{"id":627,"date":"2015-12-06T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=627"},"modified":"2015-12-06T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T22:00:23","slug":"advent-calendar-day-8-the-record-of-john-orlando-gibbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2015\/12\/06\/advent-calendar-day-8-the-record-of-john-orlando-gibbons\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 8 &#8211; The Record of John (Orlando Gibbons)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I make no apology for including this piece of music again, even though I include it in my Advent Calendar every year.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve sung the alto solo (really a countertenor solo) in The Record of John on the first Sunday of Advent every year for the better part of a decade, and to me, it doesn&#8217;t feel like Advent until I hear those opening bars on the piano.\u00a0 The song has a real weight of expectation to it, and the melody is crafted so perfectly to the natural inflections of speech that the lyrics are incredibly easy to sing expressively.\u00a0 I love it dearly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This is the Record of John - Gibbons\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9pE5vrgBHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Very sadly, I won&#8217;t be singing this piece in 2015, either as soloist or as choir member, which was one of the reasons I decided to revive the Advent Calendar after a year&#8217;s hiatus.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a melancholy pleasure listening to it instead of singing it, but this is an excellent recording.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to find a good recording with a female soloist, but so far the internet has failed to provide.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make no apology for including this piece of music again, even though I include it in my Advent Calendar every year.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve sung the alto solo (really a countertenor solo) in The Record of John on the first Sunday of Advent every year for the better part of a decade, and to me, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,14,118,553,621,700],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-advent-calendar","tag-choir-of-magdalen-college-oxford","tag-orlando-gibbons","tag-rogers-covey-crump","tag-the-record-of-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}