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Lighten Our Darkness: Illuminating Choral Evensong
Lighten Our Darkness, a nearly 5-hour documentary in a 2-DVD set, explores the timeless service of choral evensong, the mainstay of daily worship in cathedrals and churches in the UK and beyond. A liturgy originating long before its 1662 manifestation continues its role in 21st century life with a vast array of words and music which may be included on any one day. Our film illuminates the continuing importance of this service.
Locations include cathedrals (Salisbury, Winchester, Truro, St Patrick's [Dublin], Guildford, Chester and Blackburn); colleges and schools (New College, Oxford, Trinity and St John's Cambridge, Birmingham University, Rugby School, Methodist College Belfast), as well as establishments in Grantham, Bath, Sheffield, Lincoln, Bolton Abbey and elsewhere. Filming with the Roden Girl Choristers in Groningen and the Boys' Choir of St Mark's School of Texas, Dallas, gives the project an international dimension.
Music in the film includes works by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Stainer, Parry, Stanford, Noble, Howells, Britten, Rutter and Chilcott, as well as contemporary compositions by Sietze de Vries, Hugh Morris, Philip Stopford, Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, Alexander L'Estrange and others.
The film is narrated by Zeb Soanes and Interviewees and commentators include John Rutter, Katherine Dienes-Williams, Bob Chilcott, David Hill, Jeremy Begbie, Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, Andrew Nethsingha, Elizabeth Stratford, Christopher Gray and many others.
Click to view a 2:23 video about the 2-DVD set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul-OaG9ddA
The DVDs contain all or parts of the following works:
INTROIT
Wm Byrd: This Sweet and Merry Month of May
Gesualdo Six, Owain Park, dir.
PRECES
Richard Ayleward: Preces & Responses
Salisbury Cathedral Choir, David Halls, dir.
PSALM
Stanford: Psalm 150
St Wulfram's, Grantham, Choir; Tim Williams, dir.
CANTICLES
Wm Byrd: Magnificat Fauxburdon Tonus Perigrinus
Arundel Cathedral Choir, Elizabeth Stratford, dir.
John Goss: Canticles in G
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin; Stuart Nicholson, dir.
Stanford: Evening Canticles in A
St John's College, Cambridge, Choir, Andrew Nethsingha, dir.
Stanford: Evening Canticles in B-flat
Steel City Choristers, Eleanor Jarvis, dir.
T. Tertius Noble: Evening Canticles in B minor
Come and Sing Choir, St Mary's, Swanage, David Flood, dir.
Howells: Evening Conticles Gloucester Service
Salisbury Cathedral Choir, David Halls, dir.
Howells: Evening Canticles St Paul's Service
Trinity College, Cambridge, Choir; Stephen Layton, dir.
Howells: Evening Canticles St Paul’s Service
Adamas Voces Choir, Lincoln Cathedral; Vaughn Richardson, dir.
Herbert Howells: The Dallas Canticles, Mag & Nunc
Boys Choir of Saint Mark's School of Texas (Dallas), Glenn Stroh, dir.
Sietze de Vries: The Cape Town Canticles Mag & Nunc
Roden Girl Choristers, Sonja de Vries, dir.
Hugh Morris: Jazz Canticles
Royal School of Church Music residential choir, Hugh Morris, dir.
Philip W. J. Stopford: Truro Evening Canticles
Truro Cathedral Choir, Christopher Gray, dir.
RESPONSES
Richard Ayleward: Preces & Responses
Salisbury Cathedral Choir, David Halls, dir.
ANTHEMS
Thomas Tallis: 0 Nata Lux
Arundel Cathedral Choir, Elizabeth Stratford, dir.
Tallis: Salvator Mundi I
New College Oxford Choir, Robert Quinney, dir.
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere Mei, Deus
Southwell Consort, Dominic Bevan, dir
Orlando Gibbons: Almighty and Everlasting God
Croydon Minster Choir, Justin Miller, dir.
Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord Alway
Chester Cathedral Choir, Philip Rushforth, dir.
Stainer: I saw the Lord
St Wulfram's, Grantham, Choir; Tim Williams, dir.
Parry: I Was Glad
St James the Greater, Leicester, Choir, Matt Haynes, dir.
Parry: My Soul, There is a Country
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden, dir.
Stanford: O For a Closer Walk with God Steel City Choristers, Eleanor Jarvis, dir.
Henry Balfour Gardiner: Evening Hymn
Rugby School Chapel Choir, Richard Tanner, dir.
Healey Willan: Rise Up My Love
Belfast Methodist College Choir, Ruth McCartney, dir.
Howells: O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
Salisbury Cathedral Choir, David Halls, dir.
Howells: Take Him Earth for Cherishing
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Josh Stephens, dir.
Wm Harris: Faire is the Heaven
Guildford Cathedral Choir, Katherine Dienes-Williams, dir.
Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
Adamas Voces Choir, Lincoln Cathedral, Vaughn Richardson, dir.
Anthony Caesar: I Asked for Peace
Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Choir, Stuart Nicholson, dir.
Rutter: Hymn to the Creator of Light
Birmingham University Singers, Sir Bob Chilcott, dir.
Bob Chilcott: God so Loved the World
Come and Sing Choir, St Mary's, Swanage, David Flood, dir.
Rani Arbo: Crossing the Bar
St Thomas, Mellor, Choir, Tom Howling, dir.
HYMN
How Shall I Sing That Majesty
Truro Cathedral Choir, Christopher Gray, dir.
PRAYER
Bob Chilcott: May the Road rise to meet you
Blackburn Cathedral Choristers, John Robinson, dir.
Alexander L'Estrange: Lighten Our Darkness
New College Oxford Choir, Robert Quinney, dir.
THE SERVICE OF COMPLINE
Bolton Abbey, They Shall Laugh and Sing Holiday Choir, Jeff Stewart, dir.
ORGAN VOLUNTARIES
Holst: Venus, Mars fr. The Planets
Salisbury Cathedral, John Challenger, arr. & organist
Francis Pott: Laudes
New College Oxford, George Herbert, organist
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