Motets at Merton
21 October 2017, 10:00pm 22 February 2025 - 10:00am
One of Oxford's finest chapel choirs presents a programme of motets by Brahms and composers he would have conducted as director of the Wiener Singakademie, including Schütz, Gabrieli and Bach. Also included is a rare arrrangement of Mahler's 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' from the Rückert Lieder.
Programme
- Giovanni Gabrieli (1557 - 1612)
- Jubilate Deo; motet for 8 voices (1597) Ch. 16
- Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672)
- Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock (1648) SWV 389
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
- Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (1729) BWV 226
- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- Geistliches Lied (1856) Op. 30
- Warum ist das Licht gegeben (1877) Op. 74 no.1
- Gustav Mahler, arranged Clytus Gottwald
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (1983)
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Series
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