Days Are Where We Live: a musical journey through the day from sunrise to sunset.
City of Oxford Choir, Duncan Aspden (conductor), Anna Markland (piano)
Our programme leads us on a musical journey through the day from dawn to dusk. In between we will explore the days where we live through a sequence of music celebrating the best of creative idleness, eating and drinking, roaming, laughing and loving. A highlight of the programme is Brahms op. 92, a quartet of partsongs featuring the beguiling and romantic O schoene Nacht! (O beautiful Night!) and Abendlied (Evening Song). We will also feature pieces by Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, which she did at the age of only nineteen. Zoe Martlew's Karakia sets a traditional Maori prayer and, along with James Whitbourn's The Twenty-Eight Times, represents contemporary choral writing, both having been published in the last ten years. We will round out our songs of the day with pieces by Kodaly, Saint-Saens and more.
Please join the City of Oxford Choir and the incomparable Anna Markland on piano for this thoughtful musical exploration of what days are for.