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<\/i>, in the latter of which I did the verse part (the first solos since Magnus was born).
\nThe following day was a programme very much to my taste, of Purcell’s G minor canticles (and they really were<\/i> in G minor this time) and his anthem O sing unto the Lord<\/i>. I’d done this once before, with the Cambridge University Bach Society. The apparatus criticus<\/i> to the score of this work proved an unexpected source of entertainment, since it records the editor’s mounting annoyance that he had been denied access to a manuscript which was once available.<\/p>\n
An account of a weekend at York Minster with Priory Voices will follow soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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