New to me, that is. I had a busy weekend of services in two different churches. In one, I was introduced to Shephard’s The Secret of Christ (you’ll have to listen to the anthem to find out what it is) and Ives’ Ubi Caritas which makes a change from the usual soprano-unfriendly Duruflé.
The other service had rather more standard fare, though not pieces I’m used to performing in Bath: Stanford in A and Bairstow’s Blessed City, Heavenly Salem. We were fortunate in having Dr Anthony Crossland as our conductor. For this service we were permitted to wear academic hoods, and his Lambeth DMus (with the hood in Oxford style) was easily the winner.