Tag Archives: Palestrina

autumn and Advent round-up

Posted on December 21, 2024 by vhk10

I sang at various services during the autumn and here’s a quick summary of some musical highlights. Back in September Bath Abbey Chamber Choir introduced me to another setting of Ego sum panis vivus, this time by Palestrina. Later in … Continue reading →

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recapitulating the wedding

Posted on August 12, 2024 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir made the second of its Cathedral visits, a rather shorter distance to Bristol Cathedral, where the quire is full of scaffolding and the organ has been dismantled, so we were in temporary stalls in front, and … Continue reading →

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Abbey round-up: May/June 2024

Posted on June 20, 2024 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir these days is being given quite a mix of services to sing, not just 9.30 am ones as it looked like at one time. May began with an evensong which included Ireland’s canticles in F, which … Continue reading →

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Three churches for Holy Week and Easter

Posted on April 5, 2024 by vhk10

I sang at or attended choral services in three different churches in Holy Week, including the Easter weekend. Bath Abbey Chamber Choir sang two of these services, Evensong for Palm Sunday and a Eucharist for Maundy Thursday. The novelty for … Continue reading →

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the Abbey season begins

Posted on September 30, 2023 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir was quick to restart for the new season, with a conductor newly appointed to the Abbey’s music staff, and a midweek evensong livened up a September which was otherwise musically blank. And it wasn’t standard pieces … Continue reading →

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Abbey round-up

Posted on August 28, 2023 by vhk10

I’ve sung a few services with Bath Abbey Chamber Choir in the last few months though not all (missed the ordination, for example). For the Coronation weekend in May we had appropriately themed music: Purcell’s I was glad, and another … Continue reading →

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Advent/Christmas (1): Spanish music on Advent Sunday

Posted on December 2, 2022 by vhk10

December is often not as busy a month for me as it is for many choral singers, but this year there were two concerts and several carol services. Advent Sunday (not December, I know) was a busy day, beginning at … Continue reading →

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Requiem (3): a new one

Posted on April 14, 2022 by vhk10

The third Requiem of the spring was a premiere performance of a work by Richard Gabe, a member of the choir at church and connected by marriage to a late friend of mine. Like the Rutter it mixed some words … Continue reading →

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Bath Abbey in December

Posted on December 23, 2021 by vhk10

To complete the picture of what I was up to in December, I sang more services with the Bath Abbey Chamber Choir. Almost all the music the choir has sung this term has been already known to me, but an … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 2: sticking points

Posted on March 15, 2010 by vhk10

This began with a two-disc set of the Hilliards singing Palestrina’s Canticum Canticorum motets. I’m not a great Palestrina fan in general, but this recording is really exquisite, with clear limpid sound. Then I moved on to an anniversary composer, … Continue reading →

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