The Time of Snow

Seasonal choral music from the 20th century, including Britten's Ceremony of Carols  with harp solo, Poulenc's Un soir de neige and an array of Ave Maria settings.

Director: Oliver Walker
Harp: Lucy Nolan

Programme:
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols 
Audience Carol: Of the Father's Heart
Harp solo
Victoria: Ave Maria 
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditsye dyevo
Audience Carol: The First Nowell
​Interval
Britten: A hymn to the Virgin
Poulenc: Un Soir de Neige
Audience Carol: O little town of Bethlehem
Stravinsky: Ave Maria
Todd: Ave Maria
Chilcott: The Time of Snow
Audience Carol: O Come all ye faithful
Chilcott: We wish you a Merry Christmas
Friday 12th December 2025 7.30 pm
Keble College Chapel

30th Anniversary Celebration
My spirit sang all day!


​In August 2025, we went to Shrewsbury to celebrate our 30th anniversary, and our two years working with Helen Smee, with a joyful concert of many of our all-time favourites:  Byrd Sing Joyfully, Shearing Shakespeare Songs and Sonnets, a selection of English and American folk songs, along with pieces by Parry, Finzi, Britten and Hadley. We were made welcome in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in the centre of Shrewsbury, with its marvellous collection of stained glass and stunning 15th century carved oak ceiling.

Programme
trad. Shaker Give good gifts
Finzi My spirit sang all day
Shearing Live with me and be my love
Britten The evening primrose
Byrd Sing joyfully
Shearing When daffodils begin to peer
Vaughan Williams Antiphon
Shearing It was a lover and his lass
trad. Now is the cool of the day
Hadley My beloved spake
Shearing Spring
Finzi Magnificat
Shearing Who is Sylvia
trad. Shaker Followers of the Lamb
Shearing Fie on singul fantasy
Whitbourn Give us the wings of faith
Shearing Hey, ho, the wind and the rain
Parry My soul, there is a country
Forrest Good night, dear heart
Copland I bought me a cat

Hallelujah Junction: Brahms, Adams and Dove



Johannes Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Jonathan Dove The Passing of the Year
John Adams Hallelujah Junction

Lush Romanticism met pared-back Minimalism in a genre-bending junction of music for two pianos and choir, featuring two of Oxford’s finest pianists. 
 
As part of Somerville College's Festival of the Piano, JUBILATE welcomed pianists Ian Tindale and Sam Mitchell to present seminal works for chorus and pianos, in a rare opportunity to hear Jonathan Dove's The Passing of the Year and Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem in their two-piano, four-hands versions. The programme was rounded off with John Adams' extraordinary journey for two solo pianos, Hallelujah Junction. 

Saturday 21 June 2025, 7.30 pm
Somerville College Chapel
The Song Sung True - 30th Anniversary Concert

We celebrated 30 years at the heart of Oxford's choral scene with a programme as varied and rich as the choir's history.

The Song Sung True explored some of our favourite repertoire from the last three decades, culminating in Bach's masterpiece, Singet dem Herrn. William Walton's Jubilate Deo made a fitting start to an evening which celebrated the joy of singing together, taking in old favourites and little-known contemporary gems along the way.

Our programme also included:

William Walton: Jubilate Deo
Thomas Weelkes: Gloria in excelsis
Judith Weir: The song sung true
Thomas Tallis: Laudate Dominum
Herbert Howells: Jubilate Deo, St Peter ad Vincula
Heinrich Schütz: Jauchzet dem Herren 
Francis Poulenc: Exultate Deo 
Claudio Monteverdi: Lauda Jerusalem 
David Bednall: Everyone sang
Gerald Finzi: My spirit sang all day 
Benjamin Britten: The evening primrose (No. 4 from Five Flower Songs) 
William Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis 
James MacMillan: The gallant weaver 
J.S. Bach: Singet dem Herrn

Saturday 22nd March 2025, 7.30 pm
​Christ Church Cathedral