Gardiner used a choir of 19, with the soloists drawn from among its members.
Unlike St. Thomas's version, which uses a choir of men and boys, Trinity uses a mixed choir of adult, professional singers and draws its soloist from the choir's ranks.
As we'll find out, the crucible of those ideas is the way Beethoven's symphonies have been thought about and performed: such music as the Third (the "Eroica"), the Fifth, or the Ninth - even if that piece was the first symphony to use a choir, and a text.
I decided to use a choir on a piece of music called "Jerusalem".
Bands that are known to use a choir include Arkona, Turisas, Lumsk and Eluveitie, while chants can be found in the music of Týr and Windir.
A 2005 installation entitled "Veils," which has appeared in several venues in America and Europe, uses a "virtual choir" of ninety polyphonic voices, and unfolds over a span of six hours.
Opener Jonny O'the Brine gallops to a tabla rhythm, Bonny Bunch of Roses drifts on a backdrop of flutes, fiddles and a crackling east European 78, while Lovely Molly uses a full choir.
Here, he used a gospel choir to, er, serenade his perennial target – Fox News – in a move that was almost as audacious as the time the Roots played ska group Fishbone's Lyin' Ass Bitch to introduce Michele Bachmann on Jimmy Fallon.
And oddly, given the current idea that late-19th-century choral performances were extravaganzas, the society, back then, used a smaller choir: it had 100 singers; now it has 200.
Meanwhile conductor Ludovic Morlot does beautifully precise and evocative things with the Seattle Symphony, but I'm not convinced by his choice to use a boys' choir in place of women's voices in Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine.
