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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Crepuscular match @kirstymatheson.bsky.social and mutual admiration of John Sheppard's 'Libera Nos' portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/at-th...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our next concert, designed to send you to bed with a clearer head. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/at-th...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Postscript to a rare Billings outing portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/blog/

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

American in Paris - Aaron Copland when studying with Nadia Boulanger, 1 of about 600 Americans who did so. Wrote 4 motets there, delights in 1st half of our #USA250 concert on July 4th in Festival of Chichester.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

William Billings “carver” of melodies, associate of Samuel Adams and Mather Byles, bohemian character with loud singing voice, opens & closes our Celebration of American Choral Music on July 4th. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/ameri...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

No celebration of American music complete without Charles Ives, ‘Psalm 67’ in our folder for July 4 concert, a student work foreshadowing mature Ives. Latest PBC blog post explains. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-not… 🎟�� ticketsource.com/baroquechchoir #America250

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

During the half-term break from rehearsing for our next concert on July 4th, Pru Bell-Davies invites you to share some of the thrilling musical discoveries of her American road-trip in 2001. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/blog-post/am...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

STOP - Gala Portsmouth Guildhall May 9. Portsmouth musical ensembles celebrate city’s centenary - @royalmarines.bsky.social @portsmouthcathedral.org.uk et al: Copland, Walton, Parry, Rutter, McDowall, Saint-Saëns, Saggers, Swain. 🎟️ shorturl.at/PxKDH

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Very sad to report death in the early hours of Thursday morning (16th April) of Chris Burgess, conductor Drayton Choral Soc from September 1978, changing their name to Portsmouth Baroque Choir, led until June 1989. Also directed Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia A fine bass vocalist too. RIP.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

'Messiah' (part 1) is on our Christmas list this year. To find out more about why it's so often performed around Christmas (and why it is so universally popular), have a listen (UK residents) to this morning's edition of 'In our time' on BBC R4: highly recommended! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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In Our Time - Handel's Messiah - BBC Sounds

The origin and development of Handel's great sacred oratorio, premiered in Dublin in 1742.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Shuke organ (1982) St. George's, Eisenach (largest in Thuringia) where Bach sang & Telemann & Johann Christoph Bach played. Different prospect at Portchester Methodist but sounds glorious: hear Peter Gould next Saturday in our concert Bach family motets. 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Blog re BWV 118, curtain-raiser for our March 14th concert, including suitable & practical replacements for litui, existential angst for the tenors and comparison with its pugnacious, elder sibling, BWV 101. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-not… Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Bach motets: what do we know about the circumstances of their composition and how was Bach motivated by pride in his family’s musical connections to arrive at his singular approach to writing music? portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-n... 🎟️ ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Bach’s forebears set a precedent with their motets - the response was extraordinary portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/bach-...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

As a prelude and taster for our concert of Bach family motets in Portchester on March 14, which of these is the more numerous? a. the number of Bachs who earned their living wholly or partly from music between the early sixteenth century and the mid-nineteenth? b. types of German sausage?

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Brightly shone the moon last night Our term’s work done In the small quiet church at the turn in the lane To hear the legend of our play… Tonight at 7pm the Portsmouth Baroque Choir Christmas concert at Havant United Reformed Church. See poster for highlights & tickets.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Vivaldi's Magnificat headlines our Xmas concert - concise, extrovert, bright, brisk and clear. Did it involve teamwork with the celebrated female choir of the Ospedale della Pietà? Harriet Constable's 2024 novel 'The Instrumentalist' has got us thinking. shorturl.at/g6NHF 🎟️ shorturl.at/g6NHF

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Tapping once again into the endless resource that is new choral music for Christmastime - a peculiarly British phenomenon? Portsmouth-area composers Ian Schofield and Philip Drew pull some crackers with Joanna Marsh, Bob Chilcott and John Tavener. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-n...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Jean Mouton, master of music as soft power, and his involvement in the Medici Codex portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/blog-post/mu... Mouton's 'Nesciens Mater Virgo Virum', a highlight of the first half of our Christmas Concert on December 6th 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

Christmas concert poster - angels, stars

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of Jean Mouton whose elaborate and magical motet 'Nesciens Mater' is a highlight of the first half of our Christmas Concert. Good overview of Mouton in Early Music Show www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 'Nesciens Mater' El León De Oro youtu.be/Rte5pBp_NeI?...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

A selection of photos by David Harris of our concert at St Paul's Chichester last Saturday portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/gallery/

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Doors ajar at St Pauls' Church Chichester for our concert of Baroque brilliance this evening. What the papers and socials are saying - Chichester Observer shorturl.at/2P8aS musicinportsmouth.co.uk/preview-port... musicinportsmouth.co.uk/preview-part... 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti this Saturday at St Pauls' Church Chichester. Malcolm Keeler, The Consort of Twelve and singers tell it like it is for the Chichester Observer. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/community/po... 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir return for Chichester concert

Portsmouth Baroque Choir returns to St Paul’s, Chichester after a two-year gap in a collaboration with the Consort of Twelve.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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" portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/hande... NB Northgate Car Park closed on concert day. Use St Cyriacs or Orchard Street 🚘

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/uncategorize... 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Alessandro Scarlatti & patrons Queen Christina of Sweden & Cardinal Acquaviva. Rare mentions, choice tracks in Lucy Skeaping’s EMS (2019) 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Sounds good? Hear his best sacred work in our performance on October 18 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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 · 21/08/2025

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

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John Butt – Dixit Dominus Lecture

YouTube video by Dunedin Consort

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

🎶 Love choral music from Byrd to Britten? Join Portsmouth Baroque Choir, friendly auditioned chamber choir singing great music past & present. Rehearsals Monday eve in Portsmouth. New singers welcome! 👉 [portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk] #choir #Portsmouth #baroque #choralmusic #joinus

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

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 · 05/07/2025

Behold, all true faithfull hearts, Gibbons brings you glad tidings. 🎙Festival of Chichester organiser Phil Hewitt talks to PBC MD Malcolm Keeler www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/portsmo... It’s concert day. Last chance to buy a ticket www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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

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The Voice Doctor

CHORAL CHIHUAHUA · Episode

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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. 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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. Get a ticket & spot the connection: www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-n... Hear us sing it in Chichester July 5.

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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. 🎧 youtu.be/zroOUg-PTjE?....

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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. portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/news/gibbons...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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 · 01/06/2025

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?...

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Fantasias a 6: Fantasia I, MB 31

YouTube video by Phantasm - Topic

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Singing Schütz Selig sind die Toten (1648) in Romsey Abbey this Sat. Same text for Brahms op.45/VII in second. Still some seats available www.ticketsource.co.uk/musicinromse...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Our neighbours the Fareham Philharmonic Choir singing for peace

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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...

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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

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