Category Archives: Concerts

Bartholomew Consort concerts, past and upcoming

Bach in Context

bach_misa-300x205German Baroque music leading to Bach

Sunday 3 July 2016  8pm

Church of St Michael & All Angels, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7ES

  • Schütz – Die mit tränen säen à 5
  • Schütz – Jauchzet dem Herren à 12
  • Franck – Cantate Domino à 8
  • Franck – Du bist aller Dinge schön à 5
  • Praetorius – Magnificat Quinti Toni
  • Praetorius – Tota pulchra es à 12
  • Schein – Lehre uns bedenken à 5
  • Schein – Da Jakob vollendet hatte à 5
  • Pachelbel – Gott ist unsre Zuversicht à 8
  • J. S. Bach – Fürchte dich nicht à 8

Alpha to Omega

Image: Alpha et Omega, San Miniato al Monte in Florence
Image: Alpha et Omega, San Miniato al Monte in Florence

 

February 14th 2016

Buckfast Abbey,  Devon

Gabrieli   –  Beata es virgo Maria
Verdelot  –  Beata es virgo Maria
Byrd   –  Reges Tharsis
Gabrieli   –  Pater peccavi
Byrd   –  Miserere mei
Lassus   –  Timor et tremor
Tallis   –  In manus tuas
Taverner  –  Dum Transisset
Poulenc   –  Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Pizzetti    –  extracts from ‘Messa di Requiem’

Virgo Serena

St Michael and All Angels

The Virgin Annunciate in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo Anotnello da Messina 1478
The Virgin Annunciate in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo
Antonello da Messina
1478

Summertown, Oxford  OX2 7ES

Sunday 1 Nov 2015

Wonderful programme of Renaissance music  written in praise of Mary by some of the most enduring composers of Western Europe.

  • Browne – Salve Regina à 5
  • Cornysh – Ave Maria Mater Dei
  • Cardoso – Magnificat
  • Gombert – Regina caeli à 12
  • Mouton – Ave Maria,  Virgo serena
  • Guerrero – Maria Magdalena
  • Lassus – Regina caeli

Poetry in Music

2015 06 28 Poetry in Music Poster28 June 2015 at 5pm

 St Barnabas Church, Jericho

Romantic Music from Northern Europe

  • Vaughan Williams – Sweet day
  • Elgar – My love dwelt in a Northern Land                  
  • Vaughan Williams – Rest            
  • Diepenbrock – Chanson d’automne                    
  • Diepenbrock – Wandrer’s Nachtlied
  • Poulenc – Sept Chansons 1, 2 & 5             
  • Debussy – Trois chansons 
  • Schroyens – Six Dickinson Miniatures           
  • Brahms – Vineta     
  • Mauersberger  – Wie ist die Stadt so wüst                                                       

Heaven and Earth

Heaven and Earth

February 15, 2015 4.30pm
Buckfast Abbey, Devon

Entry free, retiring collection.

Lassus  – Inclina Domine
Victoria – Misa Alma Redemptoris Mater – Kyrie
Guerrero – Sancta et immaculata
Victoria – Misa Alma Redemptoris Mater – Gloria
Palestrina – Tu es Petrus
Victoria – Misa Alma Redemptoris Mater – Sanctus
Organ piece TBD
Vaughan Williams –  Lord, Thou hast been our Refuge
Howells – The House of the mind
Harris – Faire is the heaven
Harris – Bring us O Lord

Members only: Buckfast Abbey weekend details

 

All Saints and All Souls

The Saints in Heaven, a fresco by Giusto de' Menabuoi (Battistero del Duomo in Padova)
The Saints in Heaven, a fresco by Giusto de’ Menabuoi (Battistero del Duomo in Padova)

 

November 2, 2014

St Michael and All Angels,  Summertown, Oxford OX2 7ES

Music by Renaissance composers including:

Byrd, Ramsay
Tallis, Vaet, Josquin
Lassus, Weelkes

4.30 pm, duration approx. 1 hour

Entry free, donations welcome

The French Connection

The French Connection

Images of Rene Lalique glass from the Glass Church, reproduced with the kind permission of the Vicar and Churchwardens of St Matthew’s Church Millbrook St Lawrence Jersey Channel Islands JE3 1LN
Images of Rene Lalique glass from the Glass Church, reproduced with the kind permission of the Vicar and Churchwardens of St Matthew’s Church Millbrook St Lawrence Jersey Channel Islands JE3 1LN

St. Helen’s Church, Abingdon

June 29, 2014, 7.30pm

French sacred choral music of the Renaissance, Baroque and the twentieth century, including:

  • Gombert – Lugebat David Absalom
  • Charpentier – Messe des Morts and Magnificat
  • Poulenc – Quatres Motets
  • Durufle – Quatres Motets