Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Sat, 19 Oct 2024
"Many congratulations on the performance. It was really touching and a pleasure to be part of. I hope you feel all the hard work paid off - to my ears it did! It was a bonus to play for a conductor and performers who were so invested in the work, caring about it and sensitive to it, while also fully trusting of one another."
“Yesterday’s concert was absolutely lovely. I hadn't heard the work in that format and was surprised how much intensity and drama was created even with those smaller forces . Well done to Nick for masterminding such a good choice and such a well-paced performance and to all the Occam's for a performance to be proud of.”
“Yesterday’s concert was absolutely lovely. I hadn't heard the work in that format and was surprised how much intensity and drama was created even with those smaller forces . Well done to Nick for masterminding such a good choice and such a well-paced performance and to all the Occam's for a performance to be proud of.”
Dvořák: Mass in D
Sat, 22 Jun 2024
We performed Antonín Dvořák's Mass in D and other choral works by Anton Bruckner, Josef Rheinberger and Mel Bonis. While the music of the three male composers featured is representative of Central European late romanticism, and has remained known to varying degrees, that of the French composer, Mélanie Bonis, is only now being rediscovered.
Bruckner: Christus Factus Est
Locus Ist
Os Justi
Rheinberger: Abendlied
Bonis: Ave Verum
Tantum Ergo
Dvořák: Mass in D
Bruckner: Christus Factus Est
Locus Ist
Os Justi
Rheinberger: Abendlied
Bonis: Ave Verum
Tantum Ergo
Dvořák: Mass in D
Choral Classics from the British Isles
Sat, 9 Mar 2024
Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens
Smyth - Prelude on a Traditional Irish Air (Organ Solo)
Stanford - Three Motets
Finzi - Lo, The Full Final Sacrifice
Bridge - Adagio in E (Organ Solo)
Smyth - Prelude on a Traditional Irish Air (Organ Solo)
Stanford - Three Motets
Finzi - Lo, The Full Final Sacrifice
Bridge - Adagio in E (Organ Solo)
Music and Readings for Advent and Christmas
Sat, 16 Dec 2023
A festive sequence of seasonal music and readings. There were carols to sing with us, choral pieces old and new, anniversaries celebrated, new voices heard, moments of reflection and celebration, and more than enough cheer to see us through the last days before Christmas arrived.
Motets and Organ Works by JS Bach
Sat, 21 Oct 2023
In this challenging programme, we performed three of the six motets now generally accepted to be by JS Bach while our conductor, Nicholas O'Neill, played two of the composer's best-known organ pieces. For the listener, this is music that wears its technical difficulties lightly and set feet tapping and spirits soaring.
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Sat, 8 Jul 2023
A Gathering of Friends: music by Brahms, Schubert and Elgar
Sat, 4 Mar 2023
A concert of intimate, even cosy, music making with a small group of singers and two pianists and music by Brahms, Schubert and Elgar.
Christmas Concert 2022
Sat, 10 Dec 2022
Mozart & Haydn
Sat, 22 Oct 2022
Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339
Haydn Mass No. 12 in B flat : 'Theresienmesse'
40th Anniversary Concert, A Summer Miscellany
Sat, 2 Jul 2022
A selection of part songs to celebrate of 40 years of The Occam Singers.
Songs of Hope
Sat, 26 Feb 2022
Our lovely Songs Of Hope programme included the Faure Requiem, with Herbert Howell’s “Behold O God Our Defender” and John Ireland’s “Greater Love Hath No Man"
