Brecon Cathedral Choir Concert in San Gimignano, October 2016

Recorded on two Windows phones, the recordings then spliced together.

Robin was a treble, Hel was an alto. In the Allegri, I was in the semi-chorus with Ella (?), Margaret Duthie, & Stephen Power, hidden behind the altar. My friend Stuart was a ringer, adding some heft to the bass line. A cat emerged from the middle of the choir during the Gibbons (see photos). And one of the tenors (not in photos) finished the concert lying on a slab at the back of the church awaiting an ambulance.

Tracks in alphabetical order (if anyone has the programme I shall rearrange these!):

Allegri: Misere Mei


Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence


Bassano: Dic Nobis, Maria


Duthie: Song of the Nuns of Chester


Gibbons: O clap your hands


Mendelssohn: Lift thine eyes, from Elijah


Parry: My soul, there is a country


Parry: Never weather-beaten sail


Parry: There is an old belief


Rhienberger: Abendlied


Sheppard: In manus tuas


Stanford: Justorum animae


Stanford: Coelos ascendit hodie


Stanford: Beati quorum via


Wood: Hail, gladdening light


Photos

San Gimignano Concert photo 1

San Gimignano Concert photo 2

San Gimignano Concert photo 3

San Gimignano Concert photo 4