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2021-09-08 09:35:53
Oxford Bach Choir launches 125th Anniversary Season with online performance of Duruflé’s Requiem
Oxford Bach Choir is celebrating its 125th Anniversary Season beginning with a performance of Duruflé’s Requiem which will be performed in the Sheldonian Theatre and streamed on-line. On Sunday 19 September 2021, Benjamin Nicholas will conduct the Oxford Bach Choir in Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem (written in 1947) with Lila Chrisp (mezzo-soprano), Ben Davies (bass), Rebecca McNaught (cello) and Robert Quinney (organ). The work will be paired with Gabriel Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, and Oxford University Professor of Poetry, Alice Oswald, who will read poems and speak about the experiences of the pandemic. In an era when we are re-evaluating how works of art come to be created, the Requiem has an intriguing history. Maurice Duruflé was among French composers commissioned in May 1941 by the collaborationist Vichy regime to write extended works for a monetary award, he decided on a Requiem but was still working on it when the regime collapsed in 1944. However, when Duruflé complete […]
2021-03-24 02:00:00
Nicholas Maw - Violin Concerto and more
[…] Norrington marshals the LPO in assured, colouristically aware fashion and the recording does full justice to the enterprise. The Maw is a concerto that embraces its historical lineage without being shackled by it. If you admire the Berg, Barber, Walton and Prokofiev concertos, and like orchestration that is both luminous and pulsing then this is the work for you.(MusicWeb review) You can read more reviews here Hymnus Little Concert Shahnama Nicholas Daniel oboe Oxford Bach Choir BBC Concert Orchestra Britten Sinfonia Nicholas Cleobury ASV 1999 J. Rodrigo Junto al Generalife A. Tansman Scriabin Variations N. Maw Music of Memory M. Ponce Sonata Romántica Marcyn Dylla guitar Naxos 2008 La Vita Nuova Ghost Dances Roman Canticle 20th Century Consort Carmen Pelton soprano William Sharp baritone Christopher Kendall ASV 1997 Nicholas Maw Scenes and Arias Anthony Milner Roman Spring Salutatio […]
2019-12-03 12:58:14
The Oxford connection: Elgar's Dream of Gerontius based on the writings of the recently canonised John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman in May 1890 John Henry Newman was canonised by Pope Francis on 13 October 2019. An important, and controversial, figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century, he is best known to musicians because his 1865 poem The Dream of Gerontius formed the basis for Edward Elgar's 1900 oratorio of the same name. And in fact, I suspect that far more people know Newman's text via Elgar than those who have read the full text. Intriguingly Dvorak had considered using Newman's text for an oratorio 15 years earlier, one wonders what that might have been like.Rather appropriately, Oxford Bach Choir is beginning its 2019/20 season on Sunday 8 December 2019 with a performance of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius in the Sheldonian Theatre, conducted by Benjamin Nicholas with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and soloists Kathryn Rudge, Ed Lyon and Roderick Williams.Newman had strong links […]
2018-11-17 21:34:00
Hubert Parry : Songs of Farewell - Quinney, New College Choir, Oxford
[…] appears in “At the round Earth's imagin'd corners”, to a text by John Donne, the vocal setting radiant, voices subtly and beautifully parted. “Lord let me know mine End” is poignant, given that by 1918, Parry's health was declining. He didn't live to hear the Songs of Farewell performed as a group at a memorial concert in his honour, at Exeter College Chapel with the combined choirs of New College, Christ Church and the Oxford Bach Choir, under Hugh Allen, Parry's friend and successor at the Royal College of Music. As a bonus, Parry's Toccata and Fugue for organ in G major and E minor, from 1912, written for an organist who lost his right arm in battle in 1917 but survived. When Hugh Allen performed it at New College a few years later, he played with one arm tied behind his back. In this “intense, […]
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