Name: APOLLO 5 CHOIR
Start: 2022-09-30T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-09-30T15:30:00+01:00
Location: Christ Church Cathedral

APOLLO 5 CHOIR

Ukrainian Culture Weeks - Oxford University Ukrainian Society

The award-winning British vocal ensemble Apollo5 will join the Ukrainian Culture Weeks festival for the celebration of music

Christ Church Cathedral

At the heart of this concert by vocal group Apollo5 are pieces by contemporary Ukrainian composers Victoria Vita Polevá and Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenskaya, both currently writing under extraordinary, volatile and fragile conditions. Their work is paired with the Agnus Dei from the Mass For Five Voices by Tudor composer William Byrd. Much of Byrd’s late music was written under the cover of secrecy, after a clandestine conversion to Catholicism at the height of the Reformation. Luxuriating in the ornate, sumptuous writing that was permitted by his separating from the restrictive austerity of early Protestantism, Byrd engaged his singers – possibly one to a part – for private and covert performances in the domestic chapels of recusant Catholic families. Polevá’s trio of mystical miniatures and Kuzina-Rozhdestvenskaya’s Angus Dei, dedicated to the victims of the war in Ukraine, sculpt a dramatic and moving collection that speaks of music as a vehicle for escapism, a solace against the storm of personal upheaval, dislocation and adversity.Apollo5’s programme incorporates other pieces written by Byrd and his contemporary Francisco Guerrero, as well as sacred works by Thomas Tallis and Francis Poulenc. Other pieces, which are taken from the group’s Where All Roses Go album, are centred around the theme of love and form a rich tapestry intricately woven with conflicting strands: life and loss; beauty and mortality; brave romance and fragility in rejection.This concert is part of the inaugural Ukrainian Culture Weeks, organised by Cherwell College in collaboration with Kyiv-based Dom Master Class and the Oxford University Ukrainian Society. The festival aims to bring Ukrainian culture to the fore, whilst supporting Ukrainian democracy and freedom.PROGRAMME:Vigilate – William ByrdBeata Viscera – ByrdCivitas Sancti Tui – William ByrdVirgen Sancta – Francisco GuerreroSalve Regina – Francis PoulencPsalm 2, the Third of Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter – Thomas TallisLost Innocence – Paul Smith for Apollo5Life-giving Spring – Victoria PolevaEaster Stikhere – Victoria PolevaAll the angelic hosts – Victoria PolevaAgnus Dei from Mass for Five Voices – William ByrdAgnus Dei – Anna Kuzina-RozhdestvenskayaThe Last Rose of Summer – trad. Irish arr. Fraser Wilson for Apollo5Music, When soft Voices Die – Taylor Scott Davis for Apollo5Where All Roses Go – Michael McGlynnHomeward Bound – Marta Keen arr. Paul Smith for Apollo

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