CE Parish Church of St Malachy, Hillsborough, Northern Ireland Wed, 10th July 2013

[DracoM]

CE Parish Church of St Malachy, Hillsborough, Northern Ireland
Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

400th anniversary of the birth of Bishop Jeremy Taylor




Order of Service:



Introit: God is our hope and strength (Blow)
Responses: Reading
Office Hymn: Teach me, my God and King (Song 20)
Psalm 40 (Turner)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 3: 5-15
Canticles: Turner in A
Second Lesson: Titus 2: 7-8, 11-15
Anthem 1: O holy and ever-blessed Spirit (Joel Rust) (first performance)
Anthem 2: Job's Curse (Purcell)
Final Hymn: Ride on triumphantly (Farley Castle)


Voluntary for Double Organ (Anonymous, 17th century)



Nick Lee and Liam Crangle (Organ Scholars)
Geoffrey Webber (Director of Music)

[DracoM]

Reminder: today @ 3.30 p.m.

[ardcarp]

On Tuesday?

[DracoM]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Gun, temple, pull....................

[ardcarp]

Put it down to the hot weather........

[ardcarp]

It's today!

I wonder what link G&C has with St Malachy's...or is it just a nice place for a choir hol? Looks good:

http://www.hillsboroughparish.org.uk/main/

I know G&C has some sort of link with a Suffolk church or two, but Ireland? Anyway I'm not well up enough on Anglican admin to know the ins and outs.

[mercia]

Bishop Taylor was educated at G&C

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Taylor

[ardcarp]

Here's a short Wiki link to William Turner. The lesser lights of the post-Restoration period are not heard so often these days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Turner_(composer)

Those metrical psalm settings are a rarity too.

[ardcarp]

The choir certainly sounds different from how it did 10 years ago, using a lot of 'full-voice' singing. Geoffrey Webber can usually be relied upon to choose some off-the-beaten-track repertory, and the Turner psalm was just that...and the canticles too are not heard much these days. The Rust anthem did not perhaps sit very comfortably with its otherwise 17th/18th century bedfellows. I'm no expert in recorded sound, but it did have that slight 'being sung in the bathroom' quality about it.

[Simon Biazeck]

The reason that tenor stepped up to his solo Purcell fresh as a daisy was because they were signing properly, and well modulated! An excellent sound all round with genuinely expressive musical direction, all generated by text.

[ardcarp]

The reason that tenor stepped up to his solo Purcell fresh as a daisy was because they were signing properly, and well modulated! An excellent sound all round with genuinely expressive musical direction, all generated by text.

Agree about the tenor soloist and the musical direction.