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SUMMARY:Summer Concert May 2023
DESCRIPTION:  \nLiszt – Missa Choralis\nDvořák – Six Moravian SongsTchaikovsky – Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (movements 1 & 13)\nClara Schumann – Abendfeier in VenedigBortniansky – Cherubic Hymn (no.7)\nBrahms – Geistliches Lied (soloists)Brahms – In Stiller Nacht (soloists)\nLiszt – Ad nos ad salutarem undam (finale) (Julian Littlewood\, organ)Liszt – Appassionata (Julian Littlewood\, piano)\n\nConcert programme\n\n\n \n\nAbout this concert:\nSCS’s Music Director\, Duncan Saunderson\, writes: \nMissa Choralis (1865) shows a different side to the piano virtuoso Liszt and was written in Rome while taking holy orders and studying Palestrina and Gregorian chant. \nDvořák’s Six Moravian Songs helped launch his international career as a composer. The influential Brahms rated them highly to a publisher: ‘You will find pleasure in them as I did\, and as a publisher you will be especially delighted in the piquancy’. \nTchaikovsky’s masterpiece Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (1878) was first performed in the University Church\, Kyiv. The 5th century Archbishop of Constantinople’s Liturgy was the most celebrated divine liturgy in the Byzantine Rite\, and considered by Tchaikovsky as ‘one of the greatest productions of art …it is impossible not to be profoundly moved’. \nClara Schumann has been described as one of the most influential women in musical history. Venetian Vespers is one of her simple but beautiful unaccompanied partsongs. \nThe Russian Ukrainian composer Dmitry Bortniansky (1752 – 1825) has been described as ‘The Father of Ukrainian Music’. Cherubic Hymn is also from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. \nSCS will be joined by soloists Emma and Kate Ashby (members of the world-renowned early music ensemble Stile Antico)\, Ben Durrant (a member of The BBC Singers\, arguably the most versatile chamber choir in the world!) and Oxford’s superb baritone\, Dan Tate. \nAnd SCS’s accompanist\, Julian Littlewood\, writes about the pieces he will be playing: \nThe two solo keyboard works show different sides of Liszt the virtuoso. We hear the rousing finale to Ad nos\, ad salutarem undam\, a stirring organ composition with the same scale and ambition as his B-minor sonata\, using similar techniques of thematic transformation on its source chorale. The F-minor Transcendental Study Appassionata shows Liszt at his most polished – progressively honed over almost 30 years of performance between first publication and final revision. \nEarly booking is essential! \n 
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/summer-concert-may-2023/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Handel and Haydn
DESCRIPTION:[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] \n\nConcert programme\nIn late August 2022\, Duncan Saunderson\, our Music Director\, sent the following email to all SCS choir members: \nThis concert includes some of my favourite music to sing and conduct. Haydn’s fabulous Nelson Mass (or Missa in Angustiis – Mass for troubled Times) has been described as arguably his greatest work. The title refers to the havoc Napoleon was creating in Europe\, with Vienna under direct threat. At the time of writing\, Nelson landed a stunning victory over Napoleon on the Nile\, with its vital trade routes to Britain. The timing\, and Nelson’s subsequent meeting with Haydn in Esterhazy\, led to the nickname ‘The Nelson Mass’. \nI’ve been singing Handel’s sublime Coronation Anthems for almost 40 years\, and lucky enough to have sung them to the Queen twice. The first occasion in 1984 was as part of a choir of 700 music students in The Royal Albert Hall under the baton of Sir David Willcocks. (I still have an 8-sided seating plan from an old typewriter!) \nAnother time was 10 years later in The Rudolphinum\, Prague with the Choir of New College\, Oxford and The King’s Consort under Robert King. Afterwards\, when lined up to meet the Queen and the Duke (who didn’t recognise me!)\, we were so star-struck that many of us wondered who the unfamiliar face was with them. It turned out be Václav Havel\, last president of Czechoslovakia\, leader of The Velvet Revolution (the non-violent toppling of Communism in 1989) and distinguished playwright. I’ve tried to make amends for this youthful ignorance by reading some of\nhis work. He enjoyed the Handel enormously! \nWe very much hope to see you on 21 January 2023 for this glorious concert of Handel and Haydn\, and SCS\, at their best! \nBest wishes\, \nDuncan \nOn 24 January 2023\, after the performance\, Duncan sent the following message to all SCS choir members: \nDear SCS member\, \nThank you for a terrific concert on Saturday! The preparation and hard work on Thursdays always pays off. An easy rehearsal in the afternoon and a wonderful and memorable performance in the evening. \nThanks also for encouraging and nurturing a very loyal audience. They are immensely appreciated and a delight to see and talk to. \nVery happy soloists and a lovely comment from Will Anderson\, the managing director of the orchestra: \n‘I’m so glad the concert was a success – I spoke to a few people at Christ Church on Sunday who had attended and they were very complimentary about the choir!’ \nAs a nice reminder: here’s the leader and others you might recognise accompanying one of the finest countertenors in the world: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BsCf5XKatUE&ab_channel=AcademyofAncientMusic \nOn another note\, last call for Brasov chamber choir singers! Numbers are looking good and accommodation is being booked. https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/brasov-2023/ For choosing repertoire\, I’d like to draw up a cast list soon. \nEnjoy an evening off this Thursday! \nBest wishes\, \nDuncan \n[/cmsmasters_text][/cmsmasters_column][/cmsmasters_row]
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/haydn-handel/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:French Romantic Choral Music
