A Ceremony of Carols with the vOx Chamber Choir
From:
15 December 2019
To:
15 December 2019
SJE Arts Oxford
St John the Evangelist Church, 109A Iffley Road
Oxford
OX4 1EH
About A Ceremony of Carols
A programme of Christmas music by vOx Chamber Choir, including the choral masterpiece A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten
David Crown, conductor
Jenny Broome, harp
Written on his return home across the Atlantic from exile in the States in 1942, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols was set for children’s chorus, receiving its Wigmore Hall premiere in December 1943.
That year Britten also made a setting for SATB in which he skillfully manages to retain the sense of childhood innocence created in the original setting.
This choral masterpiece will form part of an evening of seasonal music given by this leading Oxford a cappella group.
