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Ash Wednesday
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The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge

Ash Wednesday

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212060520
Catnr: SIGCD 605
Release date: 07 February 2020
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Signum Classics
UPC
0635212060520
Catalogue number
SIGCD 605
Release date
07 February 2020
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About the album

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.”

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Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)

Performing as a conductor and organist in North America, South Africa, Far East, and throughout Europe, Andrew Nethsingha has been Director of Music at St John’s College, Cambridge since 2007. His innovations at St John’s have included weekly webcasts and a termly Bach cantata series.  His recordings for Chandos have been well reviewed. Andrew Nethsingha received his early musical training as a chorister at Exeter Cathedral, where his father was organist for over a quarter of a century. He later studied at the Royal College of Music, where he won seven prizes, and at St John’s College, Cambridge. He held Organ Scholarships under Christopher Robinson, at St George’s Windsor, and George Guest, at St John’s, before becoming Assistant Organist at Wells...
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Performing as a conductor and organist in North America, South Africa, Far East, and throughout Europe, Andrew Nethsingha has been Director of Music at St John’s College, Cambridge since 2007. His innovations at St John’s have included weekly webcasts and a termly Bach cantata series. His recordings for Chandos have been well reviewed.

Andrew Nethsingha received his early musical training as a chorister at Exeter Cathedral, where his father was organist for over a quarter of a century. He later studied at the Royal College of Music, where he won seven prizes, and at St John’s College, Cambridge. He held Organ Scholarships under Christopher Robinson, at St George’s Windsor, and George Guest, at St John’s, before becoming Assistant Organist at Wells Cathedral. He was subsequently Director of Music at Truro and Gloucester Cathedrals. Other recent positions have included Artistic Director of the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival and Musical Director of the Gloucester Choral Society.

He has served as President of the Cathedral Organists’ Association. He has worked with some of the UK’s leading orchestras. Andrew’s concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra have included many of the major choral works: Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Britten War Requiem, Brahms Requiem, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and The Kingdom, Walton Belshazzar’s Feast, Poulenc Gloria and Duruflé Requiem. He has also worked with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, Britten Sinfonia, the Aarhus Symfoniorkester and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Recent conducting engagements have included the BBC Proms, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Tokyo Suntory Hall. He regularly runs choral courses in various countries, including France and the U.S.A.


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01.
The Preces
01:39
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
02.
Miserere mei, Deus
13:08
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
03.
The First Lesson
02:03
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
04.
The Short Service: Magnificat
03:03
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
05.
The Second Lesson
03:21
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
06.
The Short Service: Nunc Dimittis
01:38
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
07.
The Apostles' Creed
01:05
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
08.
The Responses
06:25
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
09.
Ne irascaris, Domine
10:54
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
10.
The Prayers
02:29
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
11.
Prelude in E Minor, BWV 548i
07:40
(Various) The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant, The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
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