From time to time I’m recruited to a performance at a sufficiently late stage that I don’t find out the name of the group I’m singing with till the day! This happened last Saturday when I joined the Marshfield Bach Singers for a concert which included various choral favourites such as the Laudate Dominum<\/i> from Mozart’s Solemn Vespers<\/i> and Brahms’ How lovely are thy dwellings<\/i>, as well as Haydn’s Little Organ Mass (which I was glad to sing without the expansions this time). There was one piece new to me: a Sancta Maria, Mater Dei<\/i> by Mozart. It was the first time I’d sung with an orchestra since the concert with the Exultate Singers and Bath Baroque in January.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I’ve had an invitation to sing in the expanded Bath Camerata’s Good Friday 2006 concert and am delighted to see two works which have long been on my wishlist: Janacek’s Otcenas<\/i> and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms<\/i>. The choir has been expanded less frequently in recent years so all the more reason to sing, in case it’s the last such event.
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From time to time I’m recruited to a performance at a sufficiently late stage that I don’t find out the name of the group I’m singing with till the day! This happened last Saturday when I joined the Marshfield Bach … Continue reading