CE Peterborough Cathedral Wed, 8th Jan 2014

[DracoM]

CE Peterborough Cathedral



Order of Service:



Introit: Illuminare Jerusalem (Judith Weir)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Office Hymn: Bethlehem, of noblest cities (Stuttgart)
Psalm: 145 (Walmisley)
First Lesson: Joel 2: 28-end
Magnificat octavi toni (David Bevan)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 1: 7-14
Nunc dimittis tertii toni (Victoria)
Anthems: Look up, sweet babe (Berkeley) & In the bleak midwinter (Rodney Bennett)
Hymn: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning (Liebster Immanuel)


Organ Voluntary: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BuxWV 203) (Buxtehude)


David Humphreys (Assistant Director of Music)
Robert Quinney (Director of Music)

[MrGongGong]

That's all very well
but how will they cope with the 'sharp' pitch ?

[Vile Consort]

More to the point, how will they cope with the temperament?

[MrGongGong]

More to the point, how will they cope with the temperament?

[DracoM]

Reminder@ today @ 3 30 p.m

[ardcarp]

I think it's Robert Quinney's first broadcast with the choir having been recently appointed. Good luck to all.

[LTFC1990]

This magnificat arrangement is awesome!!!

[Keraulophone]

This broadcast CE had me 'glued to the wireless' for the duration - a magnificent effort from everyone involved.

Hats off to the exceptionally gifted Mr Quinney.

Many thanks indeed, Peterborough.

[DracoM]

Well, what a surprise that was! Please don't take that the wrong way!!

Not sure if the David Bevan canticles were clever - which they most certainly were - or just a little bit of a brightly coloured patchwork quilt? BUT very finely sung. Nevertheless, even they had to take the minor places behind [a] the excellent Berkeley - partic opening treb solos - and [b] the Richard Rodney Bennett which was exquisite.

I agree with ardcarp that Robert Quinney seems to have really got to work with the choir and produced auspicious results.

[Lento]

Not sure about opening with Illuminare: rather less slick than Kings Cambridge IMHO.

[jean]

Not sure if the David Bevan canticles were clever - which they most certainly were - or just a little bit of a brightly coloured patchwork quilt?

Well, just the Magnificat was his, I think. If he wrote it originally for Catholic Vespers, he wouldn't have needed to set the Nunc Dimittis anyway.

I didn't realise it was his as I listened, and I thought how wonderful to have a troped Magnificat (which is a more elegant way of talking about it than patchwork!)

[BWV]

I enjoyed it, though did anyone else feel that the overall sound levels were low?
I had to increase the volume considerably, which thus enabled me to 'enjoy' more of the Peterborough background rumble

[Simon Biazeck]

Well, just the Magnificat was his, I think. If he wrote it originally for Catholic Vespers, he wouldn't have needed to set the Nunc Dimittis anyway.

I didn't realise it was his as I listened, and I thought how wonderful to have a troped Magnificat (which is a more elegant way of talking about it than patchwork!)

Yes, the 8-part Mag. is Bevan, and thank you for using the correct terminology! I wonder if this is the first time we have heard a troped Mag. on the Choral Evensong broadcast - perhaps! What was even more surprising was how well the Dancing Day arr. (Willcocks?) and Wishart's Alleluia: A New Work fitted; so apt and festive.

[DracoM]

Well, just the Magnificat was his, I think. If he wrote it originally for Catholic Vespers, he wouldn't have needed to set the Nunc Dimittis anyway.

I didn't realise it was his as I listened, and I thought how wonderful to have a troped Magnificat (which is a more elegant way of talking about it than patchwork!)

Jean, thanks for the technicals. I deserve knuckle-rapping. Yes it was refreshing to hear such musical alliances being made and carried through with some skill by the choir. I think I was just a bit taken aback by a sort of magic box opening and revealing more goodies!
And, yes, I really did have to crank up the volume.
Sounded like a big congregation there too.

[Magnificat]

Not sure about opening with Illuminare: rather less slick than Kings Cambridge IMHO.

Lento

I'm afraid the Peterborough girls were not really up to it.

Yet again a new DOM does his first CE broadcast with the girls rather than the boys. He's been in post for seven months for goodness sake has he no confidence in his abiliities?

I suppose we'll be told that it was the girls' turn. What a useful cop - out.

VCC