Dr. George Thalben Ball - Favourite Hymns from The Temple Church (Vinyl, 1961)

Описание: Favourite Hymns from the Temple Church

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TEMPLE CHURCH CHOIR
Organist and Choir Master: Dr. GEORGE THALBEN-BALL

Side One:
1. LORD'S MY SHEPHERD (Crimond) w- (Irvine arr. Pritchard)
2. THE DAY THOU GAYEST (St. Clement) (Scholefield—Ellerton)

Side Two:
1. ALL PEOPLE THAT ON EARTH DO DWELL (Old 100th) (Bourgeois—Kethe)
2. NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD (Nun Danket) (Gruger—Rinkart translated Winkworth)

WE had come to the Temple to record the year's new choir in a programme of " Standard Hymns "—four of which are contained on this EP—and while practising a verse two of the red-robed choirboys of the Templars ", the Temple Church Choir, raised their hands. Their choirmaster, Dr. George Thalben-Ball, conducted on undisturbed. Several times more this happened among the boys during the singing. Intrigued, I asked George Dixon, Dr. Thalben-Ball's assistant, what these hand signals meant. " Why, it's been a Temple tradition for many years," he said. Whenever someone makes a mistake in the music, he raises his hand immediately and this encourages both accuracy of performance as well as instilling a great sense of honesty in the boys."

HIS MASTER'S VOICE :
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Dr. Thalben-Ball was enthusiastic about this choir, as he has been about all lie has led at this ancient church since 1919. I marvelled at the patience and great musicianship he must have to weld each year ten to twelve boys and equal number of men into a team of glorious precision.
Each Sunday there is a choral service at the Temple Church, requiring practice and study of new anthems, many voluntaries and psalms. Processionals, too, are part of the life of the Temple Choir. It is a moving and impressive moment for the listener to hear the lovely tune " Now thank we all our God " recede into the ancient Round as the singers slowly walk into the west end of the church. Famous effigies of the original Templars lie silently in that dim and ageless porch. Our procession, preserved on the recording, took quite a while to achieve. The choir had to sing the first verse in normal position to achieve a proper balance, then we had to turn everybody around slowly through an arc of 45 degrees, and the leading boys had to set off in step very slowly to the rhythm of the music. Half way down the aisle we had a conductor relaying the beat of the hymn to Dr. Thalben-Ball on the organ loft upstairs. Organists are always thus isolated, and ensemble is endangered. However, the experience of the choir soon told in the result of the recording, which we hope will give as many people pleasure in their homes here and in far away places as these highly skilled young musicians had in singing for us. - from a note by PETER ANDRY
Recording first published 1961.

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