DESCRIPTION:Concert programme\n  \n  \n\nSaint-Saëns –Requiem\nGounod – St Cecilia Mass\nVierne – Messe Solennelle (Kyrie & Gloria)\nFauré –Cantique de Jean Racine\nFranck – Panis Angelicus\nConductor: Duncan Saunderson\nSoloists: Elspeth Piggott (soprano)\, Alexander Pullinger (counter-tenor)\, Tom Kelly (tenor)\, Daniel Tate (bass)\nOrgan and piano: Julian Littlewood\nSaturday 21 May 2022\, 7:30 pm\,\nSt Andrew’s Church\, Linton Road\, Oxford OX2 6UG\nOur Music Director\, Duncan Saunderson\, writes: \nParis in the late 19th and early 20th century was a golden age of music. Many of the greatest French composers were outstanding organists: Fauré and Saint-Saëns worked at L’église de la Madeleine; Vierne was assistant to Charles-Marie Widor at Saint-Sulpice before becoming organist of Notre-Dame de Paris; and the honorary Frenchman\, César Franck (born in present day Belgium)\, was organist at the Basilica of Sainte Clotilde. \nCamille Saint-Saëns was a child prodigy who grew to be acclaimed in his lifetime as the incarnation of French genius. He was a virtuoso pianist\, and declared by Liszt to be the world’s greatest organist. Writing about the Requiem\, his biographer Jacques Bonnaure noted in his 2010 book: `This unjustly neglected Requiem is perhaps the most sensitive\, imaginative\, and perfect work by the composer\, who finds here\, more than ever before\, a classical balance between form and expression\, innovation and tradition\, sophisticated compositional style and immediate effect’. \nThe great Debussy wrote that Gounod represented the essential French sensibility of his time\, and Saint-Saëns regarded his St. Cecilia Mass as one of Gounod’s finest works\, writing this after the premiere in 1855:\n`The appearance of the Messe Sainte-Cécile caused a kind of shock. This simplicity\, this grandeur\, this serene light which rose before the musical world like a breaking dawn\, troubled people enormously. … at first one was dazzled\, then charmed\, then conquered.’ \nAlong with Fauré’s Cantique and Franck’s Panis Angelicus\, this Parisian programme of French music at its best\, with its luscious\, almost impressionistic harmonies\, beautiful soaring vocal lines and dazzling organ writing\, will be a joy to hear! \n 
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/french-music/
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220129T193000
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SUMMARY:Handel Messiah
DESCRIPTION:[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text]\nDownload the concert programme by clicking here\nMessiah\nHandel\nSaturday 29 January 2022 with Instruments of Time and Truth\nConductor: Duncan Saunderson\nElspeth Piggott (soprano)\, Mercè Bruguera Abelló (mezzo soprano)\, Tom Kelly (tenor)\, Daniel Tate (Bass) \nSince its first performance in Dublin in 1741\, Handel’s Messiah has remained incredibly popular\, with performances and recordings all over the world. \nIt has been 10 years since Summertown Choral Society performed it. The choruses are a fantastic vocal ‘workout’\, and there is nothing more exhilarating than singing these wonderfully varied choruses in between the beautiful arias with top professional soloists and instrumentalists. \nOur Musical Director\, Duncan\, knows the work inside out\, having sung it countless times\, as both an alto and a bass\, in the UK and on tour across Europe\, in recording with The Choir of New College\, Oxford and The Academy of Ancient Music\, in Paris with The Tallis Chamber Choir under Sir Jeffrey Tate\, in Barcelona with Instruments of Time and Truth under Edward Higginbottom\, across Spain with The Choir of the King’s Consort under Robert King\, with Norwich Cathedral Choir\, and many annual performances with The Choir of St. Bride’s\, Fleet Street\, under Robert Jones\, a long-standing member of The Tallis Scholars. \nDuncan writes: “Conducting Messiah with Summertown Choral Society and period instruments to a packed house in 2011 was a fabulous experience for me\, and\, after the last year and a half\, I can’t think of a better time to come together\, blow away the cobwebs and get our teeth into it. My only difficulty will be keeping my mouth shut during the singing!” \nTickets £15\, under 16s free (but need a ticket).\n\n[/cmsmasters_text][/cmsmasters_column][/cmsmasters_row]
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/handel-messiah-2022/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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SUMMARY:Bach: B Minor Mass
DESCRIPTION:For a preview of this concert and to see what our musical director\, Duncan Saunderson\, had to say about performing this piece\, click here for an article published by OxInTheBox.\nSaturday 1 February\, 7.30pm\, St Andrew’s Church\, Linton Road\, Oxford OX2 6UG\nTickets £12\nSoloists are Helen Ashby and Kate Ashby\, sopranos; Tom Kelly\, tenor; Tom Lowen\, bass; and the internationally renowned countertenor\, Robin Blaze.\nThe Mass in B minor is Bach’s only complete setting of the Mass and\, though we hear it now as one unified work standing in its own right\, Bach did not write it as such. Only towards the end of his life\, probably around 1748-9\, did he bring together earlier compositions into the one complete work. \n“I think the B minor Mass is one of the greatest pinnacles of human achievement. It still absolutely moves me to tears to hear it” ~ Douglas Adams\, author of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ \nWhen asked in 1974 what humanity should send to other civilisations in space\, the American biologist\, Lewis Thomas\, answered: “I would send the complete works of Bach… but that would be boasting” \n“From the downbeat of that first B minor chord and its anguished sequel….we have been launched on one of the most epic journeys in music” ending with “a universal plea for peace” ~ Sir John Eliot Gardiner\, conductor \n“It’s a BIG piece\, and even the best recording on CD can’t do it justice” ~ Stephen Fry\, man of words\, actor and author \nLink to Programme\nLink to Poster
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/bach-b-minor-mass/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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SUMMARY:Schubert Mass in e♭
DESCRIPTION:One Morning in Spring – Three Folksongs from Oxfordshire\nArrangement Grayston Ives (world premiere) \nIsis Chamber Orchestra \nLouise Wayman\, soprano\nStephen Burrows\, counter-tenor\nEdward Woodhouse\, tenor\nJack Granby\, tenor\nJulian Littlewood\, piano
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/schubert-mass-in-e%e2%99%ad/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190209T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190209T193000
DTSTAMP:20200419T224618Z
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SUMMARY:Monteverdi Vespers (1610)
DESCRIPTION:“A wonderful sound from both orchestra and choir\, and the soloists’ voices blended beautifully.” \n“It was awe-inspiring to hear the Vespers sung by such a huge choir.” \n“The most spectacularly successful SCS event I’ve been to.” \nLink to Poster
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/monteverdi-vespers-1610/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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SUMMARY:In Praise of Song: A Parry Anniversary Concert
