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