Monday, November 26, 2007

Christus Regnat



I have just been listening to yesterday's Vespers from Westminster Cathedral.


It is absolutely wonderful, it should be available for the next few days. Listen to the wonderful piece after the rather dull Intercessions, I have not heard it before. If he or a friends reads this, my congratulations to the soloist.


Playlist:
Hymn: Te saeculorum principem (Plainsong)
Psalms: 110, 145 (Plainsong)
Canticle: Salus et gloria (Plainsong)
Reading: 1 Corinthians 15 vv25-28
Magnificat: octavi toni (Vivanco)
Homily: Mgr Mark Langham
Motet: Christus vincit (James MacMillan)
Organ Voluntary: Te Deum (Demessieux)

Master of Music: Martin Baker
Assistant Master of Music: Matthew Martin
Organ Scholar: Oliver Brett

Saturno tipping vigorously to Cathcon.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah they look so sweet..the choir here is mainly adult..

Andrew said...

According to Msgr. Langham, the celebrant was Fr Slawomir Witon, and the preacher was the sub-administrator, Fr Christopher Tuckwell.

Fr Ray Blake said...

I got the playlist from the BBC, it just shows they tell lies!

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