CE Church of St Giles Cripplegate, London Aug 28th 2013

[DracoM]

CE Church of St Giles Cripplegate, London
Genesis Sixteen



Order of Service:



Introit: Sedebit Dominus Rex (James MacMillan)
Responses: Rose
Psalms: 136 (Andrew Reid)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 19: 8-23
Magnificat: Octavi Toni super Aurora lucis rutilat (Lassus)
Second Lesson: Acts 11: 19-end
Nunc Dimittis: Holst
Anthem: Agnus Dei from Missa Euge Bone (Tye)
Final Hymn: Now thank we all our God (Nun danket)



Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on Nun danket alle Gott BWV 657 (Bach)



Daniel Hyde (Organist)
Harry Christophers & Eamonn Dougan (Music Directors)





NB: http://www.thesixteen.com/page/3180/Genesis-Sixteen
NNB: This is a recorded service.

[Oldcrofter]

Harry Christophers talking about the formation and purpose of the Genesis-Sixteen young singers plus short comments by singers themselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe2XhQwwOUI

[DracoM]

Reminder@ today @ 3.30 p.m.

[DracoM]

Lovely service, intense singing - choir maybe a tad too big for the Tye, but that's nit-picking.
MacMillan start outstanding.
Psalm is pretty thankless and repetitive in terms of words, but a good setting shed light.
Lassus OK, Holst felt much more comfortable, maybe what this team preferred, and I thought they delivered it really well.

'Fraid the Tye I thought a shade lumpish and lacking agility. Nicely sung - here as throughout the alto tone was distinctive and illuminating - but the tempo was a bit slow and just a bit heavy-textured. I suppose we've got used to lighter treble tones soaring away as from Christ Church and the like in such repertoire to make this feel just a little middle-aged by comparison!

But what a joy to hear young voices giving it such unalloyed fire! Many thanks.

[Finzi4ever]

I agree, DM, with your review. Good to hear Daniel Hyde playing again (albeit only hymn & voluntary required), but THAT Trumpet's tuning! If Mander's couldn't get someone in to tap the reed wires then the Bach could have been re-registered (Cornet?), or the other organ used. Surely it's not tuned to Werckmeister III on a single stop?

[Daniel Hyde]

I agree, DM, with your review. Good to hear Daniel Hyde playing again (albeit only hymn & voluntary required), but THAT Trumpet's tuning! If Mander's couldn't get someone in to tap the reed wires then the Bach could have been re-registered (Cornet?), or the other organ used. Surely it's not tuned to Werckmeister III on a single stop?

Glad you enjoyed it. In fact, the voluntary was re-registered twice in the balance test. However, since the church then filled up with people on one of the hottest days of the year (end of July, 30 degrees + in there) it had gone way out of tune by the time we got to the voluntary! And then, once you're underway, it's not really possible to change it all mid-piece. All part of the fun!

[DracoM]

Please note that the repeat of this CE is on Sunday, Sept 1st at 6 p.m.

[mopsus]

It's good to know that what is broadcast on a recorded CE is an entire act of worship, with nothing re-recorded. I've been at concerts which were to be broadcast later on R3 where short parts were performed and recorded again at the end, to be spliced into the broadcast version, because of an ambulance or other noise during the actual concert.

[DracoM]

Reminds me of one or two of the never to be forgotten recordings of St John's under GG when you quite often heard the rumble of Cambridge traffic under whatever glories were being sung!

[gainasbass]

....or St. Paul's Cathedral and the Underground rumblings; or St. George's Chapel Windsor Castle and Aeroplanes.........; or......

[DracoM]

Indeed!