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- 7 months ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Young Chorister of the Year
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4328
Re: Young Chorister of the Year
The 2023 competition is taking place now, with the details of winners kept secret until it airs in December. A new format this time, with the separate boy and girl semi-finals replaced by junior and senior contests. I'm not sure that's a good idea but we can still enjoy performances even if the cont...
- 11 months ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Schola Cantorum
- Replies: 269
- Views: 82706
Re: Schola Cantorum
An interview with Scott Price here, which I don't think has been posted yet:
Interesting hearing about the range of abilities in the choir but how keen most of them are to do solos.
Interesting hearing about the range of abilities in the choir but how keen most of them are to do solos.
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Schola Cantorum
- Replies: 269
- Views: 82706
Re: Schola Cantorum
He features on James O'Donnell's last album with the abbey choir, due out shortly: https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68420 Thanks for letting me know, I'll definitely be getting that. Freddie Ursell Beer and Benji Rimington were also great trebles. I heard all three in the St John P...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Schola Cantorum
- Replies: 269
- Views: 82706
Re: Schola Cantorum
He features on James O'Donnell's last album with the abbey choir, due out shortly:
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68420
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68420
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Schola Cantorum
- Replies: 269
- Views: 82706
Re: Schola Cantorum
Thanks for sharing, its interesting to hear him from not long after he left the abbey. He sang the solo in Britten's Te Deum in C at the Duke of Edinburgh's live televised memorial service earlier last year. This is just a couple of weeks before I heard him in the abbey's performance of the Montever...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Schola Cantorum
- Replies: 269
- Views: 82706
Re: Schola Cantorum
Sometimes I might be inclined to take what trebles say with a pinch of salt. :lol: I believe the LOS and CVMS trebles have the same singing teacher - Anita Morrison who also teaches St John's Cambridge and for many years prior trained the trebles of Westminster Cathedral. I couldn't imagine her &quo...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Schola Cantorum
- Replies: 269
- Views: 82706
Re: Schola Cantorum
Thanks for your thoughts, interesting to hear about that second choir, there is certainly a lot of variation in how this work is recorded and performed compared to say the common Bach oratorios. I know of Nicholas Mulroy but am yet to hear him in concert, so I'll keep an eye out. I remember hearing ...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Schola Cantorum
- Replies: 269
- Views: 82706
Re: Schola Cantorum
I don't suppose anyone attended their Monteverdi Vespers concert a couple of weeks back and also attended the Monteverdi Vespers concert by the other London Catholic state school boys choir last night, and would be able to compare the two? I wanted to attend both but unfortunately had to miss the CV...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Opera
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3041
Re: Opera
I think it was clear all along that Aksel thrived on oratorio and operatic arias. Imagine if his debut album had given us Pie Jesu and O for the Wings of a Dove instead of Oh! Had I Jubal's lyre and Happy, oh thrice happy we. I think his talents would have been terribly wasted by sticking to the usu...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Members
- Topic: Luca Brugnoli
- Replies: 288
- Views: 90491
Re: Luca Brugnoli
I think Luca was the clear winner of this round with Sam not far behind. I guess his experience with Libera was a big help - for some entrants it was probably their first time singing on stage with all the lights and cameras which can be quite intimidating. I must say I thought Charlie gave a better...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Members
- Topic: Luca Brugnoli
- Replies: 288
- Views: 90491
Re: Luca Brugnoli
Rochester wear ruffs don't they? So he's not really in his usual attire...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Other Choirs, Singers and Musicians
- Topic: Les Petits Chanteurs de Nogent-sur-Marne - Les Moineaux du Val de Marne
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2457
Re: Les Petits Chanteurs de Nogent-sur-Marne - Les Moineaux du Val de Marne
Les Petits Chanteurs de Nogent-sur-Marne - Les Moineaux du Val de Marne The boys choir of Nogent-sur-Marne also known as The Sparrows of the Val de Marne not to be confused with the Les Petits Chanteurs of other French places :wink: I am asking because I wonder if anyone perhaps has one of their al...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Members
- Topic: Luca Brugnoli
- Replies: 288
- Views: 90491
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Concerts and public appearances
- Topic: St John's Smith SQ Concert 2022 - Dec 4th
- Replies: 117
- Views: 94960
Re: St John's Smith SQ Concert 2022 - Dec 4th
Thanks for the info, I am doing wabbey the day before so not sure if I'll go for this or not yet. I guess one benefit of no reserved seating though is that you can wait until much nearer the time to decide to buy tickets.
- 1 year ago
- Forum: Concerts and public appearances
- Topic: St John's Smith SQ Concert 2022 - Dec 4th
- Replies: 117
- Views: 94960
Re: St John's Smith SQ Concert 2022 - Dec 4th
I am tempted by CVMS Messiah but unreserved seating puts me off - I just assume I'll travel all the way there to end up behind a pillar at the back.