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Heart’s Music: the world of Stanford and Holst
22 March at 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Heart’s Music: the world of Stanford and Holst
Friday, 22 March 2024 at 7.30pm
St John’s Waterloo, SE1 8TY
Londinium (chamber choir) | Andrew Griffiths (conductor)
Tickets from www.londinium-voices.org.uk/
Prompted by the centenary of the death of Charles Villiers Stanford, and the 150th anniversary of the birth of his student Gustav Holst, Londinium offers a stunning selection of British choral music from the early years of the twentieth century. Anchoring our programme are spectacular double-choir works by Stanford – his Milton setting On Time, and his virtuosic Latin Magnificat – and Holst’s visionary The Evening Watch, on a text by Henry Vaughan. Alongside them we perform a highly varied sequence of works by students of both composers, including Vaughan Williams, Howells, Bainton, Coleridge-Taylor, Gurney and Rubbra. We also present music by earlier composers whom Stanford and Holst admired, and contemporary re-imaginings of some of Stanford’s most beloved works by Judith Bingham and Janet Wheeler.
Tickets include a complimentary programme, and wine will be served in the interval.
Programme
Charles Stanford: On Time
Edgar Bainton: Into the Silent Land
Ivor Gurney: Since I believe in God the Father Almighty
Henry Purcell: Hear my prayer
Stanford: Beati quorum via
Janet Wheeler: Beati quorum via
Herbert Howells: Regina Caeli
Gustav Holst: The Evening Watch
– interval –
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Song of Proserpine
Judith Bingham: The Drowned Lovers
Stanford: The Blue Bird
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Heart’s Music
Thomas Weelkes: Thule, the period of cosmography & The Andalusian Merchant
Holst: This have I done for my true love
Edmund Rubbra: Eternitie
Stanford: Magnificat for Double Choir
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