@baroquechoir.bsky.social
Amateur choir based in Portsmouth UK exploring SATB repertoire from Renaissance to present day.
🎶 Love choral music from Byrd to Britten? Join Portsmouth Baroque Choir, friendly auditioned chamber choir singing great music past & present. Rehearsals Monday eve in Portsmouth. New singers welcome!
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No downplaying that Handel 'Dixit Dominus' is tough on our voices but @ifagiolini analysis does take us out of the gym www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
24.07.2025 14:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Special thanks to Binsted Viols, a beautiful complement to the programme & to our voices , proving composer Nico Muhly’s remark that “one of the most thrilling things about the sound of violas da gamba playing together is the sense of their phrasing being derived from vocal music”.
06.07.2025 07:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Always encouraging to see Dave Green in the audience & read his impressions next morning.
One of our best concerts in recent years.
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Behold, all true faithfull hearts, Gibbons brings you glad tidings.
🎙Festival of Chichester organiser Phil Hewitt talks to PBC MD Malcolm Keeler
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It’s concert day. Last chance to buy a ticket www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Minding the vocal folds and inhabiting a piece of music emotionally. open.spotify.com/episode/5Xd5...
03.07.2025 08:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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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: www.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.
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Hear us sing it in Chichester July 5.
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!
Hear the drama and wonder of the angels’ message.
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On the eve of the #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.
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Wonderful overview of Orlando Gibbons music by @hannahcfrench.bsky.social in BBC Early Music Show #gibbons400
01.06.2025 17:03 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A taster for the Binsted Viol consort pieces in our #gibbons400 concert on July 5. So good that BBC Radio 3 forgot to include it in their programme tracklist yesterday morning! youtu.be/iFMXwFMQp9Y?...
01.06.2025 15:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 www.ticketsource.co.uk/musicinromse...
Ever a hit!
22.04.2025 07:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our neighbours the Fareham Philharmonic Choir singing for peace
19.04.2025 08:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Solace C19th German way portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-n...
Romsey Abbey Brahms 'German Requiem' w Southampton Choral Society, Conchord Singers & Winchester Youth Orchestra cond. Adam Broughton Sat May 10th at 7:30 pm. Tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/venu...
Evergreen, worldwide choral favourite open.spotify.com/track/2KIaYm...
06.04.2025 09:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Glenn Gould’s favourite composer - “Let us welcome such a guest” to our rehearsal folder for the next few weeks #Gibbons400
01.04.2025 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rachel Haggarty adding dulcian sparkle to our concert of Kuhnau & Buxtehude in Fareham last Saturday.
24.03.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Buxtehude’s “rich austerity” - thanks, David.
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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.
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Their music may be familiar but what was the world outlook for Bach, Kuhnau, Buxtehude et al?
Some ideas in contemporary musician novels www.bachnetwork.co.uk/ub3/ROSE.pdf
In Portsmouth News online www.yourworld.net/portsmouth/s...
11.03.2025 16:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kuhnau’s Quinquagesima cantata 'Gott, sei mir gnädig' starting part 2 of our concert in Fareham is dated 1705.
Our chronos fixation differs from Kuhnau & Bach. Theirs was was closer to kairos, church moments, constant arrival.
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Concert poster shows Lübeck St Mary’s where Buxtehude was organist 1668-1707. Bach visited 1705 during Abendmusik season & our prog features some of Buxtehude’s music that Bach might have heard during his stay. We hope that our audience will find it as impressive as Bach did.
05.03.2025 11:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Totally agree @ifagiolini.bsky.social about treating singers nicely in rehearsal, esp Mondays open.spotify.com/episode/4jaT...
16.02.2025 15:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In good voice, living in the Portsmouth area & enjoy singing uplifting music in splendid locations? Now is a great time to join us as we rehearse Brahms German Requiem for joint perf w Southampton Choral Soc & Conchord Singers at Romsey Abbey in May. 👉🏼portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/join-us/
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16.01.2025 12:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What do an outbreak of the Plague, the Lübeck Stock Exchange, a long walk, an 800-year-old choir, a sumptuous dinner at the Golden Ring and crowdsourcing have to do with our next concert? Answers portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-n...
15.01.2025 17:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
