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The Oxford Comment is a monthly podcast featuring insights from Oxford University Press authors, editors, and more.... more
FAQs about The Oxford Comment:How many episodes does The Oxford Comment have?The podcast currently has 882 episodes available.
April 06, 2017The Music's Always There With You — John RutterFor SATB (with divisions) and piano or chamber orchestra.Rutter's charming piece sets a secular text by the composer that emphasises the significance of music and harmony in an ephemeral world. A simple accompaniment figure in the piano provides the backdrop to alternating unison and polyphonic verses that manage to capture both nostalgia for what was and optimism for what is to come....more5minPlay
April 06, 2017The Music's Always There With You — John RutterFor SATB (with divisions) and piano or chamber orchestra.Rutter's charming piece sets a secular text by the composer that emphasises the significance of music and harmony in an ephemeral world. A simple accompaniment figure in the piano provides the backdrop to alternating unison and polyphonic verses that manage to capture both nostalgia for what was and optimism for what is to come....more5minPlay
April 06, 2017The Music's Always There With You — John RutterFor SATB (with divisions) and piano or chamber orchestra.Rutter's charming piece sets a secular text by the composer that emphasises the significance of music and harmony in an ephemeral world. A simple accompaniment figure in the piano provides the backdrop to alternating unison and polyphonic verses that manage to capture both nostalgia for what was and optimism for what is to come....more5minPlay
April 06, 2017The Music of Stillness — Elaine HagenbergFor SATB (with divisions) and piano.This is an emotive setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'There Will Be Rest'. Following a serene opening, the piece rises and falls through both affecting climaxes and passages of great tranquility, ending with the same sense of stillness with which it begins....more6minPlay
April 06, 2017The Music of Stillness — Elaine HagenbergFor SATB (with divisions) and piano.This is an emotive setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'There Will Be Rest'. Following a serene opening, the piece rises and falls through both affecting climaxes and passages of great tranquility, ending with the same sense of stillness with which it begins....more6minPlay
April 06, 2017The Music of Stillness — Elaine HagenbergFor SATB (with divisions) and piano.This is an emotive setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'There Will Be Rest'. Following a serene opening, the piece rises and falls through both affecting climaxes and passages of great tranquility, ending with the same sense of stillness with which it begins....more6minPlay
April 06, 2017Sweet Day, So Cool — Howard HelveyFor SATB unaccompanied.Here Helvey has created a beautiful musical landscape for George Herbert's tender poem 'Virtue'. Each verse begins with a modal-sounding unison figure which flowers into expressive harmonies built on highly-chromatic vocal lines in an artfully-crafted evocation of Herbert's text....more5minPlay
April 06, 2017Sweet Day, So Cool — Howard HelveyFor SATB unaccompanied.Here Helvey has created a beautiful musical landscape for George Herbert's tender poem 'Virtue'. Each verse begins with a modal-sounding unison figure which flowers into expressive harmonies built on highly-chromatic vocal lines in an artfully-crafted evocation of Herbert's text....more5minPlay
April 06, 2017Sweet Day, So Cool — Howard HelveyFor SATB unaccompanied.Here Helvey has created a beautiful musical landscape for George Herbert's tender poem 'Virtue'. Each verse begins with a modal-sounding unison figure which flowers into expressive harmonies built on highly-chromatic vocal lines in an artfully-crafted evocation of Herbert's text....more5minPlay
April 06, 2017Now is the Time — Cecilia McDowallFor SATB and piano.McDowall's setting is optimistic and appealing, with charming interplay between the voices and piano. The inspirational words are by Marie Curie....more5minPlay
FAQs about The Oxford Comment:How many episodes does The Oxford Comment have?The podcast currently has 882 episodes available.