CE Ripon Cathedral November 14th 2012

[DracoM]

Reminder this afternoon @ 3.30 p.m

[DracoM]

Wonderfully confident, red-blooded singing. Not always specially refined, but disciplined, genuinely exciting and urgent in delivery. Love the Moore responses, good brisk, even bouncy psalms.

Boys and girls had a lot do in those thickish Darke textures and should be pleased. Solos pretty decently done, and underpinning it all, some splendid organ work.
Word to the engineers: I've sung in Ripon and it is NOT easy to get good sound balance, but I thought this was pretty well done.

Such a relief that despite all the turmoil and anxiety for all concerned, this was such a rousing re-affirmation of Ripon values.

[Roger Pont L'Eveque]

Relieved to hear it, Draco. You should come and listen to our Britten Ceremony of Carols this December. It's an annual tradition and has been superb in the past.

[ardcarp]

There was some uber-Romantic organ registration. There seems to be a rather scrummy set of string stops which were put to use in the psalms...something sadly lacking in neo-classical instruments. Do any modern organ designs have narrow-scale edgy strings? Will they come back into fashion one day? Nobody appreciates a good classical organ with mechanical action, low wind-pressures and a werk-prinzip layout more than I do...but it would be hopeless for this evening's fare. Ripon sounded rippin' I thought, possibly overshadowing the choir once or twice; but this might be down to the engineers.

There was one quite fruity bass voice in the choir...pity no solo for him!

[ardcarp]

Welcome Roger Pont l'Eveque. What a nice place to name yourself after! Nice cheese too. Hope The Ceremony of Carols goes well. Do you have a harpist? Sorry I live so far away.

[bach736]

I cut and paste from the R3's website.

Quite understandable, Draco - we know the BBC always checks its facts ...

[Op. XXXIX]

Many thanks, Ripon, for a wonderful service!

A pleasure to hear 'Wolvercote', don't think I had heard that on a b'cast in years. (, who suggested an alternate tune?)

[ToneLower]

OK. Yes, Wolvercote sounded very good, as did the whole service. (But I still think Hatherop Castle would have been fun.)

[Oldcrofter]

Hatherop's for junior schools, Wolvercote for boys' grammar/indep.

Here's a lovely tune that fits - South Korean Sumi Jo singing in (very good) Swedish. The hymn is 'Bred dina vidar vingar' (lit. Spread your broad wings)composed in 1860 by Swedish hymn composer Lina Sandell-Berg and based on a Swedish folk tune. It's much loved in Scandinavia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-v6np3QvfY

[ardcarp]

Wolvbercote is tops. The words go quite well to Thornbury too. But despite what Oldcrofter says above, we used to sing the old A&M (unrevised) tune at school:

(F major)

F A C D c bnatural C-C A G F g a Bflat D G etc. where caps=minims and lower case=crotchets in 4/2 time.

Anyone remember the name?

[Wolsey]

Day of Rest by J W Elliott

[ardcarp]

Thanks!

[Simon]

Finally got to hear the Ripon CE.

Very nice too - many thanks for an unpretentious and well-sung service.