The Seven Ages of Man | Londinium (chamber choir): A choral journey through life at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, London on Friday 14th October 2016

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The Seven Ages of Man | Londinium (chamber choir)

A choral journey through life

Add to my Calendar 14-10-2016 19:30 14-10-2016 21:30 36 The Seven Ages of Man | Londinium (chamber choir) Inspired by Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like It, this beguiling programme of unaccompanied choral music traces a course from the cradle to the grave. Our intriguing and eclectic journey begins with the tender sounds of Eric Whitacre's Sleep My Child, and ends with William Harris' luscious Bring us, O Lord God, taking in music old (Dufay, Tallis, Gabrieli, Byrd) and new (Dominick Argento's There was a naughty boy, Bob Chilcott’s Even such is time), as well as evergreen works by Bruckner, Parry and Holst. The centrepiece of our programme is Thea Musgrave's 2014 Proms commission Ithaca, a celebration of life's journey in all its splendour. Londinium's website St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

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

Friday 14th October 2016
7:30 PM

Programme

Orlando Gibbons – What is our life!
Eric Whitacre – Sleep My Child
Thomas Tallis – O ye tender babes
Dominick Argento – There was a naughty boy
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – My delight and thy delight
Sebastián de Vivanco – Veni, dilecte mi
Thea Musgrave – Ithaca
~ Interval ~
Guillaume Dufay – Missa l'Homme Armé: Kyrie
Andrea Gabrieli – Sento, sent'un rumor ch'al ciel si estolle
Anton Bruckner – Os justi, WAB 30
Thomas Morley – Sing We and Chaunt It
William Byrd – Retire my soule
Gustav Holst – Nunc Dimittis, H.127
Peter Cornelius – Trauerchöre, Op.9: Grablied
Bob Chilcott – Even such is time
Harris William – Bring us, O Lord God

Performers

Andrew Griffiths – Conductor

Londinium

Programme Note

Inspired by Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like It, this beguiling programme of unaccompanied choral music traces a course from the cradle to the grave. Our intriguing and eclectic journey begins with the tender sounds of Eric Whitacre's Sleep My Child, and ends with William Harris' luscious Bring us, O Lord God, taking in music old (Dufay, Tallis, Gabrieli, Byrd) and new (Dominick Argento's There was a naughty boy, Bob Chilcott’s Even such is time), as well as evergreen works by Bruckner, Parry and Holst. The centrepiece of our programme is Thea Musgrave's 2014 Proms commission Ithaca, a celebration of life's journey in all its splendour.

Londinium's website

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