Worcester, Protestant Cathedral: "Like As The Hart"
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Worcester Anglican Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Worcester, England; situated on a bank overlooking the River Severn. It is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Worcester. Its official name is The Cathedral Church of Christ. Built between 1084 and 1504, Worcester Cathedral represents every style of English architecture from Norman to Perpendicular Gothic. It is famous for its Norman crypt and unique chapter house, its unusual Transitional Gothic bays, its fine woodwork and its "exquite" central tower[1] which is of particularly fine proportion
I sang this song and many others as a chorister at Worcester in the early 70s...still stirs me in a way that has rarely occurred since
It is an Anthem. Not a song.
Forgive me
That was nice, thanks. But I've a feeling you chopped of the last (crucial) 10-20 seconds!!
A shame about losing the last few bars - very important ending to the piece. However, thanks for the upload. Dr Donald Hunt, Organist & Master of the Choristers at this time, died on August 4th 2018. This recording is, undoubtedly, under his masterly direction at the time it was recorded. It was performed by the Worcester and Gloucester Cathedral Choirs at his memorial service 19/09/18 and is said to be one of his favourite Anthems. RIP Donald.
Very beautiful piece!! I am a church organist and former choral conductor so appreciate the musicality presented here. Worcester Cathedral is historic to my family although I am American. My immigrant ancestor, Col. Thomas Lygon of Virginia, was a member of the Lygon family at nearby Madresfield Court and I am a member of the Ligon Family and Kinsmen Association with Lady Rosalind Morrison (of Madresfield Court) as our Honorary President and currently head of the family.
Flawless melding of three instruments: voice, organ, and the cathedral itself. Or is there a fourth: the level golden beams of the westering sun? Breathtaking crescendo at 1:29. The restraint at 5:18 is very difficult -- rarely done properly and usually over-blown -- but superbly executed here. The axe at the end is indeed unfortunate.
Great song but how dare you cut off those last cords , one of the most beautiful cadences in Anglican music
Oli Cubitt you’re right. Just ruins it!
Great performance of this gorgeous piece! We just did it at an Evensong last night, and, while we acquitted ourselves very well, we rarely approach the subtlety and the dynamic shadings present in this ensemble. Thanks very much for uploading it! It's a balm in a world weary day.
most enjoyable - thanks for sharing xxx
Beautiful is the psalmody at Worcester.
A beautiful haunting piece, my favorite rendition except for the missing end...
As a former priest in the Diocese of Worcester, I have NEVER heard it referred to as the "PROTESTANT" Cathedral. Sometimes the Anglican or Church of England (in many countries, Episcopal) Cathedral Church, but correctly "The Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary of Worcester."
Apart from the dedication, this opens up a whole can of worms about the status of the C of E as Catholic and Reformed: for the Anglican Church never lost the three-fold ministry of bishops. priests and deacons and maintained the centrality of the catholic creeds and the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion. For these reasons it differs from the true "protestant churches" founded by Luther and Calvin, whilst accepting some of the reformers' teachings on other theological issues. Could you change this please? These things are important and a matter of courtesy.
That said, I love this anthem! I sang it several times when in Oxford and I now live within a few miles of where Howells grew up and played the church organ as a boy in Lydney, Gloucestershire. As an anthem it is sheer genius - wonderful to sing and haunting to hear. I am pleased that we hear more of Howells music, for it is truly of the English Anglican tradition and he was a great composer. Alas, could this recording be replaced with a full version? The last chords are vital!!! Thanks.
Beautiful
Indeed a travesting to cut off the final measures of the organ cadence. I've heard the same thing happen with "Greater Love Hath No Man" -- Ireland, when the anthem ran overtime on a TV broadcast , and the final resolution to A major with the organ was omitted. It gives one a horrible sensation of being suspended in mid air with no final resting place. UGH!
Definitely the best recording of this - much slower than most and than Howells set. But they get just right the "When shall I come to appear" at 1.38 et seq - this is where the restrained English desperation thing works beautifully. Get that. Organ playing shit. BTW.
Church of England Cathedral, not a 'Protestant' Cathedral.
Not even Church of England Cathedral. "Worcester Cathedral" is all that is needed.
I like "protestant".
Anglican Cathedral please. Proud to be Anglican. :)
Me too - Proud to be 'Protestant'.
Magnificent, like the Cathedral. Howells is one of the very great composers for ecclesiastical music. I'm looking for the Preludio Sine nomine. Some fine organist, some splendid church?
Do wish you would stop describing England's historic cathedrals as 'Protestant'. The Church of England is, as it has always been, both Catholic and Apostolic. With a few exceptions, it's cathedrals pre-date the Reformation.
+Mark Dyer The Church of England is Protestant as well as being, as you rightly say, Apostolic and Catholic.
@ Robin Harris: It's not that black and white. High Church Anglicans resent the word "Protestant" (as do I....it sounds so Low Church). And in the US, the word "Protestant" was removed from the Book of Common Prayer upon its last revision.
