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Oxford Pro Musica Singers cordially invites you to a celebration of 2024’s bumper crop of choral anniversaries.At the heart of our uplifting programme is Jean Langlais’s mighty Messe Solennelle, marking both the 75th anniversary of its composition and that important French Revolutionary commemoration, Bastille Day! Langlais was one of France’s most significant twentieth-century organists, and his mass – originally scored for two organs! – ranges from a spare, almost ancient soundworld through complex fugal moments to the celestial tones of the Benedictus and ‘Dona nobis pacem’, always driven by exciting and dramatic interations with the organ.
Constellated around this centrepiece is a series of jubilant pieces by other anniversarians, including the mellifluous Cantique de Jean Racine marking 100 years since the death of Langlais’s compatriot Gabriel Fauré.
From the UK we celebrate another centenarian, the influential Charles Villiers Stanford, here represented by his monumental Latin Magnificat in eight parts, in company with Holst’s luminous Nunc Dimittis – just wait till the final page! – Bairstow’s atmospheric Let all mortal flesh keep silence (150 years since their births), and a contemporary setting of ‘Crossing the Bar’ by Craig McLeish to commemorate 200 years of the RNLI.
Finally, casting our eyes (and ears) back across the channel we pay tribute to the Swiss composer Frank Martin, who died 50 years ago, with two movements of his celebrated Mass for Double Choir, and the Austrian Anton Bruckner (200 years since his birth), in two of his most beautiful and dramatic motets: Christus Factus Est and Ave Maria.
We do hope you will join us in the suitably glittering surrounds of Exeter College Chapel to hear this programme guaranteed to lighten your spirit and enhance your joie de vivre!
Concert Programme
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Stanford: Latin Magnificat for eight-part choir in Bb
Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Bruckner: Christus Factus Est & Ave Maria
Holst: Nunc Dimittis
Frank Martin: Sanctus & Benedictus from Mass for double choir
Fauré : Cantique de Jean Racine
Langlais: Messe Solennelle
Craig McLeish: Crossing the Bar
Oxford Pro Musica Singers
Organ : Shean Bowers
Conductor : Mark Jordan
Tickets : £15, £5 students / under 25
Further Details :
https://opms.org.uk/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Exeter College Chapel, Qi, 16 Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DH, United Kingdom,Oxford, Oxfordshire
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