Stainer’s “I saw the Lord”: Magdalen College Oxford 1978 (Bernard Rose)
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- The choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, directed by Bernard Rose. A private recording made in the chapel during Evensong.
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I was also on this recording in 1978, in my first year at Magdalen. What diction Dr Rose got from the choir!
Mr Baines!! How are you....???!!!!
So this is Geoffrey playing, is it?
@@simonlawford4589 Well, thank you- retired and living in North Lincolnshire. I'm organist (loosely) and choirmaster at St. Andrew's, Burton-upon-Stather. What are you doing now....and where?
We sang this once at Bristol Cathedral - was a dream come true!
This is remarkable considering this is a private recording of an everyday evensong. They probably didn’t even know if was being recorded. Bernard Rose was remarkable. No other choir sings with that energy and phrasing. I am the weedy tenor in the verse section. Happy days.
All these private recordings of evensong, for which Bernard had given his permission (the microphone being placed between the paws of the eagle lectern!) were made by undergraduate John Gregg, on a tape recording he built himself. He later became Professor of Physics at Magdalen. The Archive has all these tapes, which number over 100!
Thank you for the reply
I wasn’t suggesting there was no permission. I was merely saying there was no special preparation for this, and was a daily evensong. Is it possible to access the other recordings? I remember that Gervald Frykman also recorded many evensongs. I have one of his recordings from an evensong in 1978 which includes the Gibbons second service and O clap your hands. We were allowed to chose music for an evensong before we left and this was my choice.
NB This recording is a semitone sharp. The organ in Magdalen at this time was at A440. Presumably the tape is running fast and therefore the tempo is also faster than actually performed.
Still the best directed and performed recording of this piece on UA-cam. None of the other recordings captures this piece quite how Bernard Rose has done.
How absolutely true!
I sang this when i attended St Michael's College in Tenbury. We recorded it as part of the album A Season at St Michael's. available to listen to here... soundcloud.com/apva/the-seasons-at-st-michaels-1#t=7:49
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I have very fond memories of that instrument, both as a chorister -- I'm also on this recording! -- and a few years later playing it as the school organist :) I can't honestly say whether I'm one of the treble soloists on this, but it's certainly something I remember singing more than once, and I was starting to get quite a lot of solos during 1978
@@pannegoleyn9734 Stuart Leask was the solo treble on this particular performance.
Rob Hayward...!!