{"id":6035,"date":"2022-05-26T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2022-06-13T21:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:07:03","slug":"vivat-vivat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/05\/26\/vivat-vivat\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivat! Vivat!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A lot of choirs have programmed Parry’s I was glad<\/em> in concerts around the time of the Platinum Jubilee, and it’s been natural to include the often-omitted ‘Vivat’s’, as the Erleigh Cantors did this year in their concert at St Peter’s Earley. The anthem does work better with them, as there is otherwise a rather abrupt key change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was not the only big sing in the concert, as I renewed my acquaintance with Bruckner’s Ecce Sacerdos Magnus<\/em>, performed as part of a sequence of his motets. Previously I’d sung it back in my student days – I’ve never done it with the trombones, only organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We brought out some pieces from the recent Bristol weekend<\/a>: the Soler Magnificat, our commission from Andrew Millington and the Nunc from Richard Shephard’s Salisbury service. Another piece came from a Cathedral weekend I missed: John Tavener’s Hymn to the Trinity<\/em>, which was originally written for a choir I used to sing for, the Cambridge Taverner Choir. I missed being in the premiere by five years or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did some earlier pieces too, including Gibbons’ Hosanna to the Son of David<\/em> and The King shall Rejoice<\/em> by Handel (another big sing – I suppose it goes with pieces written for royalty). Not to forget Stanford’s three Latin motets, which will reappear in another post shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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