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St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England
Programme
Beth Nielsen Chapman – Prayers of an Atheist
Beth Nielsen Chapman – Color of Roses
Cecilia McDowall – World premiere
Eric Whitacre – Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine
Jessica Curry – Home
Michael Tippett – A Child of our Time: 'Steal Away'
Anna Disley-Simpson – In Their Gold Coats
Jocelyn Hagen – Vespertilians
Richard Allain – Christ's Love Song
Johannes Brahms – Geistliches Lied
Anton Bruckner – Os justi, WAB 30
Tara Mack – In Lak'ech
Thomas Tallis – Salvator Mundi (I)
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus a 8 voci
Giovanni Gabrieli – Angelus ad pastores ait
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Nigra sum
Performers
Dominic Ellis-Peckham – Conductor
Beth Nielsen Chapman – guest singer
David Smith – Piano
London Oriana Choir
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Programme Note
The centrepiece of the choir's 50th anniversary year brings together the best of its concert repertoire spanning five decades and seven centuries, plus special guest, twice Grammy-nominated US singer/songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman recreating two pieces from a seminal performance with the choir at a concert for peace in St Paul’s Cathedral in London in 2006.
Other highlights from this most versatile choir include the world premiere of the anniversary commission from the choir's patron Cecilia McDowall and works ranging from Renaissance composers such as Spain’s Tomas Luis Victoria and Italy’s Giovanni Gabrieli, via the 19th century with Bruckner and Brahms to contemporary writers such as Eric Whitacre and Jessica Curry.
For this concert, the choir is also working for the first time with Thomas Guthrie, an innovative and award-winning British director and musician working in theatre and music to tell stories in vivid, new and direct ways.
