Sing Joyfully! 23 March 2024, St Michael at the Northgate

Claudio Monteverdi Cantate Domino; William Byrd Sing Joyfully; Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with music by Bernard Hughes, Paul Ayres, Franz Schubert, Sarah Quartel, B. E. Boykin, Robert Harris, Reginald Wright

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A time of remembrance 11 November 2023, St Mary & St John, Cowley Rd

Duruflé Requiem; Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden; Guest For the Fallen; Parry Crossing the Bar; Harris Bring Us O Lord God; 

Elgar They Are at Rest

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In the Mood 1 July 2023, St Michael & All Angels Church, Summertown 

Chilcott A little jazz mass; Rutter Birthday Madrigals; selections from the close-harmony book In The Mood

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They that go down to the sea  1 April 2023, St Michael & All Angels Church, Summertown

Stanford Songs of the fleet; Mäntyjärvi Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae and works by Arbo, Sumsiun, Vivian and others

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Christmas at Home 10 December 2022, St Margaret's Church

Vaughan Williams  Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Howells Here is the Little Door, A Spotless Rose; Britten A Hymn to the Virgin; McDowall Advent Moon; Chilcott O Little Town of Bethlehem

 

CANTATE! 25 June 2022, St Michael at the Northgate 

Buxtehude Magnificat; Handel Zadok the Priest; works by Byrd, Palestrina, Monteverdi, Purcell and Bach

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SONGS OF SPRINGTIME 26 March 2022, St Michael at the Northgate

Works by Moeran, Shearing, Whitacre, Pearsall and Anna Disley- Simpson

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THE PASSING OF THE YEAR 27 November 2021, St Margaret's Church

Dove The passing of the year;  works by Barber, Lauredsen, Gardner and Beamish

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SING FOR JOY! 23 November 2019, Exeter College Chapel

Stanford Te Deum in B flat; Three motets; Purcell Te Deum in D; Johnson Gloria; Works by Byrd, Tallis and Gibbons; Spirituals

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CHOIR AND HARP Choral music with the queen of instruments 29 June 2019, Holywell Music Room                       

Bassi: Harpsonnets; Britten: Gloriana Dances; McDowall: A fancy of folksongs; Horovitz: Three choral songs                        

                                  

Choral Genius 23 March 2019, Exeter College Chapel

Bach:  Jesus bleibet meine Freude; Finzi: God is gone up; Bruckner: Locus Iste, Ave Maria; Pärt: Beatitudes; works by  Monteverdi, Brahms & Howells  

                   

Songs of Joy & Hope 1 December 2018, St Margaret's Church

BOB CHILCOTT: Jubilate; PHILIP MOORE: Jubilate Deo; Works by Finzi and Holst; three spirituals 

 

A Queen's Music 16 June 2018, St Mary Magdalen Church

​Handel:  Zadok the Priest; Bennet:  All Creatures Now Are Merry-Minded; Weelkes: As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending; Stanford:  Gloria in Excelsis; Whitacre:  Her Sacred Spirit Soars; Ireland: The Hills; Finzi:  White-Flowering Days; Parry:  I Was Glad

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Divine Harmony 17 March 2018, Harris Manchester College

Whitacre: i thank You God; The seal lullaby; Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music; Haydn: Harmoniemesse in B flat

 

Baroque Tribute 4 November 2017, St John the Evangelist Church

Handel: Funeral anthem for Queen Caroline; Bononcini: When Saul was King; Handel: I will magnify thee

 

Bach & all that Jazz 1 July 2017, St Michaels at the Northgate

Bach: Air & Prelude; Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass; Gershwin: Suite from ‘Porgy and Bess’; Irving Berlin: favourite songs

 

GLORIA! 11 March 2017, St Mary Magdalen Church

Settings of Gloria in Excelsis by Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Simon Johnson. Mozart: From Missa Longa in C, K262; Victoria: From Missa, O quam gloriosum  

 

Voices & Violins 12 November 2016, St John the Evangelist Church

Haydn  Little Organ Mass; Mozart:  Litaniae Lauretanae, K109; Monteverdi:  Cantate Domino a 2; Cavalli:  Nisi Dominus; Telemann:  Laudate Jehovam

 

Songs of the Sea 25 June 2016, New Road Baptist Church,

Stanford: Songs of the Fleet; John Wells: The Call of the Running Tide (NZ composer; UK premiere); Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast

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The Choral Spirit 19 March 2016, Exeter College Chapel

Joseph Haydn: Insanae et Vanae Curae; Samuel Sebastian Wesley: The Wilderness;

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Veni Sancte Spiritus; Paul Patterson: Millenium Mass

 

Tudor Connections 14 November 2015, Exeter College Chapel

Tudor motets interwoven with works by 20th century composers:

Thomas Tallis: If ye love me; Third mode melody; Robert Parsons: Ave Maria; William Mundy: O Lord, the maker of all thing; William Byrd: O quam gloriosum; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Te Deum in G; Valiant for Truth; O clap your hands; Lord, thou hast been our refuge; The Old Hundredth; Herbert Howells (organ solo): Master Tallis’s Testament

 

An American Dream 6 June 2015, New Road Baptist Church

Rodgers and Hammerstein: selection from Oklahoma! Cole Porter medley, arr. Janet Lincé: incl. Begin the Beguine; You do something to me; I love Paris; Samuel Barber: To be Sung on the Water; Sure on this shining night; Randall Thompson: Choose something like a star; The Road Not Taken; Alleluia; George Gershwin: selection from Porgy and Bess

 

The Sacred Muse 7 March 2015, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho

Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full final sacrifice; Herbert Howells: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; Gustav Holst: Psalms 86 and 148; Charles Stanford: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem; Spirituals: Deep river; I want Jesus to walk with me; Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel; Ev’ry time I feel the spirit

 

Baroque Praise 29 November 2014, St John the Evangelist Church

John Blow: God spake sometime in visions; Giacomo Carissimi: Jepthe; Francesco Scarlatti: Miserere; Henry Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord alway

 

Shakespeare’s Muse 7 June 2014, Jesus College Chapel

James Bassi: Harpsonnets; Joseph Horovitz: Three Choral Songs; George Shearing: Songs and Sonnets; Romantic partsongs by Macfarren, Wood, Horsley, Sterndale Bennett and Pearsall

 

Rise, Heart! Music of glory and triumph 1 March 2014, Jesus College Chapel

Felix Mendelssohn: Hör mein Bitten; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs; Franz Schubert: Miriams Siegesgesang; Charles Stanford: Coronation Gloria

 

For All Seasons 8 June 2013, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho

Anon: Sumer is icumin in; Ernest Moeran: Songs of Springtime; Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast; Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year

 

Sing Joyfully! 2 March 2013, Keble College Chapel

J S Bach: Lobet den Herrn; Benjamin Britten: Te Deum in C; Hymn to St Peter; Jubilate in C; Arvo Pärt: Beatitudes; Cantate Domino; Henry Purcell: I was glad; Hear my prayer

 

Virtual Vespers 17 November 2012, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho

Claudio Monteverdi: Confitebor Tibi; Nisi Dominus; Ave Maris Stella; Cecilia McDowall: Magnificat

 

Music of the People 10 June 2012, Mansfield College Chapel

John Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme; Aaron Copland: Old American Songs; Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst; Percy Grainger: Folk song arrangements

 

Romantic Praise 18 March 2012, Exeter College Chapel

Louis Vierne: Messe Solonnelle; Edward Bairstow: Blessed city, heavenly Salem; Charles Stanford: The Lord is my Shepherd; For lo, I raise up; Anton Bruckner: Os justi; Libera me Domine; Hubert Parry: I was glad