Bath Abbey Chamber Choir’s final performance with Dewi Rees (an evensong originally planned for Holy Week was cancelled) was one of music and readings for Passiontide.<\/p>\n
The music included a couple of pieces from our repertoire (Elgar’s O salutaris hostia<\/em>, Anerio Christus factus est<\/em>) some that I am familiar with from elsewhere (‘John of Portugal’ Crux fidelis<\/em>, Goss’ O Saviour of the world<\/em>) and Morley’s curious macaronic anthem Nolo mortem peccatoris<\/em> which I sang quite often as a student but have not encountered this millennium.<\/p>\n Our speaking\/shouting voices were also needed as we played the ‘turba’ part in a dramatic reading of the Passion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bath Abbey Chamber Choir’s final performance with Dewi Rees (an evensong originally planned for Holy Week was cancelled) was one of music and readings for Passiontide. The music included a couple of pieces from our repertoire (Elgar’s O salutaris hostia, … Continue reading