CE: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on the Eve of the Ascension [L] 17th May 2023

[DracoM]

CE: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on the Eve of the Ascension [L]


Order of Service:


Introit: Let all the world (Greta Tomlins)
Responses: Matthew Wood
Psalm 89
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 23: 1-5
Office Hymn: Eternal monarch, King most high (Gonfalon Royal)
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: Colossians 2 v.20 – 3 v.4
Anthem: God is gone up (Owain Park)
Hymn: Crown him with many crowns (Diademata)

Voluntary: Church bells beyond the stars (Cecilia McDowall)

Polina Sosnina (Organist)
Andrew Earis (Director of Music)

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 4 p.m.

[JasonPalmer]

Listening now....nice stuff

[Keraulophone]

I've just heard Blake's 7 at "World without end" ending the Mag Gloria... and it's also in G major.

Cf: at 0'02 recapitulation at 2'11 - https://youtu.be/r0YLevRJ1nA

[Finzi4ever]

Extremely well sung, I felt. What are the views here on the Park anthem? Something of a tribute to my namesake, certainly structurally?

[DracoM]

Finzi - yup, but Finzi better - IMO.
Reminder rpt Sunday p.m.

[Finzi4ever]

Finzi - yup, but Finzi better - IMO.
Reminder rpt Sunday p.m.

Well, I would say that, wouldn't I? Good, though, to have more settings of this 17th century Ascensiontide meditation.

[DracoM]