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Upcoming Bartholomew Consort concerts

Concerts, Public

PALESTRINA 1525: Celebrating the birth of a Master

SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2025

Join the Bartholomew Consort under the direction of
JanJoost van Elburg to enjoy a performance of Palestrina’s
wonderful mass for double choir,

Confitebor tibi Domine

In this year when we celebrate the 500th anniversary of
Palestrina’s birth there have been many tributes offered
for his output of great music, yet few have included
this particular Mass. The movements will be interspersed
with other multivoice works by English near contemporaries
William Byrd and Thomas Tomkins as well as an uplifting
anthem by the Edwardian composer, Charles Stanford.

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Future concerts, Public, Uncategorized

Sacred Symmetry

Masses for Double Choir

Josef Rheinberger: Mass in E flat major Cantus Missae Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir

ST MARY THE VIRGIN CHURCH, WHEATLEY OX331LZ SUNDAY 1 MARCH 2026 AT 4PM

Our concert in Wheatley celebrates two
European composers, Josef Rheinberger
(1839-1901) and Frank Martin (1890 – 1974).
Their lives were both spent in central Europe,
Rheinberger was born in Leichtenstein and worked
for much of his life in Bavaria, Martin was born and
educated in Geneva, working occasionally in Italy, France
and the Netherlands.

Rheinberger: Mass in E flat major
Cantus Missae ex octo modulatione vocum concinnatus
A glorious setting incorporating all the Romantic style of his
era with an acute sense of Renaissance polyphony.

Martin: Mass for double choir
Written in 1922, but not performed until 1963 when Martin
was finally persuaded to bring it to the public. This is now
acknowledged to be one of Martin’s finest creations and
one of the greatest C20 a cappella works.

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