Bach: Motets
Come and hear three of Bach's great devotional motets in the wonderful acoustic of Merton College Chapel on Friday 22nd June 2018. Tickets from the Oxford Playhouse or on the door. See our Concert Diary for full details and please note the early start for this concert - 6.30 pm.
This will be a fitting programme to bring to a close our association with Ben Nicholas who has been our musical director for three very enjoyable years. We offer him many congratulations on his recent appointment as Principal Conductor of the Oxford Bach Choir. Ben will lead us in a final concert in October 2018, and whilst we are enormously sorry to lose Ben, we are delighted to announce that he will be handing over the Jubilate baton to James Potter, Director of the Cathedral Singers at Christ Church.
Come and hear three of Bach's great devotional motets in the wonderful acoustic of Merton College Chapel on Friday 22nd June 2018. Tickets from the Oxford Playhouse or on the door. See our Concert Diary for full details and please note the early start for this concert - 6.30 pm.
This will be a fitting programme to bring to a close our association with Ben Nicholas who has been our musical director for three very enjoyable years. We offer him many congratulations on his recent appointment as Principal Conductor of the Oxford Bach Choir. Ben will lead us in a final concert in October 2018, and whilst we are enormously sorry to lose Ben, we are delighted to announce that he will be handing over the Jubilate baton to James Potter, Director of the Cathedral Singers at Christ Church.
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An Oxford Elegy
On Saturday 10th March, we were joined by Brian Kay and the Berkeley Sinfonia in a concert of music by Elgar, Holst, Parry and Vaughan Williams. The highlight of the concert was the Oxford Elegy, an atmospheric setting of two poems by Matthew Arnold, evoking the timeless rural landscape around the dreaming spires of Oxford.
Read the reviews.
On Saturday 10th March, we were joined by Brian Kay and the Berkeley Sinfonia in a concert of music by Elgar, Holst, Parry and Vaughan Williams. The highlight of the concert was the Oxford Elegy, an atmospheric setting of two poems by Matthew Arnold, evoking the timeless rural landscape around the dreaming spires of Oxford.
Read the reviews.
Jubilate Christmas Concert 2017
The King's Gifts
In the candle-lit magnificence of Keble College Chapel we spanned six centuries and four countries, including three glorious sixteenth century motets by Weelkes, Tallis and Victoria, Rachmaninov’s wonderfully atmospheric Magnificat, the Gloria from Latvian composer Ugis Praulins’ Miss Rigensis, and pieces by Howells, Warlock, Rutter, Dove and others.
In the candle-lit magnificence of Keble College Chapel we spanned six centuries and four countries, including three glorious sixteenth century motets by Weelkes, Tallis and Victoria, Rachmaninov’s wonderfully atmospheric Magnificat, the Gloria from Latvian composer Ugis Praulins’ Miss Rigensis, and pieces by Howells, Warlock, Rutter, Dove and others.
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Faire is the Heaven
On 17th June Jubilate and our loyal audience took refuge from the unwonted heat of a perfect summer afternoon in Oxford to bask in some glorious English music in the cool of Merton chapel.
Ben Nicholas led choir and audience on a journey from the complex polyphonies of the great Tudor composers to some of the loveliest sacred English music of the twentieth century. The core of the programme was the haunting Requiem of Herbert Howells with its sombre imprecations and charged dissonances. But perhaps even more exciting for the choir was the alchemy that over a few short weeks shaped our base metal into an almost glittering performance of Byrd's Laudibus in Sanctis.
On 17th June Jubilate and our loyal audience took refuge from the unwonted heat of a perfect summer afternoon in Oxford to bask in some glorious English music in the cool of Merton chapel.
Ben Nicholas led choir and audience on a journey from the complex polyphonies of the great Tudor composers to some of the loveliest sacred English music of the twentieth century. The core of the programme was the haunting Requiem of Herbert Howells with its sombre imprecations and charged dissonances. But perhaps even more exciting for the choir was the alchemy that over a few short weeks shaped our base metal into an almost glittering performance of Byrd's Laudibus in Sanctis.
The Lark Ascending
A big thank you to our musical director, Benjamin Nicholas, and to Neta Rudich and the Berkeley Sinfonia for a thrilling concert on Saturday 11th March in the University Church. Neta treated us to a stunning performance of the Lark Ascending and the orchestra showed their mettle in a full-throated rendering of Elgar's Serenade for Strings. Vaughan Williams' cantata, Dona Nobis Pacem, was a new and unforgettable experience for many of us in the choir. It was a privilege to be joined by two exceptional soloists, Cecilia Osmond and Julian Empett.
And finally, we shouldn't forget the opening piece of the concert, Gabriel Jackson's Countless and wonderful are the ways to praise God, a work of great originality and beauty - demanding for both players and singers, and very effective
A big thank you to our musical director, Benjamin Nicholas, and to Neta Rudich and the Berkeley Sinfonia for a thrilling concert on Saturday 11th March in the University Church. Neta treated us to a stunning performance of the Lark Ascending and the orchestra showed their mettle in a full-throated rendering of Elgar's Serenade for Strings. Vaughan Williams' cantata, Dona Nobis Pacem, was a new and unforgettable experience for many of us in the choir. It was a privilege to be joined by two exceptional soloists, Cecilia Osmond and Julian Empett.
And finally, we shouldn't forget the opening piece of the concert, Gabriel Jackson's Countless and wonderful are the ways to praise God, a work of great originality and beauty - demanding for both players and singers, and very effective