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St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Church
Bishopsgate
City of London
London
EC2M 3TL
England
Programme
Samuel Barber – Reincarnations, Op.16
Thomas Hewitt Jones – Lullaby My Liking
Benjamin Britten – Christ's Nativity
Richard Rodney Bennett – Five Carols
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Hodie Christus natus est, SwWV 163
Ola Gjeilo – Northern Lights
Edward Elgar – 4 Choral Songs, Op.53
Performers
Jessica Norton – Conductor
London Concord Singers
Programme Note
London Concord Singers' Christmas programme centre's on Britten's Christmas suite for chorus, Christ's Nativity, a remarkable work written in 1931 when he was still a student and testament both to the young composer's fertile imagination in his writing for unaccompanied chorus and to the way the Christmas story fired his imagination. Also in the concert are carols by Richard Rodney Bennett, Julian Merson and Thomas Hewitt-Jones, plus Sweelinck's infectious Hodie Christus Natus Est.
The programme is completed with a group of secular pieces that reflect the Winter season, with Ola Gjeilo's evocative Northern Lights, Samuel Barber's Reincarnations and Elgar's stunning Part Songs, Opus 53
