Preces and responces - William Smith (1603-1645)

Uitgevoerd tijdens de Choral Evensong ‘Turn Thee unto me, o Lord’ op 10-10-2015 in de Grote of St. Michaëlskerk te Oudewater door de Reformatorische Oratorium Vereniging ‘Canto di Lode’ o.l.v Rinus Verhage. orgel: Arjen Leistra.

[@TheIndividualChannel]

Beautiful

[@Londonfogey]

It's always good to hear Choral Evensong music performed by non-English choirs. The music and liturgy is for all time, and all peoples.

[@Aeoline]

I remember fondly my childhood in a little English village, singing these responses each Sunday at church. All of the magical prose of the Book of Common Prayer.

[@Londonfogey]

It IS magical, isn't it? The last vestiges of the enchantment of the middle ages. And yet most churches have abandoned it in favour of prosaic, spoken liturgy with all the magic of a provincial bus timetable.

[@Aeoline]

@@Londonfogey In my experience, those that grew up with it, appreciate it. It becomes part of your being, part of you. Those who only turned to the Anglican faith as adults, or converted from something else, do not share this affection for it. There's also a prevalent tendency of wanting to 'modernise' everything, these days, in the belief that it makes things more accessible.