Tag Archives: Tomkins

a split weekend in the Fens

Posted on February 27, 2024 by vhk10

The Cathedral Chamber Choir returned to Great St Mary’s Church in Cambridge, where our musical director is now based, this time combining it with evensong in Ely Cathedral. Ely remained pleasantly unchanged (although I miss the poster of ground-plans of … 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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Three Choirs 2023: the evensongs

Posted on August 1, 2023 by vhk10

I made it to two of the evensongs during the Festival. The first one was on the first Saturday: Jonathan Hope conducting the Saint Cecilia Singers, many of whom had sung in the opening service that morning and would sing … Continue reading →

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the sounding of thy bowels

Posted on March 24, 2022 by vhk10

The phrase in the title used sometimes to be replaced by other words in performances of O Lord look down from heaven by Battishill, but not when I heard Merton College choir sing it at evensong in Bath Abbey earlier … Continue reading →

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Portsmouth pointing: 1

Posted on September 3, 2021 by vhk10

Finally I got to sing my first choral evensong in 18 months. The Cathedral Chamber Choir was in residence at Portsmouth Cathedral (rearranged from Salisbury) for a week, many of us staying in Rees Hall towards Southsea. It’s a very … Continue reading →

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Bath Mozartfest (3) – Sitkovetskys and Tallis Scholars

Posted on December 2, 2018 by vhk10

My husband went to hear the regular Festival visitors, the Sitkovetsky Trio, give a lunchtime recital at the Guildhall. They were not quite on their best form. Haydn’s ‘Gypsy Rondo’ trio worked well but Schubert’s D929 trio is rambling and … Continue reading →

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three more funerals in May

Posted on June 9, 2017 by vhk10

I sang at four in all this month. I have already mentioned the first – the second was that of an old friend back in Cambridge. We sang Byrd’s four-part Mass, and I heard a voice from heaven by Tomkins, … Continue reading →

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Peterborough pitch

Posted on August 24, 2014 by vhk10

There is a proposal to re-tune the organ at Peterborough Cathedral down to A=440. About a third of the necessary money had been raised when Robert Quinney landed the job at New College Oxford earlier this year, but when the … Continue reading →

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responses

Posted on May 14, 2007 by vhk10

I’ve sung quite a few different settings of these recently, and about 30 altogether, so here are some overall verdicts, as I haven’t a recent performance to write about. (For one thing, church is full of scaffolding!) My favourite set: … Continue reading →

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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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