Advent for Choral Singers: from A to O

Advent for Choral Singers: from A to O

Choral singers have to pace themselves during Advent. For sopranos, it’s those descants you have to watch out for; and for us baritones, you’ve got to take it easy on the top Es in ‘Hark the herald’. Too much enthusiasm early on in the season – combined with a surfeit...
IN MEMORIAM: The Choral Season of Remembrance

IN MEMORIAM: The Choral Season of Remembrance

HomeAll Posts  We are entering a season of Remembrance, book-ended by All Souls’ Day and Remembrance Sunday. There is barely a choir in Cambridge that isn’t currently preparing one of Fauré, Duruflé or Victoria’s Requiems; and organists are busily setting...
If you liked that, you’ll love this …

If you liked that, you’ll love this …

As a way of warming up to our Singing Retreat repertoire, here are a few suggestions for choral pieces you might like to listen to by the same composers…. Christopher Tye We are going to be singing Omnes gentes, Tye’s setting of the psalm ‘O clap your hands...
The Happy Anniversary of Josquin Des Prez

The Happy Anniversary of Josquin Des Prez

Record companies and concert promoters love names. The problem with so much early music is that so much of it is by ‘Anon’, and there is no greater dampener to music sales than the mention of ‘Anon’. Whether it be contemporary recorded albums or 16th century motet...