Peace be to you: Christmas 1918 - 2018
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Friday 14th December 2018
Keble College Chapel, Oxford Our Christmas concert in 2018 explored music by composers whose lives were touched by war. In this centenary year of the armistice, we drew together carols and readings which embody the Christmastide desire for peace on earth. |
Poulenc: Un soir de neige
Howells: Here is the little door Dyson: To Music Ord: Adam lay ybounden R O Morris (arr. JMP): Love came down at Christmas Reading: A Christmas Prayer, Cyril Winterbotham Holst: Lullay my Liking Parry: Two Carols 1. Sing the Birth 2. Welcome, Yule! Arr Pearsall: In dulci Jubilo Reading: Christmas Bells, H.W. Longfellow Howells: Salve Regina Holst (arr Gjeilo): In the bleak midwinter Manz: E'en so, Lord Jesus Praetorius: Magnificat Quinti toni |
Bach: Motets and Organ Works
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Friday 22nd June 2018
Merton College Chapel, Oxford |
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV 230
Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229 Ich lasse dich nicht BWV Anh. 159 Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf BWV 226 Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 Prelude and Fugue in E flat BWV 552 |
An Oxford Elegy
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with narrator Brian Kay
10th March 2018 St. Barnabas Church Jericho, Oxford |
Finzi: Magnificat
Parry: Long since in Egypt’s plenteous land Parry: Music, when soft voices die Finzi: Eclogue Parry: There is an old belief Holst: Two Psalms Elgar: Introduction and Allegro Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy |
