Toivo Kuula – 3 Fairytale Pictures, Op. 19 No. 1 & 3

Bach-Busoni Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004

4-piece Moonrakers (www.moonrakers.net) perform sparkling and unique arrangements of traditional British folk songs and tunes as well as their own compositions. Their multi-instrumental show comprises harp, cello, fretted instruments, whistles, and female/male vocals. Their live shows are informative, full of musical variety and suitable for all ages (“startlingly talented”, Oxford Times, "exquisite sound", BBC). Included in the show are ancient mystic ballads, beautiful lyrical tunes, and joyous chorus songs. The band’s prolific recorded output has received glowing reviews from the music press (“The real deal”, The Living Tradition; “Wonderful arrangements”, RnR Magazine; “Uplifting, sensitively crafted songs and tunes” FATEA magazine). Their music has been used for the BBC television series ‘Beyond Paradise’, Radio 4 and numerous local radio and podcast shows.
The current line-up includes Becki Luff (Celtic harp) who has played at prestigious venues such as The Wigmore Hall and The Sage; Jacqui Johnson (cellist), formerly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly as a soloist; Jon Bennett (bouzouki, guitar, whistles, bodhran, vocals) an award-winning songwriter and a published composer; and Sarah Fell (vocals) who has run community choirs in Oxfordshire.

4-piece Moonrakers (www.moonrakers.net) perform sparkling and unique arrangements of traditional British folk songs and tunes as well as their own compositions. Their multi-instrumental show comprises harp, cello, fretted instruments, whistles, and female/male vocals. Their live shows are informative, full of musical variety and suitable for all ages (“startlingly talented”, Oxford Times, "exquisite sound", BBC). Included in the show are ancient mystic ballads, beautiful lyrical tunes, and joyous chorus songs. The band’s prolific recorded output has received glowing reviews from the music press (“The real deal”, The Living Tradition; “Wonderful arrangements”, RnR Magazine; “Uplifting, sensitively crafted songs and tunes” FATEA magazine). Their music has been used for the BBC television series ‘Beyond Paradise’, Radio 4 and numerous local radio and podcast shows.
The current line-up includes Becki Luff (Celtic harp) who has played at prestigious venues such as The Wigmore Hall and The Sage; Jacqui Johnson (cellist), formerly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly as a soloist; Jon Bennett (bouzouki, guitar, whistles, bodhran, vocals) an award-winning songwriter and a published composer; and Sarah Fell (vocals) who has run community choirs in Oxfordshire.

A picnic concert in the beautiful Amphitheatre at Waterperry Gardens. Extended interval; bring your own picnic (bar available).
4-piece Moonrakers (www.moonrakers.net) perform sparkling and unique arrangements of traditional British folk songs and tunes as well as their own compositions. Their multi-instrumental show comprises harp, cello, fretted instruments, whistles, and female/male vocals. Their live shows are informative, full of musical variety and suitable for all ages (“startlingly talented”, Oxford Times, "exquisite sound", BBC). Included in the show are ancient mystic ballads, beautiful lyrical tunes, and joyous chorus songs. The band’s prolific recorded output has received glowing reviews from the music press (“The real deal”, The Living Tradition; “Wonderful arrangements”, RnR Magazine; “Uplifting, sensitively crafted songs and tunes” FATEA magazine). Their music has been used for the BBC television series ‘Beyond Paradise’, Radio 4 and numerous local radio and podcast shows.
The current line-up includes Becki Luff (Celtic harp) who has played at prestigious venues such as The Wigmore Hall and The Sage; Jacqui Johnson (cellist), formerly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly as a soloist; Jon Bennett (bouzouki, guitar, whistles, bodhran, vocals) an award-winning songwriter and a published composer; and Sarah Fell (vocals) who has run community choirs in Oxfordshire.

4-piece Moonrakers (www.moonrakers.net) perform sparkling and unique arrangements of traditional British folk songs and tunes as well as their own compositions. Their multi-instrumental show comprises harp, cello, fretted instruments, whistles, and female/male vocals. Their live shows are informative, full of musical variety and suitable for all ages (“startlingly talented”, Oxford Times, "exquisite sound", BBC). Included in the show are ancient mystic ballads, beautiful lyrical tunes, and joyous chorus songs. The band’s prolific recorded output has received glowing reviews from the music press (“The real deal”, The Living Tradition; “Wonderful arrangements”, RnR Magazine; “Uplifting, sensitively crafted songs and tunes” FATEA magazine). Their music has been used for the BBC television series ‘Beyond Paradise’, Radio 4 and numerous local radio and podcast shows.
The current line-up includes Becki Luff (Celtic harp) who has played at prestigious venues such as The Wigmore Hall and The Sage; Jacqui Johnson (cellist), formerly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly as a soloist; Jon Bennett (bouzouki, guitar, whistles, bodhran, vocals) an award-winning songwriter and a published composer; and Sarah Fell (vocals) who has run community choirs in Oxfordshire.

“The stunning young contralto Jess Dandy…offered sumptuous tone and beautiful legato. She’s a name to watch”
NEIL FISHER, THE TIMES

We are delighted that Jess Dandy will be joining us for our spring concert, featuring two two highly expressive choral works, together with Smetana’s well-known symphonic poem Vyšehrad.

The Music Makers is a setting of Ode by the Victorian poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy. Moving between triumph and melancholy, it is an intensely personal work. Elgar wrote ‘I have written out my soul … I have shown myself’, and he includes quotations from earlier works, including the famous theme from Nimrod.

Brahms was responding to a poem by the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, ‘Schicksalslied’, which contrasts the everlasting bliss of the immortals with the suffering of humanity, both wonderfully evoked in Brahms’s music.

Early booking advised!

Robert Dean returns to Oxford Town Hall, with Oxford Orpheus, and Oxford Sinfonia Orchestra, for our tenth anniversary charity concert. This event will be in support of Oxford International Song Festival's Schools Project.
Joined by rising star soloists, Soprano Manon Ogwen Parry and Thomas McGowan to perform Dvorak TE DEUM and Brahms GERMAN REQUIEM.
www.oxfordorpheus.com (Patron Sir Thomas Allen). Reg Charity no: 1169023

Haydn: ‘Emperor’ Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994): String Quartet No. 9 (1968)
Beethoven: Quartet in C# minor, Op. 131

In tonight’s concert, the Villiers Quartet give a rare performance of the characteristically inventive and multi-faceted ninth quartet of Elizabeth Maconchy, a composition that communicates a great deal more than its fifteen-minutes duration might suggest. This is contrasted with two of their respective composers' most expansive works—Beethoven’s seven-movement Op. 131 and Haydn’s ‘Emperor’ Quartet, whose famous slow movement is a set of variations based on the melody that has since become the German national anthem.

with pre-concert talk by Dr Peter Copley at 18:45

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Carnatic Songs: traditional music from South India

Piano recital and new compositions by Ariana Pethard (St Hilda’s)

Mendelssohn – Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14; Fauré – Barcarolle No. 1 in A minor, Op. 26; Pethard – ‘The Love that Never Was’ from First Love, ‘Main Title’ from Windows, Shakespeare Anthem 2023 ‘Mother’, ‘Darkest Recollections’ from Tess of the D’Urbervilles & Capriccio Affettuoso

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