In May, our community choir performed the Vivaldi Gloria. This was a combined event, involving our community choir, singers from our local college, and feeder primary schools (for the opening Gloria). The Winchester College Quiristers sang one piece, and the orchestra involved musicians from the Hampshire Youth Orchestra.
I have finally found the recording - I think it is pretty awesome (although I still feel that some of the young soloists needed a bit more work).
Anyhow, if you want to have a listen, it is only 30 min or so. And I am pretty proud of what we (as a pretty ragtag bunch of singers who do no real technical work) achieved.
P.S. I’m singing in the Bass section
Si
Moved MPSIMS --> Cafe Society.
twicks, who keeps the song in her heart off her lips – you’re welcome!
Listening to it now 
Our HS choir did the Gloria (some time between Vivaldi’s heyday and current era) and I’ve always had a soft spot for it.
I’m tempted to take it along to the gym (some of our instructors welcome musical contributions due to a lack of CDs). Some of it is pretty upbeat.
Si
Very nice recording.
We’ve got a gig singing excerpts from the Vivaldi Gloria at a Forbes CEO conference in a couple of weeks’ time. It will make a change from our current rehearsal program (Purcell’s opera King Arthur and a pilgrimage-style concert of English music, including Spem in Alium).
Is that the one with a line that might be misinterpreted as “in egg shells, he’s day old”? A very young Oak proudly sang those words at age 3 or so, bravely attempting to accompany his mother, who could actually sing, on some weird churchy song she was singing.
The first line of the Gloria, and the words of the opening movement of the Vivaldi piece: Gloria in excelsis Deo.