CE 09.04.25: St Matthew’s Church, Westminster, London [R]

[Pulcinella]

From St Matthew’s Church, Westminster, London.

Introit: Call to remembrance (Farrant)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalms 47, 48, 49 (Barnby, Robinson, Walmisley)
First Lesson: Job 36 vv1-12
Canticles: Noble in B minor
Second Lesson: John 14 vv1-14
Anthem: Lord let me know mine end (Greene)
Voluntary: Sonata No 1 (Allegro moderato e serioso) (Mendelssohn)

Nigel Groome (Director of Music)
Roger Sayer (Organist)

Recorded 8 March.

[Pulcinella]

A link to the Wiki article about this church, which I confess to not knowing the existence of!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Matthew%27s_Church,_Westminster

[french frank]

Three new words for me: narthex, esonarthex and exonarthex.

[jonfan]

Professionally done, but I wasn’t moved until the anthem, which was exquisite. St Martin’s Voices, on last Sunday’s Compline, get professionalism at the service of worship just right IMHO.

[vinteuil]

Three new words for me: narthex, esonarthex and exonarthex.

... ah, narthex* I knew, so probably could have worked out the others.

New for me, tho', was 'riddel posts' - "The Lady Chapel is the earliest example of Comper's work in England, and the 'English altar' with its riddel posts is, he maintained, the first of its type since the Reformation"

* the narthex of the Basilica at Vezelay is its finest architectural element -

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilique_Sainte-Marie-Madeleine_de_V%C3%A9zelay#Le_narthex

[Pulcinella]

I think I first heard narthex used for Liverpool's (Anglican) west end entrance.

[DracoM]

Yes, me too.