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I would have been sixteen here, but girls weren't allowed in Cathedral Choirs in those days. My musical background enabled me to learn how to play a musical instrument as well as sing. I also have perfect pitch - a gift that has been put to good use in a church choir (alto).

Thank you so very much for posting this recording.

Chants by George Elvey and Crotch. The psalms really skip along.

This is such high quality. I wonder if they swung any incense for this Festal Evensong!

All unconducted.

IF THIS IS A PARISH CHURCH, THEY SEEMED TO HAVE A VERY GOOD CHOIR.

The rendition of "Lead me Lord" at the end brought tears to my eyes. Sublime!

i used to do bell ringing for a while here! 😊🔔

A remarkable survival, this piece.

This is amazing, I've never heard this piece before Bless whoever had the foresight to record this off the radio in 1958 so we could enjoy in 2024!!!

I used to watch everything he did. His voice was mesmerising and his programmes were full of interest. There is so much noise these days.

This is a beautiful service, and an amazingly good quality recording.

This whole concert has a beautiful classic Christmas vibe. Why don’t they do it like this anymore it’s perfect and classy

Rubbra - WHY is this great piece not better known...?!!

I remember the excitement when John Craven arrived at the school.

Very good selection. And that young fellow is now 67!

I attended the Choir School and left as Head Boy and my name is still on the Head Boy's board

Pure beauty.

Chants are by Thomas Attwood Walmisley and Sir John Goss.

Chants to the Psalms are Psalm 93 - Sir Joseph Barnby. Psalm 94 vv. 1 - 17 William Woodcock vv. 18 - end William Crotch

One of the finest musicians and lovely people it was ever my privilege and joy to know. RIP JGS.

FABULOUS

Choral Evensong in the true sense of the word. So lovely to hear it.

Wonderful to see Charles Daniels, Gerry Finley and John Butt all starting out amazing careers at King’s

This is vintage Howells, especially the second part is stunning and breathtaking. Howells at his best.

This really is so lovely. Everything under Barry Rose is of such a pure and high quality, I remain honoured to have listened to him speak at St. Leonard's during the Archive's 15th anniversary celebrations in 2018. And how tragic to learn of the sad fate of Robert Eaton in the description

Perfect!

Happy Birthday Sir!

Oh dear! Rose is 90. This makes me feel so terribly old. When I was a chorister, "Master Rose", as William Mackie, our Master of the Choristers referred to him, was held out as our exemplar. We were told that, "If we worked hard for six years as a chorister, we might possibly qualify to clean his shoes after rugger". 😅

What a delight to wake up and see this was uploaded!! My favourite

That's gold ! ❤❤❤

Very beautiful. Thank you. 😊

I was the librarian of Tewkesbury Library in the 1970s, and only had to cross the road to be in the Abbey for Choral Evensong. This daily experience of wonderful music in a glorious setting had its impact, and I was ordained in 1981. Some years later our son became a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, where one of the basses behind him had previously been a bass in the Tewkesbury Abbey School Choir at the time of these recordings.

I like the Billings version, but this is OK. The organ has all the power of the sea. Now, what is that wonderful image, please?

How very interesting and informative.

what is the title of the postlude played

Gotta love the internet. This hits the news today (2024) but the upload is from 2018. 😂

I woke this morning singing Oh for the Wings of a Dove and I came across your wonderful documentary which I will return to again and again. I was trained in school from age 8-12yrs we a choir of 45 won the National choir competition 4 years running. I keep practicing singing (74) every day with my favourite the Ave Verum which I didn’t learn at school but taught myself. My children now are enthralled with how I manage this hymn. Thank you all again for making this documentary it swells my heart .

Absolutely Wonderful brings one to tears right at the end. Thank you Ernest Lough now and forever. Patricia

Fuzzy - and what happened to the treble/high frequencies? Sound engineers!?!

Rest and repose. Amiable and lovely thy place of habitation

Beautiful, thank you!

Lindo ...Montserrat universal!

I had a (thankfully) successful audition with GTB at exactly this time. He retired immediately and my first rehearsals were with the equally redoubtable John Birch. Quite a vintage, the Temple Church.

Roy Massey (who has just celebrated his 90th birthday) writes to me that "there is a recording of a Hymn programme sung by King Edward’s Chapel choir on UA-cam, originally broadcast on local radio towards the end of my time at KES. Paul Vaughan, who masterminded the broadcast tells me that it was recorded in St Alban’s. I was conducting and John Pryer was playing the organ. As the programme proceeded the presenter announced that one of the Basses - Chris Hodges - had been awarded a Bass choral scholarship to New College Oxford and Michael Cockerham an Alto place in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Chris sang a few solos in the broadcast. That choir wasn’t at all bad!" John Pryer is still playing at St Chad's and confirms that it was recorded at St Alban the Martyr, Conybere Street, Highgate... where Roy was organist 1954-60... the best acoustic in Birmingham (but, as a boy in that choir, and now Music Secretary at SATM, I would say that!)

I think that is Simon Hollingworth and Martin Jenkins leaving, Dominic Gould, Richard Moore, Alexander Hickey and Jonathan Hough becoming choristers, Philip Barnes as tenor lay clerk, Alex Draper as deputy and Robert Macdonald as hc. Alan Shaw precentor and Philip Barrett vicar choral officiating.

A lost time....weird how quickly things are forgotten...this being 50 or so years ago.

Glorious!

Robert McDonald!