CE Salisbury Cathedral [L] 7.xii.2022

[DracoM]

CE Salisbury Cathedral [L]

Order of Service:

Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm 37 (Pye, Read, Noble, Turle)
First Lesson: Isaiah 31 vv.1-9
Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton)
Second Lesson: Matthew 15 vv.1-20
Anthem: Hymn a la Vierge (Villette)
Hymn: Jesus, good above all other (Quem Pastores)
Voluntary: Chorale No 1 in E major (Franck)

John Challenger (Organist and Assistant Director of Music)
David Halls (Director of Music)

[DracoM]

Huge apols for short notice - life got in the way of For3 promptitude

[ardcarp]

Good to have a live cathedral broadcast. Well done Salisbury. In the Radio Times it was billed as being a celebration of César Franck's 200th anniversary. Nothing choral though, just a well-known organ piece at the end. I love the Villette anthem, especially those scrummy chords at the very end. Maybe it was sung a bit 'heavily', but good to hear it. Madeame Villette apparently once said that only an English choir could do full justice to her husband's music!

[jonfan]

A moving service with the vast space of the cathedral evident in the sound. Warm, generous singing from the choir. A lovely, calm Villette anthem; I could picture the Frink statue of the Virgin Mary purposely walking away from the cathedral across the Close. Wonderful characteristic registrations in the Franck Chorale.

[W.Kearns]

Some wonderful psalm-singing - at least in my view! Very sustaining in the thick of a traffic jam....

[ardcarp]

Very sustaining in the thick of a traffic jam....

Must dig out my old EP of 'The Highway Code, part 1'