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Front-row for 2 × 4 Seasons

Posted on December 11, 2021 by vhk10

Thanks to our association with a sponsor of the concert, we were offered front-row seats in Bath Abbey for Bath Minerva Choir and Bath Philharmonia presenting two cycles of the four seasons. The first part was the familiar Vivaldi, with … Continue reading →

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Gloomy Mahler (2) – Kindertotenlieder

Posted on October 13, 2017 by vhk10

The Bath Philharmonia and Jason Thornton brought Mahler back to St Swithin’s Church. For the conductor, Jason Thornton, this marked the point at which he had conducted all of Mahler’s orchestral works We had Mahler’s orchestration for strings of the … Continue reading →

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20th anniversary

Posted on June 1, 2016 by vhk10

It’s our 20th wedding anniversary this month – so who from 1996 remains on the local musical scene? (Strictly speaking, I didn’t arrive in Bath till late August, but I started investigating choirs before I moved here.) In Bath, we … Continue reading →

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Das Lied on Earth Day

Posted on April 26, 2016 by vhk10

How often do you get a performance of Das Lied von der Erde more or less at the end of your street? I found this was happening just in time and grabbed myself a ticket. This was the Bath Philharmonia … Continue reading →

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Bath Festival 2013: Berlioz at the Forum

Posted on July 1, 2013 by vhk10

I went to only one Bath Festival concert this year because most of the other interesting ones were around the first weekend of the Festival when I was away or busy. There were certainly some other concerts I’d have gone … Continue reading →

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Adam and Eve-ing it

Posted on July 19, 2012 by vhk10

I took part in the South West Festival Chorus/Bath Phil’s performance of Haydn’s Creation. Our conductor, Jason Thornton, told as that Haydn had been inspired to write the work after conducting Messiah in Bath Abbey, so by performing it there … Continue reading →

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Bruckner and the snoring hummingbird

Posted on May 25, 2012 by vhk10

During rehearsals our choirmaster, Gavin Carr, told about the viral YouTube video of a hummingbird apparently snoring. I’m not sure quite how this was intended to inform our performance of Bruckner’s Mass in F minor – not at least by … Continue reading →

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Chopin concertos

Posted on September 27, 2010 by vhk10

Last Thursday I went to the last of the Bath Phil’s ‘Summer Classics’ season at Bath Abbey. The programme had been changed (as with the last Bath Phil concert I went to) with Lutoslawski and Gorecki disappearing in favour of … Continue reading →

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Brass in the Abbey

Posted on October 5, 2009 by vhk10

I went to hear the Bath Philharmonia (like the Festival, it’s gone in for abbreviating itself, as BathPhil) in the final concert of their summer series, in Bath Abbey. We lost the programmed Borodin overture, so the first half consisted … Continue reading →

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the view from choir 8

Posted on April 28, 2009 by vhk10

I’ve written before about singing in Spem in Alium, I admit partly to see if it resulted in an invitation to sing the work in Tallis’ anniversary year of 2005. But I had to wait until now, with a performance … Continue reading →

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