I wasn’t originally intending to blog again in the lead-up to Jacobean Secrets but am prompted to do so by three factors:

• Further work on the music we’re singing ahead of the final rehearsal
• Personal preparation for my performance of Gibbons’s Fantazia of foure parts in the first half of the programme
• The broadcast of a quite extra-ordinary arrangement for a modern instrumental chamber ensemble including piano and clarinet of Gibbons’s anthem This is the record of John, which meant little without the words, although it was a pleasant sound. Continue reading →