Purcell: Z 231/1. Magnificat (Evening Service in G minor) - Preston

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Evening Service in G minor, Z 231

1. Magnificat (My soul doth magnify the Lord)

Canticle for soloists (SSAATB) and chorus (SATB)

Text: Luke, I, 46-55 in 'The Holy Bible' (1611), and Minor Doxology in 'The Book of Common Prayer' (1662)

Music: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
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Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,
conducted by Simon Preston

Francis Grier, organ

Recorded in November 1980

Pitch: A = 466 Hz
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This Evening Service only survives in late 18th-century manuscripts, and its ascription to Henry Purcell has sometimes been questioned.

Marc D.

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[peddletoneG]

Truly lovely, and detractors are sad vacuums. My problem with singing along is I'm afraid we'll have to do it in modern pitch next month, so am practicing in both baroque and modern...fun to sing in both, but the altos would have a hard time on that low E (which in modern is low D)--comfortable for the adolescent boys for whom it was intended, but deadly for most gals, unless done in modern. Being a Bass 3, either is fine with me. Maybe we can loan 'em a tenor for that note.

[Murgy56]

How lovely to hear this. I remember recording it as though it was yesterday, with a wonderful set of colleagues I'm singing the tenor verses. Thank you for posting. As for the argument it seems to have aroused .....just enjoy the beautiful music!

[m0bob]

I will be singing this at Evensong in 50 mins time. Chingford Parish Church.

Some people just don't seem to realise that Christians of different denominations worship the same God. We are all striving for the same thing, but in different ways.

[USAsoldier1955]

@LiturgicalChants = Papist Lacking All Taste

[USAsoldier1955]

@LiturgicalChants Your silly comments are unworthy of YouTube.

[LiturgicalChants]

I'm not a Papist actually, I am in communion with the Antiochian Orthodox Church's Western Rite Vicariate. You certainly wont find Eastern rite Orthodox music similar to this, and its not just the a matter of ethnic difference, it's the idea of what liturgical music should and should not be, regardless of eastern or western liturgy.

[USAsoldier1955]

@LiturgicalChants Purcell's BEAUTIFUL music reflects the majesty & decorum of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Protestant Christian Faith -- against all Papist strumpetry & superstition! Deo Gratias! :)



[LiturgicalChants]

For me the music is dreadful because it reflects the decadence, secularization and humanism of the 17th c. the music is so playful and silly not befitting the majesty given by earlier compositions of the magnificat, a century or two earlier this sound would have been unheard of and banned. Not at all compatible with Holy Apostolic Orthodox Catholicism.

[greenmoss123]

we sang this yesterday good peice:)

[MandoMohan]

I love the way you've presented this beautiful music with the score. Just great. Thank you.