by Alice Stainer | 13 October 2023 | Uncategorized
This dynamic and imaginative setting of eight medieval lyrics is the final work that Britten wrote for professional unaccompanied voices (1974-5), which is reflected in his harmonically complex style and the artistic demands – both technical and expressive – he makes...
by Alice Stainer | 29 February 2020 | Uncategorized
Welcome to our second blog post exploring the programme for our ‘Miserere’ Concerts on Saturday 29th February and Friday 3rd April 2020 in Exeter College Chapel. Tim has looked at the complementary Misereres in detail in the previous blog, so I thought that in this...
by Alice Stainer | 29 February 2020 | Uncategorized
Our next concert “Miserere” (Friday 3rd April, 8pm in Exeter College Chapel) includes two very different settings of the Miserere Mei text (Psalm 51). The first is the famous setting written in 1638 by the Italian composer Gregorio Allegri who was a priest...
by Alice Stainer | 1 July 2019 | Uncategorized
Welcome back to the Oxford Pro Musica blog, this time looking ahead to our exciting concert in the Sheldonian Theatre this Wednesday (8pm, 3rd July). The centrepiece of the programme is, of course, Mozart’s sublime Requiem, which will constitute the second half of the...
by Alice Stainer | 7 March 2019 | Uncategorized
Hello again, and welcome back to our second blog post looking ahead to our concert of French music this Saturday, 9th March, in the apt setting of Exeter College Chapel, heavily influenced as it is by French Gothic architecture. In this post I’m going to take a brief...
