I Will Hold You: Worcester College Choir sings Buxtehude, Shaw & Bryars

Saturday 1 March 2025, 8pm
Worcester College Dining Hall
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Tickets £5 - £15

 

The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford sings songs of refuge and contemplation spanning four centuries. From Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri (1680), a cycle of short devotional cantatas that lift the spirit and calm the soul, to contemporary interpretations of the same theme by Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) and Gavin Bryars (b. 1943). Both draw on this musical tradition in very different ways, bringing modern harmonies to a timeless narrative.

Programme:

Dieterich Buxtehude

Membra Jesu nostri

 

Caroline Shaw

To the Hands

and the swallow

 

Gavin Bryars

Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet