Portsmouth Baroque Choir
@BaroqueChoir
Chamber choir exploring & performing a wide repertoire from the late Renaissance to the present day. Posts by Chris
NEW #ChoralChihuahua 🎤🫳 !! Robert H and Nicholas M are joined by Dr Declan Costello aka The Voice Doctor to chat about vocal injury along with some top tips for looking after those vocal folds - And a large helping of @TenebraeChoir 😍- Listen at choralchihuahua.com
No downplaying that Handel 'Dixit Dominus' is tough on our voices but @ifagiolini analysis does take us out of the gym bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01…
Behold, all true faithfull hearts, Gibbons brings you glad tidings. 🎙Festival of Chichester organiser Phil Hewitt talks to PBC MD Malcolm Keeler sussexexpress.co.uk/news/portsmout… It’s concert day. Last chance to buy a ticket ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Composers let themselves go in full anthems, & even printers sensed the fun setting “praises” in Gibbons’s ‘O clap you hands’, a GOAT banger. Let’s also clap Chichester’s bad boy, Weelkes, whose ‘Hosanna to the son of David’ guarantees a raised roof. 🎟️ ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir.
This Saturday's concert includes 2 Ascension anthems: Byrd 'Christ rising' & Gibbons 'We praise thee, O Father'. Gibbons may be missing a 3rd part: 2nd part doesn't end 'Amen'. But it does refer to the earlier anthem. Get a ticket & spot the connection: ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
What do we know about John Bull’s life and what difference does it make to singing that perennial choral favourite, the Starre Anthem? Very little, argues Chris in his latest blog post, and probably just as well. Hear us sing it in Chichester July 5. 📖 portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-not…
17th-century Ely comes to Chichester. Our #Gibbons400 concert July 5 includes Xmas anthem ‘O ye little flock’ by John Amner who followed Tye & Whyte at Ely Cathedral. Revered in Ely - a close has been named after him!
On the eve of #Gibbons400 (the anniversary, not our concert!) Chris listened to some choice Gibbons recordings and jotted down some thoughts about how to get the most out of his verse and full anthems in performance. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/news/gibbons-4…
A taster for the Binsted Viol consort pieces in our #gibbons400 concert on July 5. So good that @BBCRadio3 forgot to include it in their programme tracklist yesterday morning! youtu.be/iFMXwFMQp9Y?si…
Also singing Schütz Selig sind die Toten (1648) in Romsey Abbey this Sat. Same text for Brahms op.45/VII in second. Still some seats available ticketsource.co.uk/musicinromsey/…
Our neighbours @F_Philharmonic singing for peace
Solace, the C19 German way - read all about it portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-not… Romsey Abbey Brahms 'German Requiem' w Southampton Choral Society, Conchord Singers & Winchester Youth Orchestra cond. Adam Broughton Sat. May 10th 7:30 pm. ticketsource.co.uk/booking/venuep…
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This sounds like the ramblings of a man on the ropes… rattled much?
Evergreen, worldwide choral favourite. Excellent German from @bach_collegiumE in latest release 04-2025 open.spotify.com/track/2KIaYmyR… Countdown to our participation ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/romse…
Help from @suzzievan with limbering up for those Brahmsian peaks youtu.be/AqfvBV7eidY?si…
“Let us welcome such a guest” to our rehearsal folder for the next few weeks #Gibbons400 @FestOfChi
A guide to the great 16th and 17th century English composer, Orlando Gibbons classical-music.com/composers/orla…
Buxtehude’s “rich austerity” - thanks, David. davidgreenbooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/portsm…
Tonight and for one night only, 7:30 pm Fareham United Reformed Church Joy, wonder, longing, anticipation, solace… all expressed in elegant measure by Portsmouth Baroque Choir with the The Consort of Twelve ensemble directed by Malcolm Keeler. ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
