I went to hear the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds (formerly the Leeds University Liturgical Choir) singing a concert in Christ Church Bath during their residency at Bath Abbey.
The most notable feature of the concert was the large number of different formations the choir members adopted in the performance area. There were single choir, double choir, choir and semi-chorus, and parts scrambled together, with various combinations of these. The sound was good, though not without the top-heaviness which is usual in student choirs.
The choir seemed rather happier in the 20th-21st century music in the second half of the concert, than in the earlier pieces in the first half (their conductor Bryan White is a specialist in the English Restoration). The music in the second half was all new to me, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything sung in Manx before! (the piece in question being a folksong arrangement by Vaughan Williams). In particular, I’d never heard Samuel Barber’s Reincarnations, which is him in would-be Irish mode. These really deserve to be better known, although quite demanding to perform I suspect. The second half also included two settings of Stevenson by Philip Henderson, commissioned by the choir and receiving their first live performance (although the choir has recorded them). I enjoyed these, but have never sung (or heard?) anything by their composer. What a lot of choral music there is out there that one can so easily miss.