Tag Archives: Adrian Partington

Three Choirs 2023: the first Saturday concert

Posted on July 30, 2023 by vhk10

Our first concert, on the evening of the first day, contained two choral items in the first half. Rise up, O Sun! was a new composition by Eleanor Alberga setting words by Blake. There was plenty to get your teeth … 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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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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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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a workshop on The Eighth

Posted on May 12, 2022 by vhk10

Four years on from Berlioz, the South Cotswold Big Sing Group is reconvening, this time to perform Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Sadly, the advance workshop in Gloucester was all I’m going to get of this, as I’m not free to sing … Continue reading →

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Requiem (2): Fauré

Posted on March 30, 2022 by vhk10

A week on: another Requiem and another setting of Psalm 23. This was Gloucester Choral Society’s double-bill of Fauré and Stanford in Gloucester Cathedral. I would have liked to have illustrated this post with another in the sequence of windows … Continue reading →

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my first performance of the Christmas Oratorio

Posted on December 21, 2021 by vhk10

Somehow I’d managed to miss doing more than odd movements of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Apart from the first chorus in isolation in a New Cambridge Singers December concert many years ago, and the chorale which turns up in Carols for … Continue reading →

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a feelgood piece to return with

Posted on October 20, 2021 by vhk10

I returned to the concert platform with Gloucester Choral Society in a performance of Haydn’s Creation. This is a piece that comes round every few years, and I’ve done it with a variety of groups. My records tell me that … Continue reading →

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singing in the Palace Garden

Posted on June 7, 2021 by vhk10

No, this is not the party at Buck House which I had hoped to attend a year ago. Members of Gloucester Choral Society dodged the current restrictions (as many groups have done) by rehearsing outside, in this grandly named space … Continue reading →

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pick up anthem

Posted on March 9, 2021 by vhk10

On Monday nights recently I’ve been taking part in a trawl through some of the European Sacred Music collection. I have sung many but by no means all of these, and some of the ones I have sung I have … Continue reading →

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the last concert for a while

Posted on March 18, 2020 by vhk10

I rejoined Gloucester Choral Society to perform Bach’s St John Passion, after thinking carefully about the amount of time and travel involved. I shall never regret doing this, because of the significance that is now attached to it. By concert … Continue reading →

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