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Leicester falls

Posted on June 20, 2011 by vhk10

A week after Salisbury I was at Leicester Cathedral for a day with the Peterborough Chamber Choir. We sang the two services on Sunday, with the morning one featuring Mozart including his Missa Brevis K65, the earliest Mozart I’ve sung but … Continue reading →

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the cathedral with the infinity pool

Posted on June 3, 2011 by vhk10

Salisbury’s new(ish) font spills water continually (when it’s switched on) from its four corners, the water level being almost level with the top of the font. It featured quite strongly in the liturgy the weekend Priory Voices were there, as … Continue reading →

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a return to Swayne

Posted on June 3, 2011 by vhk10

The Erleigh Cantors put on a concert of music for double choir at St. Peter’s, Caversham in May, which I sang in. The most complex item on the programme was the Magnificat by Giles Swayne, which we sang at Southwark … Continue reading →

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behind the Royal Crescent

Posted on June 2, 2011 by vhk10

The now annual ‘Party in the City’ which opens the Bath ‘MusicFest’ (as it is currently styled) booked the Chandos Singers to perform in the garden behind the Royal Crescent Hotel. We were the last performers at this venue and … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 27: forever in the catalogue

Posted on May 7, 2011 by vhk10

Not much early music among our LPs, but I hit a chunk of it here with two lots of Monteverdi. Sadly, I think the eponymous Monteverdi Choir’s performance of the Vespers of 1610 (the earlier, studio, recording) is in too … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 26: more sticking points

Posted on April 30, 2011 by vhk10

I actually recorded these LPs some months ago, but am behind with writing them up. This batch began with a Hungaroton transfer of Beethoven violin sonatas performed by Dénes Kovacs and Mihaly Bächer. Some of the other discs in the … Continue reading →

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I was glad

Posted on April 22, 2011 by vhk10

The Chandos Singers’ latest concert consisted of settings of Psalm 122, plus a parody Mass, by various composers (but not Parry). It was the first time I’d performed in the Magdalen Chapel on Holloway, a small venue but acoustically pleasant. … Continue reading →

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I get to hear Eternal Light

Posted on April 9, 2011 by vhk10

This piece by Howard Goodall seems to be flavour of the month right now. It received two performances on the south side of Lansdown Hill within four weeks, the second being by CanZona. It formed the second part of a … Continue reading →

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Bath loses a music shop

Posted on April 1, 2011 by vhk10

Duck Son and Pinker closed abruptly today. I was an occasional customer for sheet music and CDs, although it was never my first choice for CDs and I sometimes found the staff didn’t know their way round the sheet music … Continue reading →

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brass players and drinking

Posted on March 25, 2011 by vhk10

My son is learning the trumpet, and has now been told to ‘have a drink after you finish practising’. Of course water is what is meant, but it explains a lot! In fairness to brass players everywhere, I will recount … Continue reading →

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