, forthright, no-nonsense boys, big stuff to sing, a cracking vol - a real tonic for a covid-bleak Wednesday!!

[ardcarp]

Strong and forthright, yes. Maybe lacking a little subtlety? The Psalm had plenty of variety in the organ accompaniment. Is the choir still functioning well 6 or 7 years after this recording? More live CEs please, BBC.

[cat]

Is the choir still functioning well 6 or 7 years after this recording? More live CEs please, BBC.

A new DoM starts this month (Ronny Krippner, from Croydon Minster/Whitgift School) so hopefully we'll hear from them again before too long.