Author Archives: vhk10

the Byrd 5-part Mass reappears

Posted on November 5, 2010 by vhk10

I joined Priory Voices for a weekend of services in Wells in autumn half-term. The highlight for me was a chance to sing movements from Byrd’s five-part Mass. This was especially welcome because I had had to decline an invitation … Continue reading →

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a family concert with the Classic Buskers

Posted on October 25, 2010 by vhk10

When I lived in Cambridge I sang with the ‘Cambridge Chamber Group’, conducted by Ian Moore. Ian has for some time been one half of the Classic Buskers, travelling the world with an accordion as accompanist to Michael Copley’s variety … Continue reading →

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the Wesley anniversary observed

Posted on October 14, 2010 by vhk10

I thought that I might not end up singing any S.S. Wesley in this anniversary year, but I was invited to sing ‘Lead me Lord’ in a service at Charlecombe church (along with a new setting of Ecce Sacerdos). It … Continue reading →

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where to stay at St. David’s

Posted on September 28, 2010 by vhk10

The Cathedral Chamber Choir is going (by popular demand) to St. David’s next August for a week. We are already trying to book somewhere for those choir members who don’t want to make their own arrangements to stay. The Courthouse … Continue reading →

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Chopin concertos

Posted on September 27, 2010 by vhk10

Last Thursday I went to the last of the Bath Phil’s ‘Summer Classics’ season at Bath Abbey. The programme had been changed (as with the last Bath Phil concert I went to) with Lutoslawski and Gorecki disappearing in favour of … Continue reading →

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Prom 66: Mahler’s 11th

Posted on September 7, 2010 by vhk10

One of my great regrets with regard to singing came back in 2002 when I was for a short time in the Cambridge University Musical Society (CUMS) chorus. Members were invited to join a performance of Mahler 8 later that … Continue reading →

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Being blackmailed

Posted on August 22, 2010 by vhk10

For obvious reasons I’m not naming people or organisations involved in this story. I am also falsifying the date. But I want my feelings to be on record. We have been invited to join another local choir to sing a … Continue reading →

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Prom 37

Posted on August 20, 2010 by vhk10

Others in the family got to this Prom, with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. It was rather a mixed bag but went down well. After the overture to La Forza del Destino, there was the novelty of Dallapiccola’s … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 24: Liszt

Posted on August 9, 2010 by vhk10

Quite a lot of piano and chamber music remain to be done, and I tackled some of it in this batch. Beginning with two discs of quartets from Eastern Europe: a Supraphon of the Smetana Quartet playing Janáček’s and the … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 23: the end of romanticism

Posted on July 29, 2010 by vhk10

This batch began with the second LP of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances and overture My Home. Then a treasured disc of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Strauss; we have been unable to agree on whether her performance of the Four Last Songs or … Continue reading →

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