Philip Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 I'm always intrigued to see what repertoire (both organ and choral) interests other people on this board, so here's a poser - pick the music for your ideal Evensong service! That is to say, the music which you would include in a service encompassing your favourites. You can choose (some or all of) the following: Opening Voluntary Introit Responses Office Hymn Psalm Canticles 1 or 2 Anthems Two Further Hymns Concluding Voluntary Since this is designed to just find out what people like, then it is not limited by seasons - so you can mix music from Christmas, Easter, or whichever part of the year you want! I would post mine, but I haven't fully decided yet - I will add it in due course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geigen Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Opening Voluntary: Bridge Adagio in E Introit: O Bone Jesu - Ratcliffe (have not heard it for 35 years and I think that's the title/composer) Responses: Stanley Vann Set 1 Office Hymn: The royal banners forward go (Gonfalon Royal) Psalm: 78 (15th Evening) Canticles: Stanford in A Anthem: Thee will I love - Howells Two Further Hymns: Christ Triumphant (Guiting Power) + Lead Kindly Light (Alberta) Concluding Voluntary: Toccata in D flat Jongen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 I'm always intrigued to see what repertoire (both organ and choral) interests other people on this board, so here's a poser - pick the music for your ideal Evensong service! That is to say, the music which you would include in a service encompassing your favourites. Nice idea! Harris - Holy is the true light Shephard Responses Blair in B minor Wesley - The Wilderness Final volley - Fanfare Whitlock Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted August 10, 2009 Author Share Posted August 10, 2009 OK - I've had a think and come up with this: Opening Voluntary: Whitlock - Folk Tune Introit: Stanford - Beati Quorum Via Responses: Rose Office Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton) Psalm: 121 - to the Walford Davies chant where the first and third quarters are solos Canticles: Noble in B minor (closely followed by Stanford in C) Anthems: Finzi - Lo, the full, final Sacrifice Balfour Gardiner - Evening Hymn Hymn: O thou who camest from above (Hereford) Hymn: I bind unto myself today (St. Patrick's Breastplate) (Final Responses: Rose) Concluding Voluntary: Vierne - Finale from Symphony 6 (if you can't play that, then Carillon de Westminster which is considerably easier! I struggled to choose between the two anyway.) The Noble and Stanford canticles are both just great sings, and also good fun to accompany. And both accessible to your average parish choir. The Finzi leaves me amazed every time I hear it - 15 minutes which I think takes you to another place altogether. It is a simply extraordinary work, without equal as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps the concluding lines "When this dry soul those eyes shall see..." are the most moving. Balfour Gardiner is another one which is pretty accessible but I think is just the perfect anthem for any Evensong. I've chosen three hymns which I would enjoy both singing and playing. All moving and relevant in their own ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajt Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Opening Voluntary - silence Introit - Keep me as an apple, Fielding Responses - Shephard Office Hymn - hymns make evensong too long. Should be omitted, just like the sermon. Psalm - hmm... 18, possibly. Coram Chant maybe? Canticles - Tomkins 5th 1 or 2 Anthems - Hear my prayer Purcell. Dum Transisset Taverner Two Further Hymns - see above. Concluding Voluntary Any Bach trio sonata. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsoff Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Nice idea! Opening Voluntary - Pastorale from Guilmant 1 Introit - Bring us O Lord God (Harris) Responses - Smith Psalm - 130 (Out of the Deep) - Walford Davies Office Hymn - When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Canticles - They're in C Minor (I think) by Hugo someone or other (possibly Cole?) - last heard by me in about 1978/9 when we performed them at St. Mary's Warwick. Absolutely super! Anthems - Vox Dicentis (Naylor) and Evening Hymn (Balfour Gardiner) Final Hymn - The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is Ended, with a big lush reharmonisation of the final verse, maybe even with a few extra bars afer the last word! Closing Voluntary - Final, Guilmant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innate Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Here goes: Opening Voluntary - Clair De Lune (Vierne) Introit - In Ieiunio Et Fletu (Tallis) Responses - Rose Psalm - 122 (I know the chant, but not the composer(!)) Office Hymn - Before The Ending Of The Day (plainsong) Canticles - Byrd Second Service Anthem - My Beloved Spake (Purcell) Final Hymn - Christ Is Made The Sure Foundation (Westminster Abbey) Closing Voluntary - A Fancy For Two To Play (Tomkins) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DouglasCorr Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I think it is also necessary to specify the general conditions necessary for the ideal evensong – the optimum ambience for the desired state to be attained: Unrestored Willis organ Impeccable punctuality Weekday An evening with three psalms for the day (and no single chants) No announcements Late autumn evening – slight chill, dampness Shafts of light through stained glass At least three clergy Minimal congregation NO tourists PS One hymn is enough; which should not be played metronomically or at anything other than a Vaughn Williams tempo. And, even though the congregation is minimal, a gathering note is to be used. The Old Testament lesson should be very long, repetitive and full af strange names of kings and places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Impeccable punctuality But using meridian time, not standard (as at Christ Church, Oxford). Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edbowie Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Introit: I sat down under his shadow (Bairstow) Responses : Shephard Psalm 72 : Atkins Canticles : Dyson in D Anthem : The Twelve: Walton Hymn : Hark the Glad Sound (Bristol) Organ : Finale - Vierne Symphony No 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themythes Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 This is probably not the right topic for my narrative, but it involves the choice of music for a Eucharist at one of our Great English Cathedrals. A visiting choir was expected and so, also, were the details for the setting and motet. Despite the best and continued efforts of the Cathedral Organist to find these out from the visiting choir’s director, answer, as they say, came there none. How would you have filled in the blanks? It would, I think, have been almost impossible to improve upon the solution arrived at by the CO for the cathedral music list: suffice to say that the details for that Sunday appeared with the setting as “Missa Sine Nomine” and the Motet “Oh, that I knew” by Anon. David Harrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidb Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Opening Voluntary - Psalm Prelude No1, Set1 - Howells Introit - Makes a Mockery of the Liturgy, so should not be had. Responses - John Reading Office Hymn O Trinity of Blessed Light Psalm - 84, to the Parry Chant. Canticles - Dyson in D Anthem - O Thou the Central Orb, Wood - My Soul There is a Country, Parry Two Further Hymns; O Love Divine, How sweet thou art! ; Sun of My soul, Thou Saviour dear Concluding Voluntary Fugue in g minor bwv 542 Unless anyone was up for Benediction tacked onto the end with added plainsong hymns instead of the two given? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Ewen Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I think it is also necessary to specify the general conditions necessary for the ideal evensong – the optimum ambience for the desired state to be attained: Unrestored Willis organ Impeccable punctuality Weekday An evening with three psalms for the day (and no single chants) No announcements Late autumn evening – slight chill, dampness Shafts of light through stained glass At least three clergy Minimal congregation NO tourists PS One hymn is enough; which should not be played metronomically or at anything other than a Vaughn Williams tempo. And, even though the congregation is minimal, a gathering note is to be used. The Old Testament lesson should be very long, repetitive and full af strange names of kings and places I can picture this perfectly! Thanks for the memory jog.... not sure about the Willis though... And you forgot one thing at the end - to be able to walk home in the twilight without encountering traffic, ideally with nothing pressing to do in the evening after tea/supper, and with the day off tomorrow! Paradise indeed. JE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfdg Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Etoile du Soir (Vierne) Introit: Christus Factus Est (Bruckner) Responses: Radcliffe Office Hymn: Holy Spirit, ever dwelling (Salisbury) Psalm: 66 (Garrett [A major chant]) ...if 2 more were required then 64 (Turle) and 65 (EJ Hopkins) Howells St. Paul's Service Lo the Full Final Sacrifice (Finzi) Final Hymn: Lord of our Life, and God of our Salvation (Iste Confessor) Fete (Langlais) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornetdeschats Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Sarabande in modo Elegiaco - Howells Prayer of Henry VI - Ley Responses - Leighton Latin Magnificat for eight voices - Stanford Nunc Dimittis for double choir - Holst Faire is the Heaven - Harris Hymn - Hail Gladdening light - to that tune no one likes Rhapsody Db- Howells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Clark Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Hymn - Hail Gladdening light - to that tune no one likes What, Stainer's? It beautiful in my opinion! Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaConsort Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 What, Stainer's? It beautiful in my opinion! Peter More like quirky in my opinion and it befuddles the congregation (although I suppose that might be considered a good thing!!). Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Clark Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 More like quirky in my opinion and it befuddles the congregation (although I suppose that might be considered a good thing!!).Richard Why? With choir support it can be sung by an average congregation - after all is, arguably, not much more than a slightly elaborate psalm chant. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notebasher Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Why? With choir support it can be sung by an average congregation - after all is, arguably, not much more than a slightly elaborate psalm chant. Peter Yes but much as I actually enjoy this tune, try doing it without a choir to lead the congregation... R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrick Coleman Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Yes but much as I actually enjoy this tune, try doing it without a choir to lead the congregation... R I have done exactly this in several different parishes, never with a choir, and it has never failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notebasher Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I have done exactly this in several different parishes, never with a choir, and it has never failed. What, every note in time, every time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribunegallery Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Introit - Bring Us O Lord God (Harris) Responses - Ayleward Psalms 149 (Chant by Stanford) and 150 - Chant by Talbot Canticles - Kelly in C (Followed closely by Stanford in A) Anthem - O How Glorious (Harwood) Hymns Give Us The Wings of Faith (tune: San Rocco) Angel Voice Ever Singing (plus John Cook Descant) Neil S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinaL Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Opening Voluntary - Allegretto from 5 short pieces, Whitlock. Introit - Coelos Ascendit Hodie, Stanford Responses - Leighton Psalm - 48 (Chant by Garrett) Canticles - St Paul's Service, Howells Anthem - Let all the World, Vaughan Williams Hymn - Saviour again to thy dear name Voluntary - Scherzo from Sonata in E flat, Bairstow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Kemp Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 O salutaris - Lalloux Hymn - Sweet Sacrament Divine Motet - Ave Verum (Byrd) Tantum Ergo - Henschel Adoremus in aeternam - Allegri Quiet, meditative closing voluntary Is there a better form of evening service than this? Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrick Coleman Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 O salutaris - LallouxHymn - Sweet Sacrament Divine Motet - Ave Verum (Byrd) Tantum Ergo - Henschel Adoremus in aeternam - Allegri Quiet, meditative closing voluntary Is there a better form of evening service than this? Malcolm Sounds like Benediction to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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