I was able to sing in all the choral services at church for Holy Week and Easter this year. We put together our service of music and readings for Good Friday rather quickly and I found I had to learn A love unfeigned by Thomas Hewitt-Jones more or less instantly. We also sang Ghislaine Reese-Trapp’s setting of The Crown of Roses (makes a change from the usual Tchaikovsky) and David Ogden’s Christ has no body now but yours (counting the bars correctly after I missed a repeat marking in my lockdown recording and was thereafter four bars out), amongst others.
We pushed the boat out on Easter morning and did the whole final movement of Messiah from ‘Worthy is the Lamb’ onwards and I’m not sure the congregation realised what had hit them.