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St Peter's Church
119 Eaton Square
Eaton Square, Belgravia
London
SW1W 9AL
England
Programme
Herbert Howells – Requiem
Herbert Howells – Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 'Collegium Regale'
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Nunc Dimittis
Sarah Quartel – The wind is my shepherd
Becky McGlade – I saw a new heaven
Edgar Leslie Bainton – And I saw a new heaven
Thomas Morley – I heard a voice from heaven
Arthur Somervell – O Saviour of the world
Ernest Walker – I will lift up mine eyes
Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah: 'Lift thine eyes'
Undine Smith Moore – We shall walk through the valley
Performers
Joanna Tomlinson – Conductor
Ian Tindale – organ
Whitehall Choir
Programme Note
Herbert Howells wrote his stunning and emotional Requiem in 1932 but it wasn't published until 1981. He used texts from the traditional Requiem Mass as well as other sacred texts such as psalms 23 and 121, and 'I heard a voice from heaven'.
Other music in our programme reflects the texts that Howells chose, including Undine Smith Moore's We Shall Walk through the Valley which links to the text of Psalm 23, renaissance composer Thomas Morley's setting of 'I Heard a voice from heaven', and other gorgeous and atmospheric music by Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Bainton and Becky McGlade.
