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SERIOUS STUFF - most of these are extracts from recent concerts

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• Our Chairman, Hilary Rowland, sings the second soprano part in the soprano duet   "I WAITED FOR MY LORD" from Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise" in 2006
• From Mozart's Requiem, LACRIMOSA recorded in Boston Spa Parish Church, April 2006.
• From Handel's Messiah HE TRUSTED IN HIM in 2004
• From Handel's Messiah, December 2008 "SINCE BY MAN"
• Rehearsing LINDEN LEA, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, at our final rehearsal prior to the June 2007 Gala Concert.
• Extracts from Brahms German Requiem (sung in English) recorded at our November 2010 concert
  • 1st Movement
  • 2nd Movement
  • 5th Movement with soprano soloist Samantha Hay.
• Also from our November 2010 concert, an extract from Christother Steel's "SYMPHONIA SACRA" , sung in Middle English. For more information about the composer, go to our "Press Comment" page.
• Two movements from "THE ARMED MAN" by Karl Jenkins in our record-breaking March 2011 concert:
  • "Save me from Bloody Men"
  • "God shall wipe away all tears" .
• Finally, from one of our best concerts ever - Handel's JUDAS MACCABAEUS in April 2008.
  • John sings the tenor part in Movement 60 "SING UNTO GOD AND HIGH AFFECTIONS RAISE" recorded at the concert.
  • Keeping the best from this concert until last, we have John singing the counter-tenor part in Movement 53 "FATHER OF HEAVEN"
  

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  Rehearsing can be fun (This is only for the light-hearted!)

  

  Please appreciate that we ALL take our singing VERY seriously, but it does not mean that we cannot also sometimes let our hair down!

  These items were recorded at rehearsals. Some show that our first attempts do not always go as well as we might have wished.

  • The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins in November 2006, CHARGE
  • Rehearsing Haydn's 'Creation' in June 2006 - John sings the Soprano solo parts, while the rest of us tag on.
    • Movement 18a "The Lord is great, and great his might"
    • The chorus from Movement 27, "By thee with bliss"
  • If you want to know what REALLLY happens at rehearsals, and why we all enjoy our singing so much, go to 'SEE, THE CONQUERING HERO COMES' from Judas Maccabaeus in 2008. With John's help and a bit from Black Adder, we eventually get there.
    NOTE: Because of the length of this item (4 mins 48 sec) it has been necessary to compromise slightly on sound quality.

   

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  • Note-bashing at the start of the 2004 Messiah rehearsals; JOHN PURIFIES THE BASSES

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  ANTHONY BLACKMORE

   

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