I made it to the final Priory Voices weekend of the year, at Wells Cathedral.\u00a0 Strangely enough, this was the first time I’d ever done a full weekend of services in Wells, which has been my local cathedral for over a decade.\u00a0 It’s either been Good Friday concerts with the Bath Camerata or isolated services (and only two of the latter!)<\/p>\n
Last time I sang<\/a> was just before the new rehearsal rooms opened, but this time we were able to use one.\u00a0 They are a great improvement and very handsome, although still rather lacking in all the choir notices and memorabilia that give many of these rooms their character.<\/p>\n As it turned out, much of the music was pieces I’d recently performed with other groups.\u00a0 As a result there weren’t really musical high points, though we had lots of stuff by quality composers such as the Byrd 4-part Mass, Howells’ Gloucester Service<\/i>, Morales’ O Sacrum Convivium<\/i>, Stanford in C and Brahms’ Geistliches Lied<\/i>.\u00a0 There were also some nicely chosen chants, though if I’d turned up to Saturday evensong and got only 6 verses of psalmody, I’d have felt seriously short-changed.\u00a0 As Ps. 119 comes in 8-verse chunks, I wonder whether it should have been 16?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I made it to the final Priory Voices weekend of the year, at Wells Cathedral.\u00a0 Strangely enough, this was the first time I’d ever done a full weekend of services in Wells, which has been my local cathedral for over … Continue reading