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St John's Church
73 Waterloo Road
Waterloo
London
SE1 8TY
England
Programme
Bernard Rose – Upon Westminster Bridge
Claude Debussy – 3 Chansons de Charles d'Orléans, L.92
Judith Bingham – Gleams of a Remoter World
Luca Marenzio – O mille volte
Edward Elgar – Go, Song of Mine, Op.57
Eric Whitacre – Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine
~ Interval ~
Giovanni Croce – Percussit Saul mille
Richard Wagner – Im Treibhaus (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Osculetur me
Leonardo Leo – Heu nos miseros
Matthew Recio – How to Survive Vesuvius (UK première)
Heinrich Isaac – Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
Gustav Mahler – Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
Henry Purcell – King Arthur: 'Fairest Isle'
Michael Tippett – Dance, Clarion Air
Performers
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
Inspired by the traditional 'grand tour' made by young British aristocrats from the seventeenth century onwards, Londinium embarks on an intrepid journey around some of Europe's foremost musical centres. Our route follows a typical grand tourist's itinerary: after leaving London for Paris, we make a perilous Alpine crossing to explore the treasures of Italy, before returning home by way of Vienna.
On our travels we encounter a dazzling array of repertoire - everything from the polyphony of Renaissance Rome to the polychoral splendour of Venice, the Neapolitan Baroque, echoes of Wagner's Tristan, the seductive soundworld of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the sophistication of Debussy, and the music of our own time.
Particular highlights include Clytus Gottwald's sumptuous transcriptions of Wagner and Mahler, Judith Bingham's bewitching Gleams of a Remoter World, the UK première of Matthew Recio's How to Survive Vesuvius, and - marking the quincentenary of the death of its protagonist - Eric Whitacre's hugely entertaining Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine.
