BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oxford Bach Soloists - ECPv6.9.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oxford Bach Soloists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oxford Bach Soloists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231223T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231223T183000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20230815T150347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231201T151833Z UID:42688-1703350800-1703356200@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Bach: Christmas Oratorio DESCRIPTION:**This event is now sold out!**\nYou can buy tickets for our London iteration on Saturday 6th January\, 2024:\nBook now \nOxford’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). \nLed by conductor Tom Hammond-Davies and featuring outstanding soloists\, this is an unmissable event that combines historical accuracy with artistic excellence. \nGet your tickets: Don’t miss this evening of grandeur\, joy\, and beauty. Witness world-class quality and immerse yourself in the timeless music of Bach. \nTom Hammond-Davies\, conductor\nJonathan Hanley\, Evangelist\nHilary Cronin\, soprano\nMarta Fontanls-Simmons\, alto\nFlorian Störtz\, bass URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-christmas-oratorio-2023/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/181224-Camels-788x1024-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230407T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230407T153000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20230209T144043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T105635Z UID:41914-1680874200-1680881400@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:St John Passion DESCRIPTION:One of Bach’s best-loved works\, the St John Passion was first performed on Good Friday of 1724 in St. Nicholas Church\, Leipzig. ‘More daring\, forceful and poetic’ than the St Matthew Passion\, according to Robert Schumann\, this operatic work is presented by an Evangelist\, ensemble of soloists\, four-part choir\, strings and basso continuo together with pairs of flauti traversi and oboes doubling on oboe da caccia. \nBWV 245 Johannes-Passion (St John Passion) \nSebastian Hill\, Evangelist\nFlorian Störtz\, Christus\nBen Watkins\, Pilatus\nLucy Cronin & Daisy Livesey\, soprano\nRebecca Leggett\, alto\nSamuel Jenkins\, tenor \nThis event is now sold out\, and there will be no tickets available on the door. \n  URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/st-john-passion-2023/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/5.-Dalis-Crucified-Christ-cropped.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230305T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230305T154500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220927T090759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230305T113324Z UID:41245-1678026600-1678031100@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Bach Motets: Komm\, Jesu\, Komm DESCRIPTION:There are only a few tickets remaining for this concert! \nBach’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. \nG. P. Telemann Trio Sonata for Recorder and Viola da gamba TWV 43:F3\nJ. S. Bach Motet: Ich lasse dich nicht BWV Anh. 159\nJ. S. Bach Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord in D BWV 1028\nJ. S. Bach Motet: Komm\, Jesu\, komm BWV 229\nJ. S. Bach Cantata: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ‘Actus Tragicus’ BWV 106 \nBook now\nThis is the sixth in a series of concerts\, centring on Bach’s Motets BWV 225 – 230\, taking place between October 2022 and March 2023.  \nCan’t make the concert in person? Then you can watch it online through our Digital Concerts Subscription. URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-motets-komm-jesu-komm/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists,Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-asset-1-min.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230205T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230205T154500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220927T090424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230125T165821Z UID:41242-1675607400-1675611900@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Bach Motets: Jesu\, meine Freude DESCRIPTION:Oxford Bach Soloists\nTom Hammond-Davies (conductor)\nNick Pritchard (tenor) \n \nNick Pritchard\, tenor \nBach’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. \nBach’s longest and most musically complex motet\, Jesu\, meine Freude\, was the first of his motets to be recorded in 1927. It consists of 11 movements\, structured as a palindrome\, and alternates between Johann Franck’s hymn of the same name\, and biblical verses from Romans 8. No one really knows when it was written\, or why. For a long time\, scholars speculated that it may have been written for a funeral in Leipzig. But Bach scholar Christoph Wolff suggests that Bach may have composed and compiled the motet for the education of his choir in both composition techniques and theology. \nThis epic motet is flanked by two solo cantatas\, performed for us by tenor Nick Pritchard. Ich armer Mensch is Bach’s only extant cantata for tenor\, and is based on the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant. The singer begins by reflecting on his sinful condition\, then asks God for mercy with the words “Erbarme dich” (“Have mercy”)\, the same words used in his St Matthew Passion in Peter’s aria regretting his denial of Jesus. \nIch habe genug is one of the most recorded and performed of Bach’s sacred cantatas. The opening aria and so-called “slumber aria” are regarded as some of the most inspired creations of Bach\, and much-loved by his wife\, Anna Magdalena\, who copied it out in her Notebook. \nJ. S. Bach Cantata: Ich habe genug BWV 82a\nJohann Gottfried Walther Organ: Partita sopra ‘Jesu\, meine Freude’\nJ. S. Bach Motet: Jesu\, meine Freude BWV 227\nJ. S. Bach Cantata: Ich armer Mensch BWV 55 \n\n \nThis is the fifth in a series of concerts\, centring on Bach’s Motets BWV 225 – 230\, taking place between October 2022 and March 2023.  \nCan’t make the concert in person? Then you can watch it online through our Digital Concerts Subscription. URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-motets-jesu-meine-freude/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists,Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/10ff3765-ab0a-49eb-bd31-b76a012d43e4-kosciol-mariacki-min-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230108T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230108T154500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220927T090215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221228T174112Z UID:41239-1673188200-1673192700@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Bach Motets: Fürchte dich nicht DESCRIPTION:Oxford Bach Soloists\nTom Hammond-Davies (conductor)\nMagda Loth-Hill (violin)\nGeorge Clifford (violin)\nRosie Moon (violone\, double bass)\nDónal McCann (organ) \n\n \nBach’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. \nIn the season after Christmas\, the Christian Church tells the story of the Magi who come from the East bringing gifts of gold\, frankincense\, and myrrh to the baby Jesus. On their way\, they greet King Herod in Jerusalem asking him where they might find the newborn “King of the Jews”. Herod became paranoid that the child would threaten his throne\, and sought to kill him\, ordering the massacre of all the first-born in the land. But\, with the help of an angel\, Mary\, Joseph\, and the child make their escape to Egypt. \nThis story is told in one of the oldest Latin hymns A solis ortus cardine\, written in the first half of the fifth century. Our concert traces the development of this great hymn through the renaissance composers Palestrina and John Sheppard\, to Martin Luther. His adaptation Christum wir sollen loben schon (with the verse Was fürchtest du\, Feind Herodes\, sehr) became the kernel for Bach’s Cantata for the Second Day of Christmas (26 December 1724)\, Christum wir sollen loben schon BWV 121. \nHerod’s Massacre of the Innocents and the Flight into Egypt is the inspiration behind Heinrich Schütz’s vivid musical depiction of the angel appearing to Joseph in a dream warning him to flee with his family to Egypt\, as well as Bach’s Cantata for the Sunday after New Year (2 January 1724)\, Schau\, lieber Gott\, wie meine Feind BWV 153\, which reflects in general on the situation of the Christian confronted with enemies. Bach’s Motet Fürchte dich nicht\, ich bin bei dir BWV 228\, gently urges and reminds the listener not to be afraid. \nPalestrina A solis ortus cardine\nJohn Sheppard Hostis Herodes impie\nJ. S. Bach Christum wir sollen loben schon BWV 696\nJ. S. Bach Cantata: Christum wir sollen loben schon BWV 121\nHeinrich Schütz Siehe\, es erschien der Engel SWV 403\nJ. S. Bach Cantata: Schau\, lieber Gott\, wie meine Feind BWV 153\nJ. S. Bach Motet: Fürchte dich nicht\, ich bin bei dir BWV 228 \n\n\n \nThis is the fourth in a series of concerts\, centring on Bach’s Motets BWV 225 – 230\, taking place between October 2022 and March 2023.  \nCan’t make the concert in person? Then you can watch it online through our Digital Concerts Subscription. URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-motets-furchte-dich-nicht/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists,Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dunr9geU8AExbFK.jpg-large.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221224T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221224T183000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20221013T150222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T162525Z UID:41399-1671901200-1671906600@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Bach: Christmas Oratorio DESCRIPTION:Oxford’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! \nWith soloists: Sam Cobb (soprano)\, Hugh Cutting (alto)\, Tom Kelly (tenor)\, and Ben Davies (bass) \nBook now\nCan’t make the concert in person? Then you can watch it online through our Digital Concerts Subscription. URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-christmas-oratorio-2/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists,Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Christmas-Oratorio-soloists-2022-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221211T203000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221211T214500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220927T085728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T162151Z UID:41235-1670790600-1670795100@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Bach Motets: Singet dem Herrn DESCRIPTION: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 his pupils were expected to sing and to master. \nPlainchant Veni\, redemptor gentium\nPraetorius Veni\, redemptor gentium\nBWV 659\, 660 & 661 Nun komm\, der heiden Heiland I\, II & III\nBWV 61 & 62 Nun komm\, der heiden Heiland\nSchütz Nun komm\, der heiden Heiland\nBWV 21 Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis\nBWV 225 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied \nBook now\nThis is the third in a series of concerts\, centring on Bach’s Motets BWV 225 – 230\, taking place between October 2022 and March 2023.  \nCan’t make the concert in person? Then you can watch it online through our Digital Concerts Subscription. URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-motets-singet-dem-herrn/ LOCATION:St Michael at the North Gate\, Cornmarket\, Oxford\, OX1 3EY CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists,Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/98de63de4300471694bb7cad64a993a0.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221106T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221106T154500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220921T154017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T151256Z UID:41199-1667745000-1667749500@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Bach Motets: Lobet den Herrn DESCRIPTION: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 his pupils were expected to sing and to master. \nLobet den Herrn\, alle Heiden was first published only in 1821 from a manuscript attributed to ‘Signor Bach’. It sets the whole of Psalm 117\, and may have been performed—as his other motets—in a memorial service of some kind. The piece’s festive character would not have been out of place: the idea of death as a goal and joyful release from earthly problems was common in German literary and theological writings at the beginning of the eighteenth century. In this motet\, we hear Bach’s unbounded optimism and certitude in the contemplation of death. \nBook now\nThis is the second in a series of concerts\, centring on Bach’s Motets BWV 225 – 230\, taking place between October 2022 and March 2023. More information on the next events in the series will be coming soon. \nCan’t make the concert in person? Then you can watch it online through our Digital Concerts Subscription. URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-motets-lobet-den-herrn/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists,Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ceiling-6a-aspect-ratio-20x20-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221002T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221002T154500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220904T060009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220904T062221Z UID:41141-1664721000-1664725500@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Bach Motets: Der Geist hilft DESCRIPTION: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 his pupils were expected to sing and to master. Der Geist hilft is the only motet whose precise original function is documented\, for a memorial service held in the University Church of St Paul on 20 October 1729. Its airy\, concerto-type writing makes colossal demands of performers and\, through the brilliant sonorities of the double-choir\, we hear Bach’s unbounded optimism and certitude in the contemplation of death. \nBook now\nThis is the first in a series of concerts\, centring on Bach’s Motets BWV 225 – 230\, taking place between October 2022 and March 2023. More information on the next events in the series will be coming soon. URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-motets-der-geist-hilft/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists,Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/16244727126_35970dfbe7_5k-photo-by-Yaroslav-Romanenko-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220924T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220924T193000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220901T085238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T095834Z UID:41097-1664044200-1664047800@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Raynham Hall DESCRIPTION:  \nJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) \nCantata 199: Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut\nCantata 170: Vergnügte Ruh\, beliebte Seelenlust\n\nEsther Brazil mezzo-soprano\nTom Hammond-Davies conductor\nHugh Cutting countertenor \nBook Tickets \nIn 1714 Johann Sebastian Bach was made Konzermeister of the Weimar court orchestra. With this appointment came the responsibility of providing a cantata\, once a month for the Sunday services in the court chapel. Though comparatively few in number Bach’s Weimar cantatas nevertheless are striking for their formal\, technical and expressive variety. The solo cantata 199 ‘Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut’\, written for the 11th Sunday after Trinity\, 12 August 1714\, is scored for a soprano voice with an orchestra consisting of an oboe\, strings and continuo. The text is concerned with repentance and is based on the appointed Gospel which tells the story of the Pharisee and the publican (Luke 18\, vv. 9-14)\, and Bach takes us on a journey across three arias\, each preceded by a recitative with unparalleled skill and affecting contrast: the first is a poignant\, grief-laden supplication\, whose expressive intensity\, contained both in the vocal and instrumental writing\, recalls Bach’s earlier masterpiece\, ‘Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis’ (BWV 21). The second\, scored for strings only\, brings Handel to mind in its broad\, sweeping gestures. The third aria\, in the character of a gigue\, is scored for oboe and strings and dispels the darkness away. \nCantata 170 ‘Vergnügte Ruh\, beliebte Seelenlust’ was written for the 6th Sunday after Trinity\, 28 July 1726. It is a solo cantata for alto\, and instead of drawing on the bible\, the text of this cantata is a free poem by Georg Christian Lehms (1711)\, based on passages from the Sermon on the Mount dealing with man’s malice\, his miserable existence and his longing for peace in death. The greatest misery comes to those who do not believe\, according to the text. In the aria ‘Wie jammern mich doch die verkehrten Herzen’ (no. 3) they have lost the very ground under their feet: Bach silences the ever‐present continuo and mounts the movement on a thin thread spun by the violins and viola (‘Bassettchen’). But perhaps the most appealing movement is the opening aria which\, as John Eliot Gardiner puts it\, is “pure enchantment\, a warm\, luxuriant dance in 6/8 in D. You can almost feel Bach’s benign smile hovering over this music\, an evocation of ‘Himmelseintracht’\, ‘the harmony of heaven’”. One sees why Bach’s eldest son\, Wilhelm Friedemann\, would have been keen to revive this aria in Halle in 1750. \nBook Tickets URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/raynham-hall/ LOCATION:Raynham Hall\, Raynham Hall\, Fakenham\, Norfolk\, NR21 7EP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Raynham-Hall-24-September-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Raynham Hall Recitals":MAILTO:admin@raynhamhall.co.