Jubilate Christmas Concert 2021
​David Bednall Welcome all Wonders: A Christmas Cantata
Friday 10th December, Keble College Chapel, Oxford

Audience and choir left Keble Chapel on a high after an exhilarating performance of David Bednall's vibrant and original Christmas Cantata: Welcome all Wonders .

A huge thank you to our musical director, James Potter, for guiding us through it, and to trumpeter Simon Desbruslais and organist Simon Hogan for filling Keble Chapel with so much glorious sound.

And thank you to to our audience who braved the winter night, face masks and social distancing to come and hear us sing, and to share with us a quite unique musical experience.

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Summer songs and madrigals
Jubilate summer concert in Iffley, 26th June 2021     

​John BENNET (c.1575-?) All creatures now
Orlando GIBBONS (1583-1625) The silver swan
Jacques ARCADELT (1507-68) Il dolce e bianco cigno
Thomas VAUTOR (fl.1592-1619) Sweet Suffolk owl
John FARMER (c.1570-?) Fair Phyllis
Thomas MORLEY (1558-1602) My bonny lass she smileth
John WILBYE (1574-1638) Weep, weep mine eyes
Charles Villiers STANFORD (1852-1924) The Blue Bird
Arthur SULLIVAN (1842-1900) The long day closes
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) Rest
Moses HOGAN (1957-2003) Hear my prayer
James POTTER (b.1989) Shenandoah
Samuel BARBER (1910-1981) Sure on this shining night
Robert Lucas de PEARSALL (1795-1856) Lay a garland
James Morley POTTER As time goes by
Burke Ave Maria         

For a few weeks in the summer we were able to sing in a beautiful Oxfordshire garden, thanks to the generosity of one of our members. This is Peter Street's sketch of our summer concert of songs and madrigals, which was performed on a balmy summer evening  to an invited audience. We were joined by the cooing of doves, the vibrant song of the blackbird, and the tolling (almost on key) of the church bell

sketch by Peter Street