One Morning in Spring – Three Folksongs from Oxfordshire
Arrangement Grayston Ives (world premiere)
Isis Chamber Orchestra
Louise Wayman, soprano
Stephen Burrows, counter-tenor
Edward Woodhouse, tenor
Jack Granby, tenor
Julian Littlewood, piano
The 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.
Download the concert programme by clicking here Messiah Handel Saturday 29 January 2022 with Instruments of Time and Truth Conductor: Duncan Saunderson Elspeth Piggott (soprano), Mercè Bruguera Abelló (mezzo soprano), Tom Kelly (tenor), Daniel Tate (Bass) Since its first performance in Dublin in 1741, Handel’s Messiah has remained incredibly popular, with performances and recordings all...
A. concert of French romantic music featuring works by Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Vierne, Fauré and Franck.
A. concert of Hayden's Nelson Mass and Handel's Coronation Anthems, accompanied by the Instruments of Time and Truth.
Works by composers hailing from central and Eastern Europe, ranging from Liszt’s magnificent mass and Tchaikovsky’s very moving liturgy, to light and joyful Moravian songs by Dvořák.
SCS will be accompanied by the instruments of Time and Truth in a concert featuring Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor and two works by Purcell, the Funeral Music for Queen Mary and the anthem They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships.
Summer 2024 concert featuring the music of Brahms and Vaughan Williams. SCS sang the German Requiem and Five Mystical Songs. The concert also featured a performance of Franck's Prélude, Choral et Fugue.
Duncan Saunderson conducts Summertown Choral Society with the Instruments of Time and Truth.
Dvořák Mass in D (1887) Tippett Five Spirituals Holst Five Partsongs (1902/3) Dvořák American Suite (piano solo) Randall Thompson ‘Choose Something like a Star’ from Frostiana Helen Ashby - soprano Hera Protopapas - mezzo sporano Thomas Kelly - tenor Daniel Tate - bass Julian Littlewood - piano View programme Notes from our Musical Director: The Dvořák...
Summertown Choral Society sing Bach's Magnificat and Haydn's Missa in Tempore Belli (Paukenmesse) accompanied by the Instruments of Time and Truth
SCS will be performing Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle which reflects his humour, his joie de vivre and his dramatic roots in opera.
