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St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church
Holborn Viaduct
City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England
Programme
Jacobus Clemens non Papa – Ego flos campi
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Vidi speciosam
William Walton – Set me as a seal
Edward Cuthbert Bairstow – I sat down under his shadow
Hieronymus Praetorius – Tota pulchra es Maria
Francis Grier – Dilectus Meus Mihi
~ Interval ~
Howard Skempton – Rise up, my love
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur – Le cantique des cantiques
Performers
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
The Old Testament Song of Songs contains some of the most beautiful love poetry ever written, and its heady eroticism has inspired superb music from composers across five centuries. Londinium’s programme centres on the rarely-performed, luscious twelve-voiced Le Cantique des Cantiques by Jean-Ives Daniel-Lesur, which is heard alongside sumptuous Renaissance works by Clemens non Papa, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Hieronymus Praetorius, and equally seductive works by two modern masters, Howard Skempton and Francis Grier.
