Bruckner's Te Deum in the Sheldonian

The Philharmonia Chorus took part in a performance of Bruckner's Te Deum in the beautiful Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford at 8pm last Saturday 29 November with soprano HyeYoun Lee, mezzo-soprano Katharine Goelder, tenor Thomas Hobbs and bass Darren Jeffrey, with the Oxford Philomusica conducted by Marios Papadopoulos.

For Anton Bruckner, the Te Deum was 'the pride of his life', and it is undoubtedly his greatest sacred choral work. It is both joyful and compelling, propelled forward by the furious central section' Aeterna Fac'.