OmegaConsort Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I am taking my choir to St Albans Abbey for Epiphany Sunday (Eucharist and Evensong) and I know any day now, the Precentor is going to be asking for my music list! Any ideas anyone (rehearsal on the day only - choir is from all over the place / good sight readers / reasonable balance / around 30 singers). All I have so far in my mind is perhaps Mendelssohn There shall a star for Evensong anthem, and maybe something like Darke in F for Euch setting (simple but effective). I need some inspiration! Thanks for your suggestions..... Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolsey Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I am taking my choir to St Albans Abbey for Epiphany Sunday (Eucharist and Evensong) and I know any day now, the Precentor is going to be asking for my music list! Any ideas anyone (rehearsal on the day only - choir is from all over the place / good sight readers / reasonable balance / around 30 singers).All I have so far in my mind is perhaps Mendelssohn There shall a star for Evensong anthem, and maybe something like Darke in F for Euch setting (simple but effective). I need some inspiration! Thanks for your suggestions..... Richard If your choir's affiliated to the RSCM, the music planning guide Sunday by Sunday should be your first stop... otherwise the following all feature the Magi/Wise Men in their texts: from Anthems for Choirs 4 - Hoddinott: Puer natus H C Stewart: On this day also Händl: Omnes de Saba arr. McPhee: Whence is that goodly fragrance? Howells: Here is the little door Ouseley: From the rising of the sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undamaris Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I am taking my choir to St Albans Abbey for Epiphany Sunday (Eucharist and Evensong) and I know any day now, the Precentor is going to be asking for my music list! Any ideas anyone (rehearsal on the day only - choir is from all over the place / good sight readers / reasonable balance / around 30 singers).All I have so far in my mind is perhaps Mendelssohn There shall a star for Evensong anthem, and maybe something like Darke in F for Euch setting (simple but effective). I need some inspiration! Thanks for your suggestions..... Richard If your choir's affiliated to the RSCM, the music planning guide Sunday by Sunday should be your first stop... otherwise the following all feature the Magi/Wise Men in their texts: from Anthems for Choirs 4 - Hoddinott: Puer natus H C Stewart: On this day also Händl: Omnes de Saba arr. McPhee: Whence is that goodly fragrance? Howells: Here is the little door Ouseley: From the rising of the sun How about Peter Cornelius' "The Three Kings" arranged by Ivor Atkins?Carols for Choirs1 - an evergreen standby if ever there was one (the Oxford Jacques & Willcocks got me through many an Advent Christmas and Epiphany!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cynic Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 How about Peter Cornelius' "The Three Kings" arranged by Ivor Atkins?Carols for Choirs1 - an evergreen standby if ever there was one (the Oxford Jacques & Willcocks got me through many an Advent Christmas and Epiphany!) My sixpenny-worth: Lo! Star-led chiefs - Crotch great lines, substantial, appropriate, not sung as often as it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil T Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Doh, original post deleted because I didn't read the thread title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil T Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 How about Peter Cornelius' "The Three Kings" arranged by Ivor Atkins?Carols for Choirs1 - an evergreen standby if ever there was one (the Oxford Jacques & Willcocks got me through many an Advent Christmas and Epiphany!) Also worth considering is the Mendelssohn piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Thanks Phil. They all look a bit Advent-y to me!!! Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 I always thought this was an Epiphany piece? Exactly! That is what I am after! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfortin Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I agree with Paul re. Lo Starled Chiefs, quite a fun piece for organist and singers alike. How about "Here is the little door" (Howells) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 My sixpenny-worth: Lo! Star-led chiefs - Crotch great lines, substantial, appropriate, not sung as often as it should be. Brilliant! Forgotten about that - used to sing it as a boy, and then when I became an organist, the boys used to count up the finger-slips in the intro! Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 John Sheppard's Reges Tharsis (6 parts). Best Epiphany piece ever - very exciting. Might be a tall order to polish it off with only one day's rehearsal though. The problem is not so much the notes as the joins between plainsong and polyphony. http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Reges_T...ohn_Sheppard%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfortin Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Another suggestion, which I forgot to mention earlier, how about "Videntes stellam" by Poulenc. We did this with the RSCM Midlands & South West Cathedral Singers last year and my girls really loved it. Not particularly difficult either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arp Schnitger Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 CS Lang's Tres Magi de gentibus (Eastern Monarchs, Sages Three) is an easy barn-stormer- though some might say you need the Christ's Hospital Tuba to bring it off!