Season 2022
Resound, Ye Songs!
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordWatch live-stream! . Bach’s earliest works are often considered to be his most inventive, full of daring ideas. Cantata 12 is one of his most affecting compositions, the opening of which was to find its way into the B minor Mass. Now one year in his post as Thomaskantor, he revived his Pentecost Cantatas 59 […]
Festival of Joy
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordWatch live-stream! A trio of cantatas drawn from earlier works, deftly reworked to suit their new contexts. The Pentecostal cantatas 173 and 184 find their roots in secular Serenatas written for Prince Leopold at Cöthen, their imagery ingeniously preserved so that association between words and music is unharmed. Cantata 194, written for the dedication of […]
Cancelled: Wake Up!
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordIt is with a heavy heart that we have had to cancel this event. Anyone who has booked a ticket for this event will receive a refund in the upcoming days. In his second cycle of Cantatas at Leipzig, Bach focuses exclusively on the chorale, each Cantata based on the main Lutheran hymn for the […]
Bach Motets: Der Geist hilft
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordBach's motets constitute the most perfect and gem-like set amongst his works. They lay at the heart of his work as a teacher and choir-trainer, and grew out of a genre which the Bach family had cultivated for generations. This was the repertory that all his pupils were expected to sing and to master. Der Geist […]
Bach Motets: Lobet den Herrn
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordBach’s motets constitute the most perfect and gem-like set amongst his works. They lay at the heart of his work as a teacher and choir-trainer, and grew out of a genre which the Bach family had cultivated for generations. This was the repertory that all his pupils were expected to sing and to master. Lobet […]
Bach Motets: Singet dem Herrn
St Michael at the North Gate Cornmarket, OxfordBach's motets constitute the most perfect and gem-like set amongst his works. They lay at the heart of his work as a teacher and choir-trainer, and grew out of a genre which the Bach family had cultivated for generations. This was the repertory that all his pupils were expected to sing and to master. Plainchant […]
Bach: Christmas Oratorio
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordOxford’s most evocative seasonal event with an authentic performance of J. S. Bach’s much-loved telling of the Christmas story (Parts I, III, VI). The perfect way to spend your Christmas Eve! With soloists: Sam Cobb (soprano), Hugh Cutting (alto), Tom Kelly (tenor), and Ben Davies (bass) Book now Can't make the concert in person? Then […]
Bach Motets: Fürchte dich nicht
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordOxford Bach Soloists Tom Hammond-Davies (conductor) Magda Loth-Hill (violin) George Clifford (violin) Rosie Moon (violone, double bass) Dónal McCann (organ) Bach's motets constitute the most perfect and gem-like set amongst his works. They lay at the heart of his work as a teacher and choir-trainer, and grew out of a genre which the Bach family […]
Bach Motets: Jesu, meine Freude
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordOxford Bach Soloists Tom Hammond-Davies (conductor) Nick Pritchard (tenor) Nick Pritchard, tenor Bach's motets constitute the most perfect and gem-like set amongst his works. They lay at the heart of his work as a teacher and choir-trainer, and grew out of a genre which the Bach family had cultivated for generations. This was the repertory […]
Bach Motets: Komm, Jesu, Komm
New College Chapel Holywell Street, OxfordThere are only a few tickets remaining for this concert! Bach's motets constitute the most perfect and gem-like set amongst his works. They lay at the heart of his work as a teacher and choir-trainer, and grew out of a genre which the Bach family had cultivated for generations. This was the repertory that all […]
