Past Concerts - SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD

SCHOLA CANTORUM OF OXFORD

Schola has performed countless concerts over its 59-year history, the posters from a small selection of which are below!

Click on the posters for more details of the repertoire from each concert.

Schola Cantorum and Instruments of Time and Truth present two much loved choral classics, together with JS Bach's motet 'Lobet den Herrn'.

Soloists: Sofia Kirwan-Baez, Elizabeth Nurse, Lucy Gibbs, Jack Harberd and Patrick Keefe.

Schola Cantorum performs Francis Poulenc’s iconic Mass alongside his Sept Chansons, and Claude Debussy’s Trois Chansons. This choral music, by turns dramatic and tender, will be interspersed with impressionist piano music, performed by Samuel Mitchell.
Programme:
Debussy - 3 Chansons de Charles d'Orléans
Debussy - Voiles (from Prèludes book 1)
Poulenc - Mass in G
Kyrie
Gloria
Poulenc - Novelette in C
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus
Poulenc - Novelette in B flat minor
Poulenc - Novelette in E minor
Poulenc - 7 Chansons

One foot in Eden still, I stand Nicholas Maw
Ego flos campi Jacobus Clemens non Papa
In the Dew: a Homage to Janáček Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Blurry Bagatelle Cheryl Frances-Hoad
We’ll Sing Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Musica Dei donum Orlando di Lassus
Oiseaux Triste from Miroirs Maurice Ravel
Nymphes de bois Josquin des Prez
Trois chansons Maurice Ravel

One of MacMillan’s most powerful works, Cantos Sagrados sets poems by Ariel Dorfman and Ana Maria Mendosa on the subject of political repression in Latin America combined with traditional religious texts in Latin. This will be performed alongside polyphonic works by Francisco López Capillas, and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla. Schola Cantorum will be joined by Organist Gavin Roberts in the beautiful surroundings of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Schola Cantorum of Oxford presents its first concert in its 60th Anniversary year: Zodiac.

The choir will perform exciting works celebrating the theme of nature and creation, including the rarely performed song cycle 'Zodiac Signs' by Jonathan Rathbone and Copland's 'In the beginning' with mezzo-soprano Carris Jones.

Schola Cantorum of Oxford: Zodiac
Monday 24 February, 20:00, Pusey House Chapel
Stanford - The Blue Bird
Delius - On Craig Ddu
Rathbone - Zodiac Signs
Copland - In the beginning

Schola Cantorum of Oxford, the University's premier chamber choir, presents its Michaelmas Term 2019 concert: Mater Ora Filium. The choir, conducted by Steven Grahl, will perform Marian works for advent including the the epic "Mater Ora Filium" by Arnold Bax and the classic Bach motet "Jesu, meine Freude", as well as modern pieces by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Piers Connor Kennedy. This free concert, which starts at 8pm at the prestigious University Church, promises to bring the festive spirit to Oxford - an event not to be missed as Schola begins its 2019-20 performance season.

Conductor: Steven Grahl
Conducting Scholar: William Parkinson

Schola Cantorum has embarked on an exciting new commission involving a collaboration between composer Toby Young and writer Jennifer Thorp. Toby has written a set of three madrigals, which aim to explore the lives of people living with mental illness in order to give voice to those affected by the trauma, isolation and stigma of their separation from society. Taking inspiration from cutting edge clinical research at the university, the 'difficult' nature of the subject matter is matched by equally challenging music.

The concert takes place in the tranquil surroundings of Christ Church Picture Gallery; in the company of some of the most important Old Master paintings in the country, which deal with equally challenging topics in visual form. The programme also includes a rarely heard anthem for double choir by Ivor Gurney, works by Herbert Howells and Kenneth Leighton, and a new piece by Oxford student William Marshall.

The Toby Young Commission has been sponsored by Cantata Dramatica.

Please note that the programme includes texts with potentially triggering content covering mental health issues such as eating disorders, depression and psychosis

Schola Cantorum sings Benjamin Britten's 'Rejoice in the Lamb' with text by eighteenth century poet Christopher Smart, together with a selection of intensely expressive madrigals by Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo.

Schola Cantorum, under their new conductor Steven Grahl, joins with four outstanding young soloists to perform Brahms’s own arrangement of Ein deutsches Requiem, for piano four-hands accompaniment.

This concert is part of the Oxford Lieder Festival.

Concerts 2010-2015

Concerts 2004-2010