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SUMMARY:Welcome Joy + A Ceremony of Carols
LOCATION:Oxford Playhouse
DESCRIPTION:Corvus Consort's upper voices join with harpist Louise Thomson 
 to present a festive concert\, featuring music celebrating women's voices 
 from their acclaimed album 'Welcome Joy' alongside Benjamin Britten's icon
 ic Ceremony of Carols.\n\nThe first half of the programme comprises a sele
 ction of music from ‘Welcome Joy’\, which was released in 2024 on Chan
 dos Records. A celebration of women’s voices\, both as singers and compo
 sers\, the album received five stars from BBC Music Magazine\, who also na
 med it one of their ’13 best classical albums of 2024’.\n\nImogen Hols
 t’s characterful Keats setting Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow opens the 
 programme\, before a set of beautiful works by living composers Judith Wei
 r\, Olivia Sparkhall and Hilary Campbell\, all commissioned by Multitude o
 f Voyces to mark International Women’s Day in 2019. Then comes Elizabeth
 ’s Poston’s remarkable An English Day-Book\, a cycle of eleven short m
 ovements charting the course of a day in the English countryside\, packed 
 with strikingly vivid depictions of bells\, clocks\, songbirds\, owls\, an
 d a mischievous bumblebee.\n\nThe second half is where things get festive
 \, opening with a selection of a cappella Christmas pieces by Elizabeth Po
 ston\, Howard Skempton and Peter Maxwell Davies\, as well as the medieval 
 carol Ther is no rose of swych vertu. Harp and voices will also sound toge
 ther in the magical Peace on Earth by current Master of the King’s Music
  Errollyn Wallen.\n\nFinally Corvus and Louise will perform Benjamin Britt
 en’s Ceremony of Carols\, undoubtedly the most famous composition that e
 xists for women’s voices and harp. Mirroring Poston’s cycle at the end
  of the first half\, the Ceremony of Carols also consists of eleven moveme
 nts\, in this case setting a series of medieval carol texts\, with perfect
 ly judged musical moods shifting between the lyrical\, poignant\, and joyf
 ul. It is one of the best-loved works in the English Christmas repertory\,
  and will bring the concert to a fabulous festive close.\n\nCorvus Consort
 \nGS\n\nBoletos: https://system.spektrix.com/oxfordplayhouse/website/Event
 Details.aspx?EventId=800001
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