{"id":4817,"date":"2018-01-14T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2018-01-14T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T23:36:00","slug":"2017-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2018\/01\/14\/2017-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 in review"},"content":{"rendered":"

2017 was a much quieter year musically than 2016, though not uneventful. The most notable single event was that I fulfilled my ambition to sing in a Promenade concert<\/a>. A rather unusual programme, but it was well received.<\/p>\n

I am beginning to run out of works I really want to sing and have never done, but here too I filled a couple of gaps: Mahler’s Second Symphony<\/a> and Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols<\/i><\/a>. Otherwise I revisited a number of works I had only sung once before, not recently: Mozart’s Great C minor Mass<\/a>, Bach’s St John Passion<\/a>, the Chichester Psalms<\/i><\/a>. Cathedral moments included a premiere of canticles at Gloucester<\/a> and singing almost all of Josquin’s Pange Lingua<\/i> Mass<\/a> at St David’s. Building of the Year was probably St Cuthbert’s, Wells, which I sang in on two separate occasions, never having sung there before this year. <\/p>\n

I lost some performances due to clashes: I didn’t get to the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s summer week in Lincoln and wasn’t able to sing in Bristol Choral Society’s main autumn concert (though I did go to hear it!) Solo opportunities generally came via the church choir, though I did some solos in an Erleigh Cantors concert<\/a>, a first with this choir, and sang at a family funeral, one of rather too many funerals this year.<\/p>\n

I didn’t get to all that many performances by others this year, though I did get to hear the VPO for the first time, playing Mahler 6<\/a> at the Proms, and to WNO’s Khovanshchina<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

2018 brings my first overseas choir tour for a few years and in July another encounter with a personal favourite, the Grande Messe des Morts<\/i>. I don’t know yet what other highlights will appear, but maybe like this year’s Prom they will be at relatively short notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2017 was a much quieter year musically than 2016, though not uneventful. The most notable single event was that I fulfilled my ambition to sing in a Promenade concert. A rather unusual programme, but it was well received. I am … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5608,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}