{"id":610,"date":"2015-11-29T09:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T22:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=610"},"modified":"2015-11-29T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T22:59:52","slug":"advent-calendar-day-1-advent-responsory-wadsworth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2015\/11\/29\/advent-calendar-day-1-advent-responsory-wadsworth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 1 – Advent Responsory (Wadsworth)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello!\u00a0 It’s been a long time since I last posted here, and this blog is being a bit dodgy at the moment, but today is the first Sunday in Advent, which means it’s Musical Advent Calendar Time!<\/p>\n

(And yes, I know it isn’t December yet, but it *is* Advent nonetheless, so there you go)<\/p>\n

I’ve always liked posting Palestrina’s Matin Responsory at the start of Advent, because the text ‘I look from afar’, and the dynamics (which suggest a choir slowly approaching from a distance) to me reflect the feeling that we are only at the start of the journey through advent, with Christmas in the distance.<\/p>\n

This year, though, when I went to find my favourite recording of the Palestrina, I discovered that it was no longer available on YouTube except in a sadly truncated version (here<\/a>, if you are interested), and I just couldn’t fall in love with any of the other recordings.<\/p>\n

And then I found this Advent Responsory, by Zachary Wadsworth.<\/p>\n

Edited December 2017: Alas, this YouTube clip is no longer available, but you can listen to a recording of this on Wadsworth’s website<\/a>.
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Wadsworth’s setting of the lyrics uses quite a lot of the same chant in the solo sections, but the choral bits are a whole other story, and completely new to me.\u00a0 I can’t decide whether I love it as much as the Palestrina, but it is something new, and something beautiful, and certainly a worthy beginning to the Advent Season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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