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220717T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220717T154500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220302T090057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220714T141013Z UID:40514-1658068200-1658072700@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Cancelled: Wake Up! DESCRIPTION:It 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. \n\n\n\nIn his second cycle of Cantatas at Leipzig\, Bach focuses exclusively on the chorale\, each Cantata based on the main Lutheran hymn for the occasion. This new ‘chorale cantata’ cycle is announced with a sweeping French overture in the grand Cantata 20 ‘O Ewigkeit\, du Donnerwort’. After impressive coloratura from the tenor\, we are woken up by the bass and trumpet with the words ‘Wacht auf\, wacht auf!’. Cantata 2 takes as its basis Martin Luther’s chorale ‘Ach Gott\, vom Himmel sieh darein’\, with images of silver purified through fire. Cantata 7 for the Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist vividly depict the river Jordan with gracious undulating phrases\, and great and powerful floods\, dancing waves\, sometimes peaceful\, sometimes mighty.\n\n\nBWV 20 O Ewigkeit\, du Donnerwort (O eternity\, you word of thunder)\nBWV 2 Ach Gott\, vom Himmel sieh darein (Oh God\, look down from heaven)\nBWV 7 Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (Christ our Lord came to the Jordan) URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/wake-up-2/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/12.-Wake-up-Preti-St-John-Baptist-min-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220709T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220709T183000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001941 CREATED:20220527T165639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220530T095043Z UID:40778-1657384200-1657391400@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Mass in B minor DESCRIPTION:Featuring soloists from the Oxford Bach Soloists\, this concert presents the culmination of a workshop week with members of the Orlando Chamber Choir. \n  \nBook tickets URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/mass-in-b-minor/ LOCATION:St John the Evangelist Church\, 109A Iffley Road\, Oxford\, OX4 1EH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/St-John-the-Evanglelist-Oxford-smaller-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220619T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220619T160000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20220302T090000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220615T140007Z UID:40511-1655649000-1655654400@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Festival of Joy DESCRIPTION: Watch live-stream!\n\n\nA 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 the church and organ at Störmthal in 1723\, was probably also based on a lost Cöthen work and is revived here in full festal splendour for Trinity Sunday in 1724.\n\n\nBWV 173 Erhöhtes Fleisch und Blut (Exalted flesh and blood)\nBWV 184 Erwünschtes Freudenlicht (Desired light of joy)\nBWV 194 Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest (Most highly-desired festival of joy) \nBook tickets URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/festival-of-joy-2/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/11.-El-Greco-Pentecostés-1597-copy-min-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220508T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220508T154500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20220302T090009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220615T135755Z UID:40508-1652020200-1652024700@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Resound\, Ye Songs! DESCRIPTION: Watch live-stream!\n. \n\nBach’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 and 172 for the 2nd and 3rd time respectively. Dating from 1714 during his employment in service of the Dukes of Weimar\, the effulgent Cantata 172 ‘Erschallet\, ihr Lieder\, erklinget\, ihr Saiten!’ depicts the fiery arrival of the Holy Spirit. As they wait for the Spirit’s arrival\, Cantata 44 tells the gloomy prophecy of Christ that the disciples will be cast out as they spread the Good News\, and Bach’s music is uncompromisingly grim and tensely dramatic.\n\n\nBWV 12 Weinen\, Klagen\, Sorgen\, Zagen (Weeping\, lamenting\, worrying\, fearing)\nBWV 44 Sie werden euch in den Bann tun (They will put you under banishment)\nBWV 172 Erschallet\, ihr Lieder\, erklinget\, ihr Saiten! (Resound\, ye songs\, ring out\, ye strings!)\nBWV 59 Wer mich liebet\, der wird mein Wort halten (Whoever loves me will keep my word) URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/resound-ye-songs-2/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Season 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/10.-Heiliger-Geist-Dove-Fresco.