RECORDINGS
“With such superb performances and a perfectly produced recording, this is an album to treasure.”
Every Living Creature: Choral music by Kenneth Leighton
Londinium’s album of choral music by Kenneth Leighton, ‘Every Living Creature’, was released by SOMM Recordings in May 2023 and is receiving high praise. Just over two-thirds of the disc consists of world premiere recordings, notably the cantata Laudes Animantium, for double choir, soloists and children's chorus, and the majority of the remaining works have been recorded only once before.
The Gluepot Connection
Londinium's debut album of 20th-century British choral music, ‘The Gluepot Connection’, was released, also to critical acclaim, on the SOMM label in 2018. The composers are linked by a London pub, which was in its day an unlikely cornerstone of musical culture.
Londinium in Lockdown
During lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Londinium released four virtual performances, conducted by Andrew Griffiths and recorded individually by each physically distanced singer.
Howard Skempton: He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (July 2020)
Barnaby Martin: The Frostbound Wood (premiere recording; November 2020)
Jim Clements: There is no rose (premiere recording; December 2020)
Bernard Hughes: Everyone Sang from ‘Two Choral Fanfares’ (March 2021)
Video compositing and editing by Andrew Lang; audio editing and mixing by Ben Byram-Wigfield.
Live Concert Recordings
Perpetual Light: Requiem for an Unscorched Earth
The world première of Perpetual Light: Requiem for an Unscorched Earth, by Jessica Curry, was conducted by Andrew Griffiths at the Old Vic Tunnels on 4th June 2011, with site-specific film and installation by Jo Fairfax.
Video excerpts filmed by women with a movie camera and reproduced with kind permission of all artists involved.