A Londinium Bestiary: Choral music by Leighton, Gjeilo and Bernard Hughes at St John's Church, London on Friday 5th October 2018

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A Londinium Bestiary

Choral music by Leighton, Gjeilo and Bernard Hughes

Add to my Calendar 05-10-2018 19:30 05-10-2018 21:30 36 A Londinium Bestiary To open its 2018-9 season, London chamber choir Londinium presents a thrilling programme of works on the theme of weird and wonderful creatures. Kenneth Leighton's unpublished Laudes Animantium ('Praises of the Creatures') is a superb sequence of poems about animals, from Blake's Lamb and Tyger to Tennyson's Kraken, by way of Edward Lear and others, and finds its composer at the height of his powers. Ola Gjeilo's Unicornis Captivatur, based on remarkable fifteenth-century chants, introduces us to the unicorn, pelican, phoenix, hydra and crocodile. Finally, Bernard Hughes' 2011 A Medieval Bestiary explores the relationship between medieval man and the animal world. The dramatis personae, taken from a thirteenth-century source, include the manticore, parander, gryphon, monoceros, dragon, panther, and scorpion, and Hughes' music is no less inventive and exhilarating. St John's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Church
73 Waterloo Road
Waterloo
London
SE1 8TY
England

Friday 5th October 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Ola Gjeilo – Unicornis Captivatur
Bernard Hughes – A Medieval Bestiary
Kenneth Leighton – Laudes Animantium

Performers

Andrew Griffiths – Conductor

Londinium

Programme Note

To open its 2018-9 season, London chamber choir Londinium presents a thrilling programme of works on the theme of weird and wonderful creatures. Kenneth Leighton's unpublished Laudes Animantium ('Praises of the Creatures') is a superb sequence of poems about animals, from Blake's Lamb and Tyger to Tennyson's Kraken, by way of Edward Lear and others, and finds its composer at the height of his powers. Ola Gjeilo's Unicornis Captivatur, based on remarkable fifteenth-century chants, introduces us to the unicorn, pelican, phoenix, hydra and crocodile. Finally, Bernard Hughes' 2011 A Medieval Bestiary explores the relationship between medieval man and the animal world. The dramatis personae, taken from a thirteenth-century source, include the manticore, parander, gryphon, monoceros, dragon, panther, and scorpion, and Hughes' music is no less inventive and exhilarating.

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