September 2025 Playing Day

We started the new SRP year year with a relatively quiet meeting, around a dozen players. In this 500th anniversary year of the birth of Palestrina, Delyth started us off with a couple of pieces by that composer, ‘Tu es Petrus’ arranged for 6 parts by Alex Ayre, and ‘Sicut cervus’. Trina followed with a set of pieces by Walter Bergmann, ‘Accent on Rhythm’ in which the rhythms gradually became more complex as we progressed through the set. We did reach the final one, with a lot of tips from Trina!
After lunch Delyth took us back to the Renaissance with a piece by William Byrd, ‘Fantazia a 4’. We ended with piece by a composer who died 400 years ago this year, Orlando Gibbons: another arrangement by Alex Ayre of ‘What is our life?’