Bath Abbey Chamber Choir’s final performance with Dewi Rees (an evensong originally planned for Holy Week was cancelled) was one of music and readings for Passiontide.
The music included a couple of pieces from our repertoire (Elgar’s O salutaris hostia, Anerio Christus factus est) some that I am familiar with from elsewhere (‘John of Portugal’ Crux fidelis, Goss’ O Saviour of the world) and Morley’s curious macaronic anthem Nolo mortem peccatoris which I sang quite often as a student but have not encountered this millennium.
Our speaking/shouting voices were also needed as we played the ‘turba’ part in a dramatic reading of the Passion.