2024-2025 Season
Introducing the best Renaissance composer you may never have heard of. Antoine Brumel's Missa Et Ecce Terrae Motus, or 'Earthquake Mass was written in 1507 for the Duke of Ferrara, whose troops had nicknamed 'The Earthquake'. The incredibly complex twelve-part choral writing is based on a seven-note Cantus Firmus that underpins the whole piece. The effect is astonishing; a wall of sound that is both inspiring and ethereal. If you like Tallis's Spem in Alium you'll love Brumel. The Mass is performed alongside other more well-know motets in the wonderful acoustic of Pusey House Chapel.
'With all good wishes to vOx Chamber Choir. And thanks for such a beautiful concert at Pusey House last week. It was wonderful, celestial and uplifting. I hope you do it again. This drawing is in praise of music.’
A lovely tribute to vOx from distinguished local artist, Julia Wheatley, who was inspired by our summer concert to create this drawing.
Future Concerts vOx's Christmas Concert showcases some of the most beautiful but unjustly-neglected carols from David Willcocks and John Rutter's Carols for Choirs. Sat 23 Dec, 5.00 pm Pusey House Chapel vOx celebrates Spring with a concert of Brahms part songs accompanied by piano in the ancient Church of St Michael at the North Gate. Sat 29 March, 5.00 pm St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford vOx returns to the amphitheatre in the beautiful setting of Waterperry Gardens for their light-hearted summer concert, repeated at Pusey Chapel the next day. Sat 12 July, 5.00 pm Waterperry Gardens, Waterperry Sun 13 July, 5.00 pm Pusey House Chapel, St Giles, Oxford.