Concerts and Tours
March
| Monday 5th March | |
| 5.50pm | Evensong at Gloucester Cathedral |
| Friday 16th March | |
| 7.30pm | Concert at St Andrew's, Headington, in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee |
| Sunday 18th March | |
| 10.00am | Morning Service at Northleach |
Passiontide at Merton
| The official Passiontide programme is now available to download. | |
| Saturday 31st March | |
| 2.00pm | Bach: Jesu, meine Freude and organ works |
| Merton College Chapel | |
| William Whitehead Organ | |
| The Choir of Merton College | |
| Benjamin Nicholas Conductor | |
| Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 | |
| Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548 | |
| Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227 | |
| Preludes from The Orgelbüchlein Project | |
| The Orgelbüchlein Project, conceived by William Whitehead, will 'complete' Bach's unfinished collection of Chorale Preludes. The 118 blank pages in Bach's manuscript, on which he carefully inscribed a Chorale title but left no music, are being filled in one by one with new compositions, each one based on the given Chorale. The finished 'Gesamtorgelbüchlein' will be a snap-shot of international compositional styles at the start of the 21st Century, a kaleidoscopic collection of miniatures in homage to Bach. John Caldwell's new prelude receives its first performance and Whitehead completes his contribution with two of Bach's finest Preludes and Fugues. The College Choir completes the programme with the funeral motet Jesu, meine Freude. Tickets: £15 Box Office: 01865 305305 Oxford Playhouse |
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| 4.30pm | The Master of the Temple |
| T S Eliot Theatre | |
| A talk by Robin Griffith-Jones Tickets: £3 (available on the door) |
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| 6.00pm | Choral Evensong |
| Merton College Chapel | |
| The Choir of Merton College | |
| Salvator mundi Tallis | |
| Second Service Gibbons | |
| Take him, earth, for cherishing Howells | |
| 9.30pm | Lamentations |
| Merton College Chapel | |
| Sospiri | |
| Christopher Watson Conductor | |
| The Lord is good Cecilia McDowell | |
| O vos omnes Pablo Casals | |
| Lamentations Dominique Phinot | |
| Ye that passeth Benjamin Britten | |
| Lamentations John Duggan | |
| O vos omnes Pablo Ortiz | |
| Lamentations John Mundy | |
| O vos omnes Ralph Vaughan Williams | |
| Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst Rudolph Mauersberger | |
| A sublime programme contrasting settings of The Lamentations of Jeremiah with O vos omnes, words from the Reproaches of Good Friday. Sospiri, well known for their singing of Gregorian chant and renaissance music, are fast establishing a place amongst Oxford's finest mixed-voice choirs. Tickets: £10 Box Office: 01865 305305 Oxford Playhouse |
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| Sunday 1st April | |
| 10.30am | Procession and Sung Eucharist of the Lord's Passion |
| Under Fitzjames Arch, with procession into Merton College Chapel | |
| The Choir of Merton College | |
| The Reverend Dr Simon Jones Celebrant and Preacher | |
| Hosanna to the Son of David Gibbons | |
| Missa Triueriensis Jackson | |
| O Sacrum Convivium Jackson | |
| 5.00pm | Bach: St John Passion |
| Merton College Chapel | |
| The Choir of Merton College | |
| Charivari Agréable | |
| Christopher Watson Evangelist | |
| Giles Underwood Christus | |
| Carys Lane Soprano | |
| Jeremy Kenyon Alto | |
| Paul Smy Tenor | |
| Christopher Borrett Bass | |
| Benjamin Nicholas Conductor | |
| Perhaps the most expressive and immediate of Bach’s Passion settings, the St John Passion’s lacerating acccount of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ finds Bach at his most operatic. A distinguished group of soloists join the College Choir and the period Oxford-based ensemble Charivari Agréable. Tickets: £20, £12 (Ante-Chapel) Box Office: 01865 305305 Oxford Playhouse |
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| FESTIVAL TICKET | |
| Why not be resident at Merton for the festival? Tickets are available at £200 per person. This includes: |
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| - en suite accommodation at Merton College for the Saturday night | |
| - a ticket to each event | |
| - tea and dinner on Saturday | |
| - breakfast and lunch on Sunday | |
| For a FESTIVAL TICKET, please contact Rachel Fright (01865 616724) | |
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