Judith Bingham The Very Distant Days |
London Concord Singers conductor Malcolm Cottle |
Saturday 2 August 2014, 7.30pm Sint Janskerk Maastricht Vrijthof 24, 6211 LE Maastricht |
Judith Bingham - The Very Distant Days (Dutch premiere) Cecilia McDowall - Regina Caeli Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five English Folk Songs Zoltan Kodaly - Oregek Ernst Bloch - Yihu Leratzon Victoria - Credo from Missa Quam Pulchri Sunt Charles Villiers Stanford - The Blue Bird Thomas Weelkes - Alleluia |
Judith Bingham's new work The Very Distant Days, a London Concord Singers commission, sets a text which intriguingly combines words by Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. Bingham uses extracts from Dombey and Son and Alice in Wonderland to create a wonderfully meditative piece on ageing and growing old. London Concord Singers will be performing this alongside Zoltan Kodaly's own take on the same subject, Oregek. Also in the programme is Vaughan Williams Five English Folksongs, one of the gems of the 20th century choral repertoire, plus a selection of sacred music spanning 600 years from Victoriato Cecilia McDowall. |
Free Entry - there will be a retiring collection. |