- or for something gentler, Simon Lole's 'The Journey' (publ RSCM)is a setting of a Rosetti poem and easily sightreadable. If they are keeping it as Sunday after Epiphany (as opposed to Epiphany itsself) the theme is often the Baptism of Christ, or the 'three wonders' (Wise Men, Water into Wine, and Baptism of Christ) which might bring into play Britten's 'New Year Carol' (CFC2), or a 'Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day' (take your pick- the John Gardner is popular though Carl Rutti's version is worth a look- publ. Escorial), or indeed a setting of 'Tribus Miraculis'. As Epiphany is the Orthodox Christmas, you could reflect this with Tavener's 'God is with us' (though it would I suspect be a 'courageous' decision to plan this on one rehearsal!!!) Past broadcasts of the Trinity Cambridge Epiphany service usually reveal some interesting and unusual repertoire; a Polychoral Epiphany Responsory by Richard Marlow sticks in my mind! http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67269.asp (Epiphany at St Pauls) may also reveal some ideas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Morley Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Malcolm Arnold's 'Pilgrim Caravan'? Easy, slighly cheesy but most effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil T Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Exactly! That is what I am after! Having properly read the thread title, how about “When to the temple Mary went” ECCARD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Morley Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 “When to the temple Mary went” ECCARD? Isn't this a Candlemas rather than an Epiphany piece? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil T Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 “When to the temple Mary went” ECCARD? Isn't this a Candlemas rather than an Epiphany piece? I've always done it at Epiphany, but you may be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Yes, it's about the presentation of Christ in the temple. The English translation commonly sung is the most dreadful doggerel and the music a tedious dirge. Sorry, but there are far better Epiphany pieces. Victoria's Magi viderunt stellam is another which is well worth digging out. You can't go wrong with Victoria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil T Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I've always done it at Epiphany, but you may be right. It seems they do it Here at Epiphany to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Morley Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 It seems they do it Here at Epiphany to. Can't really argue with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Can't really argue with that! Oh, I don't know... I can usually argue with anything if I put my mind to it. I stand to be corrected by Tony, Patrick et al., but I had always understood that the Epiphany was about visit of the three kings, who were the first to acknowledge Jesus as the King. Where is the connection with Eccard's piece? Anyway, is the CD a programme of music for the feast of the Eiphany or for the Epiphany season? Not the same thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribunegallery Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Why don't you try Sumsion in F for the Mass, rather than Darke? - Manageable and good music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbouffant Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Malcolm Arnold's 'Pilgrim Caravan'? Easy, slighly cheesy but most effective. Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrick Coleman Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Oh, I don't know... I can usually argue with anything if I put my mind to it. I stand to be corrected by Tony, Patrick et al., but I had always understood that the Epiphany was about visit of the three kings, who were the first to acknowledge Jesus as the King. Where is the connection with Eccard's piece? Anyway, is the CD a programme of music for the feast of the Eiphany or for the Epiphany season? Not the same thing! Epiphany is one of the related 'manifestation' feasts that unfold the meaning of the Incarnation. There are three: Epiphany; the Baptism of Christ; and the Presentation (Purification/Candlemas) - although Christmas itself is strictly part of the sequence too. The Wedding Feast at Cana is often linked to this sequence, and appears in many lectionaries on the Sunday after the account of the Baptism is read (Baptism First, Wedding Feast Second Sundays after Epiphany) Bishop Wordsworth's hymn Songs of Thankfulness and Praise illustrates some of this. I suppose you could get away with Eccard's piece on the Epiphany if you knew nothing more suitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arp Schnitger Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Anyway, is the CD a programme of music for the feast of the Eiphany or for the Epiphany season? Not the same thing! The CD is Epiphanytide, I reckon- I'd agree that the Eccard (and Senex and Nunc Dimittis) are all on the CD for Candlemas/Presentation on 2nd Feb, but those readings are sometimes used, if my memory isn't failing, on one of the first two Sundays after Christmas if Epiphany doesn't get there first! Knowing the readings to be used would be helpful in planning the music. Another Magi carol, if you want to indulge, is Warlock's Bethlehem Down which I don't think anyone has mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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