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Wake Up to Bach!

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

It’s time to wake up to two of Bach’s amazing choral and orchestral works written to be performed as part of his annual cycle of church cantatas.

Free – $15

All Roads Lead to Bach

St Mary Magdalen's Church Magdalen Street, Oxford

An evening of music for unaccompanied violin from before and after Bach's time, featuring Bojan Čičić.

Free

Bach Christmas Oratorio

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

Join us for one of Oxford’s most evocative seasonal events in the magical setting of New College Chapel. Oxford Bach Soloists’ Christmas Oratorio is sure to be a memorable way to celebrate Christmas this year.

Free – £20

Calming the Storm

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

Oxford Bach Soloists begin their 2017 season with two cantatas composed especially for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. This is a rather special date as it only occurs when Easter is very late.

Free – $15

Spirits of the Earth

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

Three wonderful works for chorus, soloists and orchestra were all written between 1713 and 1725 and focus around the story of the Parable of the Sower.

Free – $15

The Wages of Sin

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

One of Bach’s rarer latin settings and a cry for Mercy sets the scene for the dissonant opening to Bach’s Cantata calling us to ‘Resist Sin’. Dating from Bach’s days as court composer at the Schlosskirche (court chapel) of Weimar this is one of the composer’s more unusual works for solo alto.

Free – $15

Passion

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

One of Bach’s best loved works, his extravagant St John Passion is presented by an ensemble of soloists, four-part choir and orchestra.

Free – $25

Easter Oratorio

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

Bach’s colossal 1725 Easter Oratorio with its festive scoring is paired with Bach’s Easter Cantata and a new and haunting world premiere by Colin Riley.

Free – $25

Lutheran Vespers

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

The 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.

Reformation 500: Sun and Shield

St Columba's URC Church, Alfred Street, Oxford, OX1 4EH Alfred Street, Oxford

Discover 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.

Free

Royal Wedding

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

An exploration of 'heavenly' Royal Weddings sets the theme for this concert dominated by Handel’s magnificent DIXIT DOMINUS.

Free – $15

Out of the Depths

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

Explore the fascinating and moving settings of the profound text ‘Out of the depths have I cried unto thee’ by JS Bach and his baroque contemporaries.

Free – $15

Actus Tragicus

New College Chapel Holywell Street, Oxford

Alongside one of Bach's most profoundly beautiful cantatas, this concert features instrumental music by Bach’s contemporary, Telemann in his 250th anniversary year.

Free – $15

Christmas Baroque

St Michael's Church Broad Street, Bath

Oxford 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!

Back to Bach: Rosie Moon & Jacob Garside

Our new 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.

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