Opus Anglicanum

Opus Anglicanum would like to wish all friends & supporters a very happy and healthy Christmas, and a peaceful New Year. It was wonderful to have a full house in Wells Cathedral recently for our concert of Mediaeval Carols; now we hope you will save the date of 9 February 2024, when the group will be presenting their atmospheric Candlemas concert, once again in Wells Cathedral. More details to follow, and tickets will be available shortly via our website at www.opusanglicanum.org

On Saturday 25 November Opus Anglicanum will be presenting Mediaeval Carols by Candlelight at Wells Cathedral. The concert will start at 7.30pm, with readings by the wonderful Zeb Soanes. We look forward to seeing many of our long-term supporters and friends. Please get your tickets soon, to avoid disappointment!
Book via 07766-354813, or on-line via the OA website at https://www.opusanglicanum.org/event/2023/mediaeval-carols and while you're there, have a look at the OA shop: there is a wide range of Opus Anglicanum CDs including good stocks of Mediaeval Carols III, and the perennial favourite Figgy Pudding.

We are absolutely delighted to present our much-loved programme THE GARDEN, celebrating the solace and beauty of gardens, on Saturday 20 May, at 7.30pm, at the Church of St Andrew & St Mary in Grantchester, Cambridge.

Tickets £20 (including a glass on wine on entry), available from:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opus-anglicanum-the-garden-tickets-611041982017

It's a really lovely programme, pairing English folksong (Sweet Lavender) with Renaissance polyphony (Palestrina Dilectus meus, from the Song of Songs) - and much more! - and with words about gardens from the likes of Francis Bacon, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell, all read by our narrator Zeb Soanes (presenter of Smooth Classics at Seven on Classic FM). We have given this programme on several memorably lovely summer evenings in beautiful English churches.

The concert is being presented in association with Grape Britannia, of Cambridge -

www.grapebritannia.org.uk

There will be a glass of local wine on entry, with more for sale at the interval.

A reminder to all about our two upcoming Opus Anglicanum ADORNA concerts with Jason Rebello - the first at SJE Arts, Iffley Road, Oxford, on Friday 24 March at 7.30pm and the second at Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, on Thursday 30 March, also at 7.30pm. You can get a foretaste of the concert if you listen to Alyn Shipton's Jazz Record Requests on BBC Radio 3 this Sunday 19th March at 4pm onwards. Do join us for this rich and moving experience - visit opusanglicanum.org for more info.

OPUS ANGLICANUM SPRING CONCERTS 2023

A heads-up for any of you who are in the Oxford and Cambridge areas. We do hope you might be able to join the group next month in one - or both - of the cities to share the Adorna experience that has already delighted listeners in Wells, St Martin-in-the-Fields and more.

Jazz star Jason Rebello meets classical a ca****la experts Opus Anglicanum in a striking collaboration: Adorna. Sublime, ancient Gregorian chant for the midwinter feast of Candlemas comes to new life when the spontaneous improvised piano of Jason Rebello joins the mix.
Candlemas is the winter day on which all the Church’s candles for the year were blessed, and a festival of the first stirring of spring. In this concert, the ancient monastic chants, as sung annually over the centuries in cathedrals and abbeys to mark Candlemas, blend with Jason’s piano – a magical new interpretation of light dispelling darkness.
The pictures show recent Adorna venues, Wells Cathedral and St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Tickets via the website: www.opusanglicanum.org

Friday 24 March, 19:30 - 20:55

OXFORD: Opus Anglicanum with Jason Rebello at SJE Arts, Oxford
St John the Evangelist Church, 109A Iffley Road
Oxford, OX4 1EH
ADORNA: Gregorian Candlemas chant and piano

Duration 85 minutes, without interval.

and:

CAMBRIDGE: Thursday 30 March, 19.30 – 20.55
Opus Anglicanum with Jason Rebello in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ
ADORNA: Gregorian Candlemas chant and piano

Duration 85 minutes, without interval.

Tickets via the website: www.opusanglicanum.org

At WELLS CATHEDRAL, Somerset

On THURSDAY, 26 JANUARY 2023

7:00 pm until approximately 8:15 pm, without an interval

'ADORNA': ethereal Gregorian plainchant for the feast of Candlemas meets with unique, spontaneous piano improvisations in this striking collaboration between Opus Anglicanum and jazz pianist Jason Rebello.

