Vigil: Music of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Saturday 26th March 2022, St. John the Evangelist Church, Oxford

The music of the Eastern Orthodox church enjoyed a major revival in the 19th and 20th centuries, typified by the success of Rachmaninov's famous All-Night Vigil.

JUBILATE presented a concert of this sonorous and profoundly beautiful music, with selections from All-Night Vigil music by Gretchaninov, Chesnokov and Tchaikovsky, alongside pieces by John Tavener, who drew on this rich style for the sublime Song for Athene.
Seeds of love: British Folksongs
Saturday 18th June 2022, The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford
Twentieth and twenty-first century British composers delight in exploring their rich folk heritage. A concert celebrating them cannot ignore Vaughan Williams’ contributions, nor Britten’s highly imaginative Flower Songs. Holst’s choral folksong arrangements are an under-recognised gem, and MacMillan’s The Gallant Weaver represents the Scottish composer at his most sumptuous.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five English Folksongs
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Turtle Dove
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Bushes and Briars
James Macmillan: The Gallant Weaver

Gustav Holst: Six Choral Folksongs
Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs
​Angels and Archangels - Music and carols for Christmas
Friday 9 December 2022, ​Keble College Chapel, Oxford

Jubilate's Christmas concert in the beautiful and resonant chapel of Keble College is always a highlight of the season. This year we celebrated angels in all their manifestations - watchful, beatific, splendid, terrifying and mysterious. The programme included music from the Renaissance to the 21st century, including Jonathan Harvey's "The Angels" the words of which were the inspiration for the evening's theme:

Should you hear them singing among stars
or whispering secrets of a wiser world,
do not imagine ardent, fledging children;
they are intelligences old as sunrise
- John V Taylor
Organist Simon Hogan thrilled us all with a stunning performance of Les Anges from Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur and the audience joined the choir for a moving and memorable rendering of Gillian Weir's My Guardian Angel.