Sat, 12 Oct
|St Helen's Church
Brimstone
Time & Location
12 Oct 2019, 19:30
St Helen's Church, St Helen's Ct, Abingdon OX14 5BS, UK
About the event
On Saturday 12 October, the City of Oxford Choir will bring the best of the British cathedral tradition to the beautiful and historic church of St Helen’s in Abingdon.
Substantial and dramatic romps by Stanford (the epic “For lo, I raise up that bitter and hasty nation”) and Bairstow alternate with charming verse anthems from the early 17th century by Tomkins and Gibbons, whose “See, see, the word is incarnate” is surely the finest of all in that medium. More recent work by Finzi – the substantial and non-liturgical Magnificat – and James MacMillan are sprinkled into an invigorating programme which shows the choirstall repertoire is not all devotional politeness but Fire and Brimstone, and fine tunes to match any the devil might claim!
Stanford: For lo, I raise up Howells: Mine eyes for beauty pine Gibbons: See, see the word is incarnate Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden Bairstow: Blessed City, Heavenly Salem
Finzi: Magnificat Macmillan: New song Tomkins: My beloved spake Joubert: O lord, the maker of al thing Ireland: Greater love