The Garden of Earthly Delights

Londinium launches its twentieth anniversary season with a typically seductive programme inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Our musical journey through this astonishing triptych leads us from Creation and Eden into Bosch's famous garden of unbridled lust, decadence, and excess — and the grotesque hellscape which looms alongside. The repertoire reflects the breadth of Bosch's prodigious imagination: luscious Renaissance motets and chansons by such composers as Crecquillon, Janequin, Cardoso, de la Rue, and Vivanco are balanced by outstanding recent works by James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave, Anselm McDonnell, Agneta Sköld, György Orbán and Bo Holten, whilst our programme is crowned by the passionate sounds of Pizzetti's Dies irae.
Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

Tickets include a complimentary programme, and wine will be served in the interval.

Programme
James MacMillan: I saw Eternity the other night
Jacob Handl: Laudate Dominum de coelis
Josef Rheinberger: Frohlocket, ihr Gerechten
Matthieu le Maistre: Dixit Dominus Deus (prima pars)
Thea Musgrave: Hear the voice of the Bard
Anselm McDonnell: Hinneni
John Joubert: Four Motets op.89:
              Introit
              Gradual
              Offertory
              Communion
- interval -
Manuel Cardoso: Non mortui qui sunt in inferno
Sebastián de Vivanco: Veni, dilecte mi
Agneta Sköld: Där blåklinten slog en bro
Thomas Crecquillon: Toutes les nuictz
György Orbán: Daemon irrepit callidus
Pierre de la Rue: Lief, begheeft mij niet
Bo Holten: The Sick Rose
Clément Janequin: Or vien ça, vien mamye Perrette
Ildebrando Pizzetti: Dies irae