Details
St George's Church
Bloomsbury Way
Bloomsbury
London
WC1A 2SA
England
Programme
Johannes Brahms – Warum ist das Licht gegeben?, Op.74 no.1
Arnold Bax – Mater ora filium
Cecilia McDowall – Of a Rose
Thomas Tallis – O Nata Lux
Charles Wood – Hail Gladdening Light
Ola Gjeilo – Northern Lights
Benjamin Britten – The Evening Primrose, Op.47 no.4
Camille Saint-Saens – 2 Choruses, Op.141
Robert Schumann – Ungewisses Licht, Op.141 no.2
Judith Bingham – The Darkness is no Darkness
John Tavener – Song for Athene
Performers
Jessica Norton – Conductor
London Concord Singers
Programme Note
Bookended by two great works inspired by the past, London Concord Singers concert From Darkness to Light explores the transition through a diverse selection of music from Tallis to Schumann and Saint-Saens to Charles Wood and Britten. The concert starts with Brahms' great motet Warum ist das licht gegeben inspired by the motets of Bach, and ends with Bax's Mater Ora Filium for which Bax took his inspiration from the masses of William Byrd.
The concert also includes contemporary music by John Tavener, Judith Bingham, Ola Gjeilo, and Cecilia McDowell, plus Robert Hugill's arrangement of a carol by Julian Merson.