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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20200705T150000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171216T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171216T193000
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170415T184925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171016T130048Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170806T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170806T161500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170521T211421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130414Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170716T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170716T161500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170521T210812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130326Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170604T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170604T161500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170511T152724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130233Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170527T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170527T163000
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170510T184408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130138Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170507T174500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170507T174500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170324T003058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130057Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170429T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170429T173000
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170309T073016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T130002Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170415T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170415T151500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170120T071002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T125916Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170414T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170414T133000
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170120T070240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T125831Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170319T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170319T161500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170120T065956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T125740Z
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SUMMARY:The Wages of Sin
DESCRIPTION:JS Bach \nOne 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. \nThe first of the three motets which follow also comes from Bach’s time at Weimar and tells the story of Jacob’s wrestling with the Angel. The second and third motets bring praise and light to the concert with the third being noted for its delicate and lightly-scored instrumental accompaniment. \nKyrie in F major BWV 233a\nCantata: Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV 54\n(Just resist sin)\nAlto: William Purefoy\nMotet: Ich lasse dich nicht BWV Anh. 159\n(I will not let you go)\nMotet: Komm\, Jesu\, komm BWV 229\n(Come\, Jesus\, come)\nMotet: Lobet den Herrn\, alle Heiden BWV 230\n(Praise the Lord\, all ye nations)
URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/the-wages-of-sin/
LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN
CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170219T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170219T161500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20170120T065552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T125656Z
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SUMMARY:Spirits of the Earth
DESCRIPTION:These 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:  \n‘A sower sows seeds on the path\, on rocky ground and among thorns\, and all are lost; but when it falls on good earth it grows\, yielding thirty\, sixty\, and a hundredfold’. \nBach was working for the co-reigning dukes of Saxe-Weimar when he composed the central cantata in this programme. By 1723 he was at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig where the two flanking works were produced as part of his regular weekly output. \nJS Bach\nCantata: Erhalt uns\, Herr\, bei deinem Wort BWV 126\n(Sustain us\, Lord with your word) \nCantata: Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt BWV 18\n(Just as the rain and snow fall from heaven) \nCantata: Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister BWV 181\n(Light-minded frivolous spirits)
URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/spirits-of-the-earth/
LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN
CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170129T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170129T161500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20161229T123032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T125608Z
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SUMMARY:Calming the Storm
DESCRIPTION:JS Bach\nCantata 81: Jesus schläft\, was soll ich hoffen BWV 81\n(Jesus sleeps\, what shall I hope for?)\nCantata 14: Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit BWV 14\n(Were God not with us at this time) \nMotet: Jesu\, meine Freude BWV 227\n(Jesus\, my joy) \nOxford 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. \nIn both works part of the story tells of Jesus calming a massive storm on the Sea of Galilee. Bach’s depiction of this event ‘like a raging tide and like a foaming wave’ brings the event vividly to life. \nThe cantatas are performed alongside one of the first works from Bach’s time in Leipzig\, Jesu\, meine Freude\, written in 1723 for the funeral of Johanna Maria Käsin\, the wife of that city’s postmaster.
URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/calming-the-storm/
LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN
CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161224T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161224T170000
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20161015T093925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161015T093925Z
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SUMMARY:Bach Christmas Oratorio
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTom Hammond-Davies directs an authentic performance of J. S. Bach’s much loved telling of the Christmas story with the first three parts of his 1734 Christmas Oratorio. This glittering masterpiece describes the Birth of Jesus\, the annunciation to the shepherds\, and the adoration of the shepherds\, \nAfter the performance why not book yourself in for dinner locally so you can also enjoy more music from the Oxford Bach Soloists as they take us into Christmas Day itself from 11pm with Midnight Mass (free admission).
URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-christmas-oratorio/
LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN
CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161207T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161207T190000
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20161122T165058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161122T165058Z
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SUMMARY:All Roads Lead to Bach
DESCRIPTION:An evening of music for unaccompanied violin from before and after Bach’s time.\nBojan Čičić\, baroque violin \nAs one of the rising stars of the world of period performance\, Oxford Bach Soloists’ leader Bojan Čičić is fast making a name for himself with his sensitive and virtuosic playing. \n In addition to being the leader of Florilegium\, he frequently guest directs and performs as a soloist with groups such as the Academy of Ancient Music\, European Union Baroque Orchestra\, and Budapest Festival Orchestra. His recording of J.S.Bach’s Concerto for two violins with Rachel Podger was recently named the best available recording by BBC Music Magazine. \n \nBojan’s own group\, the Illyria Consort\, recently recorded their first disc with Delphian Records for release in March 2017\, a groundbreaking recording of Carbonelli’s virtuosic violin sonatas. The Illyria Consort explores rare repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries from the Venetian Republic and Habsburg Empire\, and have performed at the Utrecht Early Music Festival\, the Korkyra Baroque Festival\, Laus Polyphoniae\, and at the Festival de Sablé.  \nFuture projects include directing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the European Union Baroque Orchestra and performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Instruments of Time and Truth. Bojan is Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music\, and plays a violin by Rugieri from the 1680s\, kindly loaned to him by the Jumpstart Junior Foundation. \nThis concert is in support of Bojan’s debut album\, featuring the works of Giovanni Carbonelli\, one of the leading Italian violinist-composers active in London during the time of Handel\, and a pupil of Correlli.
URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/all-roads-lead-to-bach/
LOCATION:St Mary Magdalen’s Church\, Magdalen Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3AE 
CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161120T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161120T151500
DTSTAMP:20260607T014449
CREATED:20161012T164622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T125436Z
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SUMMARY:Wake Up to Bach!
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWachet! betet! betet! wachet!  cantata dates from 1716 and invites the listener to ‘Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch!’ in a series of choruses and areas concluding with the beautiful chorale “Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht”  \nDating from 1731 Wachet auf\, ruft uns die Stimme is regarded as one of Bach’s most mature and popular sacred cantatas\, often known as Sleeper’s Wake. In this cantata we are reminded of the parable of the Ten Virgins with the words ‘Wake up\, calls the voice to us’. \nTickets £15\, under 18s free
URL:https://www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/wake-up-to-bach/
LOCATION:New College Chapel\, Holywell Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BN
CATEGORIES:Oxford Bach Soloists
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