DESCRIPTION:Parry: five part songs\nHome of my heart\nO love\, they wrong thee much\nCome pretty wag and sing\nIn praise of song\nSince thou\, O fondest \nWalter Parratt: Tears for the good and true \nParry: Put off\, O Jerusalem\, the garment of thy mourning (final chorus from /Judith \nVaughan Williams: Te Deum in G \nStanford: If ye then be risen with Christ \nPurcell: My beloved spake\, My Heart is Inditing\, and Chaconne in G minor for strings \nBorn into East India Company wealth and educated at Eton and Oxford\, Parry is commonly seen as an establishment figure. However\, he was a humanist liberal\, happier that his “Jerusalem” was used by the women’s suffrage movement than the patriotic “Right to Fight” movement of 1915. \nAll the part songs performed at this concert have an Oxford connection. One was written for a 1904 Oxford Festival and four were dedicated to Walter Parratt\, who succeeded Parry as Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University. Parratt was also organist of Magdalen College Chapel\, President of the Oxford University Chess Club and could play Bach’s forty-eight Preludes and Fugues from memory aged ten! Parry’s famous hymn “Repton” (“Dear Lord and Father”) started life as an alto solo in his wonderful oratorio Judith. \nVaughan Williams\, one of Parry’s distinguished pupils\, wrote his splendid Te Deum in G for the enthronement of Cosmo Lang as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1928. Purcell was appointed “Composer in Ordinary to the Violins” and his string music is sublime. These royal violins were modelled on the famous French court orchestra. Alongside the glorious “Chaconne”\, “My Beloved Spake”\, with its lovely references to Spring\, must be one of his most delightful pieces. The magnificent coronation anthem “My Heart is Inditing”\, with its eight soloists\, is so harmonically interesting there is even an early use of the “Jimi Hendrix chord” more associated with blues and rock! \nA few of Stanford’s forty-eight Preludes that were his homage to Bach completed this fascinating concert of English music. Stanford was an academic colleague of Parry’s and described him as the greatest English composer since Purcell. \nLink to poster and programme
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/in-praise-of-song-a-parry-anniversary-concert/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180203T193000
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SUMMARY:Handel: Israel in Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Duncan Saunderson\, conductor \nInstruments of Time and Truth \nHelen Ashby\, soprano\nKate Ashby\, soprano\nAlexander Pullinger\, countertenor\nDaniel Norman\, tenor\nBrian McAlea\, bass\nDaniel Tate\, bass\n\n\n\n  \n\n“Handel understands effect better than any of us; when he chooses\, he strikes like a thunderbolt.” (W.A. Mozart) \nMozart’s words are no better demonstrated than in Handel’s magnificent oratorio Israel in Egypt. It soon stood alongside Messiah as one of England’s favourite choral treasures. Choruses and solos of frogs\, pestilence\, hailstones\, darkness\, insects\, fire and violent smiting contain some of his greatest writing. \nFor this concert\, SCS were joined once again by Oxford’s period instrument ensemble Instruments of Time and Truth\, and another distinguished line up of soloists including the international tenor Daniel Norman. Handel’s majestic ‘Zadok the Priest’ provided a fitting encore to conclude a magnificent evening!
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/handel-israel-in-egypt/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170610T193000
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SUMMARY:Puccini: Messa di Gloria
DESCRIPTION:Duncan Saunderson\, conductor \nLouise Wayman\, soprano\nBen Alden\, tenor\nDaniel Tate\, baritone\nJulian Littlewood\, piano\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nFor our summer concert in 2017\, Summertown Choral Society was joined by some of the finest young soloists in the country for an evening of music by operatic composers – an opportunity for the audience to close their eyes and think of La Scala\, Milan\, the Staatskapelle\, Weimar\, the Salle Herz\, Paris\, Salzburg Cathedral\, or the valleys of Wales\, and ponder Mozart’s line from a letter of 1782: ‘Opera to me comes before anything else.’ \nPuccini’s Messa di Gloria\, composed as his graduation thesis when he was 18\, was a resounding success with audience and critics alike. It is unashamedly operatic in parts\, and Puccini even re-used some of its themes in his operas Manon Lescaut and Edgar. \nWagner’s ‘Bridal Chorus’ (Lohengrin) and Berlioz’s ‘L’Adieu des Bergers’ (L’Enfance du Christ)\, better known as a wedding organ voluntary and ‘The Shepherds’ Farewell’\, will be performed in their original languages\, along with Verdi’s ‘Va\, Pensiero’ (Nabucco). Dido’s Lament and the following chorus ‘With drooping wings’ come from Dido and Aeneas\, one of the earliest operas in English and Purcell’s only true opera. The three exquisite Mozart soprano solos with chorus come from Idomeneo\, Vesperae solennes de confessore (K339)\, and the Coronation Mass (K317)\, the Agnus Dei of which has been described as the prototype of the Countess’s aria ‘Dove Sono’ from Le nozze di Figaro. \nHaving left school at the age of 9 unable to read or write\, the extraordinary composer Joseph Parry eventually graduated from Cambridge with a doctorate and became the first Professor of Music at Aberystwyth University. He was also the first Welshman to write an opera. The programme for this concert included his ‘Y Cychod ar yr Afon’\, sung in Welsh. \nLink to Poster
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/puccini-messa-di-gloria/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170204T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170204T193000
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SUMMARY:Bach and Buxtehude
DESCRIPTION:Duncan Saunderson\, conductor \nInstruments of Time and Truth \nLouise Wayman\, soprano\nAlexander Chance\, countertenor\nHugo Hymas\, tenor\nBrian McAlea\, bass\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nAfter January 2016’s sell-out concert featuring the first half of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio\, Summertown Choral Society performed the second half of this lovely work\, originally written for the new year up to Epiphany in 1735\, in February 2017. Once again\, we were joined by baroque specialists Instruments of Time and Truth and by four of the UK’s finest young soloists\, including Louise Wayman (soprano) and Alexander Chance (countertenor). \n‘Lobet den Herrn’ (‘Praise the Lord\, all ye nations’) is one of Bach’s famous set of six motets and represents four-part choral writing at its best. Completing the programme was ‘Ad ubera portabimini’ from Buxtehude’s extraordinary collection of cantatas Membra Jesu nostri (‘The limbs of our Jesus’). Bach walked 260 miles from Arnstadt to Lobeck to meet the Danish-German Buxtehude and to hear him play; we were delighted that many journeyed from all around to enjoy our performance of these two composers’ wonderful music.
