• Gounod "Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile"
• Vaughan Williams "Flos Campi"
• Gabriel Fauré "Cantique de Jean Racine"
• Mozart "Klarinet Concerto KV 622"

Soloists:

• Cristel De Meulder (soprano)
• Daniel Turner (tenor)
• Jonathan Stainsby (bass)
• Dominica Eyckmans (viola)
• Bob Van De Velde (basset-clarinet)
• Erwin Van Bogaert (organ)

This concert by the Illucia Koor from Puurs in Belgium together with members of the Oxford Bach Choir and the Reading Symphony Orchestra features the beautiful Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile by Gounod, the mystical Flos Campi by Vaughan Williams and Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré. It will be accompanied by the splendid Clarinet Concerto by Mozart, with basset-clarinet, the instrument for which it was originally written. The concert is again an excellent occasion to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams with a first performance of Flos Campi in the Sheldonian Theatre.