what’s top of the bucket list now?

Like many singers I have a ‘bucket list’ of the works I would like to sing and have never done. For as far back as I can remember until 2008, the work at the top of it was Bach’s B minor Mass. From then till very recently, it has been Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. In November, the top slot was probably occupied by Belshazzar’s Feast, for all of one week. And now it should be…. er…. um….?

I’m now a bit stuck for an answer to this one. There are a lot of candidates: The Bells, The Seasons, the Christmas Oratorio, The Apostles, Mass settings by Bruckner, Poulenc and Haydn, among others. But nothing really stands out. If I have to pick something it would not be a full-length work, but the chorus in Mahler 2. I did get offered a chance to sing it a couple of years ago, but 8 hours or so of rehearsal before the day of the concert seemed excessive. Now there is a projected Mahler 2 in the near future – watch this space!

I have another bucket list of service music rather than concert pieces. The top piece here is the Mag and Nunc from William Byrd’s Great Service, but here I’m in the position of being able to organise a performance myself if I’m keen enough.

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