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 evensong introduced something new: Alan Rawsthorne’s canticles in D (largely an exercise in singing thirds). We paired it with that Advent favourite, Naylor’s Vox Dicentis. A week earlier on Advent Sunday we’d done part of Ives’ Missa Brevis (I turned out to be the only one in the choir that day who’d sung this before).
On Advent 4 we demonstrated that we do sing early music by singing Palestrina’s Missa Brevis and Parsons’ Ave Maria. The New Year brings an Epiphany carol service, a series of Eucharists, a Passiontide concert and a visiting-choir evensong at Southwark Cathedral.