CE York Minster Wed, 17th July 2019 [L]

[DracoM]

CE York Minster Wed, 17th July 2019 [L]


Order of Service:


Introit: O radiant dawn (James MacMillan)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalm 89 (Pring, Goss, Camidge, Battishill)
First Lesson: Isaiah 24:1-15
Canticles: The Short Service (James MacMillan)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
Anthem: Behold, thou hast made my days (Gibbons)

Voluntary: Fantasia in D minor (Byrd)


Ben Morris (Assistant Director of Music)
Robert Sharpe (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006sjl

[Pulcinella]

Byrd: Justorum animae also included (to be sung during the prayers, apparently).

https://d10okuw2vik61v.cloudfront.net/uploads/2019/07/Scheme-2019-June-30-July-27.pdf

I intend being there!

[DracoM]

So the BBC did not / does not know that?
Sounds like we're back to the inefficiency that was revealed in the non-appearance of details of the Southwark service?

[Pulcinella]

So the BBC did not / does not know that?
Sounds like we're back to the inefficiency that was revealed in the non-appearance of details of the Southwark service?

Who knows?
At least with the main organ being out of action and a chamber organ being used for this service we should avoid the disaster of last year's live broadcast!

[Y Mab Afradlon]

A new setting of the Canticles by James MacMillan commissioned by the Cathedral Organists' Association in celebration of its centenary in 20019. For SATB a cappella & optional organ.

[Finzi4ever]

Who knows?
At least with the main organ being out of action and a chamber organ being used for this service we should avoid the disaster of last year's live broadcast!

Is the organ being rebuilt yet again, or is this emergency repairs?

[Pulcinella]

Is the organ being rebuilt yet again, or is this emergency repairs?

Complete rebuild, taking many months!
Scaffolding all over the screen.
I'll post a link if I can find one.

[Pulcinella]

A new setting of the Canticles by James MacMillan commissioned by the Cathedral Organists' Association in celebration of its centenary in 20019. For SATB a cappella & optional organ.

Presumably a first broadcast performance, then?

[Pulcinella]

Details of organ refurbishment:

https://yorkminster.org/discover/conservation/organ-refurbishment/

[Wolsey]

Presumably a first broadcast performance, then?

I was at the premiere just two months ago by this choir, so naturally, yes: a FBP.

[DracoM]

Reminder: tomorrow @ 3.30. Live tx.

[mopsus]

This will be Peter Moger's last broadcast as Precentor, before he moves to a parish in Stornoway in the autumn.

[Pulcinella]

Did nobody listen?

I hope it came over on air as well as it did in the minster itself.
An outstanding service, I thought: some of the best (unaccompanied) psalm singing I have ever heard.

[jonfan]

Well this was an exquisite CE on many levels and one to cherish and give thanks. The music of Sir James just oozes the sense of the divine and this was here in spades for those who are open to receive it. Right from the start the singing transported me to somewhere else. What superb psalm singing with close attention to the text and breathtaking dynamic contrasts with superb control of both pitch and ensemble. Needs must have without an organ but what wonder with everything hanging enticingly in space. Complementing the MacMillan was the Martin giving a another profound modern take on the liturgy. The Tudor music might have sounded out of place with the contemporary offerings but strangely it too sounded modern and what superb singing from the soloist in the anthem. I was reminded while listening of the Apollo astronauts taking communion while on the moon, connecting with those rare places where you sense the divine. Today’s CE was one of those places for me, a crack through which to see eternity. Sir Stephen Cleobury is delighted his nine year old daughter was singing in her first broadcast CE today, and he’s every right to be. Thank you all for a profound experience.

[DracoM]

This will be Peter Moger's last broadcast as Precentor, before he moves to a parish in Stornoway in the autumn.

He was excellent.