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2022-03-14 10:17:25
The Dobson organ at Merton College Chapel After two year break, the Passiontide Festival is back at Merton College, Oxford, encompassing not only performances in Merton College Chapel from Benjamin Nicholas and the choir of Merton College, but visits from a variety of musicians and a large scale concert to open. The weekend of events begins on Friday 8 April 2022 with Mozart's Mass in C minor performed in the Sheldonian Theatre with Benjamin Nicholas conducting Merton College Choir, Merton College Girl Choristers and Florilegium with soloists Rowan Pierce (soprano), Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), James Oxley (tenor) and Giles Underwood (bass). Other events over the weekend of 9 and 10 April 2022 include two recitals on the mechanical action Dobson organ (built in 2014) in the chapel, Margaret Philips performing an all-Bach programme and Owen Chan in Reubke's Sonata on the 94th Psalm, plus the Gesualdo Six in a programme mixing […]
2020-01-03 08:46:37
Holy Week Festival at St John's Smith Square
Easter 2020 sees the Holy Week Festival returning to St John's Smith Square, where it is curated in partnership with Nigel Short and Tenebrae. Running from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday (5 to 12 April 2020), this year's festival features performances from Musica Secreta, the King's Singers, Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Tallis Scholars, Tenebrae, the Choir of Merton College and Florilegium, Armonico Consort, and Siglo de Oro.Musica Secreta will give the first London performance of Laurie Stras' new complete version of Antoine Brumel's Lamentation [see my review of their disc], and both of Bach's Passions feature in the festival with Benjamin Nicholas conducting the choir of Merton College and Florilegium in the St Matthew Passion with James Oxley as the Evangelist, Giles Underwood as Christus, and Stephen Layton directing Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Bach's St John Passion with Nick […]
2019-08-05 12:00:00
Alexander Binns plays organ music by Alfred Hollins, Harrison Oxley, Reginald Goss-Custard, Maurice Duruflé, Joseph Bonnet and César Franck, heard by Mike Wheeler
2018-06-27 03:30:09
BY JAMES WHITING A Doll’s House Bard on the Beach Starring Penny Day, Nicholas Glendhill, Robert Gray, Matt Oxley, Shannon Thomas, and Patricia Rowling
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