Ash Wednesday CE from Truro Cathedral

[Keraulophone]

Reminder: two days to go... (and I'll be depping).

[jonfan]

Reminder: two days to go... (and I'll be depping).

Quality assured!!

[Alison]

Go Kera

[Guest]

CE Truro Cathedral on Ash Wednesday March 2025 [L] @ 3 p.m.

Order of Service:

Introit: O Lord in thy wrath (Gibbons)
Responses: Byrd
Psalm 51 (Hervey)
First Lesson: Isaiah 1 vv10-18
Canticles: The Short Service (Gibbons)
Second Lesson: Luke 15 vv11-32
Anthem: Out of the deep (Gibbons)
Hymn: Lord Jesus, think on me (Southwell)

Voluntary: Passacaglia in D minor (Buxtehude)

Andrew Wyatt (Assistant Director of Music)
James Anderson-Besant (Director of Music)

[Keraulophone]

Thank you, DM.

[Finzi4ever]

Sublime! Thank you, K, and all at Truro

[jonfan]

Sublime! Thank you, K, and all at Truro

Wonderful to concentrate on the service with no extraneous explanations about the psalm, lessons, etc. Psalm 51 was very moving, exquisitely sung with the meaning clearly expressed,
The whole service a fitting beginning of Lent.
PS. I don’t think K has left and is still a permanent singer on the back row.

[Finzi4ever]

Wonderful to concentrate on the service with no extraneous explanations about the psalm, lessons, etc. Psalm 51 was very moving, exquisitely sung with the meaning clearly expressed,
The whole service a fitting beginning of Lent.
PS. I don’t think K has left and is still a permanent singer on the back row.

Every bit as good as it has been at Truro for very many years now.

[Keraulophone]

PS. I don’t think K has left and is still a permanent singer on the back row.

Haha... in fact he retired as (Senior) Lay Vicar after 34 years service in July 2023, though he had one last duty in the choir: to sing to HM The King and Queen on the harbour wall at St Ives that September.

Because the choir has been a bass choral scholar down this year, I've been delighted to have been asked to dep when required. I was very proud of everyone's efforts today.

[jonfan]

Because the choir has been a bass choral scholar down this year, I've been delighted to have been asked to dep when required. I was very proud of everyone's efforts today.

Keep up the good work, you are obviously appreciated very highly. I found when retired one can do all the nice things and decline the less attractive!
Further observation:
Psalm 51 sung to Anglican Chant in a nuanced way, as yesterday, brings out the subtleties in the text that Allegri’s M can’t do. Although austerely beautiful it sounds very samey for 12 minutes.

[oddoneout]

Wonderful to concentrate on the service with no extraneous explanations about the psalm, lessons, etc. Psalm 51 was very moving, exquisitely sung with the meaning clearly expressed,
The whole service a fitting beginning of Lent.

Agreed. For me, Byrd and Gibbons seem so right for such an occasion.

[Finzi4ever]

Agreed. For me, Byrd and Gibbons seem so right for such an occasion.

I wish more BBC broadcast CEs used canticle settings from that Golden Age. (Not sure I know an equivalent portmanteau word, like Tudorbethan, to cover Elizabethan and Jacobean eras: Jacobethan, or Elizabean?) Any particular verse service favourites, folks? I offer Weelkes for Trebles... over to you.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sublime! Thank you, K, and all at Truro

Yes, exceptionally good!

A particularly excellent reading of the second lesson, too!

[Guest]

I wish more BBC broadcast CEs used canticle settings from that Golden Age. (Not sure I know an equivalent portmanteau word, like Tudorbethan, to cover Elizabethan and Jacobean eras: Jacobethan, or Elizabean?) Any particular verse service favourites, folks? I offer Weelkes for Trebles... over to you.

[Vox Humana]

I wish more BBC broadcast CEs used canticle settings from that Golden Age. (Not sure I know an equivalent portmanteau word, like Tudorbethan, to cover Elizabethan and Jacobean eras: Jacobethan, or Elizabean?)

'Pre-Commonwealth'?