We had quite a lot to do this year. On Maundy Thursday we trooped up the hill to sing at the Eucharist at St Stephen’s, which was in the context of an actual meal. I hadn’t sung Bruckner’s Pange lingua for a very long time indeed, yet remembered it perfectly; it was presumably written for a larger acoustic than the church centre where we sang it. We also sang Byrd’s Ave Verum and (later, in church) Ives’ Ubi Caritas, which is a bit more soprano-friendly than the usual Duruflé setting.
Our Good Friday service of music and readings had seven anthems. These included Bairstow’s Lamentations (one of the few pieces by Bairstow I actually like) and Pater meus by the sometime Bath Camerata favourite Antonín Tučapský. A rather simpler piece was Tallis’ Purge me Lord. For something rather more dramatic we had Ireland’s Greater Love in which I did the solo (I think I’ve sung this before, but only as a semi-chorus).