Elgar The Music Makers; Brahms Song of Destiny; Smetana Vyšehrad

Oxford Harmonic Choir

An evening of richly expressive choral music, featuring the renowned contralto soloist, Jess Dandy.

We are delighted that Jess Dandy will be joining us for our spring concert, featuring two highly expressive choral works, together with Smetana’s well-known symphonic poem Vyšehrad.

The Music Makers is a setting of Ode by the Victorian poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy. Moving between triumph and melancholy, it is an intensely personal work. Elgar wrote ‘I have written out my soul … I have shown myself’, and he includes quotations from earlier works, including the famous theme from Nimrod.

Brahms was responding to a poem by the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, ‘Schicksalslied’, which contrasts the everlasting bliss of the immortals with the suffering of humanity, both wonderfully evoked in Brahms’s music.

Early booking advised!

Oxford Harmonic Choir is one of Oxford’s leading choral societies, with a long and distinguished history of making music in Oxford.