Autumn term, 2020
The term was a mix of in-person and Zoom rehearsals. Links to Zoom recordings and supporting material are below.
Music for the term
Samuel Coleridge Taylor – The Lee Shore
Barbara Strozzi – Silenzio Nocivo
Heinrich Schütz – Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, SWV 426 (German Magnificat)
Rehearsals so far
8 December
A run-through of the concert on 15 December
1 December
Including Bulalow, the Star Carol, and a run through of the Schütz
24 November
Including Still, Still, Still; the Cherry Tree Carol; and the Star Carol
17 November
Including the Coventry Carol, the Cherry Tree Carol and the Schütz
10 November
Schütz and Strozzi, with Italian coaching from Lucy Goddard
3 November
Audio recording of Zoom session
27 October
20 October
We sang through Purcell’s ‘Remember not, Lord, our offences’ and then Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s The Lee Shore and finished with a quarter of an hour on Barbara Strozzi’s Silencio Nocivo.
13 October
We sang Tallis (O Nata Lux) and started work on Barbara Strozzi’s Silencio Nocivo
6 October
We sang Tallis (If Ye Love Me and O Nata Lux), and started work on Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s The Lee Shore
Zoom only sessions
29 September – Guilty Pleasures: large scale works
We sang through bits of Verdi’s Requiem and Carmina Burana. Not recorded.
22 September – Art song and Accompanying
The Sky Above the Roof, Ralph Vaughan Williams