London to Edinburgh: A Celebration of British Choral Music at Stockbridge Parish Church, Edinburgh on Sunday 11th June 2023

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London to Edinburgh

A Celebration of British Choral Music

Add to my Calendar 11-06-2023 15:00 11-06-2023 17:00 36 London to Edinburgh London chamber choir Londinium tours to Scotland for the first time in June 2023, celebrating the launch of the choir’s new CD of choral music by Kenneth Leighton (1929-88) with a concert of British choral music in Edinburgh, the city where Leighton spent much of his career as a composer. Londinium’s concert ‘London to Edinburgh: A Celebration of British Choral Music’ opens with Kenneth Leighton’s rousing ‘London Town’ (1968) and closes with his joyous ‘Hymn to the Trinity’, written in 1973 when Leighton was Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh.   Within a wide-ranging programme of music by British composers from the Renaissance to the contemporary, the concert features work by Scottish composer James MacMillan, Leighton’s student in Edinburgh in the late 1970s, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, a composer greatly admired by Leighton. Londinium performs MacMillan’s ‘The Gallant Weaver’, with a text by Robert Burns, and ‘Who shall Separate Us?’, written by MacMillan for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as Vaughan Williams’ setting of the Scottish folk-song ‘Ca’ the Yowes’.   Demonstrating the choir’s versatility, the concert also includes contrasting motets by late Renaissance composers William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes in their 400th anniversary year.   Stockbridge Parish Church, Edinburgh DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Stockbridge Parish Church
Saxe Coburg Street
Edinburgh
EH3 5BN
Scotland

Sunday 11th June 2023
3:00 PM

Programme

Kenneth Leighton – London Town
Judith Weir – Love Bade Me Welcome
Robert Lucas Pearsall – Lay a Garland
William Byrd – Exsurge, Domine
Thomas Weelkes – When David Heard that Absalon was slain
James MacMillan – Who shall separate us?
William Harris – Bring Us, O Lord God
Charles Wood – Hail Gladdening Light
Kenneth Leighton – Sleep, Holy Babe
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Ca' the Yowes
James MacMillan – The Gallant Weaver
William Byrd – Laudibus in Sanctis
Kenneth Leighton – Hymn to the Trinity

Performers

Andrew Griffiths – Conductor

Londinium

Programme Note

London chamber choir Londinium tours to Scotland for the first time in June 2023, celebrating the launch of the choir’s new CD of choral music by Kenneth Leighton (1929-88) with a concert of British choral music in Edinburgh, the city where Leighton spent much of his career as a composer.

Londinium’s concert ‘London to Edinburgh: A Celebration of British Choral Music’ opens with Kenneth Leighton’s rousing ‘London Town’ (1968) and closes with his joyous ‘Hymn to the Trinity’, written in 1973 when Leighton was Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh.

Within a wide-ranging programme of music by British composers from the Renaissance to the contemporary, the concert features work by Scottish composer James MacMillan, Leighton’s student in Edinburgh in the late 1970s, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, a composer greatly admired by Leighton. Londinium performs MacMillan’s ‘The Gallant Weaver’, with a text by Robert Burns, and ‘Who shall Separate Us?’, written by MacMillan for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as Vaughan Williams’ setting of the Scottish folk-song ‘Ca’ the Yowes’.

Demonstrating the choir’s versatility, the concert also includes contrasting motets by late Renaissance composers William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes in their 400th anniversary year.

London to Edinburgh. A Celebration of British Choral Music

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