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Welcome Joy + A Ceremony of Carols
Oxford PlayhouseOxford
26 November 2026 · 19:30
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Corvus Consort's upper voices join with harpist Louise Thomson to present a festive concert, featuring music celebrating women's voices from their acclaimed album 'Welcome Joy' alongside Benjamin Britten's iconic Ceremony of Carols. The first half of the programme comprises a selection of music from ‘Welcome Joy’, which was released in 2024 on Chandos Records. A celebration of women’s voices, both as singers and composers, the album received five stars from BBC Music Magazine, who also named it one of their ’13 best classical albums of 2024’. Imogen Holst’s characterful Keats setting Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow opens the programme, before a set of beautiful works by living composers Judith Weir, Olivia Sparkhall and Hilary Campbell, all commissioned by Multitude of Voyces to mark International Women’s Day in 2019. Then comes Elizabeth’s Poston’s remarkable An English Day-Book, a cycle
