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What makes an ‘authentic’ performance?
The Oxford Bach Soloists pride themselves on presenting authentic performances of Bach Cantatas - but what does this actually mean? Nicholas Keyworth finds out more from director Tom Hammond Davies. What is the attraction of performing on authentic instruments? The...
Performer Focus: Elspeth Piggott
This month we meet one of the regular performers with the Oxford Bach Soloists, Elspeth Piggott, a young soprano living in Oxford who has recently started out as a free-lance choral professional. Elspeth grew up in a musically oriented environment, both her parents...
‘Wachet Auf’: The Meaning Behind the Music
On 20 November Tom Hammond-Davies directs the Oxford Bach Soloists in a performance of Bach’s famous cantata Wachet Auf! described by the scholar Klaus Hofmann as one of the composer's 'most beautiful, most mature and, at the same time, most popular sacred cantatas'....
Two exciting concerts to enjoy before Christmas
Two exciting concerts celebrating the music of J.S.Bach are scheduled in the atmospheric setting of New College, Oxford with Wake up to Bach! in November and the famous Christmas Oratorio on Christmas Eve. Wake Up to Bach! It’s time to Wake up to two of Bach’s amazing...
Performer Focus: Robert Quinney
The Oxford Bach Soloists perform Bach Revived as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival on 21 October. In addition to cantatas by Bach the concert also features organ music by Schumann performed by Robert Quinney, Director of the Choir of New College, Oxford. We caught...
A honeymoon with Bach
The theme of the 2016 Oxford Lieder Festival is ‘The Schumann Project: The light and shade of Romanticism’. Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch sees the two-week festival as a thrilling exploration of the life and music of Robert Schumann and one of the biggest ever...
Lower Saxony Tour 2016
We have an exciting weekend of events on our Singing the Reformation tour of Lower Saxony. Keep in touch with our tour on Facebook to watch live streaming of some of the events and come back to this page to see our video diary as we go along. We arrived at the...
Singing the Reformation – Live!
We are all looking forward to an exciting weekend of events on our Singing the Reformation tour of Lower Saxony. Keep in touch with our tour on Facebook where we shall be piloting a series of live interviews, blogs, pics and live streaming from the concerts. Follow us...
Singing the Reformation
8 and 9 July will see the Oxford Bach Soloists taking part in the unique Kloster mahl anders Festival as part of their tour of Lower Saxony. Tom Hammond-Davies will direct performances of English and German sacred music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque in three...
Oxford Bach Soloists to tour Germany
July 8-10 sees the Oxford Bach Soloists out on tour performing in some of the most fascinating historic buildings in Lower Saxony in Germany. All the venues have fascinating histories with several of them being former convents with historical roots stretching back...