I went to hear A Handful of Singers perform some recent British choral music at St. Stephen’s Church, Lansdown. The first half of the programme included one piece I’d performed myself – Rutter’s Hymn to the Creator of Light<\/i> – four Marian motets by Bob Chilcott (I think I prefer him in jazz mode, though), an Agnus Dei<\/i> by the choir’s accompanist Jamie Hamilton and Into Thy Hands<\/i> by Jonathan Dove. The conductor was Christopher Finch and the ubiquitous David Bednall, who has already accompanied my singing services in Bristol Cathedral with two different choirs this year, was playing the organ! The standard was impressive and I completed a form asking to go on their mailing list.<\/p>\n
I sang with this choir in a concert in this church two years ago<\/a>, when we performed Kodály’s Missa Brevis<\/i> and Fauré’s Requiem<\/i>. But when the choir were mingling with the audience in the interval none of them noticed or spoke to me. Discouraged by this, and deciding I didn’t after all want to listen to Howard Goodall’s music afterwards, I called it a night and went home.<\/p>\n A postscript here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went to hear A Handful of Singers perform some recent British choral music at St. Stephen’s Church, Lansdown. The first half of the programme included one piece I’d performed myself – Rutter’s Hymn to the Creator of Light – … Continue reading