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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