BBC Choral Evensong: King’s College Cambridge 1987 (Stephen Cleobury)
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2016
- Live BBC broadcast from King’s College Cambridge, 10 July 1987. Choir of King’s College Cambridge, directed by Stephen Cleobury. Organ scholar: Stephen Layton.
Introit: They that put their trust in the Lord (Robin Orr)
Responses: Rose
Psalms: 53, 54 (Stanford, Battishill)
First lesson (RSV): II Chronicles 36, vv 11-21
Canticles: Collegium Regale (John Tavener)
Second Lesson (RSV): Romans 5, vv 12-21
Anthem: 'Twas in the year that King Uzziah died (George Benjamin)
Hymn (EH 152): Come down, O love divine
Organ Voluntary: Apparition de l'église éternelle (Olivier Messiaen)
This was the first broadcast performance of the Tavener canticles and the George Benjamin anthem, both of which were written for the King’s College choir.
The ethereal ebb and flow of the King's sound. Never gets old. Totally unique in the world.
Stunningly beautiful!
Wow - I had a cassette recording of this once. Really good to hear it again.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, now and forever and unto the ages of ages, Amen
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen.
I am pretty sure that the tenor was James Gilchrist. The solo in the Benjamin anthem was a premonition of his great career to come.
The anthem at 21:50 is stunning. Honestly it's absolutely amazing and I love how Benjamin composed it simply for the King's College Choir. The concluding voluntary is absolutely amazing too. What happened to the concluding hymn "Come Down O Love Divine"? Was that not included in this recording? Regardless, one of the best evensong services I have heard. As I said, especially the anthem. It was beautiful. Thank you for sharing this!
Most of the recordings we preserve were not made by us, just as the documents held in the National Archives were not created by the National Archives themselves. These recordings have been donated by choral music lovers and are often incomplete, usually because broadcast services tended to be longer than the capacity of a side of an audio cassette. Hence, donors may have edited out the Lessons, or the tape may have run out before the end.
@@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic Ah ok, I didn't know that. That's wonderful that people donate these beautiful old recordings and yes that's fair point about not being able to fit the whole broadcast on a cassette. Thank you so much for your reply! God bless
The Collegium Regale by Tavener is a piece I never heard before. It seems to have Pakistani/Indian musical elements, that make it an extraordinary gem
Ray Herbst Tavener was long fascinated with "Eastern" music and tradition, as a result of his conversion to Orthodox Christianity in the 1970s. Apparently, the Magnificat was inspired by singing he heard at a wedding in Greece, where he had a second home and preferred to compose; the Nunc dimittis, on the other hand, is a paraphrase of Russian Orthodox chant. As Tavener observed, such ancient material has a common resonance, "original" in the true sense of the word (reaching back to the origin of all things), thus you can set Greek chant next to Sufi music or Indian music and hear remarkable similarities.
What a gem! Does anyone know where to find a better recording of the anthem?
One of the reasons we posted this broadcast is because it is the only known recording of the George Benjamin anthem
Okay that would explain it. A quick search I made yielded no results. What a special recording this one then is! Thank you
Yes, it makes it very special indeed!
@@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic It has been released by King's College on the CD Evensong 2016, and you can download the single track from Hyperion. The performance was on 20 January 2015 and I was in the congregation.
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I would love to have heard the _entire service,_ including the readings, which are integral to the process, NOT an afterthought!
So would we, but these recordings are often edited before being donated to the Archive. The choice is therefore between this and nothing - unless someone out there happens to have a full recording of the service...