Candlemas is the winter festival when all the Church’s candles for the year were blessed, and a celebration of the first stirring of spring. In ‘Adorna’, the ancient monastic chants, as sung annually over the centuries in cathedrals and abbeys to mark Candlemas, blend with Jason’s piano - a magical new interpretation of light dispelling darkness.

With Jason Rebello, piano

TICKETS £20

Get tickets here: https://www.opusanglicanum.org/event/2023/adorna-wells

or from Wells Cathedral

Join us for the most atmospheric of concerts in the candlelit quire of Wells Cathedral.on Sat 26th November. Mediaeval music with spellbinding ancient readings from Zeb Soanes to get you in the mood for Christmas. EARLY BOOKING ADVISED - Tickets £20:

Mediaeval Carols at Wells Cathedral — Opus Anglicanum Opus Anglicanum return to Wells with their most popular sell-out Christmas concert. A programme of wonderful medieval music and readings, Gregorian chant and polyphony. Experience a candlelit journey into the spiritual heart of a medieval Christmas. Early booking advised. One of the UK's Top 1

Opus Anglicanum are delighted to bring news of two splendid Advent and Christmastide concerts. Firstly, at 7.30pm on Saturday 26 November, our much-loved Mediaeval Carols at Wells Cathedral . Gregorian chant and polyphony, with atmospheric readings by Zeb Soanes - a candlelit journey into the spiritual heart of a mediaeval Christmas. Tickets £20, and early booking is advised. Next, the heart-warming and festive Figgy Pudding programme at St Mary's Church, Dorchester, Dorset, at 7pm on Sunday 11 December. Tickets £15/£13 (concessions & members), doors & bar open from 6.30pm. Tickets and more details for both concerts are available from the Opus Anglicanum website - www.opusanglicanum.org
We look forward to meeting old friends and making new ones at either or both events!

In Tune, Radio 3 today - listen out for a preview of Jason Rebello and Opus Anglicanum - Adorna live at St Martin's-in-the-Fields - Roland Robertson in conversation with Sean Rafferty, prior to tomorrow evening's central London concert.

Opus Anglicanum are excited about our upcoming London concert, at 7pm on Thursday 3 February, at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Our collaboration with Jason Rebello and Opus Anglicanum - Adorna live at St Martin's-in-the-Fields - promises to be a moving and uplifting event, and we hope to see you there. The concert will be followed by a late-night jazz session with Jason Rebello and his trio in the crypt.

If you can't make it to London, there's a lovely evening at the Catholic Church of Our Lady and St John, in Goring on Thames on 25 February - our entertaining and nostalgic programme 'The Seeds of Love', telling of adventures in folksong collecting in the early 1900s & including music and words from Cecil Sharp, Percy Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Arthur Butterworth - with the wonderful Zeb Soanes as narrator.

More information about the group can be found at https://www.opusanglicanum.org/

The image shows the candlelit nave of Wells Cathedral, where Adorna was most recently performed.

Opus Anglicanum and jazz pianist Jason Rebello are thrilled to launch ‘Adorna’, the single from their album of the same name coming later this month. Hear it now on your most immersive sound system!
Candlemas is the winter day that all the Church’s candles for the year were blessed, and a festival of the first stirring of spring. In ‘Adorna’, the ancient monastic chants, as sung annually over the centuries in cathedrals and abbeys to mark Candlemas, blend with Jason’s piano - a magical new interpretation of light dispelling darkness.
Download now:
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/album/adorna-single/1600339254
Qobuz: https://www.qobuz.com/.../adorna-jason.../jdj64qdhlhoia
Streaming links
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1n3iqdfIA17o9gaoIEcLmi
Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/oHVG8W27izRYt1f29
YouTube: https://youtu.be/LNJyuaPp9RA
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B09NPCTCJB
Opus Anglicanum:
Stephen Burrows, alto
David de Winter, tenor
John Bowen, tenor
Roland Robertson, baritone
James Birchall, bass

Adorna – Jason Rebello & Opus Anglicanum On Amazon Music

Looking forward to February: after our 'Adorna' concert with Jason Rebello at St Martin-in-the-Fields early in the month, later in February we will present 'The Seeds of love: collecting English folk music'. The concert will be on Friday 25 February, at 7pm, at the Catholic Church of Our Lady & St John, in Goring-on-Thames. The atmospheric programme, devised by John Rowlands-Pritchard, features the words and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cecil Sharp, George Butterworth and the remarkable Percy Grainger.
Tickets from: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seeds-of-love-tickets-219920627517