Shared Ground

Londinium

Londinium opens its 2022-23 concert season with a celebration of the remarkable poet George Herbert. Our centrepiece is Alec Roth's Shared Ground, a choral suite whose texts were written in response to Herbert by Vikram Seth, the current owner of Herbert's house at Bemerton. Roth's vibrant and inventive music alludes in turn to Bach's Komm, Jesu, komm, which we perform alongside it. Our programme is completed by settings of Herbert's own poetry: superb recent works by Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir, Owain Park and James MacMillan rub shoulders with rare seventeenth-century examples by Gibbons and Playford, and classic works by Herbert Howells and Richard Lloyd.

Londinium (chamber choir) | Andrew Griffiths (conductor)

Tickets include a complimentary programme.

PROGRAMME
Richard Lloyd: The Windows
Orlando Gibbons: Song 20
Judith Weir: Love bade me welcome
James MacMillan: To my successor
Owain Park: Sweet Day
John Playford: The Altar
Jonathan Dove: Vertue
Herbert Howells: Antiphon
- interval -
JS Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm
Alec Roth: Shared Ground