Voces Sanctorum
DIXIT dominus
New College Ante-Chapel
Saturday, 7pm
For tickets and details, visit vocessanctorum.com
Founded in 2010 by Matthew Collins and Oliver Doyle, Voces Sanctorum is a professional solo-voice ensemble of eight singers, all of them choral scholars from the UK’s cathedrals and universities. Here they perform Scarlatti’s stirring and emotionally intense Dixit Dominus, alongside other choral works by Purcell and Cavalli.
Corona Strings
GLORY OF THE BAROQUE
St Peter & St Paul Church, Deddington
Saturday, 7.30pm
Tickets: 0845 680 1926 or oxboffice.com
The highly acclaimed Corona Strings, founded by conductor Janet Lincé last year, returns to Deddington with a sparkling programme of baroque favourites including music by JS Bach, CPE Bach, Telemann and Corelli. With Katy Bircher (flute), Miranda Walton (guest leader) and Janet Lincé.
Simon Crawford Phillips/Philip Mopre
PIANO RECITAL
Holywell Music Room
Sunday, 11.15am
Tickets: 01865 305305 or tickets oxford. com
Two internationally renowned pianists join forces for this hour-long programme featuring two great masterpieces of the chamber repertoire, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge Op.134 and Brahms’ String Sextet No.2 Op.36.
Pavlova Wind Quartet
Pot pourri fantastico
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Sunday, 4pm
Tickets: 01865 242918 or oxfordopendoors.org.uk
If you are in Oxford for Open Doors weekend, pop into the Sheldonian for this light-hearted cocktail of tunes from opera, jazz and Broadway. With Chris Britton (flute), Carolyn King (oboe), Barbara Stuart (clarinet), Jenny Morgan (horn) and Simon Payne (bassoon).
City of Oxford Orchestra
MAGIC FLUTE
Exeter College Chapel
Sunday, 7.30pm
Tickets: 01865 744457
The COO’s new season kicks off with this delightful chamber concert in the atmospheric setting of Exeter College Chapel. Come and hear three masters of their craft — Graham Mayger (flute), Peter Adams (cello) and Julian Tear (violin) — playing Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D and Quartet in F, as well as pieces by Schubert and Dohnanyi.
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