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/bach-and-buxtehude/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160604T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160604T193000
DTSTAMP:20200419T230540Z
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SUMMARY:Haydn: Spring and Summer
DESCRIPTION:Duncan Saunderson\, conductor \nLouise Wayman\, soprano\nBenjamin Durrant\, tenor\nBrian McAlea\, bass\nJulian Littlewood\, piano \nFull programme\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nHaydn’s The Seasons\, first performed in 1810\, has a libretto based on a poem by the Scottish poet James Thomson. Composed at the age of seventy\, the wonderfully exuberant and humorous music is Haydn at his best. A ploughman whistling the famous theme from Haydn’s ‘Surprise’ Symphony\, a calling quail\, chirping crickets and croaking frogs are all part of a beautiful outdoor musical tapestry describing two of the loveliest seasons. \nThe Hungarian twentieth century musical giant Béla Bartók wrote his Four Slovak Songs between 1910 and 1917. Like Vaughan Williams\, he was passionate about collecting folk songs. After overhearing a Transylvanian nanny singing\, he collected folk music across Eastern Europe and even in Algeria. There are two uplifting dancing songs\, a hay making song and a curious wedding ‘lament’ about a girl sent to another country to marry a bad man. She comes back to her mother as a blackbird with a beautiful sad song. \nAntonín Dvořák was hailed in Britain and the USA. He was influenced by the folk music of Moravia and Bohemia. His Songs of Nature are rustic but highly sophisticated and describe evening bells ringing\, new life in the rye fields\, songs coming from us like the early morning dew\, and people in cities longing for nature. \n‘Praise the Lord in Heaven’ is by the late nineteenth century Russian composer Anton Arensky\, who was influenced by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. This short seven voice motet is strikingly beautiful. Arensky’s other claim to fame is having an Antarctic glacier named after him in 1987!
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/haydn-spring-and-summer/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160130T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160130T193000
DTSTAMP:20200419T230612Z
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SUMMARY:Baroque Splendour
DESCRIPTION:Duncan Saunderson\, conductor\nThe Instruments of Time and Truth\nLouise Wayman\, soprano\nAlexander Chance\, countertenor\nTom Kelly\, tenor\nBrian McAlea\, bass\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThe Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) is a series of cantatas originally written to be performed in the two most important churches in Leipzig on six different days between Christmas 1734 and the feast of Epiphany in 1735. It incorporates some of the finest movements of several secular cantatas that Bach had already written as birthday or other celebrations. (This performance featured cantatas 1-3 only; cantatas 4-6 will be performed at our concert in January 2017). \n‘Nisi Dominus’\, a magnificent polyphonic setting for ten voices of Psalm 127\, is from Monteverdi’s grand masterpiece\, the Vespers of 1610. \n‘Plorate filii Israel’ is from Historia di Jephte\, Carissimi’s most widely known oratorio. The work dramatizes the Old Testament tale of Jephthah\, a warrior of Gilead who is forced to sacrifice his only daughter to God in recompense for his victory over the Ammonites. The scholar Athanasius Kircher wrote in 1650 of this chorus that it was composed ‘with such skill that you would swear you could hear their sobbings and lamentations’. \nLink to Poster
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/baroque-splendour/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150606T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150606T193000
DTSTAMP:20200419T230650Z
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SUMMARY:Schubert\, Mozart\, Handel and Verdi
DESCRIPTION:  \nJulian Littlewood\, piano \nDuncan Saunderson\, conductor \nLouise Wayman\, soprano \nAlex Pullinger\, countertenor \nBen Durrant\, tenor \nTom Edwards\, bass \nthe Summertown Players\, \nand Summertown Choral Society \n\nPerforming: \n\nMozart: Coronation Mass \nHandel: Israel in Egypt \n~ \nSchubert: Mass in G \nSchubert: Impromptu in G Major (Julian Littlewood) \nVerdi: Chorus of Scottish Refugees \nVerdi: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves \n  \n\n\nSummertown Choral Society’s Summer concert included two popular masses\, as well as Handel and Verdi choruses. The Krönungsmesse (Coronation Mass in C Major\, KV 317)\, was so called because it was first performed either for Francis I of Austria or Leopold II in Prague\, is one of the most popular of Mozart’s 17 Mass settings\, composed in 1779. It is famous for the Agnus Dei\, one of Mozart’s most sublime sacred soprano solos. Schubert’s Mass in G was written in a week at the age of 18. His genius for melody\, through simplicity\, is evident and the Mass has become one of his most popular sacred works. \nHandel’s Israel in Egypt\, by contrast\, is a mature work. The choir sang the extraordinarily graphic plague sequence of frogs\, insects and darkness visited upon the Egyptians for their treatment of the Israelites in Egypt. Despite the subject\, the music is Handel at his most uplifting and majestic. Verdi’s Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco and Chorus of Scottish Refugees from Macbeth are two of his most beautiful and enduring short works. Both have the theme of the plight of an oppressed country and its people. \n“…that was one of the best concerts we have been to – including Oxford Phil with Ashkenazy on Friday! Many thanks…I particularly enjoyed the two Masses & Va Pensiero.” \n\n\n\nLink to Poster \n\n\n\nPhotos\nRehearsal:
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/schubert-mozart-handel-and-verdi/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150207T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150207T193000
DTSTAMP:20200419T230726Z
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SUMMARY:Gioachino Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle
DESCRIPTION:Winter Concert: Saturday 7th February 2015.\nGioachino Rossini \n\nPetite Messe Solennelle\n \n\nJulian Littlewood\, piano \nNicolas Haigh\, harmonium \nLouise Wayman\, soprano \nAlex Pullinger\, counter-tenor \nGuy Cutting\, tenor \nBrian McAlea\, bass \nDuncan Saunderson\, conductor \nand Summertown Choral Society \n\nO Salutaris Hostia \nSummertown Choral Society \nGiacomo Meyerbeer \nPater Noster \nSummertown Choral Society \nRossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle\, written around 1863\, is neither short nor solemn. It is so called because of its economy of scale\, with the orchestra banished\, and its formality of a sung Mass. However\, Rossini was the greatest writer of comic opera and his humour and gift for melody is present on every page. The German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer has been described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the 19th century. A friend of Rossini’s\, he attended the first two performances of the Messe and was greatly affected. His beautiful but under performed Pater Noster was written in 1857\, the same year Rossini’s extremely charming motet O Salutaris Hostia was written. \nSummertown Choral Society was joined by piano\, harmonium and four soloists including the tenor Guy Cutting\, the first recipient of the highly prestigious Jeffrey Thomas American Bach Soloists Award.
