Category Archives: singing at services

Morley at Passiontide

Posted on April 8, 2025 by vhk10

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, … Continue reading →

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the 15th evening at Exeter

Posted on March 18, 2025 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir joined forces with our opposite number at Exeter Cathedral, the St Peter’s Singers, for an evensong in Exeter. Exeter is one of the few Cathedrals now that does the BCP psalms for the day (Christ Church … Continue reading →

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3 kings in Latin and English

Posted on January 19, 2025 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir began the year with the fixed point in our annual schedule: the Epiphany Carol service, with two pieces I hadn’t done before. Byrd’s 5-part setting of Reges Tharsis appears to be an early work, using the … Continue reading →

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round-up of 2024

Posted on January 7, 2025 by vhk10

2024 will not rank as a particularly vintage year for me I think – I didn’t go to any operas and there were no major works I sang for the first time (maybe this is because the ones that I … Continue reading →

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autumn and Advent round-up

Posted on December 21, 2024 by vhk10

I sang at various services during the autumn and here’s a quick summary of some musical highlights. Back in September Bath Abbey Chamber Choir introduced me to another setting of Ego sum panis vivus, this time by Palestrina. Later in … Continue reading →

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Mathias and Matins at York

Posted on October 31, 2024 by vhk10

The Erleigh Cantors were due to visit York in 2020 and we’ve had to wait for our turn to conquer the North (the furthest north we’d been before this was Lichfield). Most of the music we used was drawn from … Continue reading →

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recapitulating the wedding

Posted on August 12, 2024 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir made the second of its Cathedral visits, a rather shorter distance to Bristol Cathedral, where the quire is full of scaffolding and the organ has been dismantled, so we were in temporary stalls in front, and … Continue reading →

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Kentish apples

Posted on July 30, 2024 by vhk10

Rochester was a Cathedral I sang in early on, and in fact I think it may have been the first Cathedral the Erleigh Cantors ever went to. Certainly it was one of my earliest excursions with them. And neither the … Continue reading →

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favourite hymns

Posted on July 8, 2024 by vhk10

I’m not going to actually reveal my favourites here; they change from day to day, and I also have some definite un-favourites! We hosted an evening of ‘favourite hymns and the stories behind them’ led by Pam Rhodes, in aid … Continue reading →

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Abbey round-up: May/June 2024

Posted on June 20, 2024 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir these days is being given quite a mix of services to sing, not just 9.30 am ones as it looked like at one time. May began with an evensong which included Ireland’s canticles in F, which … Continue reading →

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