Category: Hampshire

August 2014 | Services at Portsmouth Cathedral

Services at Portsmouth Cathedral

Director Louisa Denby; Organ Ian Tindale

2014 Cathedral group photo

Eucharist

Victoria – Jesu, dulcis memoria

Haydn – Little Organ Mass (solo Catherine White)

Lassus – Ave verum corpus

Evensong

Walford Davies – Blessed are the pure in heart

Clucas Responses

Brewer – Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in D

Bairstow – Lord, I call upon thee

 

Peter Leonard, Residentiary Canon at Portsmouth Cathedral

August 2014 | Outreach

The Vox Cantab minibus

Outreach Activities at The Rowans’ Hospice & Steep House Nursing Home, Hampshire,
plus a private home visit

A small number of us visited the Rowans’ Hospice, Waterlooville, and Steep House Nursing Home, in order to entertain the residents with a varied selection of music. 

We also visited our 94-year-old friend in his home, where we were treated to a sumptuous tea and a glimpse of a ‘Great Bible,’ dating from the 16th Century.

Repertoire included:

The Rowans Hospice, Waterlooville, Hampshire, August 2014
The Rowans Hospice, Waterlooville, Hampshire, August 2014

Tallis – If ye love me
Vautor – Sweet Suffolk Owl
Holst – Swansea Town
Trad. Botswanan, arr. L’Estrange – Jesu ukukhanya
Handel, arr. Gritton – Three-minute Messiah
Carter/Hudson, arr. Sund – Goodnight sweetheart

Looking at a copy of Henry VIII's Great Bible
Looking at a copy of Henry VIII’s Great Bible

 

August 2014 | ‘Essentially English’

Vox Cantab in Chalton
Vox Cantab rehearsing for their one-to-a-part Chalton concert
Vox Cantab rehearsing for their one-to-a-part Chalton concert

The first day of our 2014 Summer Tour saw five members of the Choir give a concert of ‘Essentially English’ music at St Michael & All Angels, Chalton, Hampshire.

Soprano Catherine White, Louisa Dawes; Alto Louisa Denby;
Tenor Dean Parker; Bass Frank Lee

Programme

Tye – Give almes of thy goods

Tallis – If ye love me

Morley – Sing we, and chant it

Cornysh – Ah, Robyn

Stanford – When Mary thro’ the garden went

Elgar – As torrents in summer

Wood – Full fathom five

Wood – Oculi omnium

Holst – Swansea Town

Sullivan – The long day closes

English Trad., arr. Gritton – Country Gardens

Trad. Botswanan, arr. L’Estrange – Jesu ukukhanya

Lloyd-Webber – Close every door

Handel, arr. Gritton – Three-minute Messiah