{"id":6737,"date":"2024-11-07T21:49:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2025-02-07T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:49:46","slug":"the-b-minor-mass-at-st-lukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2024\/11\/07\/the-b-minor-mass-at-st-lukes\/","title":{"rendered":"the B minor Mass at St Luke’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next up was a workshop day on Bach’s Mass in B minor, hosted by Neil Moore and Bath Cantata Group prior to a forthcoming performance. Readers who’ve been with me a long time know that I don’t have much history with this particular work, although I did get to sing it in Wells Cathedral<\/a> some years back. I’m still on the lookout for opportunities to do so again and an event like this was the next best thing. I even hoped I might acquit myself well enough to be roped in as a bumper for the concert performance, but no such luck.<\/p>\n

There were surprisingly few people I knew there, apart from people I’d sung with in the Cantata Group (I haven’t been able to do so for a while because it rehearses on the same night as the Abbey Chamber Choir). There were quite a number from another Bath choir which had sung the work recently, and one or two who’d also been in the SW Festival Chorus’ performance along with me.<\/p>\n

St Luke’s Wellsway is a long and narrow church, sadly organ-less. The choir sat in many rows, with three or four 2nd sopranos in each row and the tenors and basses a long way back. This disconcerted some of the first sopranos next to us, as there was a high chance of sitting next to someone singing a different part from you, and not everyone can cope with that.<\/p>\n

We got through all the choral parts of the work, though some were dealt with rather briefly (I’d have like more time on the Sanctus and Hosannas, for example). I didn’t remember it quite as well as I expected, but there are a lot of dots there after all. Now all I need is another concert performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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