{"id":7137,"date":"2026-02-06T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:15:45","slug":"post-christmas-carol-services-2-candlemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2026\/02\/06\/post-christmas-carol-services-2-candlemas\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Christmas carol services (2): Candlemas"},"content":{"rendered":"

On into February, there was a Candlemas carol service in church, a service which we put on in some years. There was one new piece for me: David Ogden’s setting of Angels from the realms of glory<\/i>. Not an arrangement fortunately, as I find the standard tune excessively repetitive, but with a strenuous first soprano part! <\/p>\n

Elgar featured again, in the shape of Light of the World<\/i>. We also sang Whitacre’s Lux aurumque<\/i>, Tallis’ O nata Lux<\/i> and the Nunc from Howells’ Gloucester canticles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On into February, there was a Candlemas carol service in church, a service which we put on in some years. There was one new piece for me: David Ogden’s setting of Angels from the realms of glory. Not an arrangement … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[71,128,60,45,114,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7144,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}