Monthly Archives: December 2021

Bath Abbey in December

Posted on December 23, 2021 by vhk10

To complete the picture of what I was up to in December, I sang more services with the Bath Abbey Chamber Choir. Almost all the music the choir has sung this term has been already known to me, but an … Continue reading →

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three carol services and a wedding

Posted on December 22, 2021 by vhk10

After the Christmas Oratorio at the beginning of December I didn’t have any more Christmas concerts, but I had more carol services than usual: Advent, a special one on behalf of the local hospital, and the church Christmas one (which … Continue reading →

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my first performance of the Christmas Oratorio

Posted on December 21, 2021 by vhk10

Somehow I’d managed to miss doing more than odd movements of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Apart from the first chorus in isolation in a New Cambridge Singers December concert many years ago, and the chorale which turns up in Carols for … Continue reading →

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RIP Malcolm

Posted on December 14, 2021 by vhk10

I was sorry to hear of the death of Malcolm Hill for whom I used to sing in the Chandos Singers. In the half-dozen years I was in the choir I sang a huge number of different pieces from outside … Continue reading →

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Front-row for 2 × 4 Seasons

Posted on December 11, 2021 by vhk10

Thanks to our association with a sponsor of the concert, we were offered front-row seats in Bath Abbey for Bath Minerva Choir and Bath Philharmonia presenting two cycles of the four seasons. The first part was the familiar Vivaldi, with … Continue reading →

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as long as the sun and moon endureth

Posted on December 9, 2021 by vhk10

These were rather appropriate words in our psalm at evensong in Bath Abbey today. An installation consisting of a large suspended model of the Moon has appeared in Bath Abbey, similar to the one of the Earth that was doing … Continue reading →

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Mozartfest 2021 (2) – a replacement

Posted on December 8, 2021 by vhk10

Eric Lu got stranded in the USA by travel restrictions and was replaced by the recent Leeds winner Alim Beisembayev. His programme began with Mozart’s sonata in D K311 and two of Ravel’s Miroirs, but became more heavyweight in the … Continue reading →

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Mozartfest 2021 (1) – Lights!

Posted on December 5, 2021 by vhk10

I went to the first concert of the 2021 Bath Mozartfest in the Assembly rooms, the Cuarteto Casals and Paul Lewis. I do enjoy Saturday morning as a time for concerts, when I’m not tired after a day’s work and … Continue reading →

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