Mendelssohn’s church music for Berlin Cathedral
We're looking forward to performing three psalm settings by Felix Mendelssohn at our concert on 4 March 2023. This note gives some of the background as to how these pieces came to be written. In 1840 a new king came to the throne of Prussia … (At the time, Germany...
Miserere and Other Seasonal Music – Heady Moments
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...
Two Misereres – Allegri and MacMillan
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 and singer...
Astorga: Stabat Mater
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...