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Crossing Continents
A concert of choral music by Stravinsky, Lukaszewski, Pärt, Gjeilo, Bruckner, Saint Saëns, Parry, Purcell and Willan
Add to my Calendar 25-06-2023 19:00 25-06-2023 21:00 36 Crossing Continents Buckinghamshire based chamber choir, the Witchert Chorale, directed by David Quinn, presents a concert of music by composers Crossing Continents in the glorious French Gothic chapel of Exeter College, Oxford. Music by the Benedictine abbess and polymath Hildegard mingles with that of English Renaissance master William Byrd, and with contemporary composers Arvo Part and Ola Gjeilo, and there is much else besides. Proceeds in aid of the Disaster Emergency Committee’s Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal. Exeter College Chapel, Oxford DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Exeter College Chapel
Turl Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3DP
England
Programme
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Songs of Farewell: 3, Never weather-beaten sail
Anton Bruckner – Christus factus est, WAB 11
Anton Bruckner – Locus iste, WAB 23
Pawel Lukaszewski – Ubi caritas
Henry Purcell – I was Glad, Z.19
Arvo Pärt – The Deer’s Cry
Ola Gjeilo – Ave Generosa
Performers
David Quinn – choral director
Witchert Chorale
Programme Note
Buckinghamshire based chamber choir, the Witchert Chorale, directed by David Quinn, presents a concert of music by composers Crossing Continents in the glorious French Gothic chapel of Exeter College, Oxford. Music by the Benedictine abbess and polymath Hildegard mingles with that of English Renaissance master William Byrd, and with contemporary composers Arvo Part and Ola Gjeilo, and there is much else besides.
Proceeds in aid of the Disaster Emergency Committee’s Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal.
