Shared Ground | Londinium (chamber choir): A celebration of the poet George Herbert at St James's Church, London on Saturday 15th October 2022

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Shared Ground | Londinium (chamber choir)

A celebration of the poet George Herbert

Add to my Calendar 15-10-2022 19:30 15-10-2022 21:30 36 Shared Ground | Londinium (chamber choir) Londinium opens its 2022-23 concert season with a celebration of the remarkable poet, George Herbert. Our centrepiece is Alec Roth's Shared Ground, a choral suite whose texts were written in response to Herbert by Vikram Seth, the current owner of Herbert's house at Bemerton. Roth's vibrant and inventive music alludes in turn to Bach's Komm, Jesu, komm, which we perform alongside it. Our programme is completed by settings of Herbert's own poetry: superb recent works by Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir and Owain Park rub shoulders with rare seventeenth-century examples by Gibbons and Playford, and classic works by Herbert Howells and Richard Lloyd. St James's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St James's Church
Sussex Gardens
Paddington
London
W2 3UD
England

Saturday 15th October 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Richard Lloyd – The Windows
Orlando Gibbons – Song 20 (arr. Andrew Griffiths)
Judith Weir – Love Bade Me Welcome
James MacMillan – To my successor
Owain Park – Sweet Day
John Playford – The Altar (arr. Andrew Griffiths)
Jonathan Dove – Vertue
Herbert Howells – Antiphon
Johann Sebastian Bach – Komm, Jesu, komm (motet), BWV 229
Alec Roth – Shared Ground

Performers

Andrew Griffiths – Conductor

Londinium

Programme Note

Londinium opens its 2022-23 concert season with a celebration of the remarkable poet, George Herbert. Our centrepiece is Alec Roth's Shared Ground, a choral suite whose texts were written in response to Herbert by Vikram Seth, the current owner of Herbert's house at Bemerton. Roth's vibrant and inventive music alludes in turn to Bach's Komm, Jesu, komm, which we perform alongside it. Our programme is completed by settings of Herbert's own poetry: superb recent works by Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir and Owain Park rub shoulders with rare seventeenth-century examples by Gibbons and Playford, and classic works by Herbert Howells and Richard Lloyd.

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