CE St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico, London [R] 15.iii.23

[DracoM]

CE St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico, London [R]
Recorded 17 February

Rodolfus Choir

Order of Service:

Introit: My soul, there is a country (Parry)
Responses: Byrd
Office hymn: Now is the healing time decreed (Vulpius)
Psalms 36, 39 (Atkins, Walmisley, Atkins)
First Lesson: Genesis 9: 8-17
Canticles: The Great Service (Parry)
Second Lesson: 1 Peter 3: 18-22
Anthem: Emendemus in Melius (Byrd)
Hymn: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Rustington)

Voluntary: Paean (Leighton)

Richard Gowers (Organist)

Elinor Cooper (Assistant Director)
Ralph Allwood (Director)

[DracoM]

Today.
Apols for late posting.

[jonfan]

A beautiful service sung with conviction and variety of colour, as always when Ralph Allwood has anything to do with proceedeings.

[ardcarp]

I have to disagree slightly with you, jonfan, I had to abandon listening (for work reasons) before the anthem started, and will rectify that on catch-up. But my impression up to that point was one of 'singing the notes in the right order' rather than of sensitive musicality. This is not to downplay Ralph Allwood's stalwart work with young people, in the past with the Eton choir courses inter alia.

[DracoM]

[mopsus]

I have to disagree slightly with you, jonfan, I had to abandon listening (for work reasons) before the anthem started, and will rectify that on catch-up. But my impression up to that point was one of 'singing the notes in the right order' rather than of sensitive musicality. This is not to downplay Ralph Allwood's stalwart work with young people, in the past with the Eton choir courses inter alia.

I felt that way about the hymns, as if they were being sung as a necessary duty alongside the other more exciting stuff. Perhaps a little more variety such as men-only or women-only verses in the five-verse first hymn might have helped. (I also heard something rather odd in the middle of the Nunc.)