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St Peter's Church
119 Eaton Square
Eaton Square, Belgravia
London
SW1W 9AL
England
Programme
Roxanna Panufnik – Westminster Mass
Henry Balfour Gardiner – Evening Hymn
Paul Spicer – Glory to God for dappled things
Judith Weir – Drop Down, Ye Heavens, From Above
Elizabeth Poston – Song of Wisdom
Morfydd Owen – The Refugee
Lili Boulanger – Hymne au Soleil
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel – Im Wald, Op.3 no.6
Barbara Strozzi – Il primo libro di madrigali
Hildegard of Bingen – Choral music
Performers
Joanna Tomlinson – Conductor
Thomas Holmes – Conductor
Whitehall Choir
Cantus Novus Wien
Programme Note
In the first part of this concert, presented at the end of the year marking the centenary of women's suffrage in both the UK and Austria, Whitehall Choir will present beautiful and thrilling music by women, some of which is rarely performed and has never been recorded.
In 2016 the choir enjoyed a highly successful tour to Vienna and performed alongside Cantus Novus Wien. We are delighted to welcome them to London to sing wonderful sacred music from the German and Austrian canon: Bruckner, Brahms, Alma Mahler and Berta Aichinger. Finally, the two groups will form a combined choir in Roxanna Panufnik's atmospheric Westminster Mass and Paul Spicer's 'Glory be to God for dappled thingsʼ: a welcome repeat of the piece we sang together two years ago.
