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St Clement Danes (RAF Church)
Strand
Temple
London
WC2R 1DH
England
Tickets
Prices: IN ADVANCE: £20 | £15 Concessions | £10 ILAMS Members | FREE to Friends of Echoes Festival (email [email protected] to join) ON THE DOOR: £30 | £25 Concessions | £20 ILAMS Members | FREE to Friends of Echoes Festival (email [email protected] to join)
Book Tickets
Programme
John Paul Jones – Amores pasados
Anonymous – Inviolata integra et casta es
Tomás Luis De Victoria – Inviolata integra et casta es
Cristóbal de Morales – O Magnum Mysterium
Ernest John Moeran – River God’s Song
Ernest John Moeran – Oh Fair Enough are Sky and Plain
Ernest John Moeran – Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas Dunhill – Had I the Heavens Embroidered Cloths
Peter Warlock – Corpus Christi
Arvo Pärt – Pari intervallo
Gordon Summer (Sting) – Bury me Deep
Thomas Campion – Oft have I sighed
Erskine Peter – Ash and Snow
Gavin Bryars – Sonnet 128
Banks Tony – That Time of Year
Performers
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Programme Note
Alternative History are a unique quartet employing British Rock and Art Song to illuminate the music of the Renaissance, combining the collective sensibilities of singer John Potter, violinist-singer Anna Maria Friman and lutenists Jacob Herringman and Ariel Abramovich. Their ground-breaking work is inspired by the practice of Renaissance musicians rearranging the acappella polyphony of their predecessors and contemporaries for voices and lutes, envisioning a parallel universe where the Early Music movement happened in the 1920s, when songs and choral music by Warlock and Moeran are re-imagined as the lute songs these composers never actually wrote but might have heard in their heads. What results is a journey into the imagination; a sound picture of an alternative history.
The programme 'Amores pasados' takes its name from the title piece by John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) on the ensemble's eponymous second album - a work setting poetry from the three great ages of Spanish literature. The work is complemented by pieces dedicated specially to the ensemble by two other grandees of British Rock: Sting and Tony Banks (Genesis) - songwriters who more than hold their own with their British Renaissance predecessor also featured here, Thomas Campion. Known also for their celebrated recordings of Spanish Renaissance music, the quartet complete this musical gesture of British-Spanish cultural exchange with intabulations of works by Victoria and Morales, visualising them as they might have been performed in 17th-century England.
This is an ILAMS concert organised in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and St Clement Danes with the kind support of the Continuo Foundation, as part of Echoes Festival 2026
