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St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church
Holborn Viaduct
City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England
Programme
Michael Tippett – Dance, Clarion Air
Orlande de Lassus – Musica Dei donum optimi
Howard Skempton – Music (Let me go where’er I will)
Frank Bridge – Music, when soft voices die
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Silence and Music
Johann Sebastian Bach – Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (motet), BWV 225
~ Interval ~
Arvo Pärt – Solfeggio
Edward Elgar – There is Sweet Music, Op.53 no.1
Orlando Gibbons – O clap your hands together
Johannes Brahms – Abendständchen, Op.42 no.1
Zoltán Kodály – An Ode for Music
William Byrd – Laudibus in Sanctis
Thomas Tomkins – Music Divine
Elliott Carter – Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
Performers
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
To open its 2017-18 season, Londinium presents a beguiling programme celebrating the essence of music itself. From the sixteenth century to the present day, composers have risen superbly to the challenge of setting words describing their own art, and our selection offers a veritable feast of the finest choral music, both sacred and secular. Ethereal works by Lassus, Tomkins, and Vaughan Williams rub shoulders with vivacious music by Gibbons, Tippett, and Elliott Carter, whilst the familiar worlds of Byrd, Brahms and Elgar are offset by little-known gems by Frank Bridge, Zoltán Kodály, Howard Skempton and Arvo Pärt. The centrepiece is a dazzling evocation of music-making in the service of the divine, in the shape of Bach's most virtuosic motet, Singet dem Herrn.
