The Chamber Choir was involved in Bath Abbey’s concert for Remembrance for the first time. This concert was logistically quite an undertaking as the various pieces used different combinations of performers. Indeed Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs (the third recent performance of these for me) used different choral groups in different songs; we were required in the first and last. The other pieces sung by the Chamber Choir included another outing for Lennox Berkeley’s The Lord is my Shepherd, Ireland’s Greater Love and John Rutter’s Ukrainian Prayer from earlier this year.
This concert aimed high and there was plenty more sung by the Abbey boys/girls/men, including Howells’ Requiem and his Take him, Earth, for cherishing.