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...
Heavenly theme behind Bach’s music
We caught up with director, Tom Hammond-Davies recently to learn more about the next exciting event from the Oxford Bach Soloists on 5 June, and we’ve discovered an interesting theme running through the music… Haydn’s setting of The Heavens are Telling...
‘They will cast you out of the Synagogues’
We caught up with Oxford Bach Soloists’ director Tom Hammond-Davies to discuss the musical attributes of Bach’s two settings of Sie werden euch in den Bann tun ‘They will cast you out of the Synagogues’. Find out more about our Exaudi concert on Sunday 8 May...
Bach’s Easter Settings
Tom Hammond-Davies takes a closer look at Bach’s Easter settings 26 March sees two of Bach’s great choral works performed by the Oxford Bach Soloists at St Michael at the North Gate as part of this Easter’s musical offering – but they couldn’t be more...
