Portsmouth Baroque Choir
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Amateur choir based in Portsmouth UK exploring SATB repertoire from Renaissance to present day.
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
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November 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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
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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...
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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...
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
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Mouton's 'Nesciens Mater Virgo Virum', a highlight of the first half of our Christmas Concert on December 6th
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November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
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Mouton's 'Nesciens Mater Virgo Virum', a highlight of the first half of our Christmas Concert on December 6th
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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?...
Good overview of Mouton in Early Music Show www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
'Nesciens Mater' El León De Oro youtu.be/Rte5pBp_NeI?...
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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?...
Good overview of Mouton in Early Music Show www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
'Nesciens Mater' El León De Oro youtu.be/Rte5pBp_NeI?...
A selection of photos by David Harris of our concert at St Paul's Chichester last Saturday
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October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A selection of photos by David Harris of our concert at St Paul's Chichester last Saturday
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portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/gallery/
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
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What the papers and socials are saying -
Chichester Observer shorturl.at/2P8aS
musicinportsmouth.co.uk/preview-port...
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October 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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...
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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
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"
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NB Northgate Car Park closed on concert day. Use St Cyriacs or Orchard Street 🚘
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NB Northgate Car Park closed on concert day. Use St Cyriacs or Orchard Street 🚘
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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 🚘
portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/events/hande...
NB Northgate Car Park closed on concert day. Use St Cyriacs or Orchard Street 🚘
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.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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.
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Alessandro Scarlatti & patrons Queen Christina of Sweden & Cardinal Acquaviva. Rare mentions, choice tracks in Lucy Skeaping’s EMS (2019)
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Sounds good? Hear his best sacred work in our performance on October 18
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🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sounds good? Hear his best sacred work in our performance on October 18
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September 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sounds good? Hear his best sacred work in our performance on October 18
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
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...
September 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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...
🎶 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!
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August 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🎶 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!
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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...
July 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
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”.
July 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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”.
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
🎙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
July 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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
🎙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
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.
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July 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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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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.
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Get a ticket & spot the connection: www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
June 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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
Get a ticket & spot the connection: www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
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.
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Hear us sing it in Chichester July 5.
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Hear us sing it in Chichester July 5.
June 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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.
portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/background-n...
Hear us sing it in Chichester July 5.
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.
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Hear the drama and wonder of the angels’ message.
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June 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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?....
Hear the drama and wonder of the angels’ message.
🎧 youtu.be/zroOUg-PTjE?....
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.
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June 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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...
portsmouthbaroquechoir.co.uk/news/gibbons...
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...
Still some seats available www.ticketsource.co.uk/musicinromse...
May 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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...
Still some seats available www.ticketsource.co.uk/musicinromse...
Our neighbours the Fareham Philharmonic Choir singing for peace
April 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Our neighbours the Fareham Philharmonic Choir singing for peace
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...
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...
April 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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...
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...
Glenn Gould’s favourite composer - “Let us welcome such a guest” to our rehearsal folder for the next few weeks #Gibbons400
April 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Glenn Gould’s favourite composer - “Let us welcome such a guest” to our rehearsal folder for the next few weeks #Gibbons400
Rachel Haggarty adding dulcian sparkle to our concert of Kuhnau & Buxtehude in Fareham last Saturday.
March 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Rachel Haggarty adding dulcian sparkle to our concert of Kuhnau & Buxtehude in Fareham last Saturday.
Tonight and for one night only, 7:30 pm Fareham United Reformed Church
Joy, wonder, longing, anticipation, solace…
all expressed in elegant measure by Portsmouth Baroque Choir with the The Consort of Twelve ensemble directed by Malcolm Keeler.
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Joy, wonder, longing, anticipation, solace…
all expressed in elegant measure by Portsmouth Baroque Choir with the The Consort of Twelve ensemble directed by Malcolm Keeler.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
March 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Tonight and for one night only, 7:30 pm Fareham United Reformed Church
Joy, wonder, longing, anticipation, solace…
all expressed in elegant measure by Portsmouth Baroque Choir with the The Consort of Twelve ensemble directed by Malcolm Keeler.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir
Joy, wonder, longing, anticipation, solace…
all expressed in elegant measure by Portsmouth Baroque Choir with the The Consort of Twelve ensemble directed by Malcolm Keeler.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/baroquechoir