Monthly Archives: October 2025

why you have to collate editions

I hadn’t sung in St Albans Cathedral in quite a few years, although at one time I did so several years in a row with different choirs. I visited the city three years ago but to rehearse in another church. … Continue reading

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a Capitular Mass

Visiting Sardinia in mid-October, I went to Mass in the Duomo in Cagliari. We’d visited the building earlier and explored the network of subterranean chapels. I attended the ‘Capitular Mass’ which I think means the Bishop is supposed to be … Continue reading

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a short rehearsal period for Brahms

The course of this blog has periodically been punctuated by performances of Brahms’ German Requiem, either sung by me (with four different choirs) or heard (curiously I’ve never sung it in Bristol though Bristol Choral Society performed it twice there … Continue reading

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