St Albans International Organ Festival concert - broadcast 19.09.17

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

St Albans International Organ Festival
Three of the UK's finest choirs, those of St Albans Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral and the Temple Church, combine forces in music ranging from a majestic anthem by SS Wesley to Leonard Bernstein's ebullient Chichester Psalms.

Nicolai transc. Liszt: Festival overture on Ein Feste burg
JS Bach: Nun danket alle Gott BWV.657
Holst: The Evening Watch
Vaughan Williams: Credo from Mass in G minor
Eric Whitacre: Lux aurumque
SS Wesley: Ascribe unto the Lord
Tippett: 5 Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time'
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden

James Hall (countertenor), Elizabeth Bass (harp), Rebecca McChrystal (percussion)
Pier Damiano Peretti, Simon Johnson, Tom Winpenny, Greg Morris (organ)
Andrew Carwood, Roger Sayer, Andrew Lucas (conductors)
rec. 17.07.2017.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Lots to enjoy in that programme. I'm very fond of many of the pieces to be heard tonight. Glad to hear the Mendelssohn - the Herreweghe recording with the refulgent lower string sounds is a favourite of mine.

Oh, I'd love to sing the Durufle Requiem in the small string orchestra arrangement again, with the Mendelssohn added into the programme.

[oddoneout]

Have just finished listening to this most enjoyable concert, but am puzzled(yet again) by what 'live' means as far as the Beeb is concerned. The website schedule was saying 'Listen Live' but it was a recording of a concert on Sunday...I was also interested to see that the final Mendelssohn was listed online(and above)as part of the programme when at the concert it was presented(ostensibly) as an encore.
Never mind, wonderful music, wonderful sound, happy listener.

[EdgeleyRob]

Have just finished listening to this most enjoyable concert, but am puzzled(yet again) by what 'live' means as far as the Beeb is concerned. The website schedule was saying 'Listen Live' but it was a recording of a concert on Sunday...I was also interested to see that the final Mendelssohn was listed online(and above)as part of the programme when at the concert it was presented(ostensibly) as an encore.
Never mind, wonderful music, wonderful sound, happy listener.

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[DracoM]

[ardcarp]

but it was a recording of a concert on Sunday.

Even worse...it was in July!

[Dafydd y G.W.]

Have just finished listening to this most enjoyable concert, but am puzzled(yet again) by what 'live' means as far as the Beeb is concerned. The website schedule was saying 'Listen Live' but it was a recording of a concert on Sunday

"Live" in this context means "as it is being broadcast" as opposed "to catching up" later, i.e. listening via the Internet but just as you would on a wireless set. It doesn't indicate a live broadcast (or not necessarily - it might also be a l.b. but as ín this case it will often be a recording).

[BBMmk2]

Another catch up for me!

[Alain Maréchal]

"Live" in this context means "as it is being broadcast" as opposed "to catching up" later, i.e. listening via the Internet but just as you would on a wireless set. It doesn't indicate a live broadcast (or not necessarily - it might also be a l.b. but as ín this case it will often be a recording).

Did not Humpty Dumpty have an opinion about the meaning of words?

I cannot listen to a "live broadcast" whatever the BBC intends by that, since the BBC does not reach this far, but I can listen to this "deferred relay" via the internet by downloading it* (as an M4a file, whatever that is), and am looking forward to it. I wonder what the expression is for something heard at third hand.

*am I doing anything illegal?

[Keraulophone]

Wonderful to have such a concert broadcast in the evening slot. Just one disappointment: not using a boy treble soloist in the second movement of the Chichester Psalms, despite the presence of three fine choirs with boys' voices. I realise that a countertenor alternative is allowed in the score, but my preference, and I thought Bernstein's, has always been for the former.

Plus another reminder, in the interval, of Peter Hurford's infectious Bach playing (Toccata, Adagio & Fugue), though not at St Albans but from his complete Argo recording.