The choir’s Cathedral visit in 2021 will be their first to Lincoln
Cathedral, and will be their twelfth different Cathedral visited to
sing Choral Evensong since 2011.
The visit falls just after the Church marks Trinity Sunday, and the
choir are proposing to sing as the anthem John Ireland’s 1907
setting in F major of the Te Deum laudamus, which includes
the following verses, most apposite for the season:
To thee Cherubim and
Seraphim continually do cry:
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God
of Sabaoth;
Heaven and earth are full
of the Majesty of thy glory. |
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The Te Deum reveals Ireland’s indebtedness to the late
nineteenth-century diatonic style of Stanford, Charles Wood and
Bairstow, all of whom were active contributors to the Anglican
repertoire at the time. It has a walking bass featured in the organ
accompaniment, and there are some remarkably stirring moments, not
least those in contemplation of man’s frailty and redemption (When
Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man) which are surely
attributable to Ireland’s meditative character.
For the Canticles and Responses the choir will sing settings from
their Evensong repertoire, including Henry Smart’s (1813-79)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in Bb, and our own Musical
Director’s setting of the Preces and Responses, written for
the Peterborough Diocesan Choral Festival in 2016.
Please note that this proposed music list is subject to approval by
the Cathedral, which will be some time early in 2021.
Programme:
Northampton Bach Choir
Organist - Ivan Linford
Conductor - Lee Dunleavy
Dunleavy - Preces and Responses
Psalm 81
Smart - Evening Service in Bb major
Ireland - Te Deum laudamus in F major |
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