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  1. I do sometimes: it's in the OUP Lent and Easter book - stated to be by CPE. In the Barenreiter volume "Organ Chorales from Miscellaneous Sources" there are two versions: for manuals and pedals, but also one for manuals only. Peter Williams says it's largely identical to an Allemande in a Suite in E minor by CPE Bach.

  2. 2 hours ago, DaveHarries said:

    For those of us (like myself) who have shortwave radios the BBC World Service is airing the Kings service. Not sure if I should post the frequency information here unless anyone is interested though but it will be live.

    Dave

    Though, as has been pointed out, they're using a recording this year. Not quite the same frisson as "Once in Royal" starts - if you know it's a recording, that is!

  3. 2 hours ago, Dafydd y Garreg Wen said:

    The most important thing is *never* to use a post code.

    I was very pleased to discover that the Republic of Ireland is blessedly free of such abominations. All hail to Erin’s Isle!

    The Republic of Ireland does have postcodes. ("Eircode")

  4. There's a Stabat Mater by Dandrieu (on IMSLP) - not very solemn, though.

    There's a simple but, I think, very effective Salve Regina by Dupre (8 short Preludes on Gregorian Tunes), And there's the slow-moving solemn Ave Maris Stella ll  ("Jesus tender Mother, make thy supplication") in his 15 Pieces (Vepres du Commun).

    There's an arrangement of the first movement of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater in OUP's Lent and Easter Organ Music for Manuals

  5. 20 hours ago, Vox Humana said:

    The Oxford Guide to Style is unexpectedly silent concerning the plurals of nouns adopted from other languages - so far as I can see, anyway. 

    What about the opposite? I scream inwardly when I hear an Italian sandwich being called a panini instead of a panino.

  6. 38 minutes ago, Martin Cooke said:

     

    Five Chorale Preludes (OUP) - several are beautiful regulars for me - Gibbons' Forth in thy name and Glory be to Jesus immediately come to mind, but there is also a Schmücke Dich which I ought to play more.

     

    The Schmücke Dich borrows heavily from the accompaniment of Litany to the Holy Spirit. I don't know which came first - both are marked copyright 1958.

    I'd guess that the anthem came first - I'm not totally convinced by the choral prelude. However that might just be because I knew the anthem before I came across the choral preludes.

  7. I love cathedral music and want it to continue, but as the church is facing a financial crisis, the question of "who pays for it" is a legitimate one. Is it God's will that we have choral evensongs with only one or two in the congregation, or none? Could the money be spent better in a different way - if, indeed, there is any money? Are weekday cathedral choral services sacrosanct?

  8. My village church choir has been recording hymns and anthems for the online services since Easter. There are only 15 ladies in the choir, and only 5 of them have the confidence and technical ability to record themselves at home. I add some lower parts by the wonders of multi-tracking. The results are not too bad and are, I think, better than nothing or than importing recordings from elsewhere. It does take me quite a time each week to get them done. We also have practices during the week by Zoom in which the emphasis is on chat as well as singing. I’m not sure what happens when the church re-opens if singing is not allowed.

    I also record outgoing voluntaries, but I cut down on practice by fading them out after a minute or so.

    I do think that the Church of England will have some challenges after this is over.

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