St Michael and All Angels' Church, Abingdon,

OX14 1DS
7:30pm

Our Christmas concert features music from Spain, Sweden, Finland, Hungary and the United States. We're delighted to feature three world premieres, including pieces by Joanna Marsh and Ian Carpenter commissioned by the choir.

 

There will also be the world premiere of Griselda Sherlaw-Johnson's 'Wassail!', and the 2nd performance of Ian Crawford's 'Adam lay y-bounden', both prize-winning pieces. 

 

Programme
Joanna Marsh: Commission (World Premiere)

Ian Carpenter: Soon must I sing (World Premiere)

Griselda Sherlaw-Johnson: Wassail! (World Premiere)

Ian Crawford: Adam lay y-bounden (2nd performance)

Herbert Howells: Sing, Lullaby

Jan Sandström: Det är en ros entsprungen

Javier Busto: O magnum mysterium

Richard Allain: There is no rose

Frank Ferko: Snow lay on the ground

Jonathan Dove: Three Kings

Levente Gyöngyösi: Puer est natus in Bethlehem

Jaako Mäntyjärvi: To a Locomotive in Winter

Douai Abbey,
Upper Woolhampton,

RG7 5TQ
3:30pm

We round off 2026 with a concert of sacred seasonal music in the glorious surroundings and acoustics of Douai Abbey. We have been priveleged to sing here since the inception of the choir, and are returning for the 14th time.

 

Our programme includes music by Eric Whitacre, Bob Chilcott, Richard Allain, Motshwane Pege, and the 2nd performance of our new commission by Joanna Marsh. 

 

Programme

Motshwane Pege: In Principio
David Bednall: Hail, gladdening light
Richard Allain: Vero Cras (Eight Advent Antiphons)
Graham Fitkin: Christmas Truce
Martin Read: That Yonge child
Bob Chilcott: Pilgrim Jesus
Joanna Marsh: Commission (2nd Performance)
Bob Chilcott: A song of the crib
Levente Gyöngyösi: Puer natus in Bethlehem

Dorchester Abbey,

Dorchester,

OX10 7HH
7:30pm

The centrepiece of our Spring concert is Richard Rodney Bennett's only work for choir and organ, an extraordinary and rarely-performed setting of William Wordsworth's 'Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'. 

 

Programme

to include

Richard Rodney Bennett: The Glory and the Dream

 

We will be repeating this concert at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music in May.