Good Friday

Our choir has made two recordings for Good Friday, first part of  Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater",



and a whole choir recording of Tallis' Salvator Mundi.



A Liturgy of the Last Hour live-streamed service is available via our Twitter feed @stmaryletower at 2pm today.

How to record virtual choir contributions

There are currently so many opportunities to participate in virtual choirs, a superb creative response to the lack of real choir opportunities during the lockdown. The nation's singers are being asked to record their contributions and send them to choir directors who have the unenviable task of layering and editing to produce a "whole choir" sound. If we are really lucky, the result is one which sounds as if there is some level of acoustic (even if it's not quite a cathedral) rather than a group of individuals singing in their bedrooms! (Members of our choir might find this a novelty, our church is known for its lack of acoustic!)

The video below, via YouTube, is an excellent tutorial made by our Music Director on precisely how such a recording can be made. It takes a few minutes to get the hang of the set up, but it's actually really straitforward. (What is perhaps most disconcerting is hearing your voice played back to you afterwards!!) Our choir members have had the benefit of written instructions and a video tutorial already, but I thought the latter was worth sharing here since it's extremely clear and well-paced.