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 long, long time before I’m asked to sing it again, because I find it a pretty vacuous piece (the musical material of the central section is particularly thin). I sang at Llandaff once before, with my college choir at Cambridge and it hadn’t changed much except for some building between the song school and the Cathedral, no longer singing a setting of the Creed (it was the only cathedral where I’ve ever done that) and not getting a drinks party with the clergy after the Sunday Eucharist. And, to my great relief, the guided tour no longer turns up during the Magnificat every night – it made Evensong feel like feeding time at the zoo!
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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