Sutton) is based on the plainsong Urbs
Beata. The last verse in particular gave the
opportunity to hear the senior Quiristers and
Eton trebles soar above the rest of the choir
towards the poignant final Amen.
The service ended as it had started with
a Winchester College student playing the
organ and both choirs went off to College
Hall for a celebratory dinner, a highly
satisfying conclusion to a wonderful and
uplifting evensong.
Alison Benton, Q Parent (yr 8)
Requiem for All Souls
Wednesday 2 November 2016
I’ve never known Winchester College
Chapel so quiet as the Chapel Choir’s final
chord faded away: a glorious conclusion
to Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, published
in 1947 in battle-scarred France. Baritone
soloist Ed Herrington, on loan from the
Monteverdi Choir and a former Winchester
Cathedral singer, performed the sonorous
Domini Jesu Christe and Libera Me solos while
Max Cheung accompanied Pie Jesu on the
cello. The simplicity of the spoken service
for All Souls which framed the setting of the
Requiem was the perfect foil to a reflective
evening shimmering with candlelight and
memories of lost and loved ones.
Lucy Stewart, Q Parent (yr 6)
Quirister Instrumental Concert
Sunday 6 November 2016
A showcase of both the instrumental and
vocal talents possessed by the Quiristers
began with an excellent performance of
Ticcitati’s Pavan performed by Angus Benton
on the cello. A concert with an incredibly
broad programme – ranging from Bach to
Bullard – also contained Anton Wright’s
piano debut, a first rate interpretation of
Hall’s Bluebird. Duets by Ivo Sawbridge
and Louis Jones performing the crowd-
pleasing Panis Angelicus, and Charlie
Temmink and Chris Roberts-Pastor singing
Handel’s Where’er you Walk, exhibited their
fine musical understanding and awareness.
The concert was brought to a close with
a heartfelt rendering of Schubert’s An die
Musik by Hamish Rogers, and Thomas
Sharrock’s compelling performance of
Squire’s Tarrentella.
David Edmundson-Jones,
Music Gap, The Pilgrims’ School
Royal Holloway College Evensong
Thursday 17 November 2016
A few days after they sang a moving and
memorable service for Remembrance
Sunday in Winchester College Chapel, the
Quiristers went to sing evensong at Royal
Holloway College in Egham. Part of the
University of London, Royal Holloway’s
spectacular, late 19 th -Century chapel is one
of the most beautiful university buildings
in the country, with fully gilded ceilings
and walls, and reliefs by the famous Italian
sculptor Ceccardo Fucigna, who also worked
on the Albert Memorial in Kensington
Gardens. It was not only a wonderful place
to hear the boys sing Samuel Barber’s Agnus
Dei again, which had formed such a moving
part of the Remembrance Sunday service in
Win Coll, but also exciting to see them sing
with a university college choir. The boys
shared the top line with the undergraduate
soprano choral scholars, who combined
with the back rows to show just how much
chapel music is alive and kicking outside the
rarified walls of Winchester.
It was the first trip for the new Q Matron,
Sue Croucher. She hadn’t seen them sing
before, and her delight in seeing the boys
she was just starting to get to know ‘at work’
was a wonderful illustration of why all the
hard work and commitment the boys, their
families and the school put into the Chapel
Choir is so worth the effort. The music itself
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