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220418T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220418T161500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20220224T090027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T080741Z UID:40490-1650294000-1650298500@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Easter Festival: The Lord is my Shepherd DESCRIPTION:Described as ‘one of the truly perfect cantatas\, flawless in every detail’\, Cantata 104 draws its inspiration from Psalm 23 ‘The Lord is my Shepherd’. Full of leisurely melodies and flourishes\, it finds refreshment\, green pastures and a foretaste of heaven. As we move towards Christ’s Ascension and departure from the earth\, Cantata 166 is in a rather uncertain vein asking the question ‘Where are you going?’ yet Bach’s music is always full of hope. Clearing the skies to joy and laughter\, this concert ends with Cantata 37 depicting the soul winging heavenward. \nBWV 104 Du Hirte Israel\, höre (You Shepherd of Israel\, hear)\nBWV 166 Wo gehest du hin? (Where are you going?)\nBWV 37 Wer da gläubet und getauft wird (He who believes and is baptised) \nBook tickets URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/easter-festival-the-lord-is-my-shepherd/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Easter Festival 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/8.-Zurbaran-Agnus-Dei.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220417T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220417T161500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20220224T090003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T080652Z UID:40482-1650207600-1650212100@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Easter Festival: Rejoice You Hearts DESCRIPTION:Abundant joy\, rushing swirling scales\, and fanfare-like arpeggios set the scene for the Resurrection in Bach’s Cantatas for Easter Monday\, Easter Tuesday\, and Quasimodogeniti (‘Low’ Sunday). Join our virtuoso soloists as they lead us through Bach’s panoply of pastoral colours\, brilliant coloratura\, and triumphant pageantry. \nBWV 66 Erfreut euch\, ihr Herzen (Rejoice\, you hearts)\nBWV 134 Ein Herz\, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß (A heart that knows its Jesus is living)\nBWV 67 Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ (Keep Jesus Christ in mind) \nBook tickets URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/easter-festival-rejoice-you-hearts/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Easter Festival 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/7.-Caravaggio-The-Incredulity-of-Saint-Thomas-smaller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220416T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220416T163000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20220224T090004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T080614Z UID:40488-1650121200-1650126600@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Easter Festival: Easter Oratorio DESCRIPTION:Two of Bach’s earliest cantatas for Easter Day\, Christ lag in Todesbanden and Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubiliert are performed here in their revived Leipzig versions. The story takes us from darkness to blazing light\, from grief to joy\, echoed in the dramatic Easter Oratorio. Told by four characters Mary Magdalene\, Mary Jacobe\, Simon Peter\, and John the Apostle\, it canters to the end in triumphant victory. \nBWV 4 Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ lay in the Bonds of Death)\nBWV 31 Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret (Heaven laughs! Earth exults)\nBWV 249 Oster-Oratorium (Easter Oratorio) \nBook tickets URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/easter-festival-easter-oratorio/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Easter Festival 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/6.-Dalis-The-Ascension-of-Christ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220415T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220415T170000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20220224T090008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T084350Z UID:40476-1650034800-1650042000@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Easter Festival: St John Passion DESCRIPTION:One of Bach’s best-loved works\, the St John Passion was first performed on Good Friday of 1724 in St. Nicholas Church\, Leipzig. ‘More daring\, forceful and poetic’ than the St Matthew Passion\, according to Robert Schumann\, this operatic work is presented by an Evangelist\, ensemble of soloists\, four-part choir\, strings and basso continuo together with pairs of flauti traversi and oboes doubling on oboe da caccia. \nBWV 245 Johannes-Passion (St John Passion) \nBook tickets \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ben Johnson\, Evangelist (credit Chris Gloag) URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/easter-festival-st-john-passion/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Easter Festival 2022 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/5.-Dalis-Crucified-Christ-cropped.