Category Archives: singing in concerts

I sell my soul to the Three Choirs Festival …. again

Posted on July 21, 2023 by vhk10

Actually not quite as thoroughly as last time, but I’m in the Festival Chorus for TCF Gloucester 2023 and been in rehearsal for it since the end of April. I’m singing in 3 evening concerts plus a late-morning one and … Continue reading →

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… with a Coronation touch

Posted on May 27, 2023 by vhk10

These words qualified the title of the Erleigh Cantors’ May concert in St Peter’s Earley, the usual mix of pieces from our Cathedral weekends with some other repertoire. Last year we did some of the obvious royal pieces because of … Continue reading →

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Elgar in St Paul’s outside the Walls

Posted on May 1, 2023 by vhk10

The name of the church sounds better in Italian – S Paolo fuori le Mura – and according to Wikipedia it’s the tenth largest church in the world. Still not the largest in which I’ve sung The Dream of Gerontius … Continue reading →

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My St John’s Smith Square début

Posted on April 25, 2023 by vhk10

I’m rather ashamed to say that I am not sure I’ve ever been to a concert in St John’s Smith Square (though I have heard countless broadcasts from there). However, I have now, rather unexpectedly, had the chance to perform … Continue reading →

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a home-grown St John Passion

Posted on April 12, 2023 by vhk10

I was given a ticket to Bath Abbey’s Holy Week performance of Bach’s St John Passion, given by the Abbey girls and men with Ruairi Bowen as the Evangelist and Rejouissance playing. The Abbey is still unheated (a part has … Continue reading →

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a dodransbicentennial memory test

Posted on April 10, 2023 by vhk10

Howells Hymnus Paradisi is the major choral work which I had not sung for the longest time. I did it as a student, but never since then, although I have twice sung Howells’ Requiem, which is the source of some … Continue reading →

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Review of the year: 2022

Posted on December 31, 2022 by vhk10

This was naturally enough a great improvement on the two previous years. My musical life (like my non-musical one) contained many events postponed from 2020 and 2021, and so became very busy. I’ve only done half a dozen overseas choir … Continue reading →

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completing the set of Coronation Anthems

Posted on December 15, 2022 by vhk10

The following weekend I had another concert, Bristol Choral Society’s Christmas concert in Bristol Cathedral. A chance to complete the set of Coronation Anthems by Handel, as we did all except The King shall Rejoice, which I sang in May … Continue reading →

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an unheated Messiah

Posted on December 10, 2022 by vhk10

I try to space out performances of Messiah – helped by the pandemic I’d managed to go four years since the last one – and in fact I’d never performed it in Gloucester Cathedral. I rejoined Gloucester Choral Society (having … Continue reading →

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a Remembrance concert

Posted on November 18, 2022 by vhk10

The Chamber Choir was involved in Bath Abbey’s concert for Remembrance for the first time. This concert was logistically quite an undertaking as the various pieces used different combinations of performers. Indeed Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs (the third recent … Continue reading →

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