We had quite a lot to do this year. On Maundy Thursday we trooped up the hill to sing at the Eucharist at St Stephen’s, which was in the context of an actual meal. I hadn’t sung Bruckner’s Pange lingua<\/i> for a very long time indeed, yet remembered it perfectly; it was presumably written for a larger acoustic than the church centre where we sang it. We also sang Byrd’s Ave Verum<\/i> and (later, in church) Ives’ Ubi Caritas<\/i>, which is a bit more soprano-friendly than the usual Duruflé setting.<\/p>\n
Our Good Friday service of music and readings had seven anthems. These included Bairstow’s Lamentations<\/i> (one of the few pieces by Bairstow I actually like) and Pater meus<\/i> by the sometime Bath Camerata favourite Anton\u00edn Tu\u010dapsk\u00fd. A rather simpler piece was Tallis’ Purge me Lord<\/i>. For something rather more dramatic we had Ireland’s Greater Love<\/i> in which I did the solo (I think I’ve sung this before, but only as a semi-chorus).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had quite a lot to do this year. On Maundy Thursday we trooped up the hill to sing at the Eucharist at St Stephen’s, which was in the context of an actual meal. I hadn’t sung Bruckner’s Pange lingua … Continue reading