A SERVICE FOR ADVENT WITH CAROLS 27th Nov 2011

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  • DracoM
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    • Mar 2007
    • 12986

    A SERVICE FOR ADVENT WITH CAROLS 27th Nov 2011

    A SERVICE FOR ADVENT WITH CAROLS
    Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge


    Order of Service:


    Carol: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (arr. Nield)
    Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel) (descant: Hill)
    Bidding Prayer
    Carol: The Cherry Tree Carol (arr. Cleobury)

    I The Message of Advent
    Sentence and Collect
    Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonai
    First lesson: Isaiah 11: 1-5
    Carol: A Tender Shoot (Goldschmidt)
    Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11
    Out of your Sleep (Milner)

    II The Word of God
    Sentence and Collect
    Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David
    Anthem: Adam lay ibounden (Swayne)
    Third lesson: Micah 4: 1-4
    Carol: The Truth from Above (arr. Vaughan Williams/ Robinson)
    Fourth lesson: Luke 4: 14-21
    Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) (descant: Robinson)

    III The Prophetic Call
    Sentence and Collect
    Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium
    Motet: Rorate coeli (Guerrero)
    Fifth lesson: Malachi 3: 1-7
    Anthem: How lovely are the messengers (Mendelssohn)
    Sixth lesson: Matthew 3: 1-11
    Hymn: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Winchester New) (descant: Robinson)

    IV The Christ-Bearer
    Sentence and Collect
    Antiphon: O Emmanuel
    Carol: The Annunciation (Jonathan Harvey) (first performance)
    Seventh lesson: Luke 1: 39-49
    Motet: Übers Gebirg Maria geht (Eccard)
    Magnificat: Stanford in B flat
    Eighth lesson: John 3:1-8
    Sentence and Christmas Collect
    Carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Gardner)
    Hymn: Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) (descant: Robinson)
    College Prayer and Blessing



    Organ Voluntary:
    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 (J.S. Bach)



    Assistant Organist: John Challenger
    Director of Music: Andrew Nethsingha
  • Eine Alpensinfonie
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 20572

    #2
    This one's always worth a listen. I've been following it since the days of George Guest.

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    • Magnificat

      #3
      I know it is appropriate and they always do one but for me Stanford in B Flat Mag is for Evensong. Why can't they give us one of the many lovely settings of the Ave Maria for a change?

      VCC

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      • Alison
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 6468

        #4
        Good to end with a proper advent carol instead of Hark the herald !

        It doesn't seem the most imaginative selection this year. Tomorrow shall be dancing day a big turn off for me !!

        Let's hope the Harvey delivers :)

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        • DracoM
          Host
          • Mar 2007
          • 12986

          #5
          I wonder if, rather like KCC, their 'big' services might have become a straitjacket, such that improvisation of format, structure and musical repertoire is constrained by the need to remember or be reminded of their global audience. In the end, they and KCC can far too readily be defined by the image makers and even embalmed in aspic by their very successes in a particular format.

          These are fine musicians, and at times I feel immensely sorry for them as they set out on what might seem like both millstone and the annual treadmill. As soon as a choir become indelibly associated with an annual ritual, they can become trapped.

          I always wonder what Stephen Cleobury must be thinking as he steps up to read for the unflagging Nth time that same lesson from Luke every year.

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          • pole_2_pole

            #6
            FYI - John Challenger (Assistant Organist at John's) has been appointed as Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral following Daniel Cook's imminent move to Wales....

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26572

              #7
              Originally posted by Magnificat View Post
              I know it is appropriate and they always do one but for me Stanford in B Flat Mag is for Evensong. Why can't they give us one of the many lovely settings of the Ave Maria for a change?

              VCC
              Like Alps, I have had this on most if not all Advent Sundays since the Guest days... (It is the time I try and start writing some Christmas cards, ideally do all the ones going abroad)

              But I totally agree with you Mags: I wish they'd get away from a bloomin' Stanford Magnificat which can be aired all year... So much great seasonal music instead.
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • ardcarp
                Late member
                • Nov 2010
                • 11102

                #8
                Yes, if they must do a bloomin' Stanford Mag, then at least the one in G with its associations of Mary at her anachronistic spinning wheel would be more picturesqe.

                To an earlier poster may I say that I like that Gardner 'Dancing Day'... a most original piece. It's his 'Holly and Ivy' that I can't bear! Oh well, chacun.......

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                • Wolsey
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 416

                  #9
                  Originally posted by pole_2_pole View Post
                  FYI - John Challenger (Assistant Organist at John's) has been appointed as Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral following Daniel Cook's imminent move to Wales....
                  Daniel Cook took up his post at St David's at the beginning of this month.

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                  • mopsus
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 828

                    #10
                    Stephen Cleobury has had a change of lesson since he arrived at King's. A few years ago they rejigged who read which lesson and the Director of Music's changed, though I forget which one it was before.

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                    • Wolsey
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 416

                      #11
                      Originally posted by mopsus View Post
                      Stephen Cleobury has had a change of lesson since he arrived at King's. A few years ago they rejigged who read which lesson and the Director of Music's changed, though I forget which one it was before.
                      Quite so. The Director of Music used to read the fifth lesson (the Annunciation), but now reads the seventh (the Shepherds).

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        #12
                        There has been a lot of good radio, just recently and this is another 'must hear programme.
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • Anna

                          #13
                          A Heads Up for this, on in 10 mins. I love Advent, I love O Come Emmanuel, that is my favourite and also, Lo He Comes and On Jordan's Bank. Actually, what is there not to like about the Season? Oh, and can I open a window of the Advent Calendar?

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                          • VodkaDilc

                            #14
                            This was most enjoyable. I had not looked at the order of service, so was pleasantly surprised to hear the Mendelssohn (though at break-neck speed) - and the Gardner was wonderful (though, perversely, at a steadier speed than I have normally heard it taken at). I was expecting a different last verse of Lo he comes; doesn't St John's normally have the last verse with outrageous organ harmonies - or am I thinking of some years ago?

                            I am no sound engineer and talk of compression and suchlike leaves me mystified - but, listening on a good FM tuner, I was struck by the lowish volume levels and rather mushy sound of the big hymns. Was that caused by someone fiddling with the sound? The Bach at the end was magical after the thick sound of the hymn (even if, as I heard it at home, there was some slight lack of synchronisation between limbs towards the end.)

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                            • salymap
                              Late member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5969

                              #15
                              I had to turn it off, sadly, as it didn't go with my tinnitus which is bad today. Mushy sound indeed here.

                              AND I was looking forward to it.

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