Details
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church
Holborn Viaduct
City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England
Programme
Lili Boulanger – Renouveau
Claude Debussy – 3 Chansons de Charles d'Orléans, L.92
Maurice Ravel – Soupir (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
Gabriel Fauré – Madrigal, Op.35
Maurice Duruflé – Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op.10
Claude Debussy – Les Angélus (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
Lili Boulanger – Hymne au Soleil
~ Interval ~
Gabriel Fauré – Les Djinns, Op.12
Lili Boulanger – Les Sirenes
Claude Debussy – Des pas sur la neige (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
Claude Debussy – L'Isle Joyeuse, L.106
Maurice Ravel – 3 Chansons
Lili Boulanger – Soir sur la plaine
Performers
Leanne Singh-Levett – piano
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
Londinium marks the centenaries of the deaths of Claude Debussy and Lili Boulanger by plunging into the heady world of early twentieth-century French choral music. Lili Boulanger, the first woman to win the prestigious Prix de Rome, lived for just 24 years; her prodigious talent is nowhere clearer than in her luxuriant and often-ecstatic works for choir and piano, far too rarely performed today. We pair Debussy's classic Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans with virtuosic transcriptions of his songs and piano music by the masterful arranger Clytus Gottwald, and our programme is completed with works by Fauré, Ravel, and the perennially popular Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens by Maurice Duruflé.