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Edward Elgar – Introduction and Allegro, Op.47
Edward Elgar – Serenade for String Orchestra in E Minor, Op.20
Benjamin Britten – Les Illuminations, Op.18
John Ireland – Concertino Pastorale
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Baroque Odyssey
A programme of Handel, Bach and Corelli played by some of Oxford's best-loved performers
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George Frideric Handel – Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Johann Sebastian Bach – Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209
Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.6 no.7
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Libby Larsen – A Lover's Journey
Henry Leslie – How sweet the moonlight sleeps
Thomas Hyde – Orpheus with his lute
Paweł Łukaszewski – Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
Bob Chilcott – Nidaros Jazz Mass
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Alexander Hawkins – piano
Bob Chilcott – Conductor / piano
Matthew Berry – Director
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Corona Strings perform works by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Mozart
A sparkling string programme for a summer evening entitled ‘Russia with Love’,
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525
Dmitry Shostakovich – String Quartet no.9 in E flat major, Op.117
Jean Sibelius – Romance, Op.42
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.48
Performers
Viv Mclean – piano / keyboards
Janet Lince – Conductor
Steve Bailey – trumpet
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Benjamin Britten – A Boy Was Born, Op.3
Francis Pott – Adam lay ybounden
John Joubert – There is no Rose of Such Virtue, Op.14
John Joubert – Five Songs of Incantation: no.4 'Of a rose, a lovely rose'
John Joubert – Five Songs of Incantation: no.1 'I sing of a maiden'
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'Pastorale': Corona Strings perform English favourites in Oxford
Lyrical string works by Finzi, Holst, Ireland and Vaughan Williams performed by one of Oxford's best-loved ensembles
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Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Gerald Finzi – Clarinet Concerto, Op.31
Gustav Holst – Brook Green Suite, H.190
John Ireland – Concertino Pastorale
John Ireland – A Downland Suite
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James MacMillan – Seven Last Words from the Cross
Edward Elgar – Introduction and Allegro, Op.47
Grace Williams – Sea Sketches for String Orchestra: Calm Sea in Summer
Richard Allain – Salve Regina
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'Northern Lights': Corona Strings perform evocative and lyrical works by Scandinavian composers
Grieg's Holberg Suite and works by Wiren, Larssen, Gade and Sibelius performed by one of Oxford's best-loved ensembles
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Dag Wiren – Serenade for Strings, Op.11
Edvard Grieg – Two Norwegian Airs, Op.63
Lars Erik Larssen – Serenade, Op.12
Niels Gade – Novelletten for string orchestra, Op.53
Jean Sibelius – Romance, Op.42
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Commotio Celebrates Oxford Swift City
Messiaen piano works, and choral works on an avian theme
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Olivier Messiaen – Catalogue d'oiseaux: L'Alouette-Lulu
Olivier Messiaen – Les Petites Esquisses: Le Rouge-gorge
Olivier Messiaen – Les Petites Esquisses: La Grive musicienne
Olivier Messiaen – Les Petites Esquisses: L'Alouette des champs
Jonathan Dove – Who Killed Cock Robin?
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Astor Piazzolla – Libertango
George Gershwin – Lullaby
Aaron Copland – Rodeo: Hoe-down
Peggy Stuart Coolidge – Pioneer Dances
David Diamond – Rounds, for string orchestra
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Arvo Pärt – Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen
Grace Williams – Ave Maris Stella
Stephen Montague – Poor baby Jesus
Diana Burrell – Sweet was the song
Richard Rodney Bennett – Lullaby baby
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Four Seasons: Corona Strings perform works by Vivaldi and Piazzolla with soloist, David Le Page
Heralding Spring 2018, Corona Strings’ show-stopping programme juxtaposes performances of Vivaldi’s famously spirited Baroque masterpiece, ‘The Four Seasons’, with Piazzolla’s own individual take on the subject – the ‘Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’
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Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Astor Piazzolla – The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
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Gioachino Rossini – Petite messe solennelle
Anton Bruckner – Locus iste, WAB 23
Anton Bruckner – Ave Maria, WAB 6
Anton Bruckner – Christus factus est, WAB 11
Anton Bruckner – 4 Tantum ergo, WAB 41
Performers
Gavin Roberts – piano
Sholto Kynoch – piano
Aoife Miskelly – soprano
Carris Jones – contralto
Ed Ballard – baritone
Libby Burgess – Conductor
Chris Turner – tenor
Anne Page – harmonium
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Michelangelo Rossi – O miseria d'amante
Nicholas Maw – One foot in Eden still, I stand
James MacMillan – Miserere
Gustav Holst – The Evening-Watch, Op.43 no.1
Gustav Holst – Sing me the men, Op.43 no.2
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Bach: St John Passion performed by Corona Baroque Ensemble and Choros, conducted by Janet Lincé
Conductor Janet Lincé brings a stellar line-up of soloists to Oxford to perform with Choros and the specialist period instrument players of her acclaimed Corona Baroque Ensemble.
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Ben Davies – Bass
Julie Cooper – soprano
William Purefoy – countertenor
Jeremy Budd – tenor
Janet Lince – Conductor
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Rolande Falcinelli – Messe de Saint-Dominique, Op.25
Vítězslava Kaprálová – Two Women's Choruses, Op.17
Florence Price – Resignation
Thea Musgrave – On the Underground, Set 2
Elizabeth Maconchy – Creatures
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Corona Strings perform String Portraits by Grieg, Delius and Britten in Oxford
City-based Corona Strings are collaborating with Oxford Art Society, who will be exhibiting paintings to enhance their concert programme of art-inspired music by British, Norwegian and Spanish composers.
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Edvard Grieg – Holberg Suite, Op.40
Frederick Delius – 2 Aquarelles
Benjamin Britten – Two Portraits
Grace Williams – Sea Sketches
Eduardo López-Chávarri – Acuarelas Valencianas
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Amy Bryce – This is the House that Man Built
Elizabeth Maconchy – Quartet no.13 'Quartetto Corto'
Louise Farrenc – Nonet, Op.38
Florence Price – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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Arnold Bax – This Worldes Joie
Herbert Howells – Walking in the Snow
Cecilia McDowall – O Oriens
Per Nørgård – Winter Hymn
Simon Preston – There is no rose
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