OUP Choir: Autumn Concert

Presented by: Oxford University Press Choir

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0	OXFORD: St Barnabas Church
P	Saturday 23rd November, 2024
N	6:45pm

Event information

Oxford University Press Choir
Orchestra: Trinity Camerata
Soloists: Alice Martin, Joy Sutcliffe, Colin Ritter Danskin, Peter Brooks
Conductor: Benedict Goodall

Programme
7pm: Pre-concert talk by Stanford scholar Dr Paul Rodmell
7:30pm: Stanford Requiem

Description
Join the OUP Choir for their Autumn 2024 concert as they celebrate the life of composer Charles Villiers Stanford in the centenary year of his death. OUP Choir will be joining forces with a chamber orchestra, the Trinity Camerata, in a performance of Stanford's seldom-performed Requiem. Composed in 1896 and first performed in 1897 at the Birmingham Triennial Festival, the work may have been written in response to the death of his friend Lord Frederic Leighton. A deeply personal, tender and intimate setting of the Catholic Requiem Mass text, Stanford - like Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem or Faure's Requiem - focuses on themes of consolation and renewal, never on the terrors of judgement and damnation. Our conductor, Benedict, also sees many similarities with Verdi's powerful setting of the Requiem text, especially in his use of instruments; it's with great pleasure he gets to explore Stanford's work deeper by reorchestrating the Requiem for chamber orchestra, and this will be its premier.

We're delighted to welcome Stanford scholar Dr Paul Rodmell from the University of Birmingham to give a pre-concert talk about the work. This will be at 7pm, and the performance will commence at 7:30pm.

Under-18s free
Concessions for students and 60+