Details
St Katharine Cree
86 Leadenhall Street
City of London
London
EC3A 3BP
England
Programme
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Requiem (Officium defunctorum) a 6
John Ireland – Greater Love Hath No Man
Edward Elgar – They Are At Rest, anthem
William Byrd – Ne irascaris Domine
Edward Cuthbert Bairstow – Blessed city, Heavenly Salem
Edgar Leslie Bainton – And I saw a new heaven
Performers
Julian Collings – Music Director
Ad Libitum Chamber Choir
Programme Note
In the season of Remembrance and 100 years after the end of the First World War, Ad Libitum performs Victoria’s glorious Requiem and some heavenly anthems by British composers, one of whom was sent to a German detention camp in 1914 and another who escaped Nazi-occupied Guernsey.