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220305T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220305T130000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20220225T122020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T131353Z UID:40536-1646474400-1646485200@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Continuo Workshop DESCRIPTION:Book tickets \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anhad Arora\, harpsichord\n \n \n \n \n \n Dónal McCann\, organ URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/continuo-workshop/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/220305-Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200802T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200802T153000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20200721T083413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200802T115703Z UID:37480-1596380400-1596382200@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Back to Bach: Yu-Wei Hu & Johan Löfving DESCRIPTION:Sonata in e minor for flute and bass continuo\, BWV 1034 Andante \nPartita in a minor for solo flute\, BWV 1013 Bourée Angloise \nCello Suite No. 1 in G major\, BWV 1007 Prelude (arr. for theorbo) \nSonata in e minor for flute and bass continuo\, BWV 1034 Allegro \nOur YouTube series Back to Bach reveals how OBS musicians have returned to the works of JS Bach during lockdown. In this second episode\, Yu-Wei Hu (flute) and Johan Löfving (theorbo) explore the Master of melody and harmony. \nSolo works for unaccompanied flute were extremely rare during the 18th century as it was assumed that flute players could not produce harmony alone\, and without harmony all musical sense was lost. However\, Bach’s pioneering work of a four-movement dance suite in a minor for solo flute paved the way for Telemann’s Twelve Fantasies as well as flute works by his son\, CPE Bach. \nThis concert will be a deferred broadcast of a live performance\, created for lockdown. A YouTube link will be posted on this page shortly in advance of the event. \n \nSubscribe to our YouTube Channel to receive notifications!\n  \nThis concert is free to all\, but if you would like to make a donation to support it\, you can do so using the donation box here. Thank you! \n  \n  URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/back-to-bach-yu-wei-johan/ CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/200802-Back-to-Bach-Yu-Wei-and-Johan-YouTube-tile-1500x844-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200705T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200705T153000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20200702T133908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200705T084825Z UID:37375-1593961200-1593963000@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Back to Bach: Rosie Moon & Jacob Garside DESCRIPTION:Gibbons Fantasia à 2\nJS Bach 2 Part Inventions \nOur new YouTube series Back to Bach reveals how OBS musicians have returned to the works of JS Bach during lockdown. In this first episode\, Rosie Moon (violone & double bass) and Jacob Garside (gamba & cello) explore the evolution of polyphony from Gibbons to Bach. \nThe concert will be a deferred broadcast of a live performance\, created for lockdown. \n \nSubscribe to our YouTube Channel to receive notifications!\n  \nThis concert is free to all\, but if you would like to make a donation to support it\, you can do so using the donation box here. Thank you! \n  \n  URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/back-to-bach-rosie-jacob/ CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/200705-Back-to-Bach-Rosie-and-Jacob-YouTube-tile.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171216T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171216T193000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170415T184925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171016T130048Z UID:3769-1513452600-1513452600@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Christmas Baroque DESCRIPTION:Oxford Bach Soloists\nDirector: Tom Hammond Davies \nCorelli Christmas Concerto\nHandel Messiah (excerpts)\nPraetorius Es ist ein Ros entsprungen\nBach Magnificat (excerpts)\nPurcell Behold\, I bring you glad tidings\nBach Air on a G string BWV 1068\nBach Wachet auf – Zion hört die Wächter singen BWV 140/4\nHandel Messiah – For Unto Us A Child Is Born\nBach Wachet auf – Gloria sei dir gesungen BWV 140/5 \n\n\n\n\n\n“Absolutely perfect in every way… spiritual sounds to stir the heart and soul”\nOxford Mail \n\n\n\n\n\nOxford comes to Bath with an evening of festive baroque cheer in the beautiful setting of St Michael’s Without following its recent makeover making it the most comfortable church in the city! \nThe Oxford Bach Soloists play on period instruments and work with the next generation of young vocal soloists\, many of whom are choral scholars from the University’s college chapels. \nBUY TICKETS \n \nThe Oxford Bach Soloists are currently working through the complete cycle of Cantatas and other vocal works of JS Bach in Oxford as well as providing a laboratory for current research\, working together with Professors from the University of Oxford’s Faculties of Music\, Theology\, and Modern Languages. Their 2016 Singing the Reformation tour of Lower Saxony was a celebration of music in the run up to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. \nFrom Corelli’s exquisite Christmas Concerto to Bach’s glittering Magnificat and to your favourite rousing choruses and arias from Handel’s Messiah\, tickets for this concert are sure to be top of your list to Santa this Christmas!  URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/christmas-baroque/ LOCATION:St Michael’s Church\, Broad Street\, Bath\, BA1 5LJ CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/obs2-e1457203975576.