The Old Testament Song of Songs contains some of the most beautiful love poetry ever written, and its heady eroticism has inspired superb music from composers across five centuries. London chamber choir Londinium sings a programme centred on the rarely-performed, luscious twelve-voiced 'Le Cantique des Cantiques' by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, alongside sumptuous Renaissance works by Clemens non Papa, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Hieronymus Praetorius, and equally seductive works by two modern masters, Howard Skempton and Francis Grier.
Andrew Griffiths - conductor
Watch Londinium in rehearsal for the concert! https://youtu.be/AFFYwIURnX0
Concert Programme
Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Ego flos campi
William Walton: Set me as a seal
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Vidi speciosam
Edward Bairstow: I sat down under his shadow
Hieronymus Praetorius: Tota pulchra es Maria
Francis Grier: Dilectus meus mihi
Howard Skempton: Rise up my love
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur: Le cantique des cantiques
