{"id":5062,"date":"2018-11-12T00:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T00:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2018-11-12T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T23:37:18","slug":"weelkes-in-winchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2018\/11\/12\/weelkes-in-winchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Weelkes in Winchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a quick return to Winchester, this time with the Erleigh Cantors. Slightly worryingly, the place where we rehearsed in the summer<\/a> was off-limits because of dodgy electrics, so we were displaced to Pilgrims’ Hall, an impressively old but rather chilly wood-framed hall now used as a school theatre. We were relieved that this autumn was mild and we did not get as cold there as we were in Ely a few years ago.<\/p>\n

On Saturday we did a setting which was on my personal wishlist, Weelkes ‘for trebles’. There’s a reason why I’ve had to wait so long for this one: the first treble\/soprano line in the full sections is relentlessly high. It is in fact a reconstruction by Peter Le Huray (once known to me slightly and rather better known to my husband), based on the organ part; were he alive today I’d take him up on whether it was seriously meant to be like that! Although the Gloria of the Nunc draws on his anthem Alleluia, I heard a voice<\/i>, or is it the other way round? Either way I suspect the music got re-used because he got back from the pub and realised that he hadn’t finished composing a piece that was needed imminently.<\/p>\n

We had further demanding singing ahead on the Sunday. Vaughan Williams’ Te Deum in G is familiar to me; I seem to be doing a lot of his music at the moment (see the next article). Our Communion setting was the Mass Congratulamini mihi<\/i> by Guerrero (whose music I sang last time I was in Winchester); it is expansive and not easy to sing across the wide space between the two halves of the choir in the Cathedral crossing.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon our canticles were another set I’d heard but never performed; the Hereford service by Richard Lloyd, written in 1982. They require quite a bit of agility and have some unexpected key changes, with more than a nod to Howells. I hadn’t realised till I looked at his Wikipedia page how prolific a composer Richard Lloyd is; positively in the Darius Milhaud league, though I suppose most of his works are short. Our anthem was Let all the world<\/i> by Leighton, to use up any voice we had left. For the record, we also performed Leighton’s Responses, Sing joyfully<\/i> by Byrd, They that go down<\/i> by Sumsion and Justorum animae<\/i> by Lassus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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