Dear all. Apologies for a late roundup this week – it’s been a busy one!
Many thanks to those who came to see Carmen last night! Was really touching to see some friendly faces in the audience! Hope you enjoyed it – the cast was buzzing afterwards because we felt it went really well! Still one more chance to see it tomorrow if you are free – 7pm Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington.
This week we spent some time on the Angus Dei and Lux Aeterna in the Mozart. These, again, are all about the changes in dynamics, capturing the difference between the almost angry setting for ‘Angus Dei…’ and the much more reflective ‘dona eis requiem’. This runs into the Lux Aeterna, which was sung very well on Tuesday. M<are sure you keep counting, especially altos who sing in stretto with the tenors and basses. Sopranos just need to make sure they know when their entires are, and enter strongly and confidently! The mini-fugue at the end was generally very good – keep the semiquavers smooth
We then looked at the Hostias and ‘Quam Olim Abrahae’ fugue. This needs to keep moving – Be aware I was going a little under tempo on Tuesday. The fugue needs to bring out the word ‘promisisti’ whenever you have it – I explained why at the rehearsal!
Finally we sang through the 4th of the Rutter Birthday Madrigals (which we did before Christmas). As with the third one we did last week, this just needs rocking over. We will start one or two of the other ones next week, as we have covered a lot of the Mozart now (very successfully).
Have a good weekend!
Dave