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Vivaldi's Women perform Vivaldi's "Armatae face at anguibus" from "Juditha Triumphans", with Peps Martin-Smith (soprano) and Nadja Zwiener (leader).

Lyre ce n'est pas en ce chant - 16th cent. carol (Denizot) and 19th cent. organ prelude (A-P-F Boëly), sung by Anna Souter (soprano) and played by Richard Vendome (on the organ of Kidlington Parish Church, Oxford) this replaces an earlier distorted recording .

Éclats for bassoon or cello and piano - Richard Vendome (rev.2023) This composition is based on ideas sketched during the 1970s, and was completed as a piece for bassoon or cello and piano in 2013, and in versions for marimba and for organ in 2016. Each of the five linked sections has a different texture. The musical language is based on the octatonic scale (Messiaen's mode 2), which alternates...

Ding dong, merrily on high, arr. Richard Vendome OGC ALUMNAE - Monica Nelson, Felicity Barnard, Hannah Fraser-Mackenzie, Maria Finnis, Margaret Lingas, Victoria Couper, Catherine Batchelor, Clemency Cassels, Hannah Tucker, Ruth Davis, Bryony Landsbert, Ruby Reed-Berendt, Lucia Boué, Penelope Martin-Smith, Imogen Gardam

Blow, blow thou winter wind - Moira Smiley Oxford Girls' Choir, dir. Margaret Lingas Blow, blow, thou winter wind, You are not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because you are not seen, Although your breath be rude. Hey ho, sing, hey ho, unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then, hey ho, the holly! This life is most jolly. Freeze, f...

Corpus Christi Carol - Benjamin Britten Bonnie Hundley (soprano), Richard Vendome (piano) He bare him up, he bare him down, He bare him into an orchard brown. Lully, lullay, lully, lullay, The falcon hath born my make away. In that orchard there was an hall, That was hanged with purple and pall. And in that hall there was a bed, It was hanged with gold so red. In that bed there lieth a knight, ...

Wexford Carol 2022 arr. Richard Vendome, clarinet and harp. Recording with voices coming soon!

27 June - Dr Rupert McShane "Perspectives on amateur music from a psychiatrist” (with musical examples played on the harp). 9 May - Richard Vendome - Vivaldi’s Women project, background research and BBC documentary. 16 May - Prof. Christophe Fraser and Prof. Helen McShane - the contact-tracing app and vaccine research. 23 May - Prof. Edward Higginbottom - “The Meaning of Music” 30 May - Roderic...

11 July - Bridget Cunningham - "Handel at Vauxhall”. Bridget introduces her research and recordings. 9 May - Richard Vendome - Vivaldi’s Women project, background research and BBC documentary. 16 May - Prof. Christophe Fraser and Prof. Helen McShane - the contact-tracing app and vaccine research. 23 May - Prof. Edward Higginbottom - “The Meaning of Music” 30 May - Roderick Williams - "‘In the p...

Saturday at Noon (1/2) - Vivaldi’s Women BBC Documentary. This was based on research by Micky White and Richard Vendome, and followed a talk on “Women tenors and basses in the music of Vivaldi” (1/1).

Alice in Wonderland, an opera or "musical entertainment" by Roderick Williams, conducted by Rory McCleery and directed by Ian Brener, starring Pandora Dewan as Alice. This performance was given on 5 March 2016 by Oxford Girls' Choir and the Alice Band at SJE Arts, Oxford. The work was commissioned by Music at Oxford for OGC in 1992. Filmed by Radley Video. The original 1992 production is here r...

"O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen" by William Byrd (1543-1623), sung by the choir of Exeter College, Oxford, directed by Richard Vendome. This is an historic recording made at Pusey House Chapel on 15th July 1975 by the original choir of boys and men. Images: official Platinum Jubilee portrait of Queen Elizabeth II (May 2022), two photographs from the recording session, and Christ Ch...

Oxford Girls' Choir "Tragic Heroines" project. Iselin Fraser (Tosca), David Palmer (piano).

This gut-strung clavicytherium is based on the instrument shown in Andrea Sacchi's painting “Marc'antonio Pasqualini crowned by Apollo” (Rome 1641), formerly at Althorp House, Northamptonshire, where Princess Diana once lived, and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The allegorical portrait of the famous Papal castrato, whose hand rests on the keys of the instrument, is decorated w...

Puccini - Madama Butterfly, "Humming Chorus", Oxford Girls' Choir

Puccini - Gianni schicchi, "O mio babbino caro", Bonnie Hundley accompanied by David Palmer.

Puccini - Tosca Act 2, "Sale ascende", Oxford Girls' Choir

Prayer for Ukraine (Oxford Girls' Choir)

A Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten (Oxford Girls' Choir)

VIVALDI DOUBLE BILL - "Gloria" and "Vivaldi's Women" documentary

OAC Carols 2021 - Oxford Girls' Choir

Alice in Wonderland - an opera by Roderick Williams (original 1992 production)

Ding dong merrily on high, arr. Richard Vendome (PRACTICE SCORE)

Petit jeu de pédale - Richard Vendome

Vivaldi died 280 years ago

Set me as a seal - Roderick Williams

Dido and Aeneas - Oxford Girls’ Choir Act 1 excerpt

Saturday at Noon (3) - Prof. Edward Higginbottom “The Meaning of Music”

Winter-Time, by Robert Louis Stevenson, set to music by Will Inscoe, sung by Oxford Youth Choirs