A Rose E'er Blooming

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Friday 13th December 2019 | 7.30 p,
Keble College Chapel, Oxford

In our Christmas concert we explored music associated with Mary as the 'mystic rose'. This concert also featured the world premiere of the winning composition from our Carol Competition: Rorate, caeli, desuper! by Charles West.

Eccard: Maria wallt zum Heiligtum
Mouton: Nesciens Mater
Berkeley: I sing of a maiden
Cooke: I sing of a maiden
Howells: A spotless Rose
Lane: There is no rose
Praetorius arr Sandström: Det ӓr en ros
Villette: Hymne a la Vierge
Pӓrt: Magnificat
Pettman: The Angel Gabriel
Walford Davies: The Holly and the Ivy
West: Rorate, caeli, desuper!
Bruckner: Virga Jesse
Parsons: Ave Maria
Burke: Ave Maria        

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Dusk 'til Dawn: Nature in Music
a sequence of music and sound

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​​Saturday 15th June 2019
St John the Evangelist Church, Iffley Road

In this unique concert presentation, we traced a musical pilgrimage charting the progression of dusk to dawn. Music for compline, night, and morning was interspersed with wildlife recordings from the British Library Sound Archive, in an evocative journey of sound.

Evening
Andrew Smith: Lighten our darkness
Sullivan:The long day closes
Ives: In pace
Night 
Cooke: The Twilight People       
Esenvalds: Only in sleep     
Whitacre: Sleep
Sheppard: Libera nos I                        
Stanford: At the mid hour of night                              
Vaughan Williams: Prayer to the Father of Heaven
Krause: Creator of the stars of night
Sigurbjörnsson: Heyr, himna smiður
 Morning
Willan: Rise up my love                               
Byrd: Vigilate                   ​

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Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
and American choral music

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Saturday 16th March 2019
University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford

Barber: Reincarnations
Paulus: The Spring and the Fall
Bassi: Harpsonnets
Thompson: Alleluia

Bernstein: Missa Brevis
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

with soloists: Jenny Broome, Sam Mitchell, Darius Latham-Koenig and Benedict Lewis-Smith. ​