I’ve sung quite a few different settings of these recently, and about 30 altogether, so here are some overall verdicts, as I haven’t a recent performance to write about. (For one thing, church is full of scaffolding!)<\/p>\n
My favourite set: I’ve said this before – Lloyd second setting. A third Amen to die for! My favourite Tudor setting is the rather florid one by Tomkins. I have a fondness for the austere setting by Ebdon which turns up in Lent.<\/p>\n
My least favourite (of the commonly sung settings): Clucas. They always sound out of tune even when they’re in tune! There are some others I’ve done which I think are considerably worse, but I won’t embarrass the people who’ve asked me to sing them by saying which ones they are.<\/p>\n
Hardest: there are two ways of looking at this. I think the hardest from the point of view of learning notes are Howells’. For this reason, I have sung them barely three or four times and only now do I really feel secure about all the notes. But I find the hardest ones to sing as regards technique are Leighton’s. It’s all those floaty treble lines, and – a particular hazard in many settings of the responses – that there is no let-up or breathing space during the Lord’s Prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve sung quite a few different settings of these recently, and about 30 altogether, so here are some overall verdicts, as I haven’t a recent performance to write about. (For one thing, church is full of scaffolding!) My favourite set: … Continue reading