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/gioachino-rossini-petite-messe-solennelle/
LOCATION:St Michael and All Angels Church\, Lonsdale Road\, Oxford\, OX2 7ES\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140208T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140208T193000
DTSTAMP:20200419T232009Z
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SUMMARY:Haydn & Purcell
DESCRIPTION:[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuncan Saunderson conductor \nLouise Wayman and Laura Ashby\, sopranos\nStephen Burrows and Alexander Chance\, countertenors\nTom Kelly and Alex Clissold-Jones\, tenors\nPatrick Edmond\, bass \nwith the Summertown Players\, on period instruments. \nFull programme \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExcerpts\n\n(From Haydn’s Nelson Mass) \nhttps://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DonaNobisPacem.mp3 \nhttps://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/etVitam.mp3 \nfrom the Credo in unum Deum \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/cmsmasters_text][/cmsmasters_column][/cmsmasters_row]
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/haydn-purcell/
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130615T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130615T193000
DTSTAMP:20200419T235618Z
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SUMMARY:Murder\, Morse & Mozart
DESCRIPTION:Duncan Saunderson conductor \nSarah Dacey\, soprano\nDaniel Laking\, countertenor\nDavid Lee\, tenor\nTom Edwards\, bass\nJulian Littlewood\, piano & organ \nwith the Summertown Players \nFull programme \n“Absolutely fantastic! It was great to hear such a wide range of music sung by such a good choir. The requiem and Dyson in D were particularly excellent” \nFeaturing: \nMozart: Requiem\nBruce Montgomery: Spring the Sweet Spring\,\nFull Fathom Five\, My Joy\, My Life\, My Crown!\nD. L. Sayers: I’ve got a Little List\nHerbert Howells: St. Hugh’s Galliard\nGeorge Dyson: Revielle\nFranz Schubert: An die Musik\nGeoffrey Bush: ‘Prelude’ and ‘Sicilienne’ from Suite Champetre\nGeorge Dyson: Evening Service in D\nCharles Wood: Expectans Expectavi\nA. L. Peace: Hymn 699: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go \nExcerpts\nhttps://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/JoyLifeCrown.mp3 \nMy Joy\, My Life\, My Crown! \nFinal rehearsal at St. Barnabas Church. \n  \n…in the beautiful St. Barnabas Church. \n  \nHalfway through an excellent performance… \n  \n…in a really rather pretty Venetian-themed church… \n  \n..that was very well received by those who attended! \nWith thanks to Tom Newport & Lisa Mövius.
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/murder-morse-mozart/
LOCATION:St. Barnabas Church\, St Barnabas St\, Oxford\, OX2 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130202T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130202T193000
DTSTAMP:20200427T031109Z
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SUMMARY:Bach's St. John Passion
DESCRIPTION:Bach’s St. John Passion \nDuncan Saunderson conductor \nEmma Kirkby\, soprano\nChristopher Watson\, tenor\nStephen Burrows\, countertenor\nDavid Lee\, tenor\nTom Edwards\, bass\nGeorge Coltart\, bass \nwith the Summertown Players\non period instruments\, led by Simon Jones \nFull programme \n“A tour de force! Well\, what can I say? It was amazing\, wonderful\, especially the second part. I really had not expected anything like that and I wish I could sing!” \nIt was indeed a memorable evening! Read an account here. \nExcerpts\n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		Hail! Lord and MasterO Mighty LoveThy Will\, O God\, be always donePeter\, with his faithless liesChrist\, whose life was as the lightO mighty King\, how marvelous Thy glory!Our Lord\, in prison cell confinedThy name\, O Lord\, is shiningSee Him in his agonyMy Lord and Master\, let me ask TheeHelp us\, Christ\, God's only sonO Jesus\, when I come to die	\n	\n	\n\n	 \n  \nPhotos\nPhotos courtesy of\, and copyright to Malcolm Chandler. \nThe final rehearsal… \n  \n…in the beautiful St. Barnabas Church. \n  \nHalfway through an excellent performance… \n  \n…very well received by the 450 people who attended! \n 
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/bachs-st-john-passion/
LOCATION:St. Barnabas Church\, St Barnabas St\, Oxford\, OX2 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20120512T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20120512T193000
DTSTAMP:20230325T141941Z
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SUMMARY:The Stanford Songs of the Sea
DESCRIPTION:“A friend took me to your concert – and what a treat… The Stanford Songs of the Sea were a joy and really suited the choir… I almost expected Duncan Saunderson to turn round and ask us all to sing…  Everyone in the choir looked happy\, well-rehearsed. My friend and I went home relaxed. Thank you all again.” \nThus wrote an appreciative audience member after our concert on May 12th\, a concert celebrating English poetry set to music. The highlight was the song cycle Frostiana\, Randall Thompson’s setting of seven of Robert Frost’s poems\, performed in its entirety for the first time to a UK audience. Featuring soloists Giles Underwood\, Inigo Jones (Head chorister\, New College Choir\, Oxford)\, Stephen Taylor\, Ben Durrant and Julian Littlewood\, the programme also included music by Britten\, Vaughan Williams\, Stanford and Finzi. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nClick for Full programme or Poster \nExcerpts from the Concert\n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		My Spirit Sang All DayChoose Something Like a StarLet All the World	\n	\n	\n\n	 \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/the-stanford-songs-of-the-sea/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20120204T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20120204T193000
DTSTAMP:20200427T050918Z
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SUMMARY:Bach's Mass in B Minor
DESCRIPTION:Bach’s Mass in B Minor \nDuncan Saunderson conductor \nHelen Ashby\, soprano\nKate Ashby\, soprano\nStephen Burrows\, countertenor\nGuy Cutting\, tenor\nGeorge Coltart\, bass \nwith the Summertown Players\non period instruments\, led by Simon Jones \nFull programme… \n\n\n\n\nClick here for Oxford Times review \nExcerpts…\n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		KyrieSanctusPleni sunt coeliDona nobis pacem