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170806T151500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170806T161500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170521T211421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130414Z UID:4433-1502032500-1502036100@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Actus Tragicus DESCRIPTION:Bach’s Cantata ‘Gottes Zeit ist die Allerbeste Zeit’\, also known as ‘Actus Tragicus’ was written when he was twenty-two. It is a work of incredible genius such as even great masters seldom achieve\, and belongs to the great musical literature of the world. \nFeaturing an unusual scoring of two viola da gamba and two recorders\, this is one of Bach’s most profoundly beautiful of all cantatas. This concert showcases these intimate instruments alongside the music of Bach’s contemporary Georg Philipp Telemann whose 250th anniversary we mark this year. \nJS Bach Sonata for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord in D\, BWV 1028\nTelemann Concerto for Viola da gamba and Recorder\, TWV 52:a1\nBuxtehude Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin\, BuxWV 76\nJS Bach Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit\, BWV 106 (Actus Tragicus) URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/actus-tragicus/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oxford-Bach-Soloists.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170716T151500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170716T161500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170521T210812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130326Z UID:4419-1500218100-1500221700@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Out of the Depths DESCRIPTION:The powerful text Aus der Tiefe rufe ich\, Herr\, zu dir (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee) was the perfect choice of text for JS Bach to set to music following the colossal fire which swept through the medieval town of Mülhausen just before his appointment as the new organist. \nThis concert explores several fascinating and moving responses to this text through the compositions of one of the fathers of the German Baroque\, Heinrich Schütz\, as well as French and English contemporaries Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Henry Purcell.  \nSchütz Aus der Tiefe rufe ich\, Herr\, zu dir\, SWV 25\nPurcell Remember not\, Lord\, our offences\, Z 50\nCharpentier De profundis\, H. 189\nCPE Bach Aus der Tiefe rufe ich\, Herr\, zu dir (formerly attributed to JS Bach BWV 745)\nJS Bach Aus der Tiefe rufe ich\, Herr\, zu dir\, BWV 131 URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/out-of-the-depths/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oxford-Bach-Soloists.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170604T151500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170604T161500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170511T152724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130233Z UID:4180-1496589300-1496592900@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Royal Wedding DESCRIPTION:An exploration of ‘heavenly’ Royal Weddings sets the theme for this concert dominated by Handel’s magnificent DIXIT DOMINUS. \nD Buxtehude: Alles\, was ihr tut mit Worten oder mit Werken BuxWV 4\n(Whatsoever ye do in word or deed) \nJS Bach: Der Herr denket an uns BWV 196\n(The Lord is mindful of us) \nGF Händel: Dixit Dominus HWV 232\n(The Lord Said) \n1707 was a turning point for Great Britain with the Acts of Union joining the Kingdoms of England and Scotland. Meanwhile\, a more musical transition was taking place in Germany with the three protagonists of this concert: \nDietrich Buxtehude had died\, and Bach and Handel embarked on new adventures in their careers. Both just 22\, Bach had just accepted the post as organist at St Blasius in Mühlhausen\, and Handel had moved from Hamburg to Rome at the invitation of the de’ Medici family. \nBuxtehude’s Cantata Alles\, was ihr tut sets a passage from Colossians often used at weddings: “As God’s chosen ones…’ \nBach greatly admired Buxtehude\, and his influence is keenly felt in Der Herr denket an uns which Bach is thought to have written for a wedding. \nIn the same year\, Handel premièred his rousing Dixit Dominus in the church of Santa Maria in Montesanto in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. A setting of one of the psalms used at Vespers\, it refers to a monarch ruling over their enemies. \n  URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/royal-wedding/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oxford-Bach-Soloists.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170527T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170527T163000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170510T184408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130138Z UID:4147-1495893600-1495902600@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Reformation 500: Sun and Shield DESCRIPTION:FREE – Ticket Required \nDiscover more about JS Bach’s spectacular Cantata 79 ‘Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild’ (God the Lord is sun and shield) in this first event in the series celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. \nAs part of the Taylorian and Faculty of Modern Languages’ series of events marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation\, Oxford Bach Soloists will perform four Reformation cantatas in various locations around the city this year starting with JS Bach’s Cantata 79 ‘Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild’ \nIn this first event of the series\, the introduction will include an opportunity for everyone to learn the chorale and explore some of its musical & theological background. \nAfter the interval there will be two performances of the cantata with an invitation for everyone to join in with the hymn ‘Nun danket alle Gott’. During the short interlude between the two performances there will be a reflection on the cantata shedding more light on its musical and theological context. \nJS Bach\nCantata 79 ‘Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild’\n(God the Lord is sun and shield) \n  URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/reformation-500-sun-and-shield/ LOCATION:St Columba’s URC Church\, Alfred Street\, Oxford\, OX1 4EH\, Alfred Street\, Oxford\, OX1 4EH CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oxford-Bach-Soloists.