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Long, Long Ago | Londinium (chamber choir)
Choral music for Advent and Christmas
Add to my Calendar 15-12-2017 19:30 15-12-2017 21:30 36 Long, Long Ago | Londinium (chamber choir) Londinium's Christmas programme offers a typically vibrant and inventive selection of seasonal repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present day. Firm favourites such as Tavener's The Lamb and Rachmaninov's Bogoroditse Devo complement rarities by Howells, Warlock and EW Naylor, whilst superb motets by Byrd, Weelkes, and Schütz are heard alongside contemporary classics-in-the-making by Jan Sandström, Jaako Mantyjärvi and Jonathan Harvey. Wine and mince pies complete the perfect festive evening! Londinium's website St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church
Holborn Viaduct
Holborn, City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England
Programme
Herbert Howells – Long, Long Ago
Thomas Weelkes – Hosanna to the Son of David
Elizabeth Poston – Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
William Byrd – Exsurge, Domine
Anton Bruckner – Virga Jesse, WAB 52
Sergei Rachmaninov – All-night Vigil (Vespers): Bogoroditse Devo
Edward Naylor – Vox Dicentis
~ Interval ~
Michael Praetorius – Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Jan Sandström – Es ist ein ros entsprungen
Hans Leo Hassler – Hodie Christus Natus est a 10
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – O magnum mysterium
Heinrich Schütz – Das Wort ward Fleisch
John Tavener – The Lamb
Jonathan Harvey – The Angels
Robert Lucas Pearsall – In dulci jubilo
Peter Warlock – A Cornish Christmas Carol
Performers
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
Londinium's Christmas programme offers a typically vibrant and inventive selection of seasonal repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present day. Firm favourites such as Tavener's The Lamb and Rachmaninov's Bogoroditse Devo complement rarities by Howells, Warlock and EW Naylor, whilst superb motets by Byrd, Weelkes, and Schütz are heard alongside contemporary classics-in-the-making by Jan Sandström, Jaako Mantyjärvi and Jonathan Harvey. Wine and mince pies complete the perfect festive evening!
