{"id":218,"date":"2007-08-27T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/27\/laved-illumined-2\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T12:04:19","slug":"laved-illumined-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/08\/27\/laved-illumined-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Laved, illumined"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sang these words as part of the rather contrived acrostic hymn for St. Bartholomew at Norwich Cathedral during the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s week there. I joined part way through and so missed such delights as Rose in C minor. However, there were other new pieces for me: firstly, Sheppard’s Libera nos, salva nos<\/em>. Astonishingly, I think I have only sung Sheppard’s music once before, as a student.<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning I performed Finzi’s Welcome, sweet and sacred feast<\/em> for the first time. This is a lovely piece: like a less dramatic version of Lo the Full, Final Sacrifice<\/em> (in fact when sight-reading the piece and unsure of notes, I would sing phrases from that and this generally worked). I can’t speak for the other voices, but the soprano line felt as if it could be a solo song without much re-arrangement. I think Finzi didn’t do himself any favours by writing two large-scale anthems about the Eucharist, ensuring one gets performed far less often than the other.<\/p>\n

At evensong on Sunday our anthem was Lo! God is here<\/em> by Philip Moore. This was the first time I’d ever sung anything by him although his music is on my wishlist<\/a>, and remains there after my first experience of it!<\/p>\n

Other music included Gibbons’ madrigal-like O Lord, in thy wrath<\/em> and Noble in B minor, which I now associate too much with childbirth to enjoy singing.<\/p>\n

We did some extra-mural singing while processing in and out of the labyrinth in the cloister. In practice, this turned into Eveline<\/em> and Locus iste<\/em>, which everyone knew the parts to. A video of this is doing the rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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