Judith Bingham The Very Distant Days |
London Concord Singers conductor Malcolm Cottle |
Thursday 24 July 2014, 7.30pm St. Michael's Church Chester Square, London SW1W 9HH |
Judith Bingham - The Very Distant Days, world premiere Cecilia McDowall - Regina Caeli Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five English Folk Songs Zoltan Kodaly - Oregek Ernst Bloch - Yihu Leratzon Victoria - Missa Quam Pulchri Sunt Charles Villiers Stanford - The Blue Bird Peter Phillips - Ave Verum Corpus 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 Victoria and Phillips to Cecilia McDowall. |
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Tickets price £12, under 25's £5, other concessions £10
Tickets available on the door |