18. The Appeal of the Crucified. Sir John Stainer. The Crucifixion. St Marylebone Parish Church скачать в хорошем качестве

18. The Appeal of the Crucified. Sir John Stainer. The Crucifixion. St Marylebone Parish Church

Good Friday reflections as part of our preparations for Easter conclude with Sir John Stainer’s Oratorio, The Crucifixion, written for his friend and protégé, William Hodge and the Choir of St Marylebone Parish Church in 1887. After the great Passions of J S Bach, The Crucifixion is still the English-speaking world’s most widely-sung telling of our Lord’s Passion. Good Friday 2020 would have witnessed the 134th annual performance of The Crucifixion at St Marylebone. The third of his oratorios after The Daughter of Jairus and Mary Magdalene, Crucifixion was first performed here on Thursday February 24, 1887, the day after Ash Wednesday. This live recording was made in 2017 and was sung the Choir of St Marylebone Parish Church under the direction of Gavin Roberts, William Hodge’s successor as Director of Music. The recording was made to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the present parish church building and also marked the 30th Anniversary of St Marylebone’s great Rieger Organ and the 900th anniversary of the parish of Tyburn and Lillestone, since the 15th century called “St Marylebone”. Our soloists in this recording are tenor, Mark Wilde, and baritone Graham Trew. The organist is Thomas Allery, our then Assistant Director of Music. The music of Sir John Stainer and the libretto of the Revd William Sparrow-Simpson takes us on an emotional and spiritual journey towards the cross that awaits Christ on the hill of Calvary, Golgotha, the Place of a Skull, just outside Jerusalem’s city walls. This is the very journey for which the eternal Word of God became incarnate; the journey to which the whole of Jesus’ earthly ministry had, inexorably, been leading; a journey which fulfilled Christ’s destiny, revealed his glory, and completed God the Father’s loving plan for creation’s salvation. I invite you now to keep a few moments of quietness before we pray and begin our journey towards the hill of Golgotha and the crucifixion which awaits Christ Jesus. Let us pray: Almighty God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family for which our Lord Jesus Christ was content to be betrayed and given up into the hands of sinners and to suffer death upon the cross; who now liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The Crucifixion: A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer, Sir John Stainer Text: The Reverend W J Sparrow Simpson, Assistant Curate. 1887 premiered in St Marylebone Parish Church, and performed there every year since. By the choir of St Marylebone Parish Church 18. The Appeal of the Crucified.