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It’s time to sing! If you love choral music, if you love singing, if you’ve just moved to Suffolk and want to continue singing with a good choir, if you’ve never sung in a choir before but enjoy music, or can read music, or any combination of these, your time is now! Whether you’re working, studying or enjoying the freedom of retirement, and whatever you sing – soprano, alto, tenor or bass – come and join us as our new term starts on 4 September. The Bury Bach Choir will start rehearsals each week for our November concert on Wednesday 4 September, at King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds.   We’ll be singing Brahms’ German Requiem, and the choral suite from Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man , which is new to the choir.   Later in the year we will sing Verdi’s coruscating Requiem , and Handel’s Messiah . Over the next few days on this blog, we’ll be featuring interviews with three singers.   They are all men, because although we want singers of all voice par...
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James Recknell – Piano four hands primo James was the Bury Bach Choir’s rehearsal accompanist for around ten years under its former Music Director, Fred Oxley, and rejoined us as our hugely liked and respected accompanist in the early 2000s. He regularly plays the piano, harpsichord or organ at our concerts and is accompanying the choir at our concert on 16 November for both the Choral Suite from Karl Jenkins’s  The Armed Man  and as the primo player in Brahms’s piano four-hands arrangement for  Ein deutsches Requiem . Keyboard playing has always been James’s passion and by the age of twelve he had passed his piano exams up to Grade VII. James went on to study music at Cambridge University and took lessons on the new harpsichord at Magdalen College. His first teaching job was in maths, and James thinks ‘there is definitely a correlation between music and maths, I did both at ‘A’ level – I suppose it’s to do with the analytical part of the brain’. While he ...
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