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On the Record: Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday
May 09, 2024
An Ascension Day procession in Bavaria If you are near Oxford, make haste to the Bodleian Library, where you will find on display the autograph of Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128, a cantata for Ascension by JS Bach. It is one of only four Bach manuscripts in the UK, and amongst the best-preserved in
On the Record: Music for Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, and the Annunciation
April 06, 2024
The cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris is due to reopen later in the year, painstakingly restored following the devastating fire five years ago this month. Amazingly, the celebrated Cavaillé-Coll organ survived with only minor damage. In the French liturgical tradition, much of the music for the Mass is improvised at the organ, often using the
On the Record: Listening from Lent to Passiontide, with one eye on Easter
March 02, 2024
Tenebrae factae sunt – there was darkness. Tenebrae is a dramatic three-part liturgy for Holy Week, consisting of sung Psalms, Lessons and Responsories – narrative reflections on the lessons. Taking place on the Eves of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday respectively, it is common to begin as daylight is fading, concluding in the
On the Record: Musical choices for heart and soul this Lenten season
February 15, 2024
Candlemas was only just a couple of weeks ago; an early Easter this year means that Lent is here already. If I were to suggest Miserere Mei, Deus (the Gradual) to accompany the start of the Lenten season, no doubt for some readers Gregorio Allegri, the Catholic priest and Italian composer of the Roman School, would spring
On The Record: listening choices for Epiphany to stir the heart and soul
January 06, 2024
British composer Judith Bingham typically uses imaginative and poetic performance directions in her scores. For the anthem “Epiphany”, the entire text is her own. The Magi are transposed into the deepest, darkest British winter, where in the “black hours [they] begin their journeyings”. In their 2023 recording, No Small Wonder (Acis), the choir of Saint
On The Record: some fine listening choices for Advent and Christmas
December 01, 2023
Perhaps more beautiful than the better-known “Veni Emmanuel” is the 17th-century French chant “Rorate caeli”. The antiphon melody shoots up to the heavens before a broad, majestic fall. It is the opening track of From the Vaults of Westminster Cathedral (Hyperion, 2009), a liturgical journey from Advent to Epiphany. With expressive shaping, an ever-increasing intensity,
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