Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London [R] 13.4.22 @ 4 p.m.

[DracoM]

Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London [R]
Recorded 1 April 2022

Order of Service:

Prelude: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross, BWV 622 (Bach)
Introit: Miserere mihi, Domine (Byrd)
Responses: Plainsong
Office Hymn: Jesu meek and lowly (St Martin)
Psalm 88 (Plainsong)
First Lesson: Isaiah 63: 1-9
Canticles: Fifth Service (Tomkins)
Second Lesson: Revelation 14 v.18 – 15 v.4
Anthem: Infelix ego (Byrd)
Hymn: My song is love unknown (Love unknown)

Voluntary: Prelude in B minor (Bach)

Christian Wilson (Assistant Director of Music)
Colm Carey (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001626m

[CallMePaul]

Last week's Sunday Worship on R4 also came from this chapel.

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 4 p.m.

[ardcarp]

Just caught up on this CE. I really, really enjoyed it...a small, excellent professional group giving us a beautifully crafted service for Holy Week. And what a bass soloist in the Tomkins Canticles!

I wish celebrants didn't elaborate on hymns/psalms/anthems. A welcome at the start is OK but it would be so good to have a CE (especially a dignified one such as this) that was allowed to run from beginning to end according to the BCP without 'explanations' !

Did anyone else notice the superb sensitivity of the organ accompaniment in the hymns and canticles? Absolutely with the singers down to every nuance of phrasing.

[W.Kearns]

'I wish celebrants didn't elaborate on hymns/psalms/anthems. A welcome at the start is OK but it would be so good to have a CE (especially a dignified one such as this) that was allowed to run from beginning to end according to the BCP without 'explanations'

I entirely agree. And it was probably on account to the clergy commentary that we missed a number of stanzas from the closing hymn. But thanks, Choir, for wonderful canticles and anthem - much appreciated!