OSJ Ashmolean Voices
OSJ proms Ashmolean Museum n Tonight, 7.30pm
Tickets: 0845 680 1926
Join the OSJ for this special tribute to St Cecilia, the patron saint of music, in the gloriously atmospheric setting of the Ashmolean’s Atrium. The programme includes Purcell’s Ode for St Cecilia and Hail! Bright Cecilia, Handel’s Ode for St Cecilia’s Day and Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia.
Philharmonia/ Nelsons
BRAHMS CYCLE
Friday, 7.30pm
Tickets: 01865 244806 or visit musicatoxford.com
Music at Oxford’s new season kicks off in glorious style with this wonderful celebration of Brahms, presented by one of the UK’s most prestigious orchestras and their dynamic guest conductor, Andris Nelsons. The programme includes Brahms’ first and third symphonies, both regarded as pinnacles of the German romantic repertoire, alongside his lesser-known St Anthony Variations, one of his earliest symphonic works.
City of Oxford choir
DURUFLE requiem & gretchaninov missa festiva
Exeter College Chapel
Saturday, 7.30pm
Tickets: 01865 305305 or ticketsoxford.com
Exeter College Chapel is the perfect venue for these masses, written in Paris during the 20th century. Duruflé’s Requiem was influenced by Fauré and abounds with sublime melodies, while Gretchaninov’s less familiar Missa Festiva reflects French and Russian influences with its harmonic and rhythmic inventiveness. With Steven Grahl (organ), Carris Jones (mezzo), Christopher Jacklin (baritone) and Duncan Aspden.
Music in the Abbey
VIOLIN & Piano recital
St Nicholas Church, Abingdon
Sunday, 3pm
Tickets: 07775 904626 or on the door
Enjoy a relaxing Sunday afternoon with this contrasting programme, which ranges from the typically German romantic feel of Beethoven’s Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major to the 20th century brilliance of Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano and Janacek’s Sonata for Violin and Piano. With John Haworth (violin) and Marcus Andrews (piano).
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