Nigel Timms

Reads a lot, writes a little, plays music sometimes. Runs on gin and tonic. Blogs at

[Nigel Timms @NigelFETimms]

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[Nigel Timms @NigelFETimms]

@marymagsoxford Fr Barry Hammett celebrating 50 years of ordained ministry with a wonderful Corpus Christi Mass: many congratulations to him! @magschoir sang Palestrina (Missa fratres ego), and @IanTindale played Messiaen's Banquet céleste as well as festive de Grigny! @wjbdawes

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@jembloomfield Let me know what you think when you get a chance to finish it; I'd really value your opinion 🤔 All the best, N

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With @wjbdawes and @IanTindale both abroad, we are grateful to George Herbert (no, not that one) for leaping off the subs bench to conduct @magschoir and play the organ too! Wonderful JSB, Byrd 5pt, Gibbons O clap, and a Buxtehude Toccata too! Many thanks 🎶 @marymagsoxford

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"Blessed be the God and Father"... an outstanding performance of S S Wesley's masterpiece by the excellent @magschoir conducted by @wjbdawes accompanied by @IanTindale at @marymagsoxford this morning: we are so lucky to have such wonderful musicians. Many thanks to all 🎶

[Nigel Timms @NigelFETimms]

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"Love bade me welcome"; a superb performance of RVW's George Herbert setting by @wjbdawes @marymagsoxford this morning, accompanied by the excellent @robert_quinney who also gave us ebullient Bach! Nothing "low" about this second Sunday of Easter! Many thanks 🎶 😀

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A great pleasure to welcome @helensmee and the Frideswide Consort to @marymagsoxford today: beautiful performances of Guerrero (Missa Congratulamini) and Byrd (motets Ne irascaris and Civitas sancti tui). Also super sounds from visiting organists: many thanks to all involved! 🎶

[Nigel Timms @NigelFETimms]

@magschoir on a break, but high standards of music @marymagsoxford maintained by cantor Holly this morning with a beautiful performance of Bach's "Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben" (St Matthew Passion). Langlais' thrilling "Le Saint Esprit" concluded the service: many thanks!

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First Sunday of Lent: seasonal music from @IanTindale @magschoir @marymagsoxford: Bach's An Wasserflüssen Babylon, Palestrina's Super flumina, Rheinberger's Missa Brevis, a Mendelssohn motet and Allegro maestoso from his organ sonata no.1 Much appreciated, many thanks! @wjbdawes

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Great to welcome the Rt Revd Humphrey Sothern to @marymagsoxford today for a baptism and confirmation service: @magschoir sang the Arvo Pärt Berliner Messe, superbly accompanied by @IanTindale who also gave a thrilling account of Hurford's Exurgat Deus on the organ! @wjbdawes

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Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli! What glory, what splendour. It was a privilege to worship through it this morning, @marymagsoxford Many thanks to @gctrimble for choosing it, and @wjbdawes and @magschoir for such excellent singing!

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This is a very important statement, correcting a serious error or fudge on the part of the Cardiff University VC, and underlining the catastrophic situation facing the arts, and specifically music, in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Please circulate widely.

[Nigel Timms @NigelFETimms]

After an interesting motet by "Fag" Ouseley Bt, who celebrates his 200th birthday this year, today @magschoir gave us RVW's Mass in D and Elgar's sublime "The Spirit of the Lord". Good to hear Flor Peeters' lively Festal Voluntary too. @wjbdawes @IanTindale @marymagsoxford

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Celebrating the wedding at Cana... Lovely choral music by De Wert and Victoria @marymagsoxford today, plus movements from Couperin's Messe pour le Couvents on the organ. Many thanks to all 🎶 @magschoir @wjbdawes @IanTindale. Now for a glass or two 🍷🍷😉

[Nigel Timms @NigelFETimms]

Great to have @magschoir back singing Palestrina (start of his 500th anniversary year) Missa Aeterna Christi munera and the motet Tribus miraculis. Super organ playing by Drew Sellis too, (Mendelssohn and JS Bach) many thanks to him. @marymagsoxford @wjbdawes

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A wonderful Epiphany service @marymagsoxford featuring the best performance of Cornelius' The Three Kings I've ever heard, beautifully sung by @wjbdawes and accompanied with great artistry by @IanTindale, who also played superb Flor Peeters and Buxtehude. Many thanks! @magschoir

[Nigel Timms @NigelFETimms]

@marymagsoxford running on a skeleton crew today, @magschoir taking a well-earned break: but we were privileged to have the excellent Steven Grahl playing the organ for us (super JSB) and some lovely cantoring. Wishing you all a happy new year in advance! 🎶🎵😀