BBC Choral Evensong: Derby Cathedral 1947 (George Heath-Gracie)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Transcription on five 12" acetate 78rpm discs of a live BBC radio broadcast from Derby Cathedral on 21 January 1947, with the cathedral choir, directed by George Heath-Gracie.
Because the recording was made straight onto the master, there are inevitable hiatuses, as a result of which a few bars of music were missed. The surface quality varies from disc to disc, the first one being the worst and “noisiest”.
This is the earliest example of a BBC Choral Evensong in the Archives
Responses: Ferial
Psalm 103 (John L Hopkins)
Lessons: Micah 4, vv 1-5; I Corinthians 1, v 18-end
Canticles: Evening Service in D (Herbert Brewer)
Anthem: Glorious and powerful God (Charles Stanford)
Hymn: Judge eternal, throned in splendour (“Rhuddlan”) 
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Wow. I just discovered your page. THANK YOU for sharing. Can you identify the speaker at 14:45; reading from Corinthians; excellent voice and diction.
A real gem indeed; I was going to ask what an acetate disc was; but them I remembered it's not the 80s any more and googled it; here for others is what I found.... An acetate disc is a type of phonograph record, a mechanical sound storage medium, widely used from the 1930s to the late 1950s for recording and broadcast purposes and still in limited use today.
A full description of the types of acetate discs, and why some are called Transcription discs and some are not, it being prepared on the website and a full and complete description will be of interest. I will post when the page is ready.
What a pleasant surprise. This gem took my mind back approximately 65 years when, as a teenager in Derby, I used to go to the cathedral for Evensong on a Sunday afternoon. However, I did not appreciate the quality of the choir. The attraction for me was George Heath-Gracie's superb organ playing on the cathedral's fine Compton organ. In his obituary in the "Times" in 1987, reference was made to the quality of GHHG's accompaniments. They were described as 'a joy to the ear'. How right the obiturist was. Can we look forward to more of these recordings as broadcasts took place from Derby Cathedral until the end of 1957?
There will be more in due course
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