“Choirs & Places Where they Sing” 4: Southwell Minster 1967 (Kenneth Beard)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- BBC radio broadcast on 10 September 1967, featuring the choir of Southwell Minster, directed by Kenneth Beard. Introduced by Sir John Betjeman. This was the fourth edition of an 11-part weekly series intended as a follow-on to an earlier series called “Britain’s Cathedrals and their Music”, which had focused on cathedrals alone, whereas “Choirs and Places” featured mainly non-cathedral choirs. A planned 12th programme from the Temple Church in London was never completed.
1. O nata lux de lumine (Thomas Tallis)
2. Justorum animae (William Byrd)
3. Noël “Une Vierge Pucelle” (Nicholas Lebègue)*
4. Lord, let me know mine end (Maurice Greene)
5. Rhapsody on a Ground (Heathcote Statham)*
6. There is a stream (Robert Ashfield)
7. Magnificat in G major (Herbert Howells)
8. My beloved spake (Patrick Hadley)
played by Kenneth Beard
Thank you for putting this on RUclips - it's very interesting to listen to. I was a boy chorister in Southwell Minster Choir ten years after this recording and I recognise most of the pieces here - they were still in the repertoire in the mid-1970's.
Hi Simon
from Harry
Dear Simon. I remember you. I was a pupil at Southwell Minster Grammar School. I feel privileged to have attended. Every day, I walked home at lunchtime to the sounds of the Southwell bells playing the tune 'Southwell". A s boys gad done so for a millennium. I wish that I could find a recording of that piece!
Impeccable tone and togetherness from the choir. Excellent dynamics, and what a smashing treble line, especially evident in the Greene and the Howells. The recording isn't the greatest though - could it be engineered to take out some of the hiss and distortion?