Sunday, 27 June, 2004
Trinity III
9.30am High Mass:
(The Rev Fr Michael Parker)
S.S. Wesley : Holsworthy Church Bells
Propers : Respice in me
Service : Sumsion in F
Motet : Ave verum - Elgar
Int : Be thou my guardian and my guide - Abridge
Grad : Blest are the pure in heart - Franconia
Off : Souls of men! why will ye scatter - Gott will's machen
Com : O Thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray - Song 1
Adagio, from the Violoncello Concerto - Elgar (arr Murray)
Rec : Oft in danger, oft in woe - University College
Sumsion : Procession
We haemorrhaged basses this morning; four processed in, but only two
processed out. The one left at Communion (by arrangement; he had to
conduct at the university at 11.00am); the other, a surgeon, got
called away.
Fr Parker was most enthusiastic about the Sanctus and Benedictus of
the Sumsion, from his position standing up before the high altar. It
is a most effectively written little work, very much within the
capabilities of any competent parish choir. Those who are looking for
something good but too challenging will find much music in this short
setting.
I decided to keep all the muisc from Three Choirs' territory. Both
the Wesley and Sumsion pieces come from a volume entitled "Gloucester
Organ Album", published Novello, with works by all the eponymous
cathedral organists from Wesley up to Sanders, the in-between ones
being Lloyd, Lee Williams, Brewer and Sumsion.
Sumsion's "Procession" is a fine, idiomatic work, precisely right for
some large cceremony involving multiple processions and the like.
Ordinations or consecrrations spring to mind. Whatever, it's a fine
bit of occasional English Cathedral writing.
Cheers
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