The choir were due to sing Choral Evensong in Southwell Minster in
Autumn 2020, but the Covid-19 situation led to the booked date being
rescheduled to May 2021. We will be singing on the eve of Trinity
Sunday, whilst still in the Whitsun octave, and the choir are
proposing to sing the same programme as they will sing at Lincoln
Cathedral just a few days later. Both visits take place with social
distancing and other Covid-19 precautions still being in place for
church choirs, and we there are very tight restrictions on the
number of singers who can take part.
Our programme is therefore much more modest than our normal visits.
We sing our own Musical Director’s setting of the Preces &
Responses, written for the Peterborough Diocesan Choral Festival in
2016, and - as is our custom - the Psalm will be sung to a chant by
a composer with a connection to Southwell. The canticles are written
by Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814-56), whose music tutor and
godfather was Thomas Attwood (1765-1838), composer of the anthem.
Please note that both the visit and the proposed music list is
subject to approval by the cathedral, which we expect to take place
in early May.Programme:
Northampton Bach Choir
Organist - Ivan Linford
Conductor - Lee Dunleavy
Dunleavy - Preces and Responses
Psalms 143
Mozart - Magnificat, K. 193
Walmisley - Evening Service in D minor
Attwood - Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire |
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