CE Lincoln Cathedral [R] Wed, 27th April 2022 @ 4 p.m.

[DracoM]

CE Lincoln Cathedral [R] Wed, 27th April 2022 @ 4 p.m.
Recorded 1 March 2022


Order of Service:


Responses: Philip Moore
Office hymn: The lamb’s high banquet we await (Ad cenam agni)
Psalms 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 (Garrett, Goss, Goss, Walmisley, Walford Davies, Silverton)
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 3:18-29
Canticles: Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense (Howells)
Second Lesson: John 20: 19-31
Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father (Wesley)

Voluntary: Sonata in G major, Op 28 (Allegro Maestoso) (Elgar)


Jeffrey Makinson (Organist and Assistant Director of Music)
Aric Prentice (Director of Music and Master of the Choristers)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016k0l

[ardcarp]

What a fantastic choir and director. They negotiated those quite tricky responses with ease, and in general there was excellent blend and a big dynamic range. Organ sounding wonderful too. A superb CE. Look forward to a live one next week!

[DracoM]

[jonfan]

What a fantastic choir and director. They negotiated those quite tricky responses with ease, and in general there was excellent blend and a big dynamic range. Organ sounding wonderful too. A superb CE. Look forward to a live one next week!

Agree. A wonderful sequence of psalms, delivered in exemplary fashion, with a choice of chants to satisfy the most avid psalm nerd! I could listen to it all day.
A bright, keen top line which cut through in the big acoustic in a thrilling way, caught superbly by the engineering. Beautiful solo in the anthem; it sounded as though everyone was having a good time.

[DracoM]

......yes, and given the mighty acoustic at Lincoln, the engineering was as good as we've had for some time.

[ardcarp]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Aric Prentice, the DoM, is primarily a singer rather than an organist. It always helps to be a singer if you're a choir-trainer....but that is not to diss the many organists who are also very good choir-trainers.

[jonfan]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Aric Prentice, the DoM, is primarily a singer rather than an organist. It always helps to be a singer if you're a choir-trainer....but that is not to diss the many organists who are also very good choir-trainers.

I think you’re right according to bits of information on the internet. He sang in St John’s Choir, Cambridge, and is known as a counter tenor soloist. He’s been at Lincoln 19 years.

[Alison]

What’s Walshy up to these days? Retired?

[jonfan]

What’s Walshy up to these days? Retired?

He retired officially in July 2021 and is now Organist Emeritus. I think this means he gives occasional recitals. A lot of info about him and what he’s doing now on the cathedral website.

[mw963]

re Mr Walsh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCjlUmh4nek

[makropulos]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Aric Prentice, the DoM, is primarily a singer rather than an organist. It always helps to be a singer if you're a choir-trainer....but that is not to diss the many organists who are also very good choir-trainers.

Yes, Aric is primarily a singer –but though he doesn't often play these days, he's also a terrific organist when he needs to be. Oddly enough I was listening yesterday to a recording we made together in 1996 where he played some very tricky stuff beautifully.

What a smashing CE.

[Simon Biazeck]

Really moving. I was on the verge of tears throughout. (This is worsening as I age!). This choir sings with such unity of purpose, front and back rows. Superb repertoire, superbly sung and played! DO listen!

SBz

[Guest]

Really moving. I was on the verge of tears throughout. (This is worsening as I age!). This choir sings with such unity of purpose, front and back rows. Superb repertoire, superbly sung and played! DO listen!

SBz

It's probably just me (although I have seen similar sentiments elsewhere now I come to think about it) but I have a huge problem with "listening" to an act of worship after it has happened..... That's why I only listen (if I'm free) to live broadcasts - however good the recorded ones might have been.

[jonfan]

It's probably just me (although I have seen similar sentiments elsewhere now I come to think about it) but I have a huge problem with "listening" to an act of worship after it has happened..... That's why I only listen (if I'm free) to live broadcasts - however good the recorded ones might have been.

I know what you mean SH, it’s knowing that you are worshipping and experiencing the liturgy at the same time as other people that is really only ideal when experienced in a place of worship as part of a congregation. It’s also to do with new experiences that excite the senses and intellect. I can listen again to the Lincoln service and I know what’s coming but my appreciation of it is different. That’s a way forward I suggest to you SH, limited though it is.
On a slightly different angle, first hand experiences emphasise how important live music making is for our well being. Live sport, whether as a player or spectator, is better first hand. I remember the first time I heard an orchestra live; that initial excitement can’t be experienced again so my reaction to live performances is different but rewarding. I remember taking a class of 10 year olds to Filey and one child had never physically seen the sea before. She just sat all day and looked at it in awe. It’s that ‘awe’ we remember, and try to recapture, in day to day living that makes life worthwhile.

[DracoM]

Even better 2nd time round!