Songs of Farewell | Londinium (chamber choir) at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, London on Friday 3rd July 2015

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Songs of Farewell | Londinium (chamber choir)

Add to my Calendar 03-07-2015 19:30 03-07-2015 21:30 36 Songs of Farewell | Londinium (chamber choir) For the closing concert of its 2014-15 season, Londinium performs Hubert Parry's masterpiece and swansong, the glorious Songs of Farewell. Written during the First World War, as Parry's world crumbled around him, these achingly beautiful settings of the metaphysical poets rate amongst the finest of all English choral music. Parry's great love of German culture no doubt made the conflict all the more painful for him; the influence of Brahms in particular shines through his music, and we perform the older composer's virtuosic Fest- und Gedenksprüche alongside the Parry. Brahms' great friend and early mentor and advocate was Robert Schumann, whose exquisitely subtle Vier doppelchörige Gesänge share the same antiphonal scoring as Brahms' work. Our programme is completed by another double-choir motet, in many ways a direct descendant of Parry's Songs of Farewell: William Harris' ravishing setting of Spenser, Faire is the Heaven.   St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church
Holborn Viaduct
City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England

Friday 3rd July 2015
7:30 PM

Programme

William Harris – Faire is the heaven
Robert Schumann – 4 Doppelchörige Gesänge, Op.141
Johannes Brahms – Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op.109
~ Interval ~
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Songs of Farewell: 5, At the round earth's imagined corners

Performers

Andrew Griffiths – Conductor

Londinium

Programme Note

For the closing concert of its 2014-15 season, Londinium performs Hubert Parry's masterpiece and swansong, the glorious Songs of Farewell. Written during the First World War, as Parry's world crumbled around him, these achingly beautiful settings of the metaphysical poets rate amongst the finest of all English choral music. Parry's great love of German culture no doubt made the conflict all the more painful for him; the influence of Brahms in particular shines through his music, and we perform the older composer's virtuosic Fest- und Gedenksprüche alongside the Parry. Brahms' great friend and early mentor and advocate was Robert Schumann, whose exquisitely subtle Vier doppelchörige Gesänge share the same antiphonal scoring as Brahms' work. Our programme is completed by another double-choir motet, in many ways a direct descendant of Parry's Songs of Farewell: William Harris' ravishing setting of Spenser, Faire is the Heaven.

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