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/bachs-mass-in-b-minor/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20110702T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20110702T193000
DTSTAMP:20200427T051101Z
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SUMMARY:50th Anniversary Concert
DESCRIPTION:2 July 2011 ~ Sheldonian Theatre\n50th anniversary concert\nHandel: My Heart is Inditing\, Foundling Hospital Anthem\nMendelssohn: Ave Maria\nBrahms: movements from Ein Deutsches Requiem\nPhilip Moore: Three Oxford Songs (new commission) \nand part-songs by\nTippett\, Parry\, Brahms\, Copland and Grayston Ives \n~*~ \nDuncan Saunderson conductor \nCarys Lane soprano\, Helen Parker soprano\,\nStephen Burrows countertenor\,\nJames Gilchrist tenor\, George Coltart bass \nwith the Summertown Players led by Simon Jones \nand Julian Littlewood & Ben Holden piano \nFull Programme \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nTo celebrate their half century\, Summertown Choral Society took their audience on a journey through England’s choral tradition on Saturday night – a journey that also reflected the incredibly varied repertoire they have tackled over the years… \n…this was an interesting wander down memory lane\, and a triumphant way to mark their anniversary. \nNicola Lisle\, Oxford Times – read the full review here \n\n\n\n\nPhotos…\nPhotos courtesy of John Seymour. \nA beautiful summer’s evening at the Sheldonian \n  \nAll assembled and ready for the off… \n  \n…a triumphant performance concluded! \n 
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/50th-anniversary-concert/
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20110205T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20110205T193000
DTSTAMP:20200427T033641Z
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SUMMARY:Handel's Messiah
DESCRIPTION:Handel’s Messiah \nDuncan Saunderson conductor \nCarys Lane soprano\, Stephen Burrows countertenor\,\nBen Alden tenor\, George Coltart bass \nwith the Summertown Players\non period instruments\, led by Caroline Balding \nFull programme… \n\n\n\n\nExcerpts…\n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		Messiah - Glory To God (Handel)Messiah - Surely he hath borne our grieves (Handel)Messiah - All We Like Sheep (Handel)	\n	\n	\n\n	 \nPhotos…\nPhotos courtesy of\, and copyright to Malcolm Chandler. \n  \nFinal rehearsal – Julian at the harpsichord \n  \nTenors and basses rehearsing (and err\, not watching the conductor fully!) \n  \nThe soloists get put through their paces \n  \nEnd of the concert – Duncan and the four soloists take their applause
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/handels-messiah/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100515T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100515T193000
DTSTAMP:20200427T034243Z
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SUMMARY:Stanford\, Purcell\, Parry
DESCRIPTION:15th May 2010 ~ St. Michael’s Church\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurcell\nJehova\, quam multi sunt hostes mei\n\n\nFuneral Sentences for Queen Mary II\n\n\nThou knowest Lord\n\n\nVoluntary in G (Organ)\n\n\nStanford\nHeraclitus\n\n\nParry\nMy Delight and Thy Delight\n\n\nOde on St. Cecilia’s Day\n\n\n\nDuncan Saunderson (conductor) \nCarys Lane (soprano) Stephen Burrows (countertenor)\nGuy Cutting (tenor) Tom Edwards (bass)\nJulian Littlewood (piano & organ) \nFull programme here… \n\n\n\n\nExcerpts from the concert recording…\n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		Parry: My DelightPurcell: Thou knowest LordParry: By the streams that ever flow
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/stanford-purcell-parry/
LOCATION:St Michael and All Angels Church\, Lonsdale Road\, Oxford\, OX2 7ES\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:23rd Jan 2010 ~ St. Barnabas Church
DESCRIPTION:Monteverdi\n1610 Vespers – Deus in Adjutorium\, Ave Maris Stella\, Magnificat\n\n\nHandel\nNisi Dominus\n\n\nThe King shall rejoice\n\n\nDering\nFactum est Silentium\n\n\nHumfrey\nHear O Heavens\n\n\n\n\nDuncan Saunderson (conductor) \nSally Dunkley & Carys Lane (soprano)\nStephen Taylor (countertenor)\nGuy Cutting & Nick Hewlett (tenor)\nGeorge Coltart (bass)\nwith\nThe Summertown Players led by Janet Froomes \nFull Programme \n\nExcerpt from Monteverdi’s Vespers \n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		Monteverdi Gloria	\n	\n	\n\n	 \n  \nPhotos…\nPhotos courtesy of\, and copyright to Malcolm Chandler. \n  \nFinal rehearsal at St. Barnabas Church. \n  \nChoir one to the right… \n  \n…and choir two to the left. \n  \nStaging helps to ‘raise’ the voices! \n  \nThe concert begins \n  \nChoir up close! \n  \nThe two tenors – Guy Cutting & Nick Hewlett \n  \nThe two sopranos – Sally Dunkley & Carys Lane together with bass – George Coltart \n 
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/23rd-jan-2010-st-barnabas-church/
LOCATION:St. Barnabas Church\, St Barnabas St\, Oxford\, OX2 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090516T193000
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SUMMARY:16th May 2009 ~ St. Andrew's Church
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 16th May 2009 at 8.00pm\nSt Andrew’s Church\n\n\n\n\nMozart\nGreat Mass in C minor\n\n\nIves\nSongs of Ariel (Premiere)\n\n\nBach\nAgnus Dei from the Mass in B minor\n\n\nHaydn\nThe Heavens are Telling\n\n\n\n\nDuncan Saunderson (conductor) \nJane Sherriff & Catherine Young (soprano)\nStephen Burrows (countertenor)\nChris Watson (tenor)\nTom Edwards (bass)\nwith\nThe Summertown Players led by Janet Froomes \n\nExcerpt from Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor \n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		Mozart Mass in C	\n	\n	\n\n	 \n\nReview\nby Nicola Lisle of The Oxford Times\nSummertown Choral Society’s recent concert was something of a landmark occasion… \nIves’s settings of three songs from The Tempest … were pleasingly adventurous and evocative\, and delivered by the choir with style and flair... read more \n  \nPhotos…\nPhotos courtesy of\, and copyright to Malcolm Chandler. \nThe Venue – St Andrew’s Church \n  \nThe pre-concert rehearsal \n  \nWho’s watching the conductor?! \n  \nThrough the archway! \n  \nA glowing performance? \n  \nUp close! \n  \nMembers of the orchestra. \n  \nThe full ensemble – including soloists.
