Choral Evensong BBC 3

lancecornea · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

Guildford certainly lives up to the reputation it gained during Barry Rose's directorship, with an excellent Evensong this week!
Very Happy

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jwatkins · Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject:

Since I remembered to set the recording, I must actually listen to it Smile

John.

Jason Evans · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 535

I gave it a listen last night- quite fine. And the Very Rev Victor Stock's comments were rather interesting...

lancecornea · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:31 am Post subject:

In the Chatter forum, Jason Evans wrote

lancecornea · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

For those who like girls on the top line, try this week's service from Bath Abbey.
Nice job girls! Very Happy

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damon · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 109 Location: birmingham .uk

a good service today
BUT
the last hymn ''Praise to the Lord'' with No descant !!!!

ROOM 101 I THINK ...

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Jason Evans · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 535

Anyone catch Evensong from Christ Church today? Not the kind of stuff I usually go for, yet for some reason Palestrina's music always mesmerizes me. Oh to have been there...

lancecornea · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:06 am Post subject:

You beat me to it this time Jason.
Yes, a lovely Palestrina, but OMG! what do they think they're doing with the psalm? Just doesn't flow using that style of chanting. Isn't it generally regarded to be as close as possible to speech rhythm? Perhaps there's always got to be an exception. Well here it is Evil or Very Mad

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David_Underdown · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 48 Location: South West London

Only caught up with the broadcast during the mag, but I understand the peculiarities of chanting at Christ Church are a fairly long-standing house style to do with the peculiarities of the acoustic there.
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Conrad Poohs · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 34 Location: London

It may have been for reasons of acoustics once upon a time, but it's just got ridiculous now!

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lancecornea · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

From Ps.82
God standeth in the congregation of priiiiiiiiinces: he is a Juuuuuudge among gods

Defend the poor and faaaaaatherless: see that such as are in neeeeeeeed and necessity have right

Neeeeeed I go on? Evil or Very Mad

IMHO it's a style and has nothing to do with a dry acoustic.
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Jason Evans · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 535

It was pointed out on the BBC Choir board (which I just joined) that Wells Cathedral this past Tuesday did Blair in B minor , followed the next day by Brown's Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense .

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