The Erleigh Cantors’ May concert this year reunited a number of pieces from recent Cathedral visits, by English and Spanish composers.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t all familiar territory to me, however. Having missed last July’s weekend in Hereford, I hadn’t previously sung the Te Deum by Jeremy Filsell (known to me at friend-of-friend level from my undergraduate days). This fell into place fairly easily once I’d got used to the major\/minor alternation which is a prominent feature. Another piece most other people sang last July was Vivanco’s Magnificat on the 8th tone, which proved quite challenging because of the large number of parts (with a single 4-part verse just to catch you out if you weren’t on the top or bottom line).<\/p>\n
Furthermore, we sang the whole of Guerrero’s Mass Congratulamini mihi<\/i>, including Kyrie and Creed, and this time I was singing 2nd soprano. Another piece from our Winchester visit was the Nunc Dimittis from Weelkes’ setting ‘for trebles’. A piece that was totally new to me was O vos omnes<\/i> by Victoria, one of three settings of this text in the European Sacred Music<\/i> volume.<\/p>\n
Our programme was completed with some well-known anthems by Byrd, Tallis and Victoria (as well as the last’s Ave virgo sanctissima<\/i>) and as a rousing finale Parry’s I was glad<\/i>.<\/p>\n
This Saturday evening concert was the beginning of a heavily cultural weekend, and I dashed off in the direction of my next engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Erleigh Cantors’ May concert this year reunited a number of pieces from recent Cathedral visits, by English and Spanish composers. It wasn’t all familiar territory to me, however. Having missed last July’s weekend in Hereford, I hadn’t previously sung … Continue reading