King's Choir on BBC2/BBC HD on Holy Saturday, 17.05

[Nick Armstrong]

This doesn't seem to have been highlighted here yet:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g7r20

Some compensation for the lack of a televised Maundy Thursday service, perhaps...

[ardcarp]

Thanks Caliban. The blurb:

An Easter commemoration featuring the world-famous choir of King's College, Cambridge. Jesus' death and resurrection have inspired some of the most beautiful and moving words and music ever written. Pieces by Handel, Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Franck, Mendelssohn, Victoria, Vaughan Williams and others

[DracoM]

So we have no idea what form / structure the 'service' has, or is it simply a pre-recorded event, like the number of Christmas packages KCC do?

[Nick Armstrong]

So we have no idea what form / structure the 'service' has, or is it simply a pre-recorded event, like the number of Christmas packages KCC do?

I imagine it's an Easter version of the Christmas TV relay - music plus readings. They've done it before at Easter.

[Double Diapason]

This help?

EASTER FROM KING'S: PASSIONTIDE TO EASTER
With the choir of King's College, Cambridge, Music Director Stephen Cleobury
Organ Scholars: Ben-San Lau, Parker Ramsay

Dean: the Rev. Dr. Jeremy Morris
Chaplain: the Rev Richard Lloyd Morgan
Administrator: Janet Copeland
ORDER OF SERVICE
Hymn: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
(Tune: Rockingham, arr. Stephen Cleobury (1948-);
Words: Isaac Watts (1674-1748))

Bidding (The Dean)

Choir: God So Loved the World
(Music: John Stainer (1840-1901), from The Crucifixion; Words: John 3:16)

Reading: Losing Eden, Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Choir: Crown of Roses
(Music: Tchaikovsky (1840-1893); Words: A. Pleshcheyev (1825-1893))

Choir: Herr, Gedenke Nicht "Lord, remember not our wrongdoings…"
(Music: Mendelssohn (1809-1847); Words: liturgical)

Reading: Isaiah 52, 53 "The Suffering Servant"

Choir: Ubi Caritas "Where there is charity and love, God is there"
(Music Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986);
Words from an antiphon for Maundy Thursday)

Choir: And with His Stripes We are Healed, + the final section of All We Like Sheep
(Music: Handel (1685-1759) from Messiah; Words: Isaiah 53:5-6)

Reading: Luke 22 "The Last Supper"

Choir: I Sat Down Under His Shadow with Great Delight
(Music: Edward Bairstow (1874-1946); Words: Song of Solomon 2:3)

Choir: Panis Angelicus "The bread of angels becomes the food of humanity"
(Music: César Franck (1822-1890); Words: Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274))

Hymn: Praise to the Holiest in the Height
(Tune: Gerontius, descant James Whitbourn (1963-);
Words: John Henry Newman (1801-1890), from The Dream of Gerontius)

Reading: Luke 22 "The garden of Gethsemane"

Choir: Amicus Meus "My friend betrayed me with the sign of a kiss"
(Music: Victoria (1548-1611); Words from Tenebrae Responsories)

Choir: Pater Noster "Our Father who art in heaven"
(Music: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971); Words: The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6))

Reading: Luke 23 "The Crucifixion"

Choir: Crucifixus "He was crucified even for us"
(Music: Antonio Lotti (1667-1740); Words from the Creed)

Reading: Easter Night, Alice Meynell (1847-1922)

Choir: In Paradisum "May the angels lead you into paradise"
Music: Gabriel Fauré, from Requiem; Words liturgical)

Hymn: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
(Tune: St Fulbert; Words: Fulbert of Chartres (d 1028)

Reading: John 20 "The risen Christ is seen by Mary"

Choir: This Joyful Eastertide
(Words and Music: Trad. Dutch Carol, arr. Charles Wood (1866-1926))

Choir: Surrexit Dominus "The Lord has truly risen"
(Music and Words: Plainsong, arr. David Briggs (1962-))

Reading: from Kilvert's Diary, Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)

Choir: Bring Us, O Lord God, at our Last Awakening
(Music: William Harris (1883-1973); Words: John Donne (1572-1631))

Choir: Let All the World, in Every Corner, Sing
(Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958); Words: George Herbert (1593-1633))

Prayer and Blessing

Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today
(Tune: Easter Hymn arr. Stephen Cleobury (1948-);
Words: 14th century from the Compleat Psalmodist, 1749)

Organ: from Finale by Louis Vierne (1870-1937)

[DracoM]

Thanks.

[Alison]

Same old blandness I expect.

[Simon]

Same old blandness I expect.

A good choice of repertoire that many people will be able to relate to, I thought, Ali.

There have been murmurings that they've slipped, but I haven't heard them live this year so I can't comment firsthand. But they'd get the broadcast, regardless, of course.

I see that we're to benefit from some of their Director's arrangements of the hymns. I do hope he hasn't "arranged" them in a manner similar to that of some of his Christmas descants...

[mercia]

I may have to press the mute button for the Stainer, Franck and Wood, but apart from that lovely.

[Nick Armstrong]

I may have to press the mute button for the Stainer, Franck and Wood, but apart from that lovely.

I tend to agree... and the Tchaikovsky And I've tried to love the Stravinsky in the past, as failed, but shall have another crack.

[Mary Chambers]

I tend to agree... and the Tchaikovsky And I've tried to love the Stravinsky in the past, as failed, but shall have another crack.

I rather like the Tchaikovsky, and I don't think I know the Stravinsky. The one I really dislike is the Duruflé.

[DracoM]

The Tchaik is actually great to sing. Quite exciting - in the right hands.

[gainasbass]

Spot on, Draco!

[Wolsey]

The one I really dislike is the Duruflé.

Oh dear. I feel sorry for you.

[Mary Chambers]

Oh dear. I feel sorry for you.

Really? I don't feel at all sorry for myself