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2009
Saturday 28 February, 7:30pm
St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Rd., Oxford
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Five centuries of Sacred and Secular Music
An evening of music for friends and supporters of the choir.
Saturday 4 April, 8pm
St Peter's College Chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
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Music for Double Choir
including Palestrina, Gabrieli, Parry, Frank Martin.
Saturday 20 June, 7:30pm
Pershore Abbey
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CELEBRATION
Music to celebrate significant anniversaries of Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn
Booking details t.b.a. [see Pershore Abbey website]
Saturday 17 October, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton St., Oxford
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Saturday 21 November 8pm
Church of St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
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Music for Advent
Saturday 19 December, 6:00pm (please note early start)
Merton College Chapel, Merton St., Oxford
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Oxford Pro Musica Singers' famous concert of Christmas music
for choir and audience.
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Saturday 28 February, 7:30pm
St Margaret's Church, St Margaret's Rd., Oxford
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Five centuries of Sacred and Secular Music
An evening of music for friends and supporters of the choir.
Saturday 4 April, 8pm
St Peter's College Chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
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Music for Double Choir
including Palestrina, Gabrieli, Parry, Frank Martin.
Saturday 20 June, 7:30pm
Pershore Abbey
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CELEBRATION
Music to celebrate significant anniversaries of Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn
Booking details t.b.a. [see Pershore Abbey website]
Saturday 17 October, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton St., Oxford
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Saturday 21 November 8pm
Church of St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
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Music for Advent
Saturday 19 December, 6:00pm (please note early start)
Merton College Chapel, Merton St., Oxford
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Oxford Pro Musica Singers' famous concert of Christmas music
for choir and audience.
To be kept in touch with news of future OPMS concerts, events and recordings, please join our email mailing list.
2008
Saturday 15 March, 8pm
St Peter's College Chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
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Music for the Lenten Season
including Byrd, Shepherd, Lotti, Leighton
Saturday 26 April, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
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Music for Double Choir
including Palestrina, Gabrieli, Parry, Frank Martin
Saturday 28 June, 8pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Brahms: German Requiem
with Richard Markham and David Nettle (piano duet)
Saturday 18 October, 8pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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Vaughan Williams: Oxford Elegy
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
with Oxford Sinfonia
Saturday 22 November
Church of St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
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Concert for St Cecilia
Saturday 6 December, 7 pm
St Nicholas Church, Newbury
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The Newbury Christmas Cancer Concert
A joint event organised by Macmillan Cancer Support and the Newbury and District Cancer Care Trust, featuring the Oxford Pro Musica Singers and introduced by Mr Harry Henderson, High Sheriff of Berkshire 2007-2008
See the Macmillan website
Saturday 20 December, 7:30pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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Oxford Pro Musica Singers' famous concert of Christmas music for choir and audience.
Saturday 15 March, 8pm
St Peter's College Chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
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Music for the Lenten Season
including Byrd, Shepherd, Lotti, Leighton
Saturday 26 April, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
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Music for Double Choir
including Palestrina, Gabrieli, Parry, Frank Martin
Saturday 28 June, 8pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Brahms: German Requiem
with Richard Markham and David Nettle (piano duet)
Saturday 18 October, 8pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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Vaughan Williams: Oxford Elegy
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
with Oxford Sinfonia
Saturday 22 November
Church of St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
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Concert for St Cecilia
Saturday 6 December, 7 pm
St Nicholas Church, Newbury
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The Newbury Christmas Cancer Concert
A joint event organised by Macmillan Cancer Support and the Newbury and District Cancer Care Trust, featuring the Oxford Pro Musica Singers and introduced by Mr Harry Henderson, High Sheriff of Berkshire 2007-2008
See the Macmillan website
Saturday 20 December, 7:30pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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Oxford Pro Musica Singers' famous concert of Christmas music for choir and audience.
2007
Saturday 24 February, 8pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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A feast of choral music with Bach's sublime motet 'Jesu Meine Freude' and John Rutter's 'Birthday Madrigals' at its heart. This concert also includes music by four composers who are celebrating significant birthdays in 2007: John Gardner, Gordon Crosse, Howard Skempton and Francis Pott.
Saturday 31 March, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
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William Byrd: motets from Gradualia
Thomas Morley: anthems and madrigals
J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm
Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
With Domenico Scarlatti's lenten masterpiece, the double choir Stabat Mater, and Bach's ravishing funeral motet Komm, Jesu, Komm as its twin highlights, this concert will be a richly rewarding experience, appropriate to this season of reflection. As well as celebrating the 250th anniversary of Scarlatti's death, this programme also celebrates the 400th anniversary of William Byrd's Gradualia - a complete setting of the music necessary for the Catholic Mass throughout the year, written and distributed covertly under the reign of the protestant Queen Elizabeth I. And the 450th anniversary of the birth of the great Elizabethan composer Thomas Morley is also marked by the performance of some of his most beautiful church anthems and madrigals. Topped off by the instrumental perfomance of parts of Bach's 'Musical Offering', this concert, in the beautiful surroundings of Merton College chapel, should not be missed.
Saturday 12 May, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
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Palestrina, arr. J.S. Bach: Missa Brevis
David Bedford: The Soft Stars That Shine at Night (World premiere)
Gabriel Faure: Requiem
This concert sees the first performance of 'The Soft Stars That Shine at Night', by David Bedford, who celebrates his seventieth birthday this year. Commissioned by 'Making Music', the piece, for choir and small orchestra, will be performed by various groups around Britain this year, but this performance will be the first. It is joined on the bill by Faure's ever-popular Requiem, performed in this concert in the beautiful arrangement for choir and small orchestra. The combined genius of Palestrina and Bach completes this exquisite programme.
Saturday 23 June, 7.30pm
J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor
Saturday 20 October, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
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J.S. Bach: Der Geist Hilft, Furchte Dich Nicht
Paul Patterson: Missa Brevis
And music by Elizabeth Maconchy, John Joubert and Nicola LeFanu.
Continuing this season's theme of important anniversaries, this concert celebrates the eightieth birthday of John Joubert, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Maconchy and the sixtieth birthday of her daughter, Nicola LeFanu. The sixtieth birthday of composer Paul Patterson is marked by a performance of his Missa Brevis, which is set against two of Bach's immortal motets. Taking advantage of one of Oxford's finest settings, and one of its best acoustics, this is a concert for all lovers of choral music.
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions).
Available on the door.
Thursday 22 November, 8pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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Oxford Pro Musica Singers 30th Anniversary Concert
J.S. Bach: Lobet den Herring
J.S. Bach: Jauchzet dem Herrn
G.F. Handel: The King Shall Rejoice
G.F. Handel: Zadok the Priest
Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia
Gabriel Jackson: Cecilia Virgo
Bob Chilcott: The Making of the Drum
Tickets £12 (£8 concessions).
Available on the door.
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford
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Bach's magnificent Mass in B Minor is perhaps the finest achievement of the greatest composer who ever lived, and it is one of the towering pinnacles of Western music. With it the Oxford Pro Musica Singers celebrate their thirtieth anniversary and the sixtieth birthday of their conductor and founder, Michael Smedley
Joanna Forbes, soprano
James Bowman, countertenor
Alastair Thompson, tenor
Giles Underwood, bass
Charivari Agreable Simfonie, Oxford's period instrument orchestra,
directed by Kah-Ming Ng
Conducted by Michael Smedley
Saturday 14 July, 8pm
Exeter College Chapel, Turl Street, Oxford
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J.S. Bach: Singet den Herrn
Dietrich Buxtehude: Missa Brevis
Edward Elgar: motets and part songs
Jean Langlais: Messe Solennelle
Saturday 24 February, 8pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
[Multimap | Google]
A feast of choral music with Bach's sublime motet 'Jesu Meine Freude' and John Rutter's 'Birthday Madrigals' at its heart. This concert also includes music by four composers who are celebrating significant birthdays in 2007: John Gardner, Gordon Crosse, Howard Skempton and Francis Pott.
Saturday 31 March, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
[Multimap | Google]
William Byrd: motets from Gradualia
Thomas Morley: anthems and madrigals
J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm
Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
With Domenico Scarlatti's lenten masterpiece, the double choir Stabat Mater, and Bach's ravishing funeral motet Komm, Jesu, Komm as its twin highlights, this concert will be a richly rewarding experience, appropriate to this season of reflection. As well as celebrating the 250th anniversary of Scarlatti's death, this programme also celebrates the 400th anniversary of William Byrd's Gradualia - a complete setting of the music necessary for the Catholic Mass throughout the year, written and distributed covertly under the reign of the protestant Queen Elizabeth I. And the 450th anniversary of the birth of the great Elizabethan composer Thomas Morley is also marked by the performance of some of his most beautiful church anthems and madrigals. Topped off by the instrumental perfomance of parts of Bach's 'Musical Offering', this concert, in the beautiful surroundings of Merton College chapel, should not be missed.
Saturday 12 May, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
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Palestrina, arr. J.S. Bach: Missa Brevis
David Bedford: The Soft Stars That Shine at Night (World premiere)
Gabriel Faure: Requiem
This concert sees the first performance of 'The Soft Stars That Shine at Night', by David Bedford, who celebrates his seventieth birthday this year. Commissioned by 'Making Music', the piece, for choir and small orchestra, will be performed by various groups around Britain this year, but this performance will be the first. It is joined on the bill by Faure's ever-popular Requiem, performed in this concert in the beautiful arrangement for choir and small orchestra. The combined genius of Palestrina and Bach completes this exquisite programme.
Saturday 23 June, 7.30pm
J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor
Saturday 20 October, 8pm
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
[Multimap | Google]
J.S. Bach: Der Geist Hilft, Furchte Dich Nicht
Paul Patterson: Missa Brevis
And music by Elizabeth Maconchy, John Joubert and Nicola LeFanu.
Continuing this season's theme of important anniversaries, this concert celebrates the eightieth birthday of John Joubert, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Maconchy and the sixtieth birthday of her daughter, Nicola LeFanu. The sixtieth birthday of composer Paul Patterson is marked by a performance of his Missa Brevis, which is set against two of Bach's immortal motets. Taking advantage of one of Oxford's finest settings, and one of its best acoustics, this is a concert for all lovers of choral music.
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions).
Available on the door.
Thursday 22 November, 8pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford
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Oxford Pro Musica Singers 30th Anniversary Concert
J.S. Bach: Lobet den Herring
J.S. Bach: Jauchzet dem Herrn
G.F. Handel: The King Shall Rejoice
G.F. Handel: Zadok the Priest
Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia
Gabriel Jackson: Cecilia Virgo
Bob Chilcott: The Making of the Drum
Tickets £12 (£8 concessions).
Available on the door.
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford
[Multimap | Google]
Bach's magnificent Mass in B Minor is perhaps the finest achievement of the greatest composer who ever lived, and it is one of the towering pinnacles of Western music. With it the Oxford Pro Musica Singers celebrate their thirtieth anniversary and the sixtieth birthday of their conductor and founder, Michael Smedley
Joanna Forbes, soprano
James Bowman, countertenor
Alastair Thompson, tenor
Giles Underwood, bass
Charivari Agreable Simfonie, Oxford's period instrument orchestra,
directed by Kah-Ming Ng
Conducted by Michael Smedley
Saturday 14 July, 8pm
Exeter College Chapel, Turl Street, Oxford
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J.S. Bach: Singet den Herrn
Dietrich Buxtehude: Missa Brevis
Edward Elgar: motets and part songs
Jean Langlais: Messe Solennelle
2006
Sunday 8 January 2006, 6pm
Epiphany Carol Service
St Margaret's Church, Oxford
OPMS sing a service of lessons and carols for Epiphany.
Saturday 4 March 2006, 8pm
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
A Concert of Reflective Music for Lent
The Church of St Michael at the Northgate, Cornmarket Street, Oxford
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A concert of moving and reflective sacred music for Lent, including music by Bruckner, Gesualdo, Byrd, Walton and Leighton, and featuring three different settings of Crucifixus by Antonio Lotti and Allegri's famous Miserere.
Oxford Times review
Download the poster: View Poster
Saturday 20 May 2006, 8pm
Lux Aeterna
The chapel of Merton College, Oxford
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A programme of twentieth-century choral music, including John Rutter's Requiem and Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen.
Download the poster: View Poster
Saturday 15 July 2006, 8pm
Gloria!
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
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An unmissable programme of baroque choral and orchestral music, including Purcell's Jubilate in D, Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem, Bach's Cantata 51 'Jauchzet Gott', Handel oboe concerto in B flat, and the Gloria by Vivaldi, with leading period-instrument ensemble Charivari Agréable Simfonie, directed by Kah-Ming Ng.
Download more information in pdf format: Gloria!
Saturday 21 October 2006, 8pm
Sing for the World
St Margaret's Church, Oxford
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An attractive programme of twentieth century choral music, including Spirituals arranged by Michael Tippett, and Mike Brewer/Alexander L'Estrange, folksongs arranged by Vaughan Williams, and 'The Making of the Drum' by Bob Chilcott.
This concert is part of Oxjam, and proceeds will be divided between Oxfam and the St Margaret's Church organ appeal.
Saturday 16 December 2006, 7.30pm
A Celebration of Christmas
Keble College Chapel, Parks Road, Oxford
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This year the magnificent and lofty Victorian chapel of Keble College plays host to Oxford Pro Musica Singers' famous and popular Christmas concert, featuring beautiful Christmas music from across the centuries to suit all tastes.
Sunday 8 January 2006, 6pm
Epiphany Carol Service
St Margaret's Church, Oxford
OPMS sing a service of lessons and carols for Epiphany.
Saturday 4 March 2006, 8pm
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
A Concert of Reflective Music for Lent
The Church of St Michael at the Northgate, Cornmarket Street, Oxford
[Multimap | Google]
A concert of moving and reflective sacred music for Lent, including music by Bruckner, Gesualdo, Byrd, Walton and Leighton, and featuring three different settings of Crucifixus by Antonio Lotti and Allegri's famous Miserere.
Oxford Times review
Download the poster: View Poster
Saturday 20 May 2006, 8pm
Lux Aeterna
The chapel of Merton College, Oxford
[Multimap | Google]
A programme of twentieth-century choral music, including John Rutter's Requiem and Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen.
Download the poster: View Poster
Saturday 15 July 2006, 8pm
Gloria!
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
[Multimap | Google]
An unmissable programme of baroque choral and orchestral music, including Purcell's Jubilate in D, Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem, Bach's Cantata 51 'Jauchzet Gott', Handel oboe concerto in B flat, and the Gloria by Vivaldi, with leading period-instrument ensemble Charivari Agréable Simfonie, directed by Kah-Ming Ng.
Download more information in pdf format: Gloria!
Saturday 21 October 2006, 8pm
Sing for the World
St Margaret's Church, Oxford
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An attractive programme of twentieth century choral music, including Spirituals arranged by Michael Tippett, and Mike Brewer/Alexander L'Estrange, folksongs arranged by Vaughan Williams, and 'The Making of the Drum' by Bob Chilcott.
This concert is part of Oxjam, and proceeds will be divided between Oxfam and the St Margaret's Church organ appeal.
Saturday 16 December 2006, 7.30pm
A Celebration of Christmas
Keble College Chapel, Parks Road, Oxford
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This year the magnificent and lofty Victorian chapel of Keble College plays host to Oxford Pro Musica Singers' famous and popular Christmas concert, featuring beautiful Christmas music from across the centuries to suit all tastes.
2005
Friday 8 July 2005, 8pm
The Glories of Venice
The chapel of Merton College, Oxford
A programme of music for multiple choirs and orchestra by the masters of early baroque Venice: Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi. The Oxford Pro Musica Singers are joined in this concert by the acclaimed period-instrument band Charivari Agreable Simfonie, directed by Kah-Ming Ng.
Programme (PDF) : page 1/8 | page 2/7 | page 3/6 | page 4/5
Saturday 10 September 2005, 7.30pm
Sing Joyfully!
St Giles' Church, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire
A mixed programme of popular choral music performed in aid of Tetsworth Church in its centenary year.
Programme: View PDF
Saturday 5 November 2005, 8pm
Thomas Tallis
The chapel of Merton College, Oxford
A programme of music by Thomas Tallis, to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth, and other choral music, including works by Gibbons, Purcell, Wesley, Parry, Stanford, Rutter and Tavener.
Programme: View programme (MS Word)
Friday 18 and Saturday 19 November 2005, 8pm
Alpha Omega
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford
An oratorio written and composed by David Gordon.
Soloists: Joanna Forbes and Michael Dore. The Oxford Pro Musica Singers.
Narrated by Philip Madoc. Conducted by Derek Wadsworth.
Promoted by Holding On Productions.
Saturday 17 December 2005, 7.30pm
Noël!
A Choral Christmas Celebration
The chapel of Merton College, Oxford
Oxford Pro Musica's justifiably popular Christmas concert, featuring beautifully sung Christmas music to suit all tastes in a wonderfully atmospheric setting.
Friday 8 July 2005, 8pm
The Glories of Venice
The chapel of Merton College, Oxford
A programme of music for multiple choirs and orchestra by the masters of early baroque Venice: Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi. The Oxford Pro Musica Singers are joined in this concert by the acclaimed period-instrument band Charivari Agreable Simfonie, directed by Kah-Ming Ng.
Programme (PDF) : page 1/8 | page 2/7 | page 3/6 | page 4/5
Saturday 10 September 2005, 7.30pm
Sing Joyfully!
St Giles' Church, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire
A mixed programme of popular choral music performed in aid of Tetsworth Church in its centenary year.
Programme: View PDF
Saturday 5 November 2005, 8pm
Thomas Tallis
The chapel of Merton College, Oxford
A programme of music by Thomas Tallis, to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth, and other choral music, including works by Gibbons, Purcell, Wesley, Parry, Stanford, Rutter and Tavener.
Programme: View programme (MS Word)
Friday 18 and Saturday 19 November 2005, 8pm
Alpha Omega
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford
An oratorio written and composed by David Gordon.
Soloists: Joanna Forbes and Michael Dore. The Oxford Pro Musica Singers.
Narrated by Philip Madoc. Conducted by Derek Wadsworth.
Promoted by Holding On Productions.
Saturday 17 December 2005, 7.30pm
Noël!
A Choral Christmas Celebration
The chapel of Merton College, Oxford
Oxford Pro Musica's justifiably popular Christmas concert, featuring beautifully sung Christmas music to suit all tastes in a wonderfully atmospheric setting.
2003
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