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St John's Church
73 Waterloo Road
Waterloo
London
SE1 8TY
England
Programme
Gabriel Jackson – Song, I gaze upon you
Thomas Tomkins – When I observe those beauty's wonderments
Robert Lucas Pearsall – Great God of Love
Samuel Barber – The Coolin
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – O Love, they wrong thee much
James MacMillan – The Gallant Weaver
David Bednall – Three Songs of Love
Francisco Guerrero – Surge, propera amica mea
Howard Skempton – He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1999)
Ned Rorem – Four Madrigals
Jonathan Harvey – Song of June
Edward Elgar – Love's Tempest, Op.73 no.1
Sjolund Paul T – Love Lost
Huw Watkins – The Phoenix and the Turtle
Performers
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
Chamber choir Londinium marks Valentine's Day in characteristically offbeat fashion with a varied and eclectic selection of music about love. From the ecstatic Song of June by Jonathan Harvey to the sardonic Love Lost by Paul T. Sjolund, we traverse a turbulent emotional landscape, by turns passionate, blissful, frustrated and phlegmatic.
Our repertoire includes classic works by Barber, Elgar, and MacMillan, Renaissance music by Tomkins and Guerrero, little-known part-songs by Pearsall and Parry, Ned Rorem's settings of lyrical poems by Sappho, and outstanding recent works by David Bednall, Gabriel Jackson and Huw Watkins.