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170507T174500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170507T174500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170324T003058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130057Z UID:3105-1494179100-1494179100@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Lutheran Vespers DESCRIPTION:JS Bach Cantata 12 Weinen\, Klagen\, Sorgen\, Zagen\n(Weeping\, lamenting\, grieving\, trembling) \nConductor Robert Quinney\nPreacher Revd Angela Tilby\, Diocesan Canon\, Christ Church Oxford \nThe Orchestra of Oxford Bach Soloists and New College Choir present an authentic recreation of Lutheran Vespers\, the context for which JS Bach was writing his cantatas. \nDoors open at 5.30pm. No ticket required. \nIn collaboration with the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford. URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/lutheran-vespers/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oxford-Bach-Soloists.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170429T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170429T173000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170309T073016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130002Z UID:2735-1493483400-1493487000@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Edward Thomas: A Centenary Celebration in Words and Music DESCRIPTION:The Oxford Bach Soloists and a solo cellist perform an entirely new and haunting work\, created by the composer Colin Riley with text by landscape writer Robert McFarlane\, which brings together fragments of Thomas’ collected poetry including lines found in his uniform pocket when he died 100 years ago in April 1917 on the Western Front – ‘Roads Shining Like River Up Hill After Rain’. The event includes readings from the work of this great poet described by Ted Hughes as ‘the father of us all’.  \nTickets £12 \n[av_button label=’BOOK TICKETS’ link=’manually\,http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?pid=8396479&agency=TDC_UK&campid=TDC_NEW_WWW_2013′ link_target=’_blank’ size=’large’ position=’left’ icon_select=’no’ icon=’ue800′ font=’entypo-fontello’ color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ admin_preview_bg=”] URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/edward-thomas-a-centenary-celebration-in-words-and-music/ LOCATION:Stratford Artshouse\, 14 Rother Street\, Stratford-upon-Avon\, CV37 6LU CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oxford-Bach-Soloists.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170415T151500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170415T151500 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170120T071002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T125916Z UID:1694-1492269300-1492269300@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Easter Oratorio DESCRIPTION:Bach’s colossal 1725 Easter Oratorio with its festive scoring for orchestra\, chorus and its four characters Simon Peter\, John the Apostle\, Mary Magdalene\, and Mary Jacobe telling the Easter story. \nBach’s Easter Cantata which precedes it has been described as Bach’s first-known attempt at painting a narrative in music as it explores the battle between Life and Death.  \nA highlight is the world premiere of Colin Riley’s setting of fragments of poetry by Edward Thomas exactly 100 years since his tragic death in the WW1 trenches. At the start of a UK tour the piece is a quiet celebration of his wonderful words\, his troubled life\, and particular ‘Englishness’. \nJoint tickets available with Passion on 14 April. Add full price tickets to both events to your basket and use the coupon code “EASTER” to get them for £40 (save £10). \nColin Riley\nRoads Shining Like River Uphill After Rain\n(world premiere) \nJS Bach\nCantata: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4\n(Christ lay in death’s bonds) \nOster-Oratorium BWV 249\n(Easter Oratorio) URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/easter-oratorio/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oxford-Bach-Soloists.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170414T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170414T133000 DTSTAMP:20260607T001942 CREATED:20170120T070240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T125831Z UID:1689-1492176600-1492176600@www.oxfordbachsoloists.com SUMMARY:Passion DESCRIPTION:One of Bach’s best loved works\, the St John Passion was first performed on Good Friday of 1724 in the St Nicholas Church\, Leipzig. This extravagant work is presented by an ensemble of soloists\, four-part choir\, strings and basso continuo together with pairs of flauti traversi and oboes doubling on oboe da caccia. Bach also uses viola d’amore and viola da gamba to create special colours within the instrumental mix. \nThe narrative is led by the Evangelist with an impressive line-up including Jesus\, Pilate\, Peter\, a maid and two servants. \nJoint tickets available with Easter Oratorio on 15 April. Add full price tickets to both events to your basket and use the coupon code “EASTER” to get them for £40 (save £10). \nJS Bach\nJohannes-Passion BWV 245\n(St John Passion)\n \nTenor/Evangelist: Stefan Kennedy\nChrist: Humphrey Thompson\n Pilate: Brian McAlea\n Sopranos: Betty Makharinsky and Aileen Thomson\n Alto: Alex Chance URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/passion/ LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Oxford-Bach-Soloists.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR