Category Archives: singing at services

scholarly fiddling

Posted on July 11, 2022 by vhk10

My musical activities for a mid-June weekend began with a solo recital of folk fiddle given by Sam Sweeney (sometime of Bellowhead) in church.  This is repertoire that I don’t know at all and Sam’s introductions revealed that it can … Continue reading →

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the patron saint of my choir tours (2)

Posted on June 30, 2022 by vhk10

There was one final performance day on our Veneto choir tour: the Duomo at Asola, a small Cathedral city.  Here we had a (vetted) organ at our disposal which increased our repertoire.  We sang for a Mass (preceded by a … Continue reading →

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the patron saint of my choir tours (1)

Posted on June 7, 2022 by vhk10

On the previous foreign choir tour I went on, to Lisbon, we were proudly informed that St Antony of Padua had come from the city and shown a site associated with him. And the one I have just returned from … Continue reading →

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Vaughan Williams’ greatest hits – and Britten

Posted on May 20, 2022 by vhk10

The concert programme for the final Gloucester Choral Society concert of the season marked the Vaughan Williams anniversary with a selection including some of his best-known shorter works. We sang in all of them apart from The Lark Ascending, played … Continue reading →

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Requiem (3): a new one

Posted on April 14, 2022 by vhk10

The third Requiem of the spring was a premiere performance of a work by Richard Gabe, a member of the choir at church and connected by marriage to a late friend of mine. Like the Rutter it mixed some words … Continue reading →

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the sounding of thy bowels

Posted on March 24, 2022 by vhk10

The phrase in the title used sometimes to be replaced by other words in performances of O Lord look down from heaven by Battishill, but not when I heard Merton College choir sing it at evensong in Bath Abbey earlier … Continue reading →

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no Tenebrae at the Bachfest

Posted on February 23, 2022 by vhk10

We had tickets to hear Tenebrae at the Bath Bachfest, but the concert was cancelled as it proved impossible for the choir to reach Bath on the day when Storm Eunice struck. I was not the only person in Bath … Continue reading →

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a Epiphany carol service

Posted on February 5, 2022 by vhk10

This was a new development at Bath Abbey and the Chamber Choir was singing. One novelty for me The Magi’s Dream by James Whitbourn, better known to me as a producer of Choral Evensong broadcasts, with words by Robert Tear, … Continue reading →

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Bath Abbey in December

Posted on December 23, 2021 by vhk10

To complete the picture of what I was up to in December, I sang more services with the Bath Abbey Chamber Choir. Almost all the music the choir has sung this term has been already known to me, but an … Continue reading →

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three carol services and a wedding

Posted on December 22, 2021 by vhk10

After the Christmas Oratorio at the beginning of December I didn’t have any more Christmas concerts, but I had more carol services than usual: Advent, a special one on behalf of the local hospital, and the church Christmas one (which … Continue reading →

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