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Music on Mondays – St Michael at the North Gate

On Monday we were very happy to return once more to the lovely church of St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford to perform a short recital as part of the ‘Music on Mondays’ series which takes place every Monday lunchtime. Musicians perform without charge but are able to nominate a good cause or [...]

A Warm and Intimate Concert on a Freezing Night

On Friday, we were to perform the second Christmas concert at the Church of St Michael in the North Gate in central Oxford. Keeping the programme quite similar to the concert at St Giles the week before, we still scheduled in a day of rehearsal as Reiad (Viola) was due to play in place of Adrian who [...]

Concert at St Michael at the North Gate – 20th July 09.

On Monday we returned to the church of St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford to give a lunchtime recital as part of their ‘Music on Mondays’ concert series.Free lunchtime concerts are found in many large cities, including London, Birmingham and Oxford and many shoppers or workers choose these havens of calm to pop [...]

Borodin – Nocturne from String Quartet no. 2 in D

Composed by Alexander Borodin, this beautiful piece of chamber music was performed at the Church of St Michael at the North Gate, Cornmarket, Oxford as part of the ‘Music on Mondays’ series- Lunchtime recital, 20th July 2009.  This is a popular piece for a string quartet concert as it is so well loved and frequently [...]