This conflict doesn't do much good. I have not come across such resentment to any great degree in England even in a city whose cathedral was in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. So people can get along.
We are Catholic, yet not Roman.
Interesting enough, all these comments! I watch a lot of British television (via Netflix) for the last 6 or 8 years virtually exclusively (because it's so much better than American). I especially watch murder mysteries, crime shows, etc. It sometimes puzzles me how very often the plot revolves around the difference between R Catholic and Anglican, especially with the way the the seal of the confession is used as a plot device, but it's not limited to that.
@JSC1401 It has two! An open wood and an open metal. Presumably extended down from the 16' Open and 16' diap.
OMG!!! You left out the last 3 chords!!!!!
Wonderful performance. Perhaps though, you could mention the composer's name? And maybe which choir this is.
+Benjamin Gruder Its Like as The Hart by Herbert Howells. I Sang this many times at Christ Church in Shaker Hts. Ohio when I was in the boy choir and sang the descant as a solo at the end. Great song indeed.
This recording is sung by Worcester Cathedral Choir.
Beautiful, except for the lack of the final cadence.
OMG! It's so disappointing! Like being punched in the stomach after the perfect meal lol.
Tinkaluisa that's the whole point it invokes the feeling and expression of eternity
@@philliprich623 No, there are supposed to be 3 more chords at the end, but they've been cut off. It does have a cadence, it's just not present in this video
How can you chop off those last chords? They make the piece!!!!
@contraposaune
The Tickell instrument doesn't have a 32' flue stop, does it?
Is this with the new Tickell organ? (after 2008) ?
Singing pretty flawless. In so many ways - eg. not landing on "the living God" but the unison after that at 5,10.... Everyone else who performs is preoccupied with the "living" God. Presumably under orders. Organ, frankly, awkward. Was Les Dawson on registration, not to say see-sawing with his conservable weight on the swell pedal? Back to the singing (as side from "leeving" god-type thing) the "where is now thy God" is beautifully ambiguous so getting across the "maybe he isn't here" part. Howells was no radical but he had doubts.
Sounds like the Choir of St. John's Church, Elora.
Definitely. That's not the Worcester choir (those are women's voices), organ (former, or present), or acoustic. Elora has a lovely sound of its own, though.
@choralcathedral1 okay, no worries! :-)
Please don't add the word "Protestant" in the title as it is not correct in this meaning. The Anglican Church may be the bridge between those two systems of faith, but the cathedral is not Protestant. Henry VIII was originally a devout Catholic who was forced to overcome political objections made by a corrupt system of Popes and European rulers. Elizabeth I may have been the first English Protestant ruler but the cathedral was built long before then and the services could be called either anglo-catholic or Protestant. The word, "Anglican", is best.
Worcestor Cathedral was built by Catholics for Catholic worship and stolen by Henry VIII and given to his newly founded Anglican Church without compensation, following the refusal by the Church to grant him a divorce from Queen Katherine of Aragon, so he could marry his paramour Anne Boleyn (mother of Elizabeth 1) whom he later had executed. This was the fate of all the famous Medieval Cathedrals in England, despoiled from the Cahtolic and given to the Anglicans.. Catholic monasteries and abbeys, monasteries and convents were "dissolved" and their lands stolen and given/sold to Henry VIII supporters and favorites who professed their support of the Kings new Anglican Church and the buildings themselves were desecrated and demolished. These form the famous ecclesiastical ruins of England. It also explains why many of the famous estates and palaces in the English countryside carry Abbey in their name.
Wow! How fascinating and awful!
Well judging by the way the Catholic Church has went in the last 60 years, maybe they saved these ancient institutions
All true facts, but look at it this way had it continued to be RC there would be a praise band, big screen TV and very very cheezy music. Nothing like a cantor with a mile wide vibrato waving their hands and shouting into the microphone to ruin the atmosphere. I know... I was raised a southern Baptists and there it was big men with powder blue polyester suits & big helmet hair waving their hands. Howells and all those great British musicians would never been able to write great music as they did.....I am the bread of life....gag
That is not the case. Come to Prague. Come to our Catholic cathedral. You will enjoy your pilgrimage and be glad to see, that no big screens are installed. Kind regards
Mighty Fiikus: In the early 1960's, Roman Catholic music was mostly ruined by the hippies and Vatican 2. Guitars and folk singers replaced the use of beautiful organs. Glad to see that your church was able to resurrect the classical tradition in the Church.
Our American Cathedral Choir (Anglican/Episcopalian) sang at Notre Dame de Paris but we could not do our classical liturgical music because they used a song leader and an amateur choir with no special training as part of the service. We sang a short concert of religious music afterwards that included latin.
Most of us should thank the Anglicans who rescued the beautiful Catholic repertoire in England as well as creating an additional history of beautiful music such as this.