BBC Choral Evensong: St Michael’s Tenbury 1959 (Kenneth Beard)
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2018
- The earliest surviving BBC radio broadcast from St Michael’s College, Tenbury, 10 June 1959, directed by Kenneth Beard.
Introit: Oculi omnium (Charles Wood)
Responses: William Smith
Psalms 53, 54, 55
Lessons: Job 29, vv 11-16; Acts 4, vv 32-end
Office Hymn: Lord of Creation, bow thine ear (E.H. 174)
Canticles: Watson in E
Anthem: Sing joyfully unto God our strength (William Byrd)
Recessional: Thou knowest Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Henry Purcell)
So lovely to hear the prayers at the end of the service actually used.
Throughout the ages do Anglican choirs give an harmonious praise to God.
A blast from the past! I was at one of the final Evensongs at Tenbury before the school closed. Interesting to hear how good the choir was on this recording. The clergyman rather liked the sound of his own voice 😇
DM P I wonder if that was Reverend D W A Stride, the Warden at the time ? So lovely to hear more from SMC esp 63 to 68 (yes those were my years there)
A dramatic, highly effective, rendering of Ps. 55
Thanks for the update
I had the pleasure of visiting St. Michael's in about 1981. I met the Headmaster and talked to Roger Judd, the organist. I had the inestimable pleasure of seeing and touching both the Dublin MS of Handel's "Messiah" as well as "This Is The Record of John" and "If Ye Love Me." Also, the memories of playing the superb Willis organ in that jewel of a church will last me a lifetime and beyond, if possible.
Thank you for sharing that with us.
Roger Judd was by all accounts a friendly choir master so I’m not surprised you were made welcome. I sung some of the most sublime music written of man but inspired by the infinite. I loved the upbeat singing in Sing Joyfully although by 1964 that anthem was the high point of the St. Michael’s album “Sing Joyfully “, a beautiful collection of canticles and anthems sung when the choir was arguably at its peak under Choir Master Lucian Nethsingha. But the best bit of this service is the Purcell “Though knowest Lord” which I remember listening to at Churchill’s funeral when an ancient TV was brought into the Library of St Michael’s for the whole school to watch.
@@IlanBoy2 Thanks for that reply. The "Sing Joyfully" album is one of the significant soundtracks of my youth. I adore the Murrill Mag and Nunc and have performed it several times over the last 30 years. The St. Michael's choir under Nethsingha had several charming eccentricities that still give me pleasure, sure as the extra-aspirated "h" sounds. I wonder what has happened to that superb sounding, but atrocious looking organ. For a church that was not cathedral-dimensioned, it was an imposing instrument.
Boys fantastic. Men less so; some tuning issues, particularly in the office hymn.