BBC Communion Service: Exeter Cathedral 1959 (Lionel Dakers)

This 10-inch LP of what sounds like an edited recording of a live service was made by the BBC for the Australasian region of its Overseas service and, as far as we know, was never broadcast in the UK.
According to one of Exeter’s ex-choristers, the BBC also made an LP for the Christmas season at around the same time, but of that LP no trace can be found.
Psalm 119 vv 145-152
Kyrie in G (Francis Jackson)
Alleluias
Hymn: O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace (“Tallis’ Ordinal”)
Creed in G (Francis Jackson)
Hymn: Alleluia, sing to Jesus (“Hyfrydol”)

[@peterarthur3380]

Seminal recording, along with everything else I have listened to so far in the Archive of Recorded Church Music..... what a treasure!

[@chrisprobert794]

Fascinating precious relic of late 50s 'High Church' - 'very advanced' for an English Cathedral in 1959! (Did I smell incense in the background?!) Can anyone name this forgotten contemporary Mass setting? 'English Missal' 'Gradual' (psalm verse) and 'Alleluia' from 'The English Gradual' (Francis Burgess)' (also the 'Offertory' verse before the hymn). The celebrant shows a slight 'Romeward' leaning: the greeting before the Collect is 'Sarum' (to keep the choir happy?), then his intonating of the Collect is 'Western Rite', but with a 'Sarum' ending (to keep the choir happy!). Thank you for finding and sharing this treasure!

[@remyworldpeace]

I was just thinking the same - would it have been unusual to hear the Greek kyrie back then (was under the impression the Greek/Latin weren't commonplace until the 70s...)

[@s.albans2875]

It seems the service followed the alternative communion order of the 1928 proposed BCP (it was a great book, but had a miserable fate).

[@wouterlimburg7389]

Big boys in those days......

[@elgar57]

perversion