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Protected: March 1st – 3rd, 2024 Oxford
Protected: Thursday 30th June – Sunday 3rd July 2022, DOESBURG
Bartholomew Consort in Oxford November 3 at 4 PM
St Barnabas Church, Jericho OX2 6BG Sunday November 3 at 4 pm
Tickets at TicketsOxford from early September, full price £15, students, unwaged, jobseekers, disabled £9. Children under 12 free
Programme
Frank Martin (1890 -1974) Mass for Double Choir
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) Missa di Requiem
James MacMillan (b.1959) Lux Aeterna
Musical Director JanJoost van Elburg
In this programme for unaccompanied voices , the two larger works, share some points of details: both were composed in 1922 and both were the only unaccompanied choral works of their composers on liturgical texts.
For Martin, his Mass for Double Choir was a deeply felt and personal work, which he did not release for performance for forty years. His background was in the Calvinist church, his father being a minister, and this coloured his entire life and the characteristic of his creative work. The Mass was written and put away, protected for decades by Martin’s fervently held belief was that it was almost a blasphemy to perform such an intimate and private dialogue between God and himself. His work is entirely his own, embracing the innovative ideas of the early twentieth century.
Pizzetti’s Requiem, on the other hand, is soundly based on the ideas of Gregorian chant and the fifteenth and sixteenth century Italian masters of polyphony. He introduces some vernacular flourishes by frequently changing the number of voice parts within a section, echoing the improvised folk-singing of his native north Italy. It is not certain that Pizzetti held as strong a faith as that of Martin, but the spiritual intensity is just as strong.
The third, shorter, work in this programme is a communion motet by the prolific and hugely admired James MacMillan, published just ten years ago, Lux Aeterna.
Komm Heiliger Geist Sunday 9th June wellington school chapel
Blackdowns Early Music Project’s Spring Festival.
The programme – entitled Komm, Heiliger Geist – will include the following works:
- Johann Walter: Veni Sancte Spritus & Nun bitten wir
- Melchior Frank: Unser Leben währet siebzig Jahr
- Johann Ludwig Bach ~ Gedenke meiner, mein Gott
- Johann Bach: Unser Leben ist ein Schatten
- Johann Sebastien Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm & Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit & Ich lasse dich nicht
Songs of Saints
St Giles’ Church OX2 6HT
3 March at 8pm
Tickets available from TicketsOxford from February 1
£12 full price,£8 students and under 12s free
Come and hear this stunning collection of choral music drawn principally from the C16 and C20 performed by the Bartholomew Consort under distinguished Director JanJoost van Elburg.
Music by Crequillon, Palestrina, Guerrero, Lassus, Britten, Part, Moore and Miskinis
Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Sunday 4th November 2018, 7.30 pm
St. Michael and All Angels, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7ES
Loud Praises Sound at Heaven’s High Gate
Choral music from C.19 and C.20
Sunday 24th June 2018 8pm
St. Michael and All Angels, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7ES
For members: music and practical information
JanJoost van Elburg will direct the Bartholomew Consort in a choral tour of C19 & C20 liturgical music, ranging from the romantic era inhabited by Felix Mendelssohn (b.1809) through to the self taught Francis Poulenc (d.1963), who wrote from an equally emotional view point. Between these composers were others who embraced similar ideals; we shall include the child prodigy Joseph Rheinberger (church organist at the age of 7), the prolific composer and teacher Charles Villiers Stanford and Max Reger, whose music displayed some Baroque influences, even into the early C20.
Entry is free, but your donations towards the costs of the concert will be most welcome.
How to get there
Address: Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7ES
Map/directions
Bartholomew Consort return to Buckfast Abbey
Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0EE
Sunday February 4th 2018 at 4 pm
Quomodo cantabimus…. how may we sing the Lord’s Song in a strange land…..
JanJoost van Elburg directs the Bartholomew Consort in music by Byrd, De Monte, Gibbons, Tomkins and Verdelot.
Entry is free, donations are welcome. After costs are met a donation will be made to Shelterbox, a charity providing practical assistance to people made homeless by conflict and disaster.
Bartholomew Consort in Edinburgh: St Giles at Six on October 8th
St. Giles Cathedral
Sunday October 8th 2017 at 6.00pm
A programme for many voices
Tallis – Spem in Alium for 40 voices
Striggio – Ecce beatam Lucem, 40 part motet
Praetorius _ – Tota Pulchra es
Martin Double Choir Mass