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St John's Church
73 Waterloo Road
Waterloo
London
SE1 8TY
England
Programme
William Byrd – Exsurge, Domine
Anton Bruckner – Ave Maria, WAB 6
Igor Stravinsky – Ave Maria
Francis Poulenc – Salve Regina, FP 110
James MacMillan – Who shall separate us?
Hildegard of Bingen – O quam mirabilis est
Arvo Pärt – The Deer’s Cry
William Byrd – Tribue, Domine
~ Interval ~
Jonathan Harvey – I Love The Lord
Olivier Messiaen – O sacrum convivium
Frank Martin – Mass for Double Choir
Performers
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
Prompted by the example of Frank Martin - who kept his searing Mass for Double Choir hidden for forty years, regarding it as a matter between himself and God - Londinium explores music which springs from a bedrock of Christian faith. Superb works by Pärt, Bruckner, Hildegard of Bingen, Messiaen, Stravinsky, and Harvey are heard alongside James MacMillan's affirmative Who shall separate us?, commissioned for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Crowning our programme, and marking 400 years since the composer's death, are magisterial motets by William Byrd, whose music defiantly proclaimed his Catholic faith in Elizabethan England.
Wine will be served in the interval.
