Category Archives: singing at services

Evensong at Edington

Posted on September 25, 2026 by vhk10

Every year Edington Priory Church hosts the Festival of Music within the Liturgy, to bring high quality church music in context to the otherwise benighted West Country. I have passed through the village a few times on the way to … Continue reading →

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singing under the stars

Posted on July 31, 2026 by vhk10

Reading FC’s visit to Carlisle United in 2024 was the first one for over 40 years. My return to Carlisle, with the Reading-based Erleigh Cantors, wasn’t after quite such a long interval but it wasn’t within the lifetime of this … Continue reading →

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a memorial service in Wells

Posted on July 15, 2026 by vhk10

I was invited to attend a memorial service for Martin, who was a long-standing member of a choir I visit Cathedrals with; we often found ourselves travelling home together on the train. It was held in the quire at Wells … Continue reading →

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Saturday night headliners

Posted on June 30, 2026 by vhk10

For a second year Bath Abbey Chamber Choir sang the ‘First evensong of the Patronal Festival’ of SS Peter and Paul, on a Saturday. (I missed last year’s service.) It’s a chance to push the boat out a bit, more … Continue reading →

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I never want to sing The Spirit of the Lord again

Posted on May 28, 2026 by vhk10

A few years ago Elgar’s The Spirit of the Lord was the anthem at a forthcoming service I was due to sing in. In the run up to this we had several different conductors taking rehearsals and this anthem was … Continue reading →

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a funeral and an anniversary

Posted on May 4, 2026 by vhk10

Having not sung there for a long time, I returned to St Mary’s Bathwick to sing twice within the space of a month, for a sorrowful and a joyful occasion. The first was the funeral of a former priest-in-charge at … Continue reading →

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from Palm Sunday to Good Friday

Posted on April 9, 2026 by vhk10

The Abbey Chamber Choir got to sing two services in Holy Week. As last year, we provided the music for the afternoon service on Palm Sunday, but this time it was a straightforward evensong. Somehow Ernest Bullock’s canticles in D … Continue reading →

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Purcell, Charles Andrews, Ives, Morley and Byrd for Lent

Posted on March 25, 2026 by vhk10

Meanwhile at Christ Church we sang evensong mid-March with more Purcell (Thou knowest, Lord) and the ‘faux-bordon’ canticles by one Carolus Andreas. I am suspicious of the provenance of these last. They have been reprinted by the RSCM (starting in … Continue reading →

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Purcell, Lotti and Byrd for Lent

Posted on March 2, 2026 by vhk10

For the second year in a row the Chamber Choir sang at the Abbey on Ash Wednesday. We opened with Purcell Remember not, Lord, used Byrd’s Four-Part mass as the setting, and during the Ashing sang Lotti’s setting of the … Continue reading →

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Post-Christmas carol services (2): Candlemas

Posted on February 6, 2026 by vhk10

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 →

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Post-Christmas carol services (1): Epiphany

Posted on January 31, 2026 by vhk10

I sang in two carol services for the latter part of the Christmas season, both of which brought new repertoire with them. First was Bath Abbey’s now annual Epiphany carol service. Among more standard pieces, we did Palestrina’s setting of … Continue reading →

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2025 round-up

Posted on January 1, 2026 by vhk10

2025 was an odd year, both for what it contained and for what it didn’t. The outstanding feature was the two overseas choir tours in quick succession, with Bristol Choral to Latvia and Gloucester Choral to Transylvania. They just happened … Continue reading →

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