The Anglican Lectionary readings for Morning Prayer today take me into a book that isn’t even in the Bibles I grew up with, with the story of Susanna, who is falsely accused of adultery. The Gospel reading is the woman…
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Advent Calendar Day 23: Behold I Bring you Glad Tidings – Purcell
So this one is completely and shamefully serendipitous. I actually don’t know what I typed into Google that produced a Christmas Oratorio by Purcell, and I also don’t know how on earth I missed the fact that Purcell wrote such…
Advent Calendar Day 15: Rejoice in the Lord Alway (Henry Purcell)
The third Sunday of Advent is also called ‘Gaudete Sunday’ (Gaudete meaning ‘rejoice’ in Latin). After having candles, altar cloths and vestments of purple for weeks on end, suddenly we break out the pink – tastefully, via a single candle…
Now that the sun hath veil’d his light (Henry Purcell)
I’ve reached one of those points where everything is unbearably stressful and overwhelming and I can’t cope and I sort of wish I could get appendicitis or something because then nobody could possibly expect me to get everything done. (I…
Monday Music: The Cold Genius (Henry Purcell)
It was absolutely necessary that I find a counter-tenor song for today, since I’m still so very disappointed that Cezar‘s magnificent counter-tenor effort on Eurovision didn’t do better, but it’s after midnight as I schedule this, and I have to…
Monday Music: The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation (Purcell)
I’m planning (hoping is more accurate, at this stage) to do the Trinity ATCL exam this year, so I’m currently collecting repertoire suitable for a recital. This piece of music is one I ran across a few years ago, and…
Friday Fun: When I have often heard young maids complaining (Purcell)
I know, I know, it’s more Purcell. Anyone would think I had no imagination at all. But the thing with Purcell is that if you are looking for gorgeous church music, there he is, writing it. If you are looking…
Advent Calendar Day 15: Hear my prayer O Lord (Purcell)
I was going to do another Magnificat, this one by Purcell, but I felt that after yesterday’s appalling contribution to Advent, a bit of penitence was in order.
Low humour in high style: Once, Twice, Thrice I Julia Try’d (Purcell)
I have spent quite a lot of this weekend with a lurgy, and have thus been mooching around the internet looking for suitable fodder for the musical Advent Calendar that I plan to run during December. Alas, this evening’s explorations…
Monday Music: My Beloved Spake (Henry Purcell)
It’s highly likely that Mondays are going to be church music days around here, quite simply because I spend most of my Sundays singing in church choirs, so that’s the sort of music that is in my head. And of…