NEWSLETTER: 21st February 2021 Hi Everyone, A quiet week for news so this letter is comprised mainly of reminders! Do not forget to use this newsletter for any item, whether or not choral related, which you believe may be of interest. Simply send this to me at: [email protected] Look after yourselves!

Ian

Weekly Zoom Rehearsals Click on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86868503217?pwd=NWlUVzZzVENGUG9 Cazhjc3paM1ovZz09 Clicking the link means you should join the meeting waiting room automatically, but if you need the ID and password, they are: Meeting ID: 868 6850 3217 Passcode: MKC@2021 Please don’t share these details with anyone other than members and agreed family & friends of the choir joining this concert. These rehearsals will be recorded.

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Future Events for Your Diary

Annual General Meeting: Tuesday 9th March at 7:30 pm

This will be a zoomed AGM to be held before our rehearsal on that Tuesday evening. You should already have seen the Accounts and the Annual Report from the Board.

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Spring Term 2021 Rehearsal Plan

23 FEBRUARY

25b– Achieved is the Glorious work,

31 – Sing the Lord

2 MARCH

27 By Thee with Bliss,

4 – Awake the Harp

9 MARCH

AGM

18a – The Lord is Great,

25b – Achieved is the Glorious work

16 MARCH

1a – In the beginning,

4 – The Marvellous work,

31 Sing the Lord,

23 MARCH

Online event

A special edition created from public domain sources and edited by me to match the pagination, page numbers and underlay of the New Novello Edition is available on the members’ section of our website but is for use in these rehearsals only. Old Novello editions will not match pages and may not even match ‘lyrics’. We will not have old editions available to be able to give page numbers.

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RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS

There is a plethora of good recordings out there, but either being sung in German, or problems with textual underlay mean we are limited to what we can use. For a performance in German, I recommend ’s 1996 set. For a fantastic performance on modern instruments ’s 1991 CBSO disc is excellent – some of the text doesn’t quite match our edition which is why we unfortunately won’t be using it.

The recording we will be using in our rehearsals is the 1991 disc recorded under Christopher Hogwood. It matches our edition and is at baroque pitch to make those high notes just a bit easier!

Apple Music Eliot Gardiner: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/haydn-die- sch%C3%B6pfungthe-creation/1452374343 Rattle: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/haydn-the- creation/693640671 Hogwood: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/haydn-the- creation/1452211754 Spotify Eliot Gardiner: Haydn, J:: - Album by Franz Joseph Haydn, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner | Spotify

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Rattle: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uWL5OmB6w8Z6YKzrQI48b? si=jcmsbXGUSv2qRIL-gw7cg

Hogwood: Haydn: The Creation - Album by Franz Joseph Haydn, , Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael George, Choir of New College, Oxford, The Academy Of Ancient Music Chorus, Of The Academy Of Ancient Musi, Christopher Hogwood | Spotify

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