BBC Choral Evensong: King’s College Cambridge 1964 (David Willcocks)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Live broadcast from King’s College chapel, Ash Wednesday, 12 February 1964. The choir of King’s College Cambridge, conducted by David Willcocks.
Introit: Hide not thou thy face (Richard Farrant)
Responses
Psalms: 143, 130
Plainsong Office hymn: The fast, as taught by Holy Law
Canticles: Evening Canticles in the Dorian mode (John Blow)
Anthem: Hear my prayer (Henry Purcell)
Miserere mei (Gregorio Allegri) - sung in English
So wonderful - imagine what the music must sound like in heaven!
That's right - really good liturgy is like a glimpse of heaven.
I love these recordings. How good it is to know that captured in digital form, is the beautiful liturgy and music of the church, preserved and perpetually offering up worship for as long as man shall have ears to hear.
Yes, I agree. To think that Allegri, (& all the other composers) never themselves heard renditions like this.
What a treat!!!
This particular recording is one of the most beautiful performances
Wow! This was broadcast and recorded on the day I was born!
The Responses are by William Byrd. The chants to the psalms are by Joseph Pring and Matthew Camidge.
Choristers change but Kings and its traction binds all ages together.
35:20 "For I acknowledge my faults". Well never mind. They're not too noticeable! Superb!
This is indeed wonderful and thank you for posting. I see that Simon Preston appears in the photograph. Surely that means that the photo is 1962 or earlier as the late, great Mr Preston moved to Westminster Abbey as Sub-Organist in 1962. I wonder who the Organ Scholar was in 1964?
Delighted you are enjoying the broadcast. The photograph is dated (upper right corner) as 1962.
@@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic Sincere apologies. I didn't see that. Trip to Specsavers is recommended. Thank you for your splendid channel.
I wonder if Roy Goodman is singing the solo in the Allegri. I think it was right around that time (1964) that Kings made a very famous recording of the piece, with him singing the solo.
Yes,it is Roy Goodman singing the solo
@@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic But this is a live recording, not the released one. There are a few differences, eg Jerusalem @42:58. Both quite sublime, (needless to say!)
I wonder if the then Dean, the Rev Dr Alec Vidler, (1899-1991) officiated at this service. I have tried without success to find a recording of his voice. Odd that some of his television appearances, (for he was a well-known figure in his day and his books are still studied) have not surfaced on here.
It sounds like him. I have a CD by Belart from 1997 of a Decca recording of 1958 "An Easter Matins" Kings College conducted by Boris Ord, and prayers read by Dr A R Vidler. I have a vague memory of a TV programme by Malcolm Muggeridge in the Holy Land, featuring his friend Dr Vidler, if my old memory serves me well.
@@anselman3156 That would have been PAUL - Envoy Extraordinary, BBC 1972. Thank you for responding... The real Vidler Grail would e the Meeting Point interview which lambasted the Church and said - more or less - that he was "fed up with parsons"...!
@@anselman3156 my apologies for late reply. Thank you. Yes, Dr Vidler did do a programme with Malcolm Muggeridge titled Paul,Envoy Extraordinary in the early 1970s, also jointly authoring a book which I have somewhere. Vidler continued active into his late 80s at least, dying in 1991 aged 92.