I’ll roll the three most recent outings of Bath Abbey’s Chamber Choir into one post. On 5 March we sang Peter Philips’ Ave verum and Purcell’s Remember not, Lord at the earlier sung Eucharist. A week later we were back for Evensong, conducted by Peter Wright. The music list for this had to be hastily amended (with the substitution of Bob Chilcott’s arrangement of Were you there?) when it became clear this was a special service for Commonwealth Day, featuring among others students on Commonwealth scholarships. With a little more planning we could have given our music list more of a Commonwealth theme; I can think of Australian and Canadian composers straight off, and it would be possible to turn up repertoire from other qualifying countries easily enough.
We sang our first Thursday evensong in a while on a day when the organs were in transition; the temporary digital one having gone but the Klais not fully tuned. So it was unaccompanied with notes given on the piano. David Bednall came back to conduct us in mostly Tudor repertoire, including Weelkes’ When David heard (singing the other soprano part this time).