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Redball:
May, if I put Twelfth Night's two Christmas recordings as .mp3 on Dropbox, would you want to download what sounds new to you? I'd add a couple of favorites perhaps, including the Pinkham Christmas Cantata and the Gardner "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day." I think we acknowledged that you and Paul are familiar with the Holst "This Have I Done...."
Paul, how large is the chapel? When I think of separating a choir, it begins to seem difficult. In a large reverberant chamber, even more so. My large choir's last subscription performance with the Detroit Symphony was about 1978 in a Thanksgiving weekend performance of Ives' Holiday Symphony. Antal Dorati didn't divide us, he strung us out, 4-5 feet apart in the aisles -- a not very accomplished group of singers in a not very acoustic hall singing some not very tuneful music which lasted about a minute. Almost as disastrous as the guys in the second movement (Lamah rag'shu goyim) of Chichester Psalms a year or so earlier.

pwhodges:
We did the first movement of the Pinkham a couple of years ago, in our American Christmas concert.

The chapel is not that large; a typical Oxford college chapel, if there is such a thing.  The second choir was in the ante-chapel, and stood in two rows so that we all had a view of the conductor from behind.  Of course, he had to remember not to keep his arms in from of his body!

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Redball:
What a beautiful setting for making music!

OK, try this Dropbox folder for quite a lot of music.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8dohmd99a9mil5f/5hxAENm4xL

Almost all is from two recordings, one in 1991, another in 1996. I'm in the '91 recording, rehearsed for the '96, but we recorded on the date of my 25th wedding anniversary; it was not a good day to record and come home to a party.
Of the others: Peace, Peace is us in concert. Others are by others, though I've done some of them.

one horse open sleigh
winter morning
tomorrow shall be my dancing day
this have I done
pinkham cantata
Merry Wedding grainger

Barmymoo:
I will download and listen to some of this when I'm at my mum's (I'm currently "packing") but I wanted to say that Paul's chapel looks fancier than mine but about the same size, maybe a bit smaller - certainly we have more altar space. When we record we have to take ALL the soft furnishings out - all the cushions, carpets and altar cloths. Quite an epic undertaking.

pwhodges:
I should mention that we do sing in different places; more often in Exeter College than any other at present; but, for instance, the American Christmas concert that I linked was in the chapel of St Peter's College, which is like a parish church, with nave, chancel, aisles and all, and we've done several concerts in my time in the University Church.

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