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Unknown, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Christ Church

Imagining Wolsey: The Invention of an English Cardinal

18 June–22 December
Christ Church Picture Gallery
Exhibition

Marking the 500th anniversary of the initial founding of Christ Church by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1525, this exhibition will present a range images of the Cardinal from an anonymous Tudor oil portrait to Jonathan Pryce’s representation of him in Wolf Hall. 

Without a firmly-secured contemporary portrait of Wolsey, posterity was given a free hand to imagine a Cardinal whose humble beginnings led to a stellar ascent and ended in a dramatic fall from grace and lonely death.

Detail from a page of the Wolsey Epistle Lectionary

A Saint, a Cardinal, a College: From St Frideswide to Thomas Wolsey

4 October
Upper Library, Christ Church
Conference

This special 500th anniversary conference brings together a panel of experts to explore the origins, creation and intellectual landscape of Thomas Wolsey’s Cardinal College: from the priory of Augustinian canons founded c. 1120 and dedicated to St Frideswide, Canterbury College and Wolsey’s collegiate foundation. 

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Violin and piano recital: Charlie Lovell-Jones and Julian Chan

9 October
Cathedral
Concert / Performance

Charlie Lovell-Jones (2017, Music) and Julian Chan present all known works for violin and piano by the 20th-century British composer and Christ Church alumnus Sir William Walton, including the Italianate Two Pieces. They open their programme with Mozart’s last large-scale work for violin and piano, written concurrently with Don Giovanni. Given Walton’s love of Italy they continue the Italian theme by ending with Respighi’s monumental Violin Sonata of 1917.

A linocut of St Frideswide by Sally Anne Stewart

Festal Patronal Choral Eucharist for St Frideswide's Day

19 October
Cathedral
Cathedral Service

Gather with us on St Frideswide's day to celebrate the life and legacy of Oxford's patron saint.

Portrait of Louise Guy

Piano recital: Louise Guy

28 October
Cathedral
Concert / Performance

House Law student Louise Guy presents a programme of Romantic music for Christ Church's 500th anniversary music festival, including Chopin’s Grande Polonaise and Liszt's La Campanella.

Peter Holder in the knave of Christ Church Cathedral

Organ recital: Peter Holder

30 October
Cathedral
Concert / Performance

From African and English folk melodies to an original theme of J. S. Bach – even student drinking songs – this inaugural recital by Peter Holder, Organist of Christ Church, takes the works of four Western composers woven around earlier themes, inspired by the first Organist to be appointed to Cardinal College by Wolsey, John Taverner, and his seminal Mass setting based on the 16C song Western Wynde.

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