{"id":162,"date":"2006-08-03T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/03\/walking-on-ted-heath\/"},"modified":"2015-09-26T23:15:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T23:15:50","slug":"walking-on-ted-heath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2006\/08\/03\/walking-on-ted-heath\/","title":{"rendered":"walking on Ted Heath"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may now find yourself doing this while processing in and out of evensong at Salisbury Cathedral, which I returned to last weekend with the Erleigh Cantors. Looking back, I see that my last trip there, three years ago, was the first proper entry<\/a> in this blog.<\/p>\n

It was a busy weekend as we sang five services including a wedding. I’d already been in touch with the bride, as she contacted me a few months ago when the Cathedral gave her the name of the choir singing at her wedding but no contact details; I provided them for her. So the blog has some practical uses.<\/p>\n

There were a few pieces new to me: firstly, an early Pater Noster<\/i> by Stanford in 8 parts, slightly awkwardly written. I’d never done Greene in C evening canticles before, although I have heard them on broadcasts; probably because they too are in 8 parts at times, and on a rather grander scale than other canticle settings of the period. We also sang two movements from Rutter’s Psalmfest<\/i>: a setting of the Jubilate and I will lift up mine eyes<\/i>, where the influence of the Chichester Psalms<\/i> made itself felt.<\/p>\n

Some of the music was pretty demanding, especially at the high pitch of Salisbury’s organ. On Sunday morning we had Wills’ Missa Eliensis<\/i> followed at Matins by Elgar’s wonderful Te Deum<\/i>. (The Rutter Jubilate wasn’t a pushover either). Our afternoon evensong duplicated the BBC’s recent broadcast from Durham: Howells’ St. Paul’s Service followed by Leighton’s Let all the world<\/i>, the latter being a fine example of the style a friend calls ‘Anglican spiky’. We sang it a while back at Worcester, but the choir was depleted then because of illness so it was good to do it at full strength. And the Elgar and Howells are on my wishlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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