Unto the Hills: a choral journey to the mountains
The majesty of mountains — emblems of constancy in a tumultuous world, whose scale mocks humanity's delusions of grandeur — has long inspired poets and composers alike. Londinium's programme explores these lofty landscapes, journeying from the Welsh mountains to the Alps, Mount Vesuvius and the Himalayas, savouring both the view from their peaks and the rich contemplation which they inspire. Our repertoire includes atmospheric contemporary works by Judith Bingham, Kerensa Briggs and Gabriel Jackson, Renaissance gems by Monteverdi, Ribera, Rogier and Weelkes, partsongs by Bantock, Delius and Ireland, and Schumann's Vier doppelchörige Gesänge — the quintessential expression of the Romantic Sublime.
Tickets include a complimentary programme, and wine will be served in the interval.
Holy Sepulchre is opposite City Thameslink (Holborn Viaduct exit), near to the Old Bailey, and close to St Paul’s, Blackfriars and Farringdon tube/railway stations.
The Music
John Ireland: The Hills
Alan Bush: Like Rivers Flowing
Bernadino de Ribera: Assumpsit Jesus Petrum
Aurélien Hallopeau: Après une journée de vent
Claudio Monteverdi: Ecco mormorar l'onde
Granville Bantock: On Himalay
Frederick Delius: On Craig Ddu
Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos Hill descending
Gabriel Jackson: in the half-light of dusk
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Kerensa Briggs: I will lift up mine eyes
Philippe Rogier: Sit gloria Domini in aeternum
Timothy C. Takach: Nubes Oriebatur: the eruption of Vesuvius
Judith Bingham: Gleams of a remoter world
Robert Schumann: Vier doppelchörige Gesänge