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Happy New Year from Oxford Bach Soloists
On behalf of the Oxford Bach Soloists, I would like to wish our friends and followers a very Happy New Year! We enjoyed a sell-out performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio on 24th December. It was the perfect way to start the Christmas season, and we are very much...
Singing the Reformation video launch
A 26-minute video has been launched featuring the Oxford Bach Soloists 2016 tour to Germany with Singing the Reformation under their director Tom Hammond Davies. The film traces the tour in July to some of the most fascinating historic buildings in Lower Saxony....
Wake up to Bach this weekend
This Sunday at 3.15pm Tom Hammond Davies directs the Oxford Bach Soloists in a performance of two of Bach’s amazing Cantatas in the glorious setting of New College, Oxford. But why did Bach compose these works? Bach wrote Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! (Watch! Pray!...
Two exciting concerts to enjoy before Christmas
Two exciting concerts celebrating the music of J.S.Bach are scheduled in the atmospheric setting of New College, Oxford with Wake up to Bach! in November and the famous Christmas Oratorio on Christmas Eve. Wake Up to Bach! It’s time to Wake up to two of Bach’s amazing...
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...
New Oxford Bach Soloists website launches
The new website for the Oxford Bach Soloists has launched.