℗ 2020 Signum Records
Released | February 21, 2020 |
Duration | 53m 13s |
Record Label | Signum Records |
Catalogue No. | SIGCD605 |
Genre | Classical (Choral) |
Ash Wednesday
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
Available in 44.1 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
1.1
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The Preces
William Byrd; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
1:37 | |||
1.2
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Miserere Mei, Deus
Gregorio Allegri; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
13:08 | |||
1.3
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The First Lesson
Traditional; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
2:02 | |||
The Short Service
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1.4
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Magnificat
Thomas Weelkes; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
3:00 | |||
1.5
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The Second Lesson
Traditional; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
3:20 | |||
1.6
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Nunc Dimittis
Thomas Weelkes; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
1:37 | |||
1.7
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The Apostles' Creed
Traditional; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
1:04 | |||
1.8
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The Responses
William Byrd; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
6:25 | |||
1.9
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Ne irascaris, Domine
William Byrd; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
10:53 | |||
1.10
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The Prayers
Traditional; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
2:28 | |||
1.11
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Prelude in E Minor, BWV 548i
Johann Sebastian Bach; The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; Andrew Nethsingha |
7:39 |
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the forty-day period of fasting and penitence which precedes Easter. Ashes are placed on worshippers’ foreheads in the shape of a cross, as a sign of repentance. Evensong on this day has been an especially important service in the liturgical year at St John’s; the BBC started transmitting it live in 1972. For several decades the service was broadcast annually; more recently it has been biennial. 2019 was a live broadcast year, however the recording on this release uses our own microphones, permanently installed in St John’s College Chapel for webcasting, rather than those of the BBC.
This recording will be released around the same time that the Dean of St John’s, Mark Oakley, releases a book on George Herbert’s poems, called My Sour Sweet Days. The book and the recording go well in tandem, as in the Deans first sermon at St. John’s, he said “I believe that when we walk here (The Chapel), we walk into a poem. The liturgy is poetry in motion, and we sometimes fail to understand its density of suggestion, the eavesdropping on the soul, the sensitive state of consciousness that its poetry can prompt.”
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Signum Records Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.60 -14.16 to -0.30 | -24.25 -33.21 to -15.88 | -20.25 -29.20 to -13.10 | 13 11 to 14 | |
1 | The Preces | -1.81 | -23.18 | -18.2 | 12 |
2 | Miserere Mei, Deus | -1.35 | -22.83 | -19.0 | 13 |
3 | The First Lesson | -10.20 | -30.93 | -26.1 | 14 |
4 | Magnificat | -0.30 | -19.25 | -15.9 | 11 |
5 | The Second Lesson | -11.53 | -30.27 | -26.2 | 13 |
6 | Nunc Dimittis | -0.30 | -18.63 | -15.3 | 11 |
7 | The Apostles' Creed | -8.87 | -27.15 | -23.6 | 13 |
8 | The Responses | -0.30 | -22.89 | -16.8 | 14 |
9 | Ne irascaris, Domine | -1.16 | -22.57 | -19.3 | 13 |
10 | The Prayers | -14.16 | -33.21 | -29.2 | 13 |
11 | Prelude in E Minor, BWV 548i | -0.59 | -15.88 | -13.1 | 11 |