CE Peterborough Cathedral Wed, 8th Jan 2014

[DracoM]

So 'cat' is a bit like 'chai' as sort of root vocab that no matter what language it later appears in - Romance, Teutonic, Slav - retains its identity.

[DracoM]

Reminder: the repeat of CE has moved to 3 p.m. on Sundays. Apologies for not posting a reminder last week.

[Yojimbo]

Absolutely terrific to hear the Magnificat interpolated with carols as it historically was at Christmastime. I thought the choices very apt.

It's also perhaps worth remembering that Peterborough in a sense has no all-male choir as there is a mixed back row. And I thought the altos sounded especially fine.

[DracoM]

Absolutely terrific to hear the Magnificat interpolated with carols as it historically was at Christmastime. I thought the choices very apt.

It's also perhaps worth remembering that Peterborough in a sense has no all-male choir as there is a mixed back row. And I thought the altos sounded especially fine.

Indeed. A point missed by one or two less well-informed posters, maybe? Presumably Mr Q knew all this when he took the job. What's not to like!!

[edashtav]

A freshly imagined evensong using unhackneyed music that was performed in a decent fashion.

[Anna]

I try and catch CE via the repeat on a Sunday. It's sounding pretty good to this ordinary bums on seats less well informed as to girls punter!

[ardcarp]

ordinary bums on seats less well informed as to girls

Adjectival phras qualifying the noun 'punter'. Nice one.

[Vox Humana]

... the Magnificat interpolated with carols as it historically was at Christmastime.

Can you point me to an authoritative reference for this, please?

[Magnificat]

Can you point me to an authoritative reference for this, please?

I believe the announcer said that it is a Lutheran tradition.

VCC

[Mr Stoat]

I believe the announcer said that it is a Lutheran tradition.

VCC

Something here, but not sure how authoritative http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I...ificat&f=false

And of course John Tavener's Collegium Regale Magnificat includes interpolations from the Greek liturgy

[Vox Humana]

Thanks, Mr Stoat. I should have remembered Bach's example (even if it's pushing things to call his interpolations carols). I confess I was rather hoping for some evidence from the British side of the channel that I might have missed.

[Mr Stoat]

Thanks, Mr Stoat. I should have remembered Bach's example (even if it's pushing things to call his interpolations carols). I confess I was rather hoping for some evidence from the British side of the channel that I might have missed.

"Seasonal texts" perhaps rather than carols?

[Vox Humana]

Yup.

[Wolsey]

I confess I was rather hoping for some evidence from the British side of the channel that I might have missed.

Taking his inspiration from Bach, John Rutter deliberately adopts the tradition of troping a text in his choral work Magnificat.