Saturday 14th March 2020
19:00
St Peter's Church, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
Members of Commotio present a sensational concert of scintillating repertoire for small chamber choir. Ahead of Commotio's trip to Festival for Peace in Kyoto, this select group of singers will showcase the very best of Commotio's contemporary repertoire, and more established choral favourites.Repertoire to include works by: Bob Chilcott, Cecilia McDowall, Antonio Lotti, Rebecca Clarke, William Harris and Alfred Desenclos
Tickets: £10 (free for schoolage children) are available on the door
19:00
St Peter's Church, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
Members of Commotio present a sensational concert of scintillating repertoire for small chamber choir. Ahead of Commotio's trip to Festival for Peace in Kyoto, this select group of singers will showcase the very best of Commotio's contemporary repertoire, and more established choral favourites.Repertoire to include works by: Bob Chilcott, Cecilia McDowall, Antonio Lotti, Rebecca Clarke, William Harris and Alfred Desenclos
Tickets: £10 (free for schoolage children) are available on the door
Saturday 21st March 2020
19:30
Keble College Chapel, 16 Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PG
with David Bednall (Organ)
Alfred Desenclos: Messe de Requiem
Alfred Desenclos: Salve Regina
Naji Hakim: Messe Solennelle
19:30
Keble College Chapel, 16 Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PG
with David Bednall (Organ)
Alfred Desenclos: Messe de Requiem
Alfred Desenclos: Salve Regina
Naji Hakim: Messe Solennelle
Saturday 18th April 2020
19:00
St Mary le More, High Street, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
As further fundraising for Japan 2020, the Kyotio Consort join forces with the Ravenscroft Consort (director: Stephen Cassidy) for a concert of early music focussed around 'Culture and trade in late 16th/early 17th Century Europe'.
Stephen Cassidy writes: "We associate the renaissance and the birth of the baroque with Italy. We counterbalance this view with music of the period from North West Europe, and in particular the countries which had formed the Hanseatic League. This powerful trading block fuelled cultural as well as material riches. Principally England, Germany and Poland competed with the then extensive Danish and Netherlandish fleets – stimulating a competitive creativity. The music of the time transcends all these divisions: Much of the music of the Danish court shares a common musical language with English composers (eg Parsons). The Danish King employed English musicians (Dowland) and sent two of his Danish composers (eg Borchgrevinck) to study in Italy with the great Giovani Gabrieli. Heinrich Schutz, the great composer from Saxony was sent to Venice for the same purpose, and Venice itself only developed its famous multi-choir style after poaching the Flemish composer Adrian Willeart. Polish music (eg Jarzebski) likewise inherits some of the innovations of the baroque from its south and west. The English composer John Cooper used the pen-name Coperario to feign a more fashionable Italian nationality
The concert will feature large and small scale instrumental and vocal pieces representing composers from all these countries showing how they relate and contrast."
Tickets available on the door
19:00
St Mary le More, High Street, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
As further fundraising for Japan 2020, the Kyotio Consort join forces with the Ravenscroft Consort (director: Stephen Cassidy) for a concert of early music focussed around 'Culture and trade in late 16th/early 17th Century Europe'.
Stephen Cassidy writes: "We associate the renaissance and the birth of the baroque with Italy. We counterbalance this view with music of the period from North West Europe, and in particular the countries which had formed the Hanseatic League. This powerful trading block fuelled cultural as well as material riches. Principally England, Germany and Poland competed with the then extensive Danish and Netherlandish fleets – stimulating a competitive creativity. The music of the time transcends all these divisions: Much of the music of the Danish court shares a common musical language with English composers (eg Parsons). The Danish King employed English musicians (Dowland) and sent two of his Danish composers (eg Borchgrevinck) to study in Italy with the great Giovani Gabrieli. Heinrich Schutz, the great composer from Saxony was sent to Venice for the same purpose, and Venice itself only developed its famous multi-choir style after poaching the Flemish composer Adrian Willeart. Polish music (eg Jarzebski) likewise inherits some of the innovations of the baroque from its south and west. The English composer John Cooper used the pen-name Coperario to feign a more fashionable Italian nationality
The concert will feature large and small scale instrumental and vocal pieces representing composers from all these countries showing how they relate and contrast."
Tickets available on the door
Saturday 13th June 2020
19:30
St John the Evangelist, 109A Iffley Road, Oxford OX4 1EH
Details to follow
19:30
St John the Evangelist, 109A Iffley Road, Oxford OX4 1EH
Details to follow