{"id":195,"date":"2007-03-27T23:13:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T23:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/27\/gs-and-zs\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:44:07","slug":"gs-and-zs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/03\/27\/gs-and-zs\/","title":{"rendered":"G&#8217;s and Z&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of these in the name of one of the composers in the most recent Chandos Singers concert: Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, whose <em>Conductus<\/em> (an assortment of settings of mostly funerary texts) we performed.  The other substantial single piece was Lalande&#8217;s <em>Super flumina Babilonis<\/em>, an unexpurgated setting of this psalm.  Not being a specialist in French baroque, I hadn&#8217;t sung any Lalande before, although our Charpentier at Christmas prompted me to go out and buy a recording, and to discover that Charpentier is surprisingly under-represented on the shelves of the local CD shop.<\/p>\n<p>After Christmas I knew it would only be a matter of time before I sang Whitacre&#8217;s <em>Lux Aurumque<\/em>, and this opened the concert.  Another piece I associate with the Exultate Singers is Ginastera&#8217;s <em>Lamentations of Jeremiah<\/em>, with which we opened the second half.<\/p>\n<p>We ended with three anthems by Purcell.  I see that people have come to this blog a few times recently by searching on <em>Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei<\/em> and I&#8217;m proud to be associated in an indirect way with this stunning anthem.  I&#8217;m not quite so enamoured of <em>Blow up the Trumpet<\/em>, which rather feels as if it has been put together out of lots of left-over bits of other anthems.  And that&#8217;s not the only reason it doesn&#8217;t come round much; if Purcell <em>would<\/em> write a piece with three tenor parts, what did he expect?  Our third Purcell anthem was the extended <em>O Sing unto the Lord<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of these in the name of one of the composers in the most recent Chandos Singers concert: Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, whose Conductus (an assortment of settings of mostly funerary texts) we performed. The other substantial single piece was Lalande&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/03\/27\/gs-and-zs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[219,652,651,644,654,653,83,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}