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<\/a>Welsh cakes kindly served by locally-connected choir member and organist!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
The most ambitious piece we did was a reprise of Frank Martin’s Mass for double choir, which we previously sang at St Edmundsbury in 2015<\/a>. Despite my previous claim that it was engraved on my memory, I had my work cut out to re-acquaint myself with this piece and there was a further twist: this time we were also expected to sing the Kyrie, which is one of the longer movements. But it does repay the effort.<\/p>\n As this left less rehearsal time for other pieces, they were kept relatively simple, with the exception of Naylor’s Vox dicentis<\/i> (I seem to be running into this piece a lot at the moment) and Howells’ Evening Canticles in B minor. The new piece for me was Eleanor Daley’s Upon your heart<\/i> which is popping up all over the place on music lists, although I haven’t come across anything else by her. Other pieces included Gibbons ‘Short’ service and David Willcocks’ Sing!<\/i> which is really some vanilla words set to the background of Widor’s Toccata, but does boast a particularly good dedication. The dedication of David Willcocks’ ‘Sing!’<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n Not long afterwards Llandaff’s voluntary choir paid a visit to Bath Abbey and I went to hear them as I knew one member of the choir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One theme running through the Erleigh Cantors’ choice of music for our visit to Llandaff Cathedral was pieces with bars in 5\/4 time. I got quite used to it. The most ambitious piece we did was a reprise of Frank … Continue reading <\/a>