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St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church
Holborn Viaduct
Holborn, City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England
Programme
Howard Skempton – The Flight of Song
Giaches de Wert – Ascendente Jesu in naviculam
Edvard Grieg – Ave maris stella, EG 150
Johannes Brahms – Vineta, Op.42 no.2
Richard Rodney Bennett – Sea Change (1983)
~ Interval ~
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Crossing the Bar
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae
Thomas Campion – Never, weather-beaten sail
Gabriel Jackson – A ship with unfurled sails
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Sea Drift, Op.69
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Dark Eyed Sailor
Gustav Holst – I love my love, Op.36b no.5
Gustav Holst – Swansea Town, Op.36b no.6
Performers
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor
Londinium
Programme Note
Inspired by Richard Rodney Bennett's classic Sea Change, a virtuoso evocation of the mystery and majesty of the ocean, Londinium voyages through a stunning selection of music connected with the sea. Along the way we encounter shipwreck (in Mäntyjärvi's haunting Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae), myths and legends (Coleridge-Taylor's ghoulish Sea Drift and Brahms' Vineta), folksongs and shanties, and explore sea journeys as a rich source of metaphor, both religious and secular. The repertoire ranges from sixteenth-century Italy to the present day, and includes music by Wert, Campion, Parry, Grieg, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Gabriel Jackson and Howard Skempton.
