Bruckner

We had a special evensong on Saturday to end an ‘open day’ at church. We sang Walmisley in D minor and for an anthem, Locus Iste by Bruckner. We don’t usually do anthems but when we do it’s often Bruckner (we sang Ecce sacerdos for the bishop a few weeks ago). Probably because it’s the nearest our organist can get to Wagner. Leitmotifs have a way of creeping into his improvisations and the hymn with the tune from Parsifal always makes an appearance at Ascensiontide (not to mention the one with the tune from Meistersinger at other times).