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/16th-may-2009-st-andrews-church/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090131T193000
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DTSTAMP:20200427T040255Z
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SUMMARY:31st Jan 2009 ~ St. Margaret's Church
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 31st January 2009 at 8.00pm\nSt Margaret’s Church\, North Oxford\n\n\n\n\nBrahms\nEin Deutsches Requiem\n\n\nSchubert\nThe Lord is my shepherd\n\n\nSchumann\nWidmung (arr. Saunderson)\n\n\n\n\nSusan Young (soprano)\nTom Edwards (bass)\nJulian Littlewood and Jack Ridley (piano)\nDuncan Saunderson (conductor) \nFull Programme \nPhotos…\nReady for the off – all smiles! \n  \nIn full voice \n  \nTom Edwards – bass \n  \nSusan Young – soprano \n  \nThe interval – the near sell-out audience stretch their legs \n  \nOne piano\, three people\, five hands! \n  \nFlowers for Susan\, Tom and Duncan… \n  \n…and for Julian and Jack \n 
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/31st-jan-2009-st-margarets-church/
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080517T193000
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DTSTAMP:20200427T040606Z
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SUMMARY:17th May 2008 ~ St. Andrew's Church
DESCRIPTION:Handel\nChandos Anthem No 9\n\n\nHaydn\nSpring\, from The Seasons\n\n\nBritten\nFive Flower Songs\n\n\n\nSusan Piggott (soprano)\nStephen Taylor (countertenor)\nNick Hewlett (tenor)\nTom Edwards (bass)\nThe Summertown Players \nWith Julian Littlewood on harpsichord and piano \nFull Programme… \nConcert recordings\n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		BrittenGod of Light
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/17th-may-2008-st-andrews-church/
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Church\, Oxford\, Linton Rd\, Oxford\, OX2 6UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080119T193000
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SUMMARY:19th Jan 2008 ~ St. Margaret's Church
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 19th January 2008\nSt Margaret’s Church\, North Oxford \n\n\n\nHaydn\nWinter (from The Seasons)\n\n\nWalton\nJubilate\n\n\nBritten\nTe Deum in C\n\n\nMendelssohn\nVerleih uns Frieden\n\n\nBrahms\nGeistliches Lied\n\n\n\nKate Ashby (soprano)\nDaniel Turner (tenor)\nTom Edwards (bass) \nWith Julian Littlewood on organ and piano \nConcert review\n“First up was Britten’s Te Deum in C major\, delivered with confidence and eloquence by the choir\, under the measured control of conductor Duncan Saunderson … Finally\, there was a joyful rendition of Walton’s Jubilate Deo\, which brought the evening to a magnificent and uplifting close.” \nYou can read the rest of the review of this concert on the Oxford Times website. \nConcert recordings\n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		Britten - Te Deum in CMendelssohn - Verleih' uns FriBrahms - Geistliches Lied
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/19th-jan-2008-st-margarets-church/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070519T193000
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SUMMARY:19th May 2007 ~ St. Barnabus Church
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 19th May 2007\, 8pm\nSt Barnabas Church\, Jericho\, North Oxford \nMozart Ave Verum Corpus\nStravinski Mass\nStravinski Pater Noster\nTavener Funeral Ikos\nMozart Laudate Dominum\nPearsall Requiem\nPearsall O who will o’er the downs so free\nPitoni Cantate Domino \nHelen Ashby (soprano)\nStephen Taylor (alto)\nAlastair Putt (tenor)\nTom Edwards (bass) \nWith Summertown Players \n\nProgramme Notes \nOur programme this evening covers three centuries of church music from the late 17th to the late 20th centuries\, drawing on earlier traditions of polyphonic choral writing and the sacred music of the Orthodox church. In the first part\, works by Stravinsky and Tavener evoke the Orthodox tradition\, in the appropriate setting of a mid-Victorian church echoing the apse and decorative murals of a Byzantine basilica. In the second part of the programme the main work by the Victorian English composer Pearsall looks back to renaissance polyphony. Short works by Mozart\, Pearsall and the Italian 17th/18th century composer Pitoni open and close the programme. \n  \nMozart: Ave verum corpus\, Laudate Dominum \nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is not considered primarily as a composer of sacred music\, but these two pieces\, both sacred\, are among his best known minor works\, and both reveal a reverence which is perhaps unexpected in Mozart. \nThe motet Ave verum corpus was written in June 1791\, six months before his death in Vienna\, at the request of Anton Stoll\, choirmaster of the church at Baden. The text\, dating from the 14th century\, occurs at a central point in the Catholic Mass\, and has been set to music by several composers. \nPsalm 117 Laudate Dominum is one of six psalms used in the evening service of Vesperae solennes de confessore. Mozart wrote this setting\, for soprano solo and chorus\, in 1780 during one of the intermittent periods of paid employment of his somewhat turbulent life\, when he was organist at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg from 1779 to 1781. \nStravinsky: Mass\, Pater Noster \nIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born near St Petersburg in 1882 and died in New York in 1971. Though he took a law degree at St Petersburg in 1907\, his enthusiasm was for music and in 1902 he had begun studying musical composition under Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1910\, following a visit to Paris for the first performance of his ballet The Firebird\, he moved to Switzerland. The First World War and the Russian Revolution precluded his return to Russia\, and in 1920 he moved to France taking citizenship in 1934. At the start of the Second World War he was in the United States\, and there he remained taking citizenship in 1945 and making it his home for the rest of his life.\nStravinsky’s work covers the whole range of musical form: opera and ballet\, orchestral and instrumental works\, songs and chamber music\, and choral and religious works. His musical style\, as characterised by the scholars\, developed from his Russian period\, up to the early 1920s when he moved to France\, to the Neo-Classical period\, and finally in the early 1950s to his Serial period\, which built on Schoenberg’s twelve-note chromatic system. Pervading characteristics of his writing are dissonance and irregular rhythm\, and these feature strongly in his Mass.\nStravinsky was a deeply religious man\, brought up in the Russian Orthodox Church\, but strongly influenced by the Roman Catholic faith of his father. His Mass\, written during the years 1944 to 1948 and first performed in Milan in 1948 and then in New York in 1949\, was (in his own words) “partly provoked by some Masses of Mozart ….. As I played through these rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin\, I knew I had to write a Mass of my own\, but a real one”\, and “I wanted my Mass to be used liturgically\, an outright impossibility as far as the Russian Church was concerned\, as Orthodox tradition proscribes musical instruments in its services”. \nThe Mass is scored for chorus and double wind quintet\, with short passages for soloists in the Gloria and the Sanctus. Stravinsky notes that “children’s voices should be employed” for the treble/soprano and alto parts\, but in concert performances these are generally given to adult singers. Each movement stands on its own allowing it to fit easily into the structure of the church service\, and the text runs through without elaboration. There is little thematic material in the music. The colourful solo passages in the Gloria and the Sanctus contrast withthe choral sections of the Gloria and the firm statements of the Credo\, which echo the recitation of Orthodox liturgical chant in a succession of marching chords (Stravinsky’s words again: “one composes a march to facilitate marching men\, so with my Credo I hope to provide an aid to the text. …. There is much to believe.”).\nBetween the Gloria and the Credo the soloists will sing Stravinsky’s setting of the Pater Noster (the Lord’s Prayer)\, written in 1926\, which again reflects the chanting of Orthodox liturgy. \nClive Williams
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/19th-may-2007-st-barnabus-church/
LOCATION:St. Barnabas Church\, St Barnabas St\, Oxford\, OX2 6BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:27th Jan 2007 ~ St. Barnabas Church
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 27th January 2007\, 8pm\nSt Barnabas Church\, Jericho\, North Oxford \nHaydn Maria Theresa Mass\nBeethoven Mass in C \nGhislaine Morgan (soprano)\nStephen Taylor (alto)\nAdrian Lowe (tenor)\nSimon Whiteley (bass) \nWith Summertown Players \nFrom the Oxford Times review (Nicola Lisle\, 2 February 2007): \n“An exceptionally well-drilled choir\, their crisp entries were faultless\, their intonation spot on\, and their enthusiasm couldn’t be doubted for a moment.” \n“The orchestra played with energy and brilliance throughout.” \n“There was some thrilling work from the four soloists\, whose voices blended exceptionally well – despite the fact that bass Simon Whiteley had stepped in at short notice to replace an indisposed Tom Edwards.” \n  \nPerformance at St Barnabas \n  \nConcert Recording\nA recording of this concert is now available to choir members. To obtain a copy\, ask any member of the committee or send your request via email to: webmaster@summertownchoral.org.uk. \nHighlights \n\n			\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		Beethoven-C-(Gloria)Beethoven-C-(Agnus Dei)	\n	\n	\n\n	 \nSummary of the Programme Notes \nBoth the Masses were commissioned by Haydn’s patron\, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II\, to celebrate the name-day of his wife\, Princess Maria Hermenegild. \nThe ‘Maria Theresa’ Mass was the earlier work\, first performed on 8th September 1799 and the fourth of the six masses written by Haydn during the years 1796-1802 to celebrate the Princess’ name-day. It appears to have acquired its nickname (Theresienmesse in the German) after a performance a few years later at the court chapel in Vienna of Francis I\, Emperor of Austria\, in which his wife the Empress Maria Theresa was the soprano soloist.\nThe Mass in C was first performed on 13th September 1807 and was written during Beethoven’s middle period of prodigious musical activity. Haydn\, the most distinguished living composer\, died in 1809\, and the depth and fullness of his last six masses must have invited critical comparison with the Mass in C. Beethoven himself regarded it highly\, but it was not well received by the Count and the musical circles of Vienna\, a reaction which is perhaps not surprising in the light of the early reviews of\, for example\, Beethoven’s 1st and 2nd Symphonies\, first performed in 1800 and 1803\, which were variously described as ‘inventive’\, ‘difficult’\, ‘completely extraordinary’\, ‘richly furnished with detail’. \nThe liturgical text of the Mass imposes itself on the structure and style of the music in two ways. The six main elements of the liturgy require a structure of six separate movements for the work as a whole; at the same time the contrasting moods of different sections of the text\, particularly in the Gloria and the Credo\, demand to be reflected in contrasts of musical colour and mood. The musical contrasts can be so sharp that the sections stand separate from each other within the movement\, or they can be marked by gentle modulations from major to minor key and changes in tempo with only a pause in the flow of the music. \nThe two Masses show this difference of approach. In the ‘Maria Theresa’ Mass the longer movements have clearly contrasting separate sections\, conforming to the sections of the text as set out in the synopsis. In the Mass in C\, whose synopsis shows the same divisions in the text save for one difference in the Gloria\, these movements have similar contrasts of musical mood and colour\, but the flow of the music is uninterrupted. Both composers use the soloists to mark the start of a new section\, both Masses have fugues at the end of the Credo\, and both have strikingly lyrical movements\, the Gratias in the ‘Maria Theresa’ Mass\, the Benedictus in the Mass in C.\nPerforming the two Masses alongside each other offers the opportunity to judge how close was any affinity between the work of Haydn and Beethoven. The Viennese audience of 1807 may have been more loyal to the familiar and more comfortable music of Haydn. We\, who know the Missa Solemnis of 1824\, may feel that with the Mass in C Beethoven was closer to Haydn than he was to his own tormented self in his later work. \nClive Williams
URL:https://www.summertownchoral.org.uk/concert/27th-jan-2007-st-barnabas-church/
LOCATION:St. Barnabas Church\, St Barnabas St\, Oxford\, OX2 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Archives
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