660 Days... We're Back
27 October 2021
On 6 January 2020 members of the Northampton Bach Choir sang Choral
Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. The remainder of the
term was taken up preparing for the choir’s first ever performance
of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, for Beethoven’s 250th
anniversary year. But, alas, Covid-19 swept that aside, and that,
alongside performances of music by Bach, Bruckner, and much more,
were cancelled.
The Conductor's View
660 days after that Choral Evensong, nearly sixty
members of the choir returned to a live “performance” with another
Choral Evensong, this time on home soil. Earlier tonight they sang
Choral Evensong for the Lord Lieutenant, marking the Feast Day (or
thereabouts!) of Ss Crispin and Crispinian. As in Oxford, the
Responses were our Musical Director’s own, and the canticles were
sung to the setting in B flat by Henry Thomas Smart. The anthem on
this occasion was Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, and there were
hymns aplenty, including a firecracker arrangement of Battle Hymn of
the Republic.
Lee Conducting from the South Gallery
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Ivan at the Gallery Organ Console
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We are so very glad to be back, and hugely looking forward to the
remainder of our season, which continues in just a few weeks with a
performance of Handel’s Messiah.
The Choir assembled on the
North Gallery
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The Revd Oliver Coss introduces
the
Service
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