I am happy to report that this evening's (6.30) Solemn Requiem Mass (setting: Duruflé) at Truro Cathedral will shortly be available as a webcast on the cathedral's website. This will be the second of our termly webcasts. The first one received more than 11,000 visits.
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Links please?Originally posted by Keraulophone View Post -
I shouldn't be so lazy:Originally posted by Finzi4ever View Post
Very much enjoying last summer's evensong - whose are those fine unaccomp. Truro canticles? One can't tell from that page.Comment
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Do you mean the June 2011 webcast? Weren't they singing the Mag and Nunc by Philip Stopforth for Truro Cathedral? Magnificent and well sung!
I'm very much looking forward to hearing the Durufle at the Solemn Requiem for Remembrance Sunday to which Keraulophone has referred.Comment
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Yes, for a live, mid-week, warts-and-all recording, both Stopford and Walton are stirring and impressive. I hope the cathedral was packed that day!
Under the player window on that Truro page, the text tells us that the services are "available to download". Is downloading (as opposed to down-streaming) actually encouraged, and is there a built in facility for it? Perhaps Keraulophone could let us know in due course.Comment
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One might mention (if Draco hasn'r already) there there is a stunning webcast from St Thomas NY, Solemn Requiem, Durufle, from last Sunday (13th). This seems to be the only establishment that can sustain regular (several per week) webcasts of extraordinary standard.Comment
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Hello decantor - I know how you may feel, as I used to sing on dec, but have been on can for 15 years!Originally posted by decantor View Post
Yes, the TC webcast page is wrong when it claims it is 'making them available to download' - the recorded service can only be streamed. If you like Philip Stopford (he was an organ scholar at Truro before going up to Keble, Oxford), we are about to make a CD of his music on the Regent label.
ardcarp - we are in our webcasting infancy, and certainly do not have the financial resources of St Thomas's, 5th Ave, but the intention for the future is to be able to webcast at least weekly, so that an 'everyday' fly-on-the-wall listening experience can be had online. Chapter still has to be persuaded to provide the funds for a permanent mic set-up.
For example, many more than the dozen present would like to have heard this (Tuesday) evening's Psalm 40 (Bairstow), when the DoM stopped conducting in verse one, and the trebles had to listen extra carefully to the blend and the pacing; this created a magical effect, to say nothing of Jimmy MacMillan's haunting 'Sedebit Dominus Rex'.
The Duruflé Req may be onsite by Friday; I'll let you know. When Truro broadcast a Solemn Evensong back in the BBC MB days, mb'ers seemed bemused by the sound of 'spoons being thrown down' onto the sanctuary floor. Do listen out for the distant tinkle of the thurible, though the thurifer on this occasion was reasonably well behaved!
Bws to all, K.Comment
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The Duruflé Req may be onsite by Friday; I'll let you know. When Truro broadcast a Solemn Evensong back in the BBC MB days, mb'ers seemed bemused by the sound of 'spoons being thrown down' onto the sanctuary floor. Do listen out for the distant tinkle of the thurible, though the thurifer on this occasion was reasonably well behaved!
Don't know if anyone noticed the distinct throwing down of spoons in yesterday's final psalm from Lincoln...Comment
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How did I miss this? I love The Truro athedral Choir. I visitewd this cathederal a few years ago and bought their cd 'TA Vierne Collection'. Very good recording this. have played it a few times!!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Maybe a tag on the website encouraging people to contribute to the cathedral/music foundation would help their decision-making process?Chapter still has to be persuaded to provide the funds for a permanent mic set-up.Comment
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I suggest that doing away with such unnecessary stuff as thuribles, which of course have no connection with Christ's teachings at all, just as most high church and popish rubbish doesn't, would help provide funds for the necessary equipment. That is, if it's not thought even more appropriate to use it to relieve those who have nothing...
But from a musical point of view, good luck with it and keep up the excellent work!Comment
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Just a thought, Simon. When I was a student, the only Anglican church situated in and ministering to the poorest and most deprived area of tne city (and believe me it was poor and deprived in those days...kids in bare feet pushing prams of coal...yes, really) was the High one; bells, smells, birettas, the lot.Comment
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That's lovely to hear, ardcarp. But how much more they could have given had they not spent on incense? A pair of shoes for a barefoot kid or nice smells in church? Not a hard one to get right, surely?Originally posted by ardcarp View PostComment
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And how much more could the Church give if it didn't spend on choirs and music, Simon? A pair of shoes for a barefoot kid or nice sounds in church?Originally posted by Simon View PostComment
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