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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 3d

Feedback from choir: "Dixit Dominus is like an intense, exhilarating rollercoaster ride"; "The St Cecilia Mass is a fitting tribute to one who sang to God in her heart"
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NB Northgate Car Park closed on concert day. Use St Cyriacs or Orchard Street 🚘

Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 9d

Thankyou Music in Portsmouth!🤓

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Preview (part 1): Portsmouth Baroque Choir with the Consort of Twelve - Handel and Scarlatti - Music in Portsmouth

Portsmouth Baroque Choir’s Autumn 2025 concert with the Consort of Twelve at St Paul’s Chichester on 18 October presents two exemplary and uplifting works written in Rome during the first quarter of 1...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 14d

PBC blog invokes Nora Fischer, St Cecilia and Ficino to argue for a more sympathetic hearing for Alessandro Scarlatti, once considered one of the best.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 16d

Alessandro Scarlatti & patrons Queen Christina of Sweden & Cardinal Acquaviva. Rare mentions, choice tracks in Lucy Skeaping’s EMS (2019)

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Sounds good? Hear his best sacred work in our performance on October 18

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Sep 4

Joyful for singers, players & audiences alike, but why did Handel make Dixit Dominus such a challenge? In the absence of substantial evidence from Handel’s time in Rome, I’ve played around with some ideas culled from that great psalmody in the Cloud portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/blog-post/wh...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Aug 21

John Butt on Handel taking German thoroughness too far in Dixit Dominus www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-o...

John Butt – Dixit Dominus Lecture

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jul 24

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...

Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jul 6

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”.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jul 6

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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Portsmouth Baroque Choir: Orlando Gibbons and his contemporaries

Portsmouth Baroque Choir , Christ Church, Chichester, July 5 If one's work is being celebrated 400 years after your death you can consider y...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jul 5

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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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jul 3

Minding the vocal folds and inhabiting a piece of music emotionally. open.spotify.com/episode/5Xd5...

The Voice Doctor

CHORAL CHIHUAHUA · Episode

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jul 2

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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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.
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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jun 20

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.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jun 17

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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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jun 1

Wonderful overview of Orlando Gibbons music by @hannahcfrench.bsky.social in BBC Early Music Show #gibbons400

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jun 1

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?...

Fantasias a 6: Fantasia I, MB 31

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · May 8

Singing Schütz Selig sind die Toten (1648) in Romsey Abbey this Sat. Same text for Brahms op.45/VII in second.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Apr 22

Ever a hit!

Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Apr 19

Our neighbours the Fareham Philharmonic Choir singing for peace

Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Apr 18

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...

Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Apr 6

Evergreen, worldwide choral favourite open.spotify.com/track/2KIaYm...

IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen

Johannes Brahms, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan · Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45: IV. Wie lieblich sind Dein Wohnungen · Song · 2025

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Apr 1

Glenn Gould’s favourite composer - “Let us welcome such a guest” to our rehearsal folder for the next few weeks #Gibbons400