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Faculty of Music Advent Calendar 2020

by Faculty of Music

Trina Banerjee (Somerville, 2019) performs a rendition of Raaga Puriya Dhanashree. The recital is made up of a Vilambhit Khyal set ...

David Palmer (Worcester), Michael Tippett, Sonata No. 2 [in one movement] (1962), Olivier Messiaen, ‘Regard de la vierge’ from Vingt regards ...

Echea String Quartet (with cellist Eliza Millett, Lincoln, 2014) playing Franz Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' quartet, 1st movement.

Merton College Chapel Choir, singing Judith Weir's 'My Guardian Angel'

Yijia Tu (St John's) performing her own composition, 'Spring Haze', on the Guzheng (Chinese zither).

Yundi Li (Magdalen), playing Olivier Messiaen's 'Première communion de la vierge' (The Virgin's first communion), from Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus.

The Holywell Trio - Ewan Millar (St Hilda's) , Katherine Lewington (Hertford), Lydia Bennett (Herford) - playing Pierné – Bucolique Variée ...

Magdalen College Chapel Choir directed by Mark Williams singing Judith Weir's 'Drop down, ye heavens (Advent Prose)'.

Patrick Keefe (Lincoln, 2014) singing the part of Figaro in an excerpt from a recent Royal Academy of Music production ...

Eloise Kenny-Ryder (Sommerville, 2016) sings the jazz standard 'You Go To My Head' (music by J. Fred Coots, lyrics by ...

J S Bach, three settings of the Christmas Choral 'Von Himmel hoch', introduced and performed by Robert Quinney, Organist at ...

St Hilda's College Choir singing 'Caedmon's Hymn' by Danny Riley (St Hilda's, 2018).

Nick Pritchard (New College, 2009) singing Britten's arrangement of 'I Wonder as I Wander' accompanied by Ian Tindale. Nick has ...

World-renowned baritone Roderick Williams OBE (Magdalen College, 1984), singing his own arrangement of 'Lully, lullay' (Coventry Carol).

Merton College Chapel Choir, singing John Joubert's 'There is no rose of such virtue'.

Queen's College Chapel Choir, singing 'Silent Night'

Matthew Foster (Lincoln, 2020), Charles-Marie Widor, 'Toccata'

Merel Van Lent (Lady Margaret Hall) performing her own arrangement of Kirk Franklin's 'My Desire'.

The choristers of Magdalen College performing a setting of 'I Sing to a Maiden' by Patrick Hadley. Presented and directed ...

'Stabat Mater' - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)

Soprano: Rachel Howe (Queen's)

Countertenor: Will Prior (Magdalen)

Continuo – Jake Sternberg (Queens)

Tom Daggett (Lincoln, 2008) & The Hackney Children's Choir, 'We'll sing you a Christmastime'

To round off our advent calendar we look forward to tomorrow with Christ Church Cathedral Choir's joyful rendition of 'I ...

'Messiah Reimagined', a unique performance of Handel's great oratorio, blending a live performance with 'virtual' contributions from a wonderful range ...

Melissa Chang (Sommerville, 2018) playing 'Adeste Fideles' by Jeanne Demessieux.