On Monday, the Chamber Choir sang a service of Evensong in the beautiful and intimate chapel of Pembroke College, Oxford. The focus was very much on earlier repertoire; the music sung was by Johannes Eccard, Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell, and the choir rose remarkably well to the challenge of performing complicated polyphony, much of the time without any organ accompaniment. The service was well attended, and the singers enjoyed the chance to make music in an Oxford college which has historically maintained very close links with Abingdon School.
