Coming soon after an extra licensing service for our new priest in charge, Holy Week was put together largely out of works already in our repertoire. I missed Maundy Thursday but otherwise was kept busy with Palm Sunday (Weelkes’ Hosanna to the Son of David<\/i> and Philip Moore’s It is a thing most wonderful<\/i>) and the music and readings service for Good Friday. The latter included eight choir items with lots of variety without requiring more than four parts, including Leighton’s Solus ad Victimam<\/i>, Bruckner’s Christus Factus Est<\/i> and the Crux Fidelis<\/i> attributed to King John of Portugal. I had to break it to our conductor that the last of these is almost certainly 19th-century pastiche, so I’ve probably ruined it for him forever now. Choir members were invited to prepare solo items, and I contributed Thy rebuke\/Behold and See<\/i> from Messiah<\/i>.<\/p>\n
On Easter Sunday we brought out that old favourite Blessed be the God and Father<\/i> by Wesley, a piece about half of us had performed at our weddings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Coming soon after an extra licensing service for our new priest in charge, Holy Week was put together largely out of works already in our repertoire. I missed Maundy Thursday but otherwise was kept busy with Palm Sunday (Weelkes’ Hosanna … Continue reading