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PREVIOUS CONCERTS

Concert posters from recent years are shown below. If you would like to know which works Oxford Harmonic Choir is performing this season, visit the Concerts page.

For a complete list of works performed since 1921, please click here.

2022-23 Season

Bach Christmas Oratorio

26 November 2022, 7.30 pm, Oxford Town Hall

Susanna Fairbairn – soprano
Joanna Harries – mezzo soprano
Robyn Lyn Evans – tenor
Timothy Nelson – bass

Oxford Harmonic Choir’s new season opens with a seasonal classic: J.S. Bach’s much-loved Christmas Oratorio. The work is made up of six cantatas, each focusing on one aspect of the Christmas story, originally performed on separate days over the Christmas period. We will perform part 1, The birth of Jesus; part 3, The adoration of the shepherds; part 5, The journey of the magi; part 6, The adoration of the magi. The opening words of part 1 ‘Jauchzet, frohlocket’ ‘Rejoice, exult’, set the tone of the whole sequence. This is Bach at his most joyful and celebratory, especially in the splendid choruses that open each part.

Mendelssohn Elijah

1 April 2023, 7.30 pm, Oxford Town Hall

Katherine Crompton – soprano
Arlene Rolph – mezzo soprano
Simon Ashmead – tenor
Thomas Humphreys – baritone

For our spring concert, we will perform another huge favourite with audiences and singers alike: Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah. First performed in Birmingham Town Hall in 1846, it contains some of the composer’s greatest music, with magnificent choruses, beautiful arias and imaginative orchestration. The story from the Old Testament, containing many natural phenomena – drought, fire, rain, and earthquake – offers much scope for expressive writing, and the work combines many moments of high drama with more lyrical passages of the kind normally associated with the composer. Together with Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation, Elijah forms a trio of the most popular oratorios in the choral repertoire.

Duruflé & Fauré Requiems

10 June 2023, 7.30 pm, Oxford Town Hall

Susan Young – soprano
Camilla Seale – mezzo
Philip Smith – baritone

Our summer concert offers a wonderful opportunity to enjoy and compare the two requiems of Fauré (first performed 1888 and revised for performances in 1893 and 1900) and Duruflé (written 1947, revised 1948 and 1961). Both composers chose a similar set of texts (omitting most of the terrifying Dies Irae and adding in the final hopeful In Paradisum) and both adopted an intimate, reflective approach to these texts. Both, too, took inspiration from plainsong. The Fauré is famously lyrical and serene, while the Duruflé moves between tranquillity and anguished drama.  Comments posted by listeners on performances that can be heard on YouTube testify to the emotional power of both.

2021-22 Season

           

2019-20 Season

2018-19 Season

          

2017-18 Season

Christmas Oratorio web minimal      Missa Solemnis web minimal      The Seasons web minimal

2016-17 Season

ELGAR WEB minimal      TIPPETT WEB minimal      HANDEL WEB minimal

2015-16 Season

Beethoven Choral Symphony and Bruckner Te Deum      Dvorak The Spectre Bride      Bach B Minor Mass

2014-15 Season

Verdi minimal for website      Spohr minimal for website      Gounod minimal for website

2013-14 Season

2013 Nov VW Charpentier poster jpg          2014 Mar Elijah poster          2014 June Mozart poster - website

2012-13 Season

2012 Nov Faure poster v3 final          2013 Mar Bach poster          2013 Jun Saul poster

2011-12 Season

2011 Nov Messiah poster          2012 March Loewe poster final draft          2012 June Creation poster
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