Keble Early Music Festival 2022
From:
23 February 2022
To:
26 February 2022
Keble College Chapel, Oxford
Keble College, Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PG
Wednesday 23 February
6.00pm – Festival Evensong
A service to open the 2022 Keble Early Music Festival, sung by The Choir of Keble College, with music including Purcell’s Evening Service in G minor.
7.30pm – A European Baroque Fantasia
Blackadder Baroque Brass
Blackadder Baroque Brass was created by David Blackadder in 2021, bringing together a unique formation of period brass players to reimagine baroque music in a new and innovative way.
By combining 4 Natural Trumpets, 4 Natural Horns, 4 Cornetts, 4 Sackbutts, a Serpent, Baroque Timpani and Percussion, a new eclectic sound world, with an array of textures and colours has been unleashed on the world of Early Music.
With a selection of stunning new specially commissioned arrangements by some of the world’s leading brass arrangers, Blackadder Baroque Brass will be playing some incredible music that has never have been heard in this way before.
Tickets: £30/£20/£10 students/18 and under free
Thursday 24 February
3.00pm – Recital of music
The Henry Ley Singers
The Lay Clerks and Graduate Choral Assistants of The Choir of Keble College will perform a recital of music from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Admission free – retiring collection
8.00pm – Transforming Rameau
Edward Higginbottom (organ)
Holly Teague (soprano)
An Eighteenth-Century Divertissement in Four Acts: Nature – Fête Champêtre – Sentiments Tendres – Les Exotiques
Jean-Philippe Rameau’s celebrated pièces de clavecin, reworked for the grand orgue, deliciously blended with soprano solos from Les Indes Galantes as arranged by the composer in his keyboard collection of ‘quatre grands concerts’ of 1735.
The programme forms a prelude to Compline by Candlelight at 9.00pm, sung to plainchant by The Choir of Keble College.
Tickets: £15/students free
Friday 25 February
7.30pm – Reimagining Early Polyphony
BBC Singers conducted by Sofi Jeannin
Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin directs the BBC Singers in an intriguing programme pairing Renaissance works with contemporary pieces based on them.
Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis
Ken Burton: Many are the wonders
Sheppard: In manus tuas 3
Josephine Stephenson: Into thy hands
Victoria: O vos omnes
Reena Esmail: When the violin
Sweelink: Je sens en moy une flamme nouvelle
Nico Muhly: A New Flame
Sheppard: The Lord’s Prayer
Owain Park: The Lord’s Prayer
Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams: Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
Janequin: Le chant des oiseaux
Bernard Hughes: Birdchant
The performance is for broadcast on BBC RADIO 3.
Tickets: £40/£30/£10 students
Saturday 26 February
7.30pm – Closing concert
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
For the closing concert, the organisers are thrilled to be joined by international star soloists Carolyn Sampson and Roderick Williams for a concert performance of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas.
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
The Choir of Keble College
Instruments of Time & Truth
Daniel Greenway and Daniel Mathieson (organ)
conducted by Paul Brough
Purcell: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
Purcell: O God, thou art my God
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord
Purcell: Voluntary for a Double Organ
Blow: Salvator mundi
Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences
Purcell: I was glad
Purcell: DIDO & AENEAS
Tickets: £40/£30/£10 students
