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  • DracoM
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    • Mar 2007
    • 13009
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    CE Armagh Cathedral [L] Wed, 24 viii 2022

    CE Armagh Cathedral [L] Wed, 24 viii 2022
    The Charles Wood Summer School
    Feast of St Bartholomew


    Order of Service:


    Introit: You are there (Elaine Agnew) (World Premiere, Charles Wood Festival Commission)
    Responses: Maggie Burk
    Psalms 91, 116 (Goss, Lloyd)
    First Lesson: Deuteronomy 18: 15-19
    Office Hymn: Teach me my God and King (Sandys)
    Canticles: Collegium Regale (Wood)
    Second Lesson: Matthew 10: 1-22
    Anthem: Expectans Expectavi (Wood)
    Hymn: For all your saints in glory (Cruger)

    Voluntary: Symphony No 3 in F sharp minor (Allegro maestoso) (Vierne)

    Philip Scriven (Organist)
    David Hill (Conductor)

    BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Armagh Cathedral
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001b5m6
    Live from Armagh Cathedral during the Charles Wood Summer School.
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  • Simon Biazeck
    Full Member
    • Jul 2020
    • 303
    #2
    The "Hill" sound - welcome back! Beautiful, sonorous and expressive. The engineering (possibly the mic. placement... ?) is a mystery to me. This sounded unduly distant to me. Do they hear a well-fronted and direct sound and place the microphones further back? I could hear the detail form the choir and wanted more of a close-up! Some kind person will explain it to me.

    ~SBz.

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    • FMarrell97
      Full Member
      • Aug 2022
      • 1
      #3
      Glad you enjoyed the broadcast! It was great fun to sing!

      I agree with the mic placement. The BBC seem to be very soprano heavy in their broadcasts recently, with the ATB levels lacking somewhat. This happened in our broadcast yesterday, but I can assure you it was lovely and very well balanced in the building.

      Always a joy to work for the BBC, and I’m glad the service came across as well as we thought it did in the building.

      Originally posted by Simon Biazeck View Post
      The "Hill" sound - welcome back! Beautiful, sonorous and expressive. The engineering (possibly the mic. placement... ?) is a mystery to me. This sounded unduly distant to me. Do they hear a well-fronted and direct sound and place the microphones further back? I could hear the detail form the choir and wanted more of a close-up! Some kind person will explain it to me.

      ~SBz.

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      • Simon Biazeck
        Full Member
        • Jul 2020
        • 303
        #4
        Well done you! I could hear how well-balanced it was - just wanted to be closer to it.

        Originally posted by FMarrell97 View Post
        Glad you enjoyed the broadcast! It was great fun to sing!

        I agree with the mic placement. The BBC seem to be very soprano heavy in their broadcasts recently, with the ATB levels lacking somewhat. This happened in our broadcast yesterday, but I can assure you it was lovely and very well balanced in the building.

        Always a joy to work for the BBC, and I’m glad the service came across as well as we thought it did in the building.

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        • Finzi4ever
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 603
          #5
          I really enjoyed and appreciate this CE: thanks to all. The commissioned introit was very effective and I hope will be widely adopted.
          I've always had a soft spot for this double choir Coll.Reg. as much as its later namesake. Did anyone else notice what sounded like a deliberate 'difference' in this performance between the Mag and Nunc doxologies? Don't want to give the game away but will be very interested to discover if anyone else was as surprised as I was...

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          • ardcarp
            Late member
            • Nov 2010
            • 11102
            #6
            I always enjoy this annual Charles Wood Summer School broadcast from Armagh, not least because Phil Scriven is a friend of ours...and I admire David Hill very much. I'm sad to say that I dozed off halfway through catch-up...NOT through boredom I hasten to add...but it was hot and sunny and I was tired after a busy morning. I'll catch up again and see if I can spot your doxology differences, F-forever!

            I'd just add that Wood taught RVW at one point, and became the organist at Gonville and Caius College before being Prof of Music at Cambridge. G&C Choir made a very fine CD of Wood's little-known St Mark Passion. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204072914...RoCraQQAvD_BwE and another of his anthems https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/a...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
            Last edited by ardcarp; 29-08-22, 09:17.

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            • Magister Chori
              Full Member
              • Nov 2020
              • 96
              #7
              Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
              and another of his anthems https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/a...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
              G&C actually recorded two (very fine) CDs of anthems by Wood, both for Priory:
              - vol. 1: https://www.prioryrecords.co.uk/inde...roduct_id=1932
              - vol. 2: https://www.prioryrecords.co.uk/inde...roduct_id=1949

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              • mopsus
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 850
                #8
                Wood's St Mark Passion used to be sung in Holy Week every year by the choir of St Ann's, Manchester, when I sang there in the 1990's. Someone there tried to persuade me that it was regularly sung in Cambridge too, not realising that I'd just spent 6 years there and knew better! (This was before Caius revived it; I think the mixed choir at Jesus College also did a broadcast of it about 15 years ago.)

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