Now in their sixth season, the Oxford Lent Concerts begin early in the evening, deliberately scheduled to encourage and include the largest possible number of concert goers – from older children and adults, to those going home from work or coming into Oxford for other activities.
The theme for this year’s series of baroque concerts is Lamentation and we will hear the Passion-Oratorio Der Tod Jesu by C.-H. Graun, a capella settings of The Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah by Whyte, Tallis, Lassus and Almeida, and instrumental sonatas by the composers Schmelzer and Biber, the latter the OLC’s ‘signature’ composer through the years.
Principal soloists in Graun’s Der Tod Jesu, are Jonathan Arnold, William Blake, Esther Brazil, Benjamin Thompson and Roya Ziai, with a choir made up of choral scholars and lay clerks as well as senior members from across the university and beyond.
The now celebrated group of Oxford Lent Concert baroque instrumentalists this year include both string players and baroque woodwind and brass specialists. Leading Oxfordshire artists Jane Dowling, Alison Lilley Berrett, Nicholas Mynheer, Martin Smith, Tim Steward and Roger Wagner will exhibit contemporary icons created specially for this series of concerts.
Everyone involved in the Oxford Lent Concerts does so without fee so that all the proceeds from the Voluntary Retiring Collection can go to designated charities. This year's are Cancer Research UK, Helen & Douglas House and Oxfam. Free and open to the public, the Oxford Lent Concerts aim to offer everyone who comes the opportunity to ‘live Lent’ in the beautiful surrounding of a baroque chapel, filled with music from across three centuries of baroque music and with the peace to contemplate art on Lenten themes. Please come.
For more info see the Lent Concerts website: www.op59.net/lent2011.html.
The theme for this year’s series of baroque concerts is Lamentation and we will hear the Passion-Oratorio Der Tod Jesu by C.-H. Graun, a capella settings of The Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah by Whyte, Tallis, Lassus and Almeida, and instrumental sonatas by the composers Schmelzer and Biber, the latter the OLC’s ‘signature’ composer through the years.
Principal soloists in Graun’s Der Tod Jesu, are Jonathan Arnold, William Blake, Esther Brazil, Benjamin Thompson and Roya Ziai, with a choir made up of choral scholars and lay clerks as well as senior members from across the university and beyond.
The now celebrated group of Oxford Lent Concert baroque instrumentalists this year include both string players and baroque woodwind and brass specialists. Leading Oxfordshire artists Jane Dowling, Alison Lilley Berrett, Nicholas Mynheer, Martin Smith, Tim Steward and Roger Wagner will exhibit contemporary icons created specially for this series of concerts.
Everyone involved in the Oxford Lent Concerts does so without fee so that all the proceeds from the Voluntary Retiring Collection can go to designated charities. This year's are Cancer Research UK, Helen & Douglas House and Oxfam. Free and open to the public, the Oxford Lent Concerts aim to offer everyone who comes the opportunity to ‘live Lent’ in the beautiful surrounding of a baroque chapel, filled with music from across three centuries of baroque music and with the peace to contemplate art on Lenten themes. Please come.
For more info see the Lent Concerts website: www.op59.net/lent2011.html.
