Tenebrae for Holy Week Westminster Cathedral, London [L] 27.iii.24 @ 4p.m.

[DracoM]

Westminster Cathedral

Choral Evensong 27.iii.24


The Office of Tenebrae for Holy Week Westminster Cathedral, London.

Psalm 69 (70) & Antiphon: Avertantur retrorsum Plainsong (mode viii c)
Lamentation Incipit Lamentatio Ieremiæ Prophetæ Plainsong
Responsory In monte Oliveti George Malcolm
Lamentation Vau. Et egressus est a filia Sion Plainsong
Responsory Tristis est anima mea George Malcolm
Lamentation Jod. Manum suam misit hostis / Plainsong
Responsory Ecce vidimus eum George Malcolm

Psalm 71 (72) & Antiphon: Liberavit Dominus / Plainsong (mode vii c)
Reading St Augustine’s dissertation on the psalms (i)
Responsory Amicus meus Tomás Luis de Victoria
Reading St Augustine’s dissertation on the psalms (ii)
Responsory Iudas mercator pessimus Tomás Luis de Victoria
Reading St Augustine’s dissertation on the psalms (iii)
Responsory Unus ex discipulis Tomás Luis de Victoria

Psalm 75 (76) & Antiphon: Terra tremuit / Plainsong (mode viii c)
Reading 1 Corinthians 11, vv.17-22
Responsory Eram quasi agnus Tomás Luis de Victoria
Reading 1 Corinthians 11, vv.23-26
Responsory Una hora Tomás Luis de Victoria
Reading 1 Corinthians 11, vv.27-34
Responsory Seniores populi Tomás Luis de Victoria
Collect Look down, O Lord, we beseech Thee…
Motet Christus factus est (first half) Giovanni Francesco Anerio
Strepitus

Simon Johnson (Director of Music)
Peter Stevens (Assistant Director of Music)

[DracoM]

Hvae posted WRONG Date - should be March 27th 2024

[Pulcinella]

Hvae posted WRONG Date - should be March 27th 2024

Draco: I have been able to change this for you.

[DracoM]

[DracoM]

Reminder: today.

[DracoM]

A service - a LIVE service - that tested every voice - soloists and ensembles - and was charged with dignity, conviction, unfussiness, and an intensity so right for the season.
We are so blessed R3 relayed it.

[mopsus]

A service - a LIVE service - that tested every voice - soloists and ensembles - and was charged with dignity, conviction, unfussiness, and an intensity so right for the season.
We are so blessed R3 relayed it.

The explanations of what was going on were confined to the beginning and end - a pity this can't be done for evensong broadcasts.

[DracoM]

[S H Otley]

Why is it that I am NEVER able to listen on the days there's a live broadcast?

[Simon Biazeck]

Wall-to-wall chant and Polyphony with equally excellent and dignified readers. Nothing better.