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Let's talk choral music.
pwhodges:
Ten out of fourteen pieces done:
An English Christmas
Still to come, a solo and a choral movement to finish the Bush, Britten's Corpus Christi Carol, and the VW Fantasia. These have been left till last as they will be the hardest get usable - but I'm getting slicker at it all the time.
Barmymoo:
Unfortunately the first track is almost inaudible at the start on my computer - hopefully it'll get louder.
Edit: it did get louder! I like the first track. The Finzi I hadn't heard before, and it surprised me by not being a lot like the Finzi I've heard before. Lo, The Full Final Sacrifice is one of my favourite choral works ever (it was sung, by coincidence, at my baptism service).
I will update you on the rest of the tracks another time, it's bed time now.
OK I didn't go to bed yet. I love your version of The Seven Joys of Mary - especially the dissonant piano at the sixth joy. I heard that sung for the first time last week by Kate Rusby and thought that her jaunty cheerful quick speed didn't really suit the sixth verse in particular!
pwhodges:
The concert is now complete, and I've brought the levels up. I may do a bit more work on the files, but nothing substantial now.
Redball:
I've downloaded both American and English concerts into iTunes, and I'm adding the recording sessions you introduced us to earlier. They're a joy to listen to! When I have a little more time I'll see if I can play VoiCE in surround.
Barmymoo:
Well, we've finished recording our latest CD (another single-composer disc, this one of music by Philip Cooke, who dedicated a piece to our conductor. The words and the music of the song are so sexual that we're fairly certain people are going to think they've had an affair...).
We've also got our music list through for the term. My birthday falls on the Sunday of Candlemas, so we're singing some really lovely things that day, obviously because of Candlemas not my birthday, but it's nice. I've been assigned two solos in the term and one of them very interestingly is a soprano solo. I'm considering auditioning for the second soprano solo in the Allegri Miserere, which is comfortably within my range but unfortunately I'd be up against all the choir's actual sopranos, so I might not have a hope.
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