Choir of Merton College, Oxford (Ensemble)
Benjamin Nicholas (Conductor)

One of Oxford's finest chapel choirs presents a programme of motets by Brahms and composers he would have conducted as director of the Wiener Singakademie, including Schütz, Gabrieli and Bach. Also included is a rare arrrangement of Mahler's 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' from the Rückert Lieder.

PROGRAMME:

Giovanni Gabrieli (1557 - 1612)
Jubilate Deo; motet for 8 voices (Ch. 16)

Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672)
Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock (SWV 389)

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Chorale Prelude (Organ)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (BWV 226)

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Geistliches Lied (Op. 30)

Chorale Prelude (Organ)

Warum ist das Licht gegeben (Op. 74 no. 1)

Gustav Mahler, arranged Clytus Gottwald
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen