The Elysian Singers – Songs & Canciones with Coro de Cámara Ainur – 7:30pm
The Elysian Singers are delighted to welcome Coro de Cámara Ainur, from Gran Canaria, for a joint concert celebrating the glories of Spanish and British choral music. Coro Ainur will serve up a selection of tapas from the Spanish renaissance and from regions of Spain, together with more modern classics from Cuba and Latin America. The Elysians in turn will present classic English settings of Shakespeare and in the madrigal tradition, before taking us on a tour of the four nations of the UK. The two choirs will come together for the double-choir Missa Ave Regina Caelorum by Spain’s greatest renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Javier Busto’s ‘Ametsetan’, a modern classic from the Basque Country.
Victoria: Missa Ave Regina
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Bennet: All creatures now are merry minded
Pearsall: Lay a garland
Rutter: It was a lover and his lass
Arañés: Chacona
Encina: Más vale trocar
Anon C17: Seguidillas en Eco
Oltra: Eco
Eduardo Purriños: El Baile del vivo
Anonymous, arr. Julio Dominguez: Si la nieve resbala
Grainger (arr.): Irish Tune from County Derry
Holst: Green Grass
Delius: On Craig Ddu
Voces8 (arr.): A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Matamoros: Juramento
P.L. Ferrer: El Almuercero
Beatriz Corona: Corazón Coraza
Trad arr. Rob Dietz: Era Oscuro
Trad. arr. Dante Andreo: Tres Cantos Andinos
Piazzolla: La muerte del Ángel
Granda: Fina Estampa
Javier Busto: Ametsetan
Upcoming Events
London Oriana Choir – Path of Miracles –
Composer Joby Talbot’s acclaimed choral work, Path of Miracles, takes its inspiration from the famous ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago di Compostela in northern Spain, chronicling the 500-mile journey from the foot of the northern Pyrenees. Join London Oriana Choir, special guest singers from the award-winning, original commissioning ensemble Tenebrae and Dominic Ellis-Peckham for a truly memorable and dramatic performance of this unique choral masterpiece.
The Esterhazy Singers – Haydn’s St Nicholas Mass, and Holst’s The Cloud Messenger – 7pm
Haydn’s mass was dedicated to Nicolaus Esterhazy, his patron from whom we take our name, and in this performance it is paired with Holst’s little known choral masterpiece, considered by the composer one of his best works.
Doors open from 6:30pm for a 7pm performance. Tickets are £25, or £10 for under 25 year olds, and are available at the website below or on the door. Programmes will be available for purchase on the door for £2.
London Concert Choir – Howells Requiem & Stainer The Crucifixion – 7.30pm
in London Concert Choir for an evening of sacred music from two of the great English choral composers, in the perfect setting.
The understated beauty and emotion of Herbert Howells’ interwar Requiem offers the perfect foil for the reverent Victorian grandeur of John Stainer’s Passiontide oratorio, The Crucifixion.
Howells’ unaccompanied Requiem brings his unmistakable compositional voice and very personal interpretation to the Church’s liturgy for the dead. Composed in 1932, but unpublished until 1980, it provided the genesis of the more complex and widely acclaimed Hymnus Paradisi. With characteristic precision and clarity, Howells evokes loss, grief, reflection and redemption, blending elements of the Latin mass and The Book of Common Prayer.