Summer concert: Beyond The Horizon
Schedule
Sat, 04 Jul, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
St Barnabas Jericho | Oxford, EN
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🌟Box office OPEN🌟 Book tickets for a rare chance to hear two of Oxfordshire’s leading chamber choirs perform together.Thame Chamber Choir & City of Oxford Choir, both directed by Duncan Aspden, will combine to form a powerful double choir for a programme of intricate and intensely beautiful music by Parry, Rheinberger and Mahler.
Few evenings in the choral calendar can bring together music of such sustained beauty and depth. Parry's Songs of Farewell — premiered as a complete set in Oxford in 1919 at the composer's memorial — were written in the shadow of the First World War and of his own terminal illness, yet radiate a rich autumnal glow that places them among the pinnacles of the a cappella repertoire.
Rheinberger's Cantus Missae, steeped in the traditions of Bach, Schumann and Brahms, unfolds its craftsmanship across two choirs in radiant E flat major. From Ildebrando Pizzetti — described as "the finest polyphonist Italy has had since the Renaissance" comes a personal and moving setting of de Profundis. And as night draws in we close with perhaps Mahler's most inward song, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, here realised in Clytus Gottwald's shimmering sixteen-part choral transcription — music that doesn't so much end as dissolve: "I live alone in my heaven, in my love and in my song."
‘Beyond The Horizon’
City of Oxford Choir & Thame Chamber Choir, directed by Duncan Aspden
Saturday 4 July
7.30pm
St Barnabas Church, Jericho, Oxford
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/111995
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