Nine Lessons and Carols from St Bartholomew the Great, London's Oldest Church
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Broadcast tonight from London’s oldest church, join us as we offer an online carol service for all those can’t make it to a carol service in person this Christmas.
Sing along to all your favourite carols and enjoy our wonderful professional choir as they bring joy to this dark Christmas.
Hear the tale of the loving purposes of God from the time of man’s disobedience unto the redeption of the world by this little child.
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I'm watching in June 2024 and find my spirits being lifted by such a beautiful service , thankyou to all involved and I hope to visit St. Bartholomew's in the future. God Bless.
Really love a time stamp beautiful and soul touching
Beautifully done! Thank you. What a treat for those of us who can't get back to England this Christmas.
The service was beautiful. I loved the music. Some day I will come and visit. Thank you.
Very much enjoyed your sevice, this Christmas 2o21!
Enjoying this again!... :-)
Totally beautiful!
There is a purpose behind everything that happens. Maybe during these unprecedented times mankind will proclaim Jesus is the Lord and we are not invincible only God is!
Enjoyed the quality of the music very much, but thought the historic dress was rather tacky and entirely unnecessary! I suppose using the same logic I should be thankful that you didn't import a snow machine when you sang In the Bleak Midwinter!
Interesting comment. There isn’t any historic dress in the Nine Lessons and Carols service this comment is attached to-although there is in the Dickensian service. Is that what you mean? If so, it’s just a kind of mood-setting thing that we did the first time round and it stuck. The congregation has always found it really fun, but being present in the building when it happens is obviously a different experience from seeing it online. One thing that took us in that direction was that we were consciously setting every aspect of the service in a particular period. This made our ordinary choir outfits seem not to fit the context in a way that didn’t feel quite right. Anyway, we’re very glad you enjoyed the music.
@@GreatStBarts Are we looking at the same video?! I am talking about "Nine Lessons and Carols from St Bartholomew the Great, London's Oldest Church" on which I posted the comment, see c.31' in for the period costumes!
And btw the Piccolo Jesus Christ the Apple Tree was lovely, I haven't heard that since I bought an Alpha/Abbey disc of St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee (directed by Robert Lightband with I think Simon Nieminski accompanying) which I haven't thought of in at least a decade, so thanks for reminding me. I will have to programme it for Dei Ni Lesingane at the Katedral this coming Jol...
@@JOINFIGHTAGAINSTPORN I’m so sorry! Of course, you are right. The Nine Lessons and Carols video borrowed from several of the other services in our annual Festival of Carol Services. These were the ones from Christmas 2020, when everything was pre-recorded and very little happened in the church compared with a normal year. I’d completely forgotten that we did this for the Nine Lessons service. OK, let’s start again! We have an annual “Festival of Carol Services”-which is about 12 different “themed” carol services. One is called “A Christmas Carol”. All the readings are from Dickens, and all the music was popular in his time and might have been familiar to him. Members of the Dickens family come to doing some of the readings that he wrote specifically for his offspring, and we have been extremely fortunate to have a number of well-known actors present the other readings-Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Toby Jones, for example. For that service, the choir dresses in Victorian costumes, which sets a kind of context for everything being somehow “Dickensian”. We recorded this in advance for Christmas 2020, and we borrowed the Pearsall from that recording for use in the Nine Lessons, and the costumes came with it. There were borrowings from other services in the Festival as well. Apologies for forgetting all this fifteen months later. Understand completely what you mean now. Hope this explains. This past Christmas, we live streamed the Festival from the live services, which are all still available online. It was something of an adventure with members of the music team, readers, and congregation all affected in various ways by Covid, but we managed to get through it, Deo Gracias!