Superlative Performances from Vache Baroque at Magdalen College, Oxford

Superlative Performances from Vache Baroque at Magdalen College, Oxford

As part of the Music in Oxford series, the award-winning music ensemble Vache Baroque produced an artfully conceived programme built around Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis letter of 1897, written during his incarceration in Reading Gaol for ‘gross indecency’. Entitled ‘Out of the Deep’, this Lenten meditation, arguably a passion story, given in the Chapel of Magdalen College, interleaved extracts from Wilde’s highly personal monologue read by Malcolm…