Nicola Lisle provides highlights of the classical week ahead
Choir of The Queen’s College
WELCOME ALL WONDERS
The Queen’s College Chapel
Friday, 7.30pm
Tickets: 01865 305305 or ticketsoxford.com
Christmas cantata Welcome all Wonders, by former Queen’s organ scholar David Bednall, is at the heart of this concert, which also includes carols by Byrd, Whitacre, Lauridsen and Warlock. With conductor Jeremy Summerly.
Orchestra of St John’s/OSJ Voices
MESSIAH
Dorchester Abbey
Saturday, 6pm
Tickets: 0845 6801926 or oxboffice.com
Handel’s much-loved oratorio brings OSJ’s Christmas season to a magnificent climax. With Alice Privett, Roderick Morris, Chris Turner and Bozidar Smiljanic, with OSJ Voices and conductor John Lubbock.
Bampton Classical Opera
MESSIAH
St Mary’s Church, Bampton
Saturday, 7pm
Tickets: 01993 851142 or bamptonopera.org
Another Messiah, played on period instruments. With soloists Caroline Kennedy, Ben Williamson, David de Winter and Robert Gildon, the Bampton Classical Players, vocal ensemble Cantandum and conductor Gilly French.
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