Details
St Martin-within-Ludgate
40 Ludgate Hill
City of London
London
EC4M 7DE
England
Programme
Richard Quesnel – For the Fallen
Arnold Bax – Mater ora filium
Emma Brown – Sweet Was the Song
William Byrd – This day Christ was born
Bob Chilcott – Advent Antiphons
Edward Elgar – Lux Aeterna (Nimrod)
Ola Gjeilo – Ubi caritas
Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor: Dona Nobis Pacem
Ivo Antognini – Lux Aeterna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem in D Minor: Lacrimosa
Felix Mendelssohn – Richte mich, Gott (Psalm 43), Op.78 no.2
Performers
Jessica Norton – Conductor
London Concord Singers
Programme Note
A concert that moves from the considerations of eternal life, to the coming of Christ heralded by Advent, with Bob Chilcott's Advent Antiphons, Ola Gjeilo's Ubi Caritas, and music by Richard Quesnel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Antognini, Bach, Elgar, Byrd and Emma Brown culminating in Bax's magnificent and magisterial Mater Ora Filium
