As one of the world’s greatest composers, Johannes Brahms looked back to the serious classicism of Bach and Beethoven. Nowhere is this demonstrated better than in his Bach-style motet Warum is das Licht gegeben with its four chords brilliantly leaving a question mark (“Why?”) in the air, flawless counterpoint and exquisite chorale harmonisations. Not...
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Summer Concert May 2023
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.
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19th Jan 2008 ~ St. Margaret’s Church
Saturday, 19th January 2008 St Margaret’s Church, North Oxford Haydn Winter (from The Seasons) Walton Jubilate Britten Te Deum in C Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden Brahms Geistliches Lied Kate Ashby (soprano) Daniel Turner (tenor) Tom Edwards (bass) With Julian Littlewood on organ and piano Concert review “First up was Britten’s Te Deum in C major, delivered...
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31st Jan 2009 ~ St. Margaret’s Church
Saturday, 31st January 2009 at 8.00pm St Margaret’s Church, North Oxford Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem Schubert The Lord is my shepherd Schumann Widmung (arr. Saunderson) Susan Young (soprano) Tom Edwards (bass) Julian Littlewood and Jack Ridley (piano) Duncan Saunderson (conductor) Full Programme Photos…
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50th Anniversary Concert
2 July 2011 ~ Sheldonian Theatre 50th anniversary concert Handel: My Heart is Inditing, Foundling Hospital Anthem Mendelssohn: Ave Maria Brahms: movements from Ein Deutsches Requiem Philip Moore: Three Oxford Songs (new commission) and part-songs by Tippett, Parry, Brahms, Copland and Grayston Ives ~*~ Duncan Saunderson conductor Carys Lane soprano, Helen Parker soprano, Stephen Burrows countertenor, James Gilchrist tenor, George Coltart bass with the Summertown Players led by Simon Jones and Julian Littlewood & Ben Holden piano Full Programme To celebrate...