London chamber choir Londinium closes its tenth-anniversary season with a delicious selection of music celebrating the great outdoors. Beautiful partsongs by Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Ireland and Sterndale Bennett rub shoulders with superb recent works by Nicholas Maw and Cecilia McDowall. Completing this delightful programme are Mendelssohn's vivacious op.59 'Songs to be sung in the open air' and Britten's classic Five Flower Songs.
Concert Programme:
John Ireland: The Hills
Bernard Rose: The spacious firmament on high
Cecilia McDowall: The skies in their magnificence
Edward Elgar: The Shower
William Sterndale Bennett: Come, live with me
Felix Mendelssohn: Sechs Lieder im Freien zu singen, op. 59
Frederick Delius: On Craig Ddu
Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Jim Clements: The Vagabond (from Songs of Travel)
Nicholas Maw: One foot in Eden still, I stand
Edward Elgar: The Fountain
James MacMillan: The Gallant Weaver
Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs, op. 47
Sunshine after Rain: choral music inspired by the natural world
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, Holborn Viaduct, London
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This event ended on Friday 8th of July 2016
This event ended on Friday 8th of July 2016
Admission
£12 until 3 July, thereafter and on the door £15 (£10 students)
£12 until 3 July, thereafter and on the door £15 (£10 students)
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St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, Holborn Viaduct, London
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