by Christopher Clark | Sep 26, 2025 | Background notes, Blog post, News, Rehearsal aids
Ask any listener or concert-goer to name a piece by Alessandro Scarlatti that they really like and I guarantee they will struggle. In two of the more frequented superstores for classical music, Spotify and the BBC Proms, his stock is low. The Proms is not, of course,...
by Christopher Clark | Sep 2, 2025 | Background notes, Blog post, News, Rehearsal aids
The second half of Portsmouth Baroque Choir’s Autumn 2025 concert at St Paul’s Chichester is taken up by Handel’s Dixit Dominus, a firm favourite with choirs and audiences, renowned for its technical difficulty and demands on vocal stamina. It’s an early...