CE: St Paul’s Cathedral, London [L] 24.v.23

[DracoM]

CE: St Paul’s Cathedral, London [L] Wed, 24th May 2023

Order of Service:


Introit: Out of the deep (Aldrich)
Responses: Ayleward
Office hymn: O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Psalm 66 (Atkins)
First Lesson: Isaiah 51 vv,1-3, 7-11
Canticles: Wesley in E
Second Lesson: 2 Peter 1 vv.1-11
Anthems: The darkness is no darkness (Judith Bingham); Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (S.S. Wesley)
Hymn: Love Divine, all loves excelling (Love Divine)

Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671 (Bach)


William Fox (Organist)
Andrew Carwood (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lzh7

[DracoM]

TODAY at 4 p.m. And it is LIVE!

[DracoM]

And THAT's how you do it.

[Simon Biazeck]

Vibrant and fervent - sounded glorious. Henry Aldrich was completely new to me!

~SBz.

[Finzi4ever]

Vibrant and fervent - sounded glorious. Henry Aldrich was completely new to me!

~SBz.

...me too, and what a polymath he turns out to have been: Dean of Christ Church, classicist, composer, architect of Peck Quad and All Saints/Lincoln College library... Henry Aldrich - Wikipedia

[Simon Biazeck]

[QUOTE=Finzi4ever;918490]...me too, and what a polymath he turns out to have been: Dean of Christ Church, classicist, composer, architect of Peck Quad and All Saints/Lincoln College library... Henry Aldrich - Wikipedia[/QUOTE]

Wow!

[W.Kearns]

Splendid Wesley-fest (J, C and SS) - loved Judith Bingham's piece - and readings allowed to speak for themselves without commentary. Many thanks, St Pauls.

[ardcarp]

Agreed. And a treble sound which soared on the high notes when necessary.

[DracoM]

[mopsus]

Vibrant and fervent - sounded glorious. Henry Aldrich was completely new to me!

~SBz.

I have been transcribing some late 19th-century music lists and his music was in the cathedral repertoire then. I have to admit that (apart from seeing his architecture) the main thing about him that I recognise is the little verse about drinking, quoted on his Wikipedia page.

[Simon Biazeck]

I have been transcribing some late 19th-century music lists and his music was in the cathedral repertoire then. I have to admit that (apart from seeing his architecture) the main thing about him that I recognise is the little verse about drinking, quoted on his Wikipedia page.