I missed singing the Good Friday service last year, but this year I was available for everything except Maundy Thursday. Palm Sunday included Peter Aston’s Hosanna to the Son of David<\/i>, one of his more mediæval-influenced works, and Leighton’s Solus ad victimam<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Good Friday’s music, for a service of music and readings, was mostly unaccompanied – not sure if this wasn’t partly to do with our organ having been temporarily replaced by a toaster while it’s repaired. I’ve already written about Pseudo-King John IV of Portugal. We brought out Philip Moore’s It is a thing most wonderful<\/i> again, and although we couldn’t do Lotti’s Crucifixus<\/i> (‘just couldn’t get the parts’), other items included Morales’ austere Parce mihi Domine<\/i>, Tchaikovsky’s The Crown of Roses<\/i> (about which I recommend this page<\/a> from the local Gurt Lush Choir) and God so loved the world<\/i> by Stainer.<\/p>\n On Easter Sunday our anthem was Bairstow’s Let all mortal flesh keep silence<\/i>, which I last sang in St Edmundsbury a couple of years ago – and a lot of unfamiliar descants! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I missed singing the Good Friday service last year, but this year I was available for everything except Maundy Thursday. Palm Sunday included Peter Aston’s Hosanna to the Son of David, one of his more mediæval-influenced works, and Leighton’s Solus … Continue reading