I’ve sung a few services with Bath Abbey Chamber Choir in the last few months though not all (missed the ordination, for example).
For the Coronation weekend in May we had appropriately themed music: Purcell’s I was glad, and another Coronation piece, Confortare by Walter Parratt, though with the words neutered so we no longer had to ‘play the man’. Later in May there was a Eucharist with music by Palestrina including Dum Complerentur. I was surprised to find how long ago my only previous performance of the piece was, and yes, I hadn’t totally forgotten it!
In July we sang Evensong with David Bednall’s plainchant-based setting of the Evening Hymn (new to me), and O Lord, look down from Heaven by Battishill (with bowels though I think they just yearned rather than sounding). I did the solo part in the Magnificat of Gray in F minor, and found out just why it always sounds so squawky when I hear other people sing it.
Later in July there was another evensong pairing canticles I hadn’t previously sung: de Rore’s Magnificat on the first tone and Lassus’ Nunc on the seventh. Our introit was Byrd’s Prevent us, O Lord and the anthem Tomkins’ setting of When David heard. The final service of the season (although it can be a little hard to tell when the season begins and ends) was a Eucharist in August, with movements from Mozart’s Mass K194 (I did the solo in the Gloria) and Byrd’s Ego sum panis vivus, a new piece to me. There’s clearly a lot of Byrd around this year, but he wrote sufficiently many pieces that that there’s lots still to discover.