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In this brief exposition of psalm singing, Ralph Allwood teaches the choir how to perform Psalm 126, to a chant by George Garrett. Garrett was Director of Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, between 1856 and 1897, and it is for this psalm chant that he is probably most widely known. As Ralph explains in…
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Psalm 124 is sung here to two chants, one in D minor by Ivor Atkins, and another based on it but in D major, written by Ralph Allwood. The chants beautifully partner the words, in the first part expressing the drama in which the children of Israel imagine being swallowed up by the deep waters…
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The splendid Evening Hymn is arguably the best-known, and best, piece written by Henry Balfour Gardiner — apparently a great uncle of the present-day conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Such is the quality of this stirring anthem that it seems a pity we don’t have much else of note by Balfour Gardiner for church choirs…
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With Ralph Allwood, Mark Shepherd, and the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir. Psalm 114 is sung here to an ancient chant known as Tonus Peregrinus, which Ralph Allwood suggests seems very likely (according to recent research) to have been used in the temple in Jerusalem, before it was destroyed. That makes it…
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With Ralph Allwood, Mark Shepherd, and the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir. Psalm 24 is a splendid and relatively short psalm, sung here to a chant by Barnby in the “bright” key of E major. Rather like Psalm 150, featured last month, this is one of a small number of psalms that…
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With Ralph Allwood, Mark Shepherd, and the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir The great psalm of praise, number 150: “O praise God in his holiness”, features as the first in this tutorial series on Psalms and Anthems. You’ll be able to see Ralph Allwood teaching the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban…
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