Tag Archives: Cathedral Chamber Choir

the Coronation Mass in Peterborough

Posted on February 13, 2006 by vhk10

This weekend I went with the Cathedral Chamber Choir to Peterborough, a Cathedral I have not sung in for a long time (I sang evensong there a couple of times with my Cambridge college choir, there being a College connexion … Continue reading →

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Caer

Posted on September 2, 2005 by vhk10

I sang a couple of days of the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s week at Chester Cathedral. We began with a Tudor evensong – Tomkins Second Service and Byrd’s Teach me, O Lord, in the latter of which I did the verse … Continue reading →

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more MacMillan in Redcliffe

Posted on May 29, 2005 by vhk10

I was able to sing in two of the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s services at St. Mary Redcliffe today. Some of the repertoire was very familiar – by Palestrina and Stanford – but we also sang at Mattins the Britten Te … Continue reading →

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some panoramic views

Posted on November 3, 2004 by vhk10

I spent last weekend singing with the Cathedral Chamber Choir in High Bradfield Parish Church and Sheffield Cathedral. (Don’t follow these links if your connexion is slow). High Bradfield was arranged for us by the Sheffield people because the Cathedral … Continue reading →

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the Virginia Knight B & B choir

Posted on September 1, 2004 by vhk10

The Cathedral Chamber Choir was renamed to something like this on the car parking permits issued to drivers staying at King Alfred’s College during the week at Winchester Cathedral (because I’d made the booking there). I don’t think the name … Continue reading →

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mixed up in Westminster Cathedral

Posted on April 18, 2004 by vhk10

On Saturday the Cathedral Chamber Choir paid its first visit to Westminster Cathedral, to sing at the Saturday evening Mass. Most Roman Catholic Cathedrals in England don’t go in for visiting choirs the way that Anglican ones do, and it … Continue reading →

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Westminster Abbey (2)

Posted on January 12, 2004 by vhk10

On January 2nd most of us were back again, this time for a service where I’d sung neither canticles nor anthem before (a rare thing!). Our canticles were Stanford in F. On singing them I realised why I hadn’t done … Continue reading →

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Westminster Abbey (1)

Posted on January 7, 2004 by vhk10

On New Year’s Day/Jan 2nd I was singing Evensong in Westminster Abbey with the Cathedral Chamber Choir. Our programme for the first service was especially appealing to me: the Gibbons 2nd service and Gibbons’ anthem ‘See, see the Word is … Continue reading →

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homegrown CDs

Posted on December 29, 2003 by vhk10

Just before Christmas I received something I’d forgotten all about – a CD of some of the music I sang at Salisbury in August. It’s now much easier to produce short runs of CDs at a sensible price than it … Continue reading →

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Singing in Llandaff

Posted on September 1, 2003 by vhk10

I did three days of a trip to Llandaff Cathedral with the Cathedral Chamber Choir. No music new to me here* and I got the Balfour Gardiner Evening Hymn for the third time in 4 weeks! I hope it’s a … Continue reading →

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