After sellout success earlier in the year with Elgar’s The Kingdom and Mozart’s Requiem, Oakfield Choir will end the season with a performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on Saturday 14 December at Holy Trinity Church, Frome.
Written as a companion piece to two other oratorios celebrating the feast days of Ascension and Easter, the Christmas Oratorio was first performed in 1734 and consists of six parts intended to be sung over the major feast days of Christmas. Oakfield will be performing parts 1 and 3, describing the birth of Jesus and the adoration of the shepherds respectively.
The concert will also include a selection of Christmas carols, for choir and audience, and Ann Burgess’s arrangement of Roger McGough’s Comes The Light, winning entry of the Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition in 2015.
Choir and orchestra are led, as always, by musical director, Neil Moore and joined by soloists Milly Taylor (soprano), Marie Elliott (alto), Christopher Pelmore (tenor) and Michael Longden (bass).
The concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12.50 (under 16s and students free) and purchased from choir members, Hunting Raven Books in Cheap Street, Frome, by ringing 01373 464839 or alternatively on the door subject to availability.
