May
17
7:30 PM19:30

Arise, my love

  • St John's Waterloo, Waterloo Road, SE1 8TY (map)
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Londinium's thrillingly eclectic spring programme celebrates the power of love. We sing fine settings of the biblical Song of Songs by Victoria, Palestrina, Guerrero, and John Sanders, tell of divine love in Kerensa Briggs' Ubi caritas, and explore earthly delights and sorrows in music by Finzi, Lassus, Pearsall, Clara Schumann, and Skempton. Uniting these themes are large-scale works by Bernard Hughes, whose warm-hearted I Sing of Love brings together biblical texts with verses by Rumi, and Francis Pott, whose breathtaking Amore Langueo clothes a medieval text in heady layers of musical ecstasy.

St John's Waterloo is opposite Waterloo Station. Tickets include a complimentary programme, and wine will be served in the interval.

 


The Music

Gerald Finzi: My spirit sang all day
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Surge, propera, amica mea
Kerensa Briggs: Ubi caritas
Orlande de Lassus: Toutes les nuitz
Robert Pearsall: Lay a Garland
Francisco Guerrero: Ego flos campi
Francis Pott: Amore Langueo
- interval -
Clara Schumann: Gondoliera
Howard Skempton: He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Vidi speciosam
Bernard Hughes: I Sing of Love
John Sanders: My Beloved Spake

 
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