on harp, performed the whole of Benjamin Britten’ s A Ceremony of Carols, which they had also recorded on CD over two days the previous week in the College Chapel. Consisting of twelve movements, the choral piece includes text from The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems, in Middle English, and was written by Britten in 1942 while he was at sea, travelling from the USA to England.
The concert illustrates the regularity with which the Qs perform away from their
Winchester College Chapel Choir Friday 17 February 2017
A choral recital was given in William of Wykeham’ s 14 th-century chapel on Friday 17 February as a prelude to Winchester College Chapel Choir’ s tour of south-eastern Germany. The music we heard spanned some four hundred years, and exemplified the intelligent programming and exceptional choral direction for which Malcolm Archer is renowned.
The evening began with the 16 th-century Missa Brevis by Palestrina, whose pure
Winchester patch and they received a very warm welcome from the concert-goers at St Peter’ s, a Victorian Gothic church recognizable in its central position on Stockbridge High Street.
All proceeds from this memorably musical evening are going towards the RNLI Tara Scougall Lifeboat Fund.
Sarah Wigley, Q Parent( yr 8)
Roman counterpoint showed off the choir’ s abilities in ensemble singing as well as in sparer imitative episodes. Then came a taste of Tudor England as the choir savoured the expressive dissonances of Byrd’ s darker motets Ave verum corpus and Civitas sancti tui, their solemn resolutions as grave as they were inevitable. At the organ, Jamal Sutton, who in the latter part of the recital provided accompaniments of great musicality and magnet-like adherence to his distant conductor’ s beat, gave a
Winchester College Chapel Choir in War Cloister
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