Category Archives: singing in concerts

a missed chance to sing Israel in Egypt

Posted on February 25, 2026 by vhk10

A couple of years before I started this blog I sang in a performance of Israel in Egypt with the Brandon Hill Singers. (It was I think the last performance with orchestra that the choir ever gave.) Apart from Deborah … Continue reading →

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2025 round-up

Posted on January 1, 2026 by vhk10

2025 was an odd year, both for what it contained and for what it didn’t. The outstanding feature was the two overseas choir tours in quick succession, with Bristol Choral to Latvia and Gloucester Choral to Transylvania. They just happened … Continue reading →

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Advent and Christmas 2: inclusive carols, the hospital lobby and Jethro Tull

Posted on December 19, 2025 by vhk10

My second tranche of seasonal music began with an inclusive service at church for our Open Table Network congregation. This began and ended with some appropriate ‘songs from the shows’, which was for me a welcome chance to dip into … Continue reading →

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a short rehearsal period for Brahms

Posted on October 11, 2025 by vhk10

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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an Olympic Sanctus

Posted on July 10, 2025 by vhk10

I rejoined the South Cotswold Big Sing Group in Gloucester Cathedral to sing a work that had been on my hitlist for a while, Berlioz’ Te Deum. I’d heard a lot about performances of this piece that others had sung … Continue reading →

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Quadruple booked

Posted on June 30, 2025 by vhk10

Saturday 28th June was a day when I was wanted everywhere. There was a Berlioz Te Deum rehearsal in Gloucester; a wedding at church; the return visit of St Peter’s Singers of Exeter to join Bath Abbey Chamber Choir in … Continue reading →

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a 35th anniversary concert

Posted on June 10, 2025 by vhk10

The Erleigh Cantors were deprived of any sort of 30th anniversary concert because it would have fallen in 2020. Nevertheless, an anthem was commissioned from Andrew Millington, and the 35th anniversary was marked in the same way with a new … Continue reading →

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the Transylvania programme

Posted on May 31, 2025 by vhk10

Gloucester Choral Society sang the same programme everywhere on our choir tour of Transylvania. Three blocks of choral music interspersed with organ pieces. (Except that in the castle we gave a cut-down unaccompanied programme twice with different singers each time.) … Continue reading →

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Gloucester Choral Society plays Transylvania

Posted on May 31, 2025 by vhk10

It’s a remarkable choir that persuades dozens of its members (and hangers-on) to spend over three days travelling by train from one end of Europe to the other to go on their choir tour. But many of us on the … Continue reading →

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Thin Riga Viking

Posted on April 15, 2025 by vhk10

Years back, I and my circle went through a phase of creating anagrams out of one another’s names, aided in part by a computer program. The title of this post was the best one anyone could come up with for … Continue reading →

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Verdi or Dixit?

Posted on March 31, 2025 by vhk10

I had a choice between two concerts on the same night: either singing Handel’s and Scarlatti’s settings of Dixit Dominus with a larger choir than they were written for in Bristol, or singing Verdi’s Requiem with a smaller orchestra than … 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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