A Light in the Darkness | choral music for Advent and Christmas

London chamber choir Londinium, conducted by Andrew Griffiths, presents a festive programme tracing the journey from Old Testament prophecy to the events of the Nativity in a superb selection of a cappella repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. Highlights include Poulenc's lyrical 'Four Christmas Motets', music by Brahms, Byrd, Lassus, Mendelssohn, Mouton and Schütz, and, from our own time, works by James MacMillan and Cecilia McDowall. The programme closes with a rare performance of Schoenberg's glorious early masterpiece 'Friede auf Erden': an unforgettable, sumptuously-scored clarion call for harmony and